The Cloud: Convenient Until a Stranger Nukes Your Files

jfruh writes "Thanks to a plethora of cloud storage accounts, Dan Tynan thought his days of carrying a thumb drive around with him and worrying about email stripping out his attachments were over. But that was before he discovered that his Box.com account and all the files in it had vanished without a trace. With tech support coming up empty, Tynan had to put on his journalist hat to track down the bizarre sequence of events that ended with his account handed over to another user, who didn't ask for it and didn't even know who Tynan was."

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Learned to mistrust the cloud with Steam

[nitehawk214]

Valve's shitty application stopped working, and now I can't install or run any of the games I bought (read: rented) from them. Their techsupport is somewhere between non-existent and not-giving-a-shit. I am even locked out of the non-drm games (most of the ones I have bought), because I cannot download them without the stupid Steam application.

Lots of money flushed down the drain to a company that simply does not care. Never again.

Re:most transparent administration ever

[Anonymous Coward]

This government ls lawless and accountable to no one; much like SOA except the government is the only ones with the "legal" right to kill you and have all the "legitimate guns.

But yeah, they are going to solve the healthcare crisis and provide doctors to all who need them, for free no less, tax the rich who aren't paying their fair share, solve global warming and make every person in the world a de-facto United States citizen.

All of this powered of course by Unicorn farts.

Thanks ever so much for forcing this tyranny on what used to be a free country that enjoyed the rule of law, economic prosperity and oh by the way, the greatest healthcare system the planet has ever known.

All that is coming to an end, thanks the libs abd useful idiots who put these statists into office,