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Double Take: Condoleezza Rice As Dropbox's Newest Board Member
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State under George W. Bush, and defender of Bush-era (and onward) policies about surveillance by wiretapping and other means, has landed at an interesting place: she's just become a part of the small board at Dropbox. TechDirt calls the appointment "tone deaf," and writes "At a time when people around the globe are increasingly worried about American tech firms having too close a connection to the intelligence community, a move like this seems like a huge public relations disaster. While Rice may be perfectly qualified to hold the role and to help Dropbox with the issues it needs help with, it's hard not to believe that there would be others with less baggage who could handle the job just as well."
Some people are doing more than looking for an alternative for themselves, too, as a result.
She's pretty sharp, well connected, and understands how the government sees these types of date & service providers.
At a she's an awesome catch for any cloud company. Throw in her political awareness and it's even better.
How do companies talk themselves into ridiculous moves like this?
This is an order of magnitude worse than Yahoo hiring Katie Couric.
I get apoplectic when I see news like this...reminds me of Steve Schmidt on Colbert saying only criminals want privacy
Thank you Dave Raggett
The strongest complaint against Rice is her support of the war in Iraq. Maybe "wiretapping" is a code word from racists on the left, now?
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Fucking nuurd complaining again...
And TechDirt can suck a bag of dicks.
Quick, let's boycott Dropbox so we can force her out of the company. Then after we've succeeded we can have a another Slashdot story lamenting how intolerant we've all become and we can point fingers at everyone else.
Better known as 318230.
I know you all think Bush and Obama are the same, but there's no way Secretary Rice has "close connections to the intelligence community" under the Obama administration.
If Brendan Eich could be forced out for a $1,000 donation, surely Ms. Rice can be for influencing privacy policy herself, something which is highly relevant to this business. In addition, she has defended her position since leaving office. I think the real question here is where does this end?
I really don't care, this is a private company and they can hire who they want to. That being said, I assumed dropbox already was infiltrated by the NSA.
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. -Benjamin Franklin
She was the provost of Stanford University, she's got a huge rolodex in government and SillyCon Valley. She's also obviously got a big background in IR and particularly working with Russia and Africa, which are both huge growth markets for Internet companies.
Her biggest crime was not asking all the right questions, and didn't have to swag necessary to challenge Cheney or Rumsfeld, not that she was particularly motivated. She's proven to be a pretty bad administrator and manager, but she's going on the Board, not into management.
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
...we must not let the next warning from ShareFiles.com be a smoking gun in the shape of a mushroom cloud!
We must send our youngest interns to effect regime change on their board!
Thank you, and God Bless Dropbox!
I've been meaning to disable this for a while.
If she's on your board, I'll get that done now.
There is now zero room to trust DropBox as an entity.
she's one huge cunt - the biggest factor in determining an executive these days.
Let's quit pretending this is anything but an attempt to force her out because she is/was a Republican.
If she were a Democrat, the article would talk about the racist/sexist Republicans that were trying to force her out.
The Democrats have only enhanced the spying and wiretapping, but you don't get outcry's about the likes of Facebook the Zuckerberg's of the world who are huge Democrat donors.
I love to see that "tolerance" the left is famous for.
Did she donate to a Prop 8 organization?
Have Rice or Eich on your board?
No brainer, really.
Nothing new here. Communist regimes from USA and North Korea always worked close together.
We are going to see comrades from both allied states taking over important positions.
Way to go US Republican Commies!
Apparently they never checked her stance on Gay marriage:
“I don’t ever want anybody to be denied rights within our country. I happen to think marriage is between a man and a woman. That’s tradition, and I believe that that’s the right answer. But perhaps we will decide that there needs to be some way for people to express their desire to live together through civil union.”
Condoleezza Rice — Dec. 20, 2010
I guess websites will have to protest and such and then she'll resign after 2 weeks right?
He's certainly qualified.......he invented the internet.
