Bob writes: Prior to my retirement three years and four days ago, I saw "off line" storage schemes at many of my Customers. I don't remember any of them using the INTERNET but rather they used an INTRANET. Having been in the information technology business for forty years and having seen what my Customers did to store data and knowing what I know about data security, there is no way I would send my info to a 'cloud'. The toaster and green home are the least of my concerns. I am more concerned about big brother, account numbers, and the info that identifies me and me alone. Storing in a cloud is to me, like saying, ""Here you are identity thieves. Anything else I can do to help you be me?" And as Roy said, if my ISP or access point goes down, I can still work off line. timely comments as I read an email from an Australia wide auction company "Our Website is currently down. A problem outside our control occurred at our web site hosting facility. It is currently trying to be rectified and we hope for the site to be back asap" day 3 and counting..
