Was thinking of running my own server/Dropbox replacement for awhile now. This news is just the kick my rear needed to put my plans in gear.
Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
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#313It's a shame to see such a thing happening to a YC project, but I suppose they're all grown up now and responsible for their own decisions.
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#314What the fuck is this left-wing McCarthyism!
Fuck this shit. I hope Hacker News doesn't fall for this garbage ass new trend. The Mozilla affair was bad enough. This bullshit is going too far.
I'm a libertarian leaning Democrat BTW, if you need to peg me in a hole.
Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#315Shout out to BitTorrent Sync as a great alternative to Dropbox for some. Open and distributed so its already 2x better than dropbox. http://www.bittorrent.com/sync
I use this as my main sync software. However the code is still closed and backdoors could easily exist.
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#316Well, 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…
>>> It's a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. Another great example of how partisanship and shitty double standards have ruined our country. The fact is, the vote to invade Iraq was a bi-partisan vote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Resolution_to_Authorize_t... "Introduced in Congress on October 2, 2002, in conjunction with the Administration's proposals,[2][7] H.J.Res. 114 passed the House of Representati…
There's a big difference:
1) She was part of the administration that started the Iraq War.
2) She is on the record supporting Anonymous Bulk Data Collection
3) She is on the record supporting Warrentless phone taps
4) She is on the record supporting the Patriot act.
5) She was part of the administration, that created, wrote, and legalized the Patriot Act.
Now she wants you to trust her with you data.
Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#317Partisanship aside,
I am super bullish about Dropbox, and have been since they were getdropbox.com. I think they have wonderful leadership and I've never had a single problem with their service. I've used both the paid version and the free model. I think they have amazing secret stuff planned for the next couple of years.
Even with all that said, I'm very confused. Does she have a personal connection with some of the founding team or something? I can't remember Rice ever expressing much care for tech while in the White House (unlike Al Gore's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway) and even then Al Gore joined Apple, not Box.com or Google Drive. Even if she had gone with Google, Microsoft, Oracle, or IBM, it would have made more sense to me.
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#318"Tech-company boards should have more women and [underrepresented] people of color!" —The Mob, yesterday
"But not someone whose politics we don't like!" —The Mob, today
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
You seem to have forgotten that the Bush administration knowingly lied about the intentions and capabilities of Saddam Hussein in order to gain support for the war.
FactCheck.org: Bush's "16 Words" on Iraq & Uranium: He May Have Been Wrong But He Wasn't Lying Two intelligence investigations show Bush had plenty of reason to believe what he said in his 2003 State of the Union Address. http://archive.is/vAWQa#selection-283.0-300.0 Don't let facts get in your way though.
It depends how you define "lie."
The administration created its own shadow intelligence operation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans) that, effectively, ignored CIA National Intelligence Estimates and cherry-picked unfiltered/unanalyzed intelligence to made the case for war.
This was a mission in need of justification. The Downing Street Memo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo) pretty much makes this not open to debate.
"Lie"? Well, there are different kinds of lying.
Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO
#320Well, 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…
If I were going with a cynical thought, I would think this is a move to get dropbox into government contracts somehow.
With my tinfoil hat securely fastened, who wants to hazard a guess that this is just a 'distraction' to the Heartbleed news that the NSA could've exploited for their own nefarious means?