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Security In the Ether
theodp writes "Technology Review's David Talbot says IT's next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud — and prove we can trust it. 'The focus of IT innovation has shifted from hardware to software applications,' says Harvard economist Dale Jorgenson. 'Many of these applications are going on at a blistering pace, and cloud computing is going to be a great facilitative technology for a lot of these people.' But there's one little catch. 'None of this can happen unless cloud services are kept secure,' notes Talbot. 'And they are not.' Fully ensuring the security of cloud computing, says Talbot, will inevitably fall to emerging encryption technologies."
In the name of probably pretty much all of us:
1. Unless yo smoke weed: Shut the fuck up about your “cloud“ shit!
2. iPhones, iPods, iAssplugs, iBubbles, iFails: See point 1.
3. It is OK to call hooters 'knockers' and sometimes snack trays
4. It is wrong to be French (Yeah, that was the point 4 you always forgot. ^^)
5. PROFIT
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
It's not a buzzword, it's a filterword. A buzzword is a word that describes a broad range of technologies and is useful for setting the scene, although a real technical discussion requires more focussed terminology. A filterword is a word used let you know that the person talking is an idiot and that you can safely disregard everything else that they say. Other examples include 'beowulf cluster,' and 'first post.'
Other examples include native English speakers who cannot correctly distinguish "lose" and "loose", or "they're" and "their" and "there", or the latest trendy idiot spelling is "where" instead of "were". Does anyone else notice that for each of these errors, there was a time when no one made them and then suddenly large numbers of people started doing so, like a bunch of mindless sheep? I can't be the only person who noticed that. It's like they are memes of their own and rejecting a meme instead of acting it out is a lost art.
Those are strong indications that the author is either an idiot, or is capable of getting those right but doesn't care enough about his writing to do it. If he doesn't care, why should any reader? Sure, you could say it's insignificant and doesn't really matter, but it sends a message and the more insignificant it is, the easier it would have been to do it right. Missing such an easy thing makes me wonder how the author hopes to tackle the complexities of reason and argumentation. It makes me wonder if anything they say is worth reading.
So yeah, I see those and I stop reading at that point. I also look for a reason to downmod if I have mod points. I stop short of creating a reason if one does not exist, but I will look very hard to find one. If you don't care about your own writing, it's hard to argue with you. You produced it, so you would be the most well-informed regarding its worth. If you don't care and don't think it's worth the (minor) effort of doing correctly, then I won't second-guess you.