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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => General Discussions => Topic started by: MattGSX on February 26, 2010, 02:04:04 PM
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So I went through, added my work email accounts to my gmail account so I can send and receive mail all from the same inbox, set up Google Voice so I can receive calls/vm/texts while on campus, started doing all of my homework through Google Docs, and use my Google account for just about everything.
It's a good thing that Google doesn't keep extensive databases of all information that goes through Google, that Google never gets hacked, or that Google doesn't have a huge anti-terrorism consulting contract with NSA. Fuck.
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I've had friends lose their Google accounts before, either by being hacked or by Google deleting their accounts for some unknown reason. Would suck to have all that disappear at once. I try not to put too much faith in a free service.
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And if you do always make sure you have a backup. I use GOOGLE for a lot of stuff too but I always keep up-to-date backups locally.
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I also CAPITALIZE words sometimes.
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I'm so GLAD you do.
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Yeah, I just find it amusing that I'm so late to jump on the bandwagon. The Google Docs thing would suck to lose, but it was either that or my university's file server, and with my neighbor's router blocking certain ports incoming and outgoing (and me being unable to hack their router), that's out of the question for use at home.
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I try not to put too much faith in a free service.
oh, don't worry. once we all depend on it for our basic daily functions, they'll start charging.