Google considers copying everything on a users HD

If true, they can get ******. My hard drive is my hard drive and none of anyones business except mine. :mad:
 
ben_j_davis said:
I think the idea is you sign up to. Its so you can view the contents of your HD anywhere in the world.
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Hmmm - like some sort of, protocol for the transferance of files.

A technology information transfer scheme.

I shall name it T.I.T.S.
 
Its the ultimate back-up, instead of spreading all ** files over several DVD's u could just download it (over several days lol)

I guess in the future if you had 100meg internet connection, plus you had a small HD it might be worth it.......What am i saying its a stupid idea. Better off just buying some webspace of your own, that way its less likely Google or the Government will be looking at your personal files.
 
AJUK said:
If true, they can get ******. My hard drive is my hard drive and none of anyones business except mine. :mad:
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lol right . . .It would be a sign up service. Its not like they are going to just start copying peoples hard disks without permission. It seems fairly inevitable that eventually we will move to thin client systems where all our data is stored centrally. Such a system has benefits over PCs. . .its cheaper, easier to maintain and allows nice stuff like being able to load up 'your computer' at any connected client terminal. Some companies already use this kind of system, what google is trying to do is just an extension of that really and would benefit businesses if not end users.
 
Sounds alright to me.....what do people here have to hide? ;)

It'll work too, as boradband gets ever faster. I wonder if they have enough space to hold my entire collection of midget pr0n though....

I've already resigned myself to the fact that eventually everyone will be able to call up whatever data they want on me with a few clicks of a button. Oh well. Its only a matter of time.
 
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It doesn't seem like that bad an Idea if the bandwidth was available and they had the space. I would not copy all my files but I would make use of the storage if possible (effectively using it as a network storage drive if possible) and use it to store large mediacenter files when I run out of disk space.
 
Google have been starting to worry me for quite a while... If any other company (especially someone like Microsoft) proposed the same things Google do, with the same information gathering capacity (which is exactly why they do it, check their T&C's) there would be uproar.

And for those who like to think Google is Altruistic...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060307-6336.html
 
Personally i think its quite a good idea, especially from a work perspective.

Store all your data on googles high speed servers. A lot of software may eventually become network only, say if you need to do a spellcheck on word it connects to MS's central office servers and downloads the tool in a fraction of a second. This is already happening, we use a web based mapping system that stores all of the object components centrally, and uploads each one depending on what the user is doing.

Then you can log onto any PC in the world and work on fully live copies with your own customised version of the software. It would reduce a persons PC to nothing but a gateway device to a plethora of services, all managed centrally, reducing maintenance costs and the potential for the PC to break down, as software would not be installed locally.

Genius i tell yah, it'll happen in the future, localised workstations are going to look prehistoric.

I hope anyway :D
 
Dolph said:
Google have been starting to worry me for quite a while... If any other company (especially someone like Microsoft) proposed the same things Google do, with the same information gathering capacity (which is exactly why they do it, check their T&C's) there would be uproar.

And for those who like to think Google is Altruistic...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060307-6336.html
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They're certainly a company I'm wary of, after all information is power and Google seem to be trying to get their hands on one hell of a lot of information.

Google and eBay are both shaping up into the kind of companies who will ultimately be fighting it out for ownership of all the key internet (and by extension, computing) technologies.
 
chimaera said:
A lot of software may eventually become network only....This is already happening.....Genius i tell yah, it'll happen in the future, localised workstations are going to look prehistoric.
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The world has already been there and done that.

All this crap is nothing but hype. OMG GOOGLE! AJAX! GMAPS! WOW!

None of it is new stuff.
 
Spacky said:
And remember the USA still hold the keys over 'owning' the internet.
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"The USA"? Do you mean ICANN?

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. These services were originally performed under U.S. Government contract by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and other entities. ICANN now performs the IANA function.

As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.
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They're based in the US but that has nothing to do with the price of fish. And the tinternet seems to run fine to me, far better than Brussels could run it.
 
chimaera said:
Personally i think its quite a good idea, especially from a work perspective.

Store all your data on googles high speed servers. A lot of software may eventually become network only, say if you need to do a spellcheck on word it connects to MS's central office servers and downloads the tool in a fraction of a second. This is already happening, we use a web based mapping system that stores all of the object components centrally, and uploads each one depending on what the user is doing.

Then you can log onto any PC in the world and work on fully live copies with your own customised version of the software. It would reduce a persons PC to nothing but a gateway device to a plethora of services, all managed centrally, reducing maintenance costs and the potential for the PC to break down, as software would not be installed locally.

Genius i tell yah, it'll happen in the future, localised workstations are going to look prehistoric.

I hope anyway :D
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A good idea from a work perspective? :eek: :eek: :eek:

Personally, there is absolutely no way Google (or anybody else) is getting their hands on the contents of the hard drives of my company's computers (or my personal ones either, for that matter). For a start, there's no way I'm letting that data get sent across the internet, and I spend a fortune on security people and hardware to ensure that that can't happen either accidentally or maliciously. Secondly, my ISP would have a poop-fit if I started uploading that sort of quantity of data. Thirdly, it takes too long. Fourthly, if anything happens, I want my data under MY control, so I can get at it at maximum speeds, should that become necessary.

This Google scheme might appeal to some people, especially home users, but as a company thing .... hell will freeze over before I'd give it a second glance. It is absolutely a non-starter for me.
 
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