With his twist on cloud computing, supernatendo is the winner of this week's contest. You can see the winning caption below, along with some very funny honorable mentions and Phil Johnson's original cartoon.
The winning caption
Yeah, I know that the cloud server goes online today, and no, I don't need to borrow your spare umbrella.
by supernatendo
The orginal cartoon
Honorable mentions
Wow. They don't make golden parachutes like they used to.
by random_cole
I was being metaphorical when I said the Confilcker worm was unleashing a s%*t storm on our servers.
by Jesse Luna
That's not what 'data storm' actually means, you know.
by Timmy Mac
No sir, I said expect growing pains while we enter the cloud.
by cab
"Um...that's not what I meant by deluge and torrent..."
by johnacole
No, you misunderstood. I said to expect R.A.I.N. today -- Redundant Array of Internet Nodes.
by Queixa
"No man... ya didn't let me finish... I was saying that it looks like R.A.I.N. is the way to go for our new storage system setup"
by Whirledly
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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