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Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather

Posted by samzenpus on from the stormy-weather dept.

SmartAboutThings writes "In a recent survey performed by Wakefield Research, it has been discovered that the majority of the surveyed Americans are quite confused about the notion of Cloud, when it relates to Cloud Storage/Computing. The most interesting fact is that 51% of the surveyed persons thought that stormy weather interferes with cloud computing!"

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  1. Also in the news by colin_faber · · Score: 5, Funny

    Surveys suggest most surveys are wrong :)

  2. Obligatory Onion story... by digitalaudiorock · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.theonion.com/video/hp-on-that-cloud-thing-that-everyone-else-is-talki,28789/

  3. Re:Satellite rain fade by MagusSlurpy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or when the rain provides enough interference that you can no longer poorly piggy-back on your neighbor's WiFi.

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  4. Re:I weep for my country by Mashiki · · Score: 5, Funny

    In a saner world, we'd just ship all hipsters to Seattle, and be done with them.

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  5. Re:I weep for my country by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, we'd nuke it from the cloud.

  6. Re:or when rain / rain water get's in the phone / by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was told once by the cable crew who came to fix my cable, that because of squirrels eating at the cable, water had leaked in. As it was a 3 pole run,, some stupid amount of *gallons* of water poured out of the cable.

    I had a cable guy try to tell me that the plasma in a plasma TV was the same as the plasma in human blood. I gave up trying to explain it to him as he was pretty adamant about it. I can only imagine how he thought the manufacturers got it.

  7. Re:It isn't? by Obfuscant · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you really think of a situation that would require you to trust any kind of clown?

    Eating at McDonalds?

  8. Re:It isn't? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Elections?

  9. Re:It isn't? by mrmeval · · Score: 4, Funny

    *headdesk* Dammit both are evil. Let me think.

    Ah

    Clown: promises you candy and sunshine and dishes out horror and pain.

    Clowd clown: promises you a magic sky bag where you can keep all your important stuff but it fails when it gets
    wet
    'too full'
    a warrant is issued
    they're having a bad hair day
    snorted to much meth
    spend the money you paid them on too many hookers
    forget to pay their electric bill
    can't pay their electric bill
    piss off the employees who didn't get any hookers or meth
    just don't like you anymore. ....

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  10. Re:I weep for my country by OakDragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    "How the fuck should I know? I'm a biological engineer, not a goddamn weatherman!"

    Is his last name "McCoy" by any chance?

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