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cui bono

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9. What do you mean "the Cloud"?

Reply to truedelphi (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 10:34 PM

Dec 2015

If you're talking about what people refer to when they say something is stored in the cloud that's just another name for on the internet and means it is somewhere on someone's server that is connected to the internet so that you can access it.

If you mean something else I'm curious what that is.

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Who Put This Huge Database of U.S. Voting Records Online? [View all] LiberalElite Dec 2015 OP

I tried to figure out if this somehow involved the Cloud? truedelphi Dec 2015 #1

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