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Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by matthewmacleod »

So I've been wanting to migrate away from Dropbox and onto a self-hosted solution for a while anyway, and I guess this would be a good opportunity to do so.

Unfortunately, there don't appear to be any good open-source solutions at the moment. I'm not looking for a fancy web interface or anything, just a simple sync between devices, with a usable API for building apps.

In particular, rsync etc. doesn't really offer this interface, and I'm really not convinced by the usability of e.g. OwnCloud. Any solutions I might be missing? Or is this something I have to build myself?

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by cenhyperion »

cantbecool wrote: post #17
gnu8 wrote: post #14

The problem with Rice is that she is a malevolent liar. She's unfit for any leadership position, public or private.

Instead of simply saying a hit and run statement, offer some additional details.

"The intelligence was as clear as any intelligence I've ever seen and I've been in this business a long time. ... When you had intelligence assessments that said Saddam Hussein has reconstituted his biological and chemical weapons and could reconstitute his nuclear weapon in a year if he got foreign assistance — by the end of the decade if he didn't — I've actually never seen clearer indications than that."

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by spoiledtechie »

cryoshon wrote: post #29

Well, that's the end of my usage of Dropbox, effective immediately. I'll make sure to mention Condi's association with them in every conversation involving Dropbox, in hope of spreading knowledge about their profane selection of board members. It's a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. These people should be in prison for malevolently misleading the public in order to start a for-profit war which killed hundred…

She is one of the smartest women in politics, there is. There is no going around it. She was probably placed on the board to move Dropbox into government storage.

Whatever your views might be, This was a smart move by Dropbox, but for her government ties, but also for her intelligence. If you think she is dumb, or stupid, then I call you ignorant.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by atmosx »

cryoshon wrote: post #29

Well, that's the end of my usage of Dropbox, effective immediately. I'll make sure to mention Condi's association with them in every conversation involving Dropbox, in hope of spreading knowledge about their profane selection of board members. It's a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. These people should be in prison for malevolently misleading the public in order to start a for-profit war which killed hundred…

Yes, I think I'll move away from dropbox too before the end of month. Spideroak seems the best possible clone, or Wuala who has servers in Switzerland.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by cruise02 »

sigzero wrote: post #55
acjohnson55 wrote: post #16

I hope she hasn't ever donated to any disagreeable referendum campaigns..... ....or ever been a core member of an administration that left us with two disastrous wars, an offshore gulag, the greatest economic disaster in 70 years, a record of legitimizing torture, a decline in prestige on the world stage. Oh, and a strong record or rejecting marriage equality.

All continued by the current administration and more. What was your point again?

Please get your facts straight.

* The Iraq war ended in 2011, and the Afghanistan war is winding down.

* The Obama administration has attempted to close Guantanamo, only to be blocked by Congress.

* We are no longer in the financial crisis left by the previous administration.

* Obama ordered an end to torture on his first day in office.

* Global attitudes about the United States have improved dramatically since 2008, according to Pew Research (http://www.pewglobal.org/database/indicator/1/survey/15/).

So, you're either woefully misinformed, or willfully ignorant.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by 001sky »

stephencanon wrote: post #120
[deleted] wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Chelsea Clinton has never even stood for office, much less been part of the senior leadership of an administration that led the US into two wars of aggression and endorsed torture. I really don't see how a vaguely rational person could even begin to compare the two, regardless of political beliefs. I haven't seen anyone arguing that Bush was worse than Obama in this thread, so I don't see how that comparison has anyt…

I'm sure none of this is relevant but (a) her dad is ex POTUS of a global superpower; and/or (b) her mom was Secretary of state of that global superpower. They also have the son of the wife of the CEO but that's a little different, she was a fashion designer.

Condi was (b) so they are basically the same relation to the US gov't.

I think the generalization that US foreign policy has radically changed its ethics or its data-security between 2008-2011 to be a bit unsupported by the facts.

If anything, as tech has improved we have all become less secure...regardless of the POTUS...because the professionals working in the NSA and the CIA are just getting more powerful.

But YMMV

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by thickness »

IanDrake wrote: post #132
notd97843 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You elected a president who selected a vice president who voted for the war (Joe Biden). Why are you speaking up now? Because she's a Republican?

Agreed. It's hard to understand HN sometimes. Posts about women and minorities in tech get overwhelmingly positive comments..."we have to do anything and everything possible to get more of minority X involved in tech"...then a popular company hires a double minority and everyone loses their mind.

Stop doing that. You're being dishonest right now. This is not about sexism or racism. My co-founder and best friend of 8 years is a woman, and she had the same reaction of disgust by this move as me. This has to do with Rice's history of warmongering and condoning torture, not her sex or ethnicity.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by cookiecaper »

Pxtl wrote: post #73
cookiecaper wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't want to go through all the things the Clinton administration did? People can trump up just as many silly charges against him (yes, including the deaths of "hundreds of thousands"). Hackers need to mature into the real world if they want to run grown-up companies.

> Hackers need to mature into the real world if they want to run grown-up companies. A talk-radio slogan when Bush was elected was that "the adults are in charge". How'd that work out for you? Really, you can't talk about being "grown-up" out of one side of your mouth while basely insulting your opponents' "maturity" out of the other side just because we disagree politically.

It's not because we simply disagree politically, that's obviously fine with me, but not with anyone else in the tech community apparently. This is now the second instance in as many weeks where the tech mob is actively running out anyone who disagrees with their political views and boycotting entire companies for having the gall to hire useful people who happen to be conservative.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by JabavuAdams »

Ok, if I cancel my Dropbox subscriptions, I'd like to maintain some level of consistency.

Assuming that I have a great disdain for the architects of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which other tech companies should I consider boycotting?

To avoid a combinatorial explosion, I'd limit myself to executives or boards pulled from state, military, and intelligence roles in the last three administrations. Oh, and McNamara. Fuck that guy.

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