Re: [Userops] Why is it hard to move from one machine to another? An analysis.

[韋嘉誠]

On Apr 11, 2015 12:40 PM, "Bob Mottram" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 09:13:48PM +0200, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) wrote:

> > So datacenters have probably increased the power used for computations, and
> > that may be bad, but still if we are looking at "should I run this particular
> > process in my old laptop, my HDMI stick, my Raspberry Pi-equivalent device or
> > on a small VPS", the VPS is probably the most efficient.
>
> Energy arguments aside, the user has no control over a datacenter. If they're
> running their life from hardware which they don't own and where there is no
> prospect of auditing that hardware or ensuring that special boxes have not
> been plugged into it then the security model is busted and they're in a
> sandboxed liberty situation at the whim of ever-changing TOS, state/corporate
> surveillance, etc.

Oh, I absolutely agree. And more and more people are realizing that can be considered a pretty expensive trade-off.