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To: trouthead who wrote (19683)	9/16/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I don't think badwidth will end the need for local storage. Security will always be a concern. I don't want my tax return stored on any server other than the IRS's. I want my personally created, personally sensitive docs at home. See now, *I'm more comfortable storing those kinds of things at my ISP or wherever, where professional administrators are getting up to the minute security alerts and applying patches (and keeping backups). Your way is akin to keeping your finances at home under your mattress instead of using a bank. Why are you comfortable with your tax return on the IRS server? Once your PC (local storage) is connected to the network, it loses it's security aspect. -JCJ

To: trouthead who wrote (19683)	9/16/1999 1:01:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I don't think badwidth will end the need for local storage. Security will always be a concern. When you argue against the completely inevitable seismic shift in computing that is going on, it's like arguing against the industrial revolution. Factories were (and remain) bad in all kinds of ways. Railroads took a lot of the simplicity out of life, and so forth. There are all kinds of arguments you can raise, and the answer to all of them is simply, "But that's the way it's going to be." IMHO the argument you advance above is exactly, and I do mean exactly, the same as the guy who said in 1900, "I don't think the arrival of these clunky auto-mobile thingies will ever really eliminate the need for horses. Breakdowns and fuel availability will always be a concern. And the damn things need paved roads." And, JB, you may take some comfort in the fact that the dude was absolutely right. We still watch horses run around a track, work them on farms, feed them to our dogs, watch cowboys ride them in the movies, and use them for conveyances within the boundaries of dude ranches. The need for horses never ended and never will. The triumph of the status quo? Regards, --QwikSand