Google is my OS of choice continued

RE: The drones are coming

My ISP can record all traffic that goes through it if it wishes, and I can do nothing to prevent it. (I could use encryption, but have you ever tried to get the person on the other end to?) The US government is now attempting to provide retroactive immunity to AT & T, who enabled the US government to illegally spy on American Citizens. It's terrible, but true. There is no US law that will protect my data anywhere.

Therefore knowing this I may as well store it all with Google, as this provides no less privacy than transmitting it to even one person on the internet.

As for email remaining free, I've had Yahoo mail since the glorious Netscape Navigator 3.0 days. It's still free and I now have much more storage space. I don't use it but I keep it active. Internet email has been free for what, about 10 years now? It will continue to be so. Google is a publicly traded company, if there were some fundamental problem with Google, or it were being delisted everyone would know, and I'd simply download my email by pop3, forward a copy to my yahoo mail account and send a message to everyone in my address book with my new email address.

In regards to ISP uptime, I have a wifi router and so do three of my neighbors, My wifi router and one of my neighbors is unencrypted, two are encrypted. I can use the unencrypted one any time I want, I've seen him on my wifi anyway, and anyway I have the keys to the other two, really people ought to get a clue that WEP is dead. There's that, and I keep an image of an AOL trial disk on my computer in reserve for a rainy day.

About a real OS, Google has many geniuses near geniuses and code gurus working for them, If they chose to launch an OS today it could be available and ready to use next week. Google maintains a number of customized versions of Linux today to run their servers.

Most of the computers I work on in a day are not mine. Google Apps, my data, email and my instant messaging are instantly available everywhere. Google is a beautiful thing.