And he's a Democrat.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
She is sharp and well-connected but I hope that this does not undermine Dropbox. I know I never trusted Dropbox from the very beginning and this is giving me even more reason not to trust them. Does this mean that government has an in road to easier spying? Only time will tell ....
It's not that using Dropbox is now a bad idea because Rice is on the board.... It's that using any "Cloud Based Storage" is not a good idea. Savvy readers can probably already setup and host their own servers... Why do you want to risk your data to someone else who does it "for free"?
The select committee approving this has always been bipartisan and Obama reinforced and expanded the snooping for a full term and a half until he got caught. He's still done little to curb the NSA so WHY are you spinning this into some partisan nonsense in opposition to Rice?
I canceled my Dropbox account, and I let them know why.
Using WebDAV and PHP.... Anyone using dropbox is probably heading for the exits by now. This only confirms their suspicions.
How'd "eating your words" taste + your foot in your mouth & washed down w/ "the bitter taste of SELF-defeat" too? Here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
(Ahem: Zontar - Libeling me's OR me via attempting to LIE about apps I wrote above's one thing, however also being caught in it & being uanble to backup your OTHER lies too -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ) - Take your meds for THAT one: You're HALLUCINATING again, Zontar!
Please...
APK
P.S.=> Now, you just KNOW I've just GOTTA say it, now don't you? Ah, but of COURSE you do:
THIS? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" & it always is, especially vs. LYING libelous done ZERO losers & admitted loonybirds like Zontar ( multiple personality disorder http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + manic depression http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )
... apk
How'd "eating your words" taste + your foot in your mouth & washed down w/ "the bitter taste of SELF-defeat" too? Here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
(Ahem: Zontar - Libeling me's OR me via attempting to LIE about apps I wrote above's one thing, however also being caught in it & being uanble to backup your OTHER lies too -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ) - Take your meds for THAT one: You're HALLUCINATING again, Zontar!
Please...
APK
P.S.=> Now, you just KNOW I've just GOTTA say it, now don't you? Ah, but of COURSE you do:
THIS? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" & it always is, especially vs. LYING libelous done ZERO losers & admitted loonybirds like Zontar ( multiple personality disorder http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + manic depression http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )
... apk
Anyone remember the Race Draft skit on The Chappelle Show? The whites wanted to draft Colon Powell as 100% white but the blacks would only allow it if they also agreed to take Condaleeza Rice. She wasn't real popular back then either apparently.
I was trying to figure out why people would say that she's connected to the NSA. I was wondering if they'd say that about anyone who served in the White House (Al Gore is on Apple's board). I guess to people subscribing to a team mentality, any member of the republican leadership must be working to promote the NSA, and all the brave democrats are fighting against it.
But in reality, it's pretty silly to think that she's going to advocate turning over all their data to the NSA just because she's on their board and has worked with the NSA in the past. It's also pretty silly to think the NSA hasn't already got that data without her help.
Someone comes along and blames it on "the intolerant left". You can win any argument with that argument. No, it's because most of the time, republicans are bat shit insane.
How many decades is it going to be before the hyper-partisan Democrats are going to be able to admit that maybe, possibly, it just might be that some things that "aren't right" are not, after all, George Bush's fault?
The Balkinization of the business world is a great trend. Keep it coming! Soon we'll have "Republican Party companies" and "Democrat party companies". You'll have to check out the politics of the local fast food franchise owner before eating there, never know you might be supporting an evil Republican who wants to throw Granny under the bus and put women back where they belong, barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen, or a nasty Democrat who wants to "share" all your money among the unproductive masses, steal your guns, close your church, and abort babies in the 3rd trimester. Personally, I'll just go in, eat a burger, and not ask such questions.
Just as good a case for pro-lifers to boycott any company headed by someone who has donated to Planned Parenthood as the boycotts (or alleged boycotts) of Mozilla or DropBox. More tolerance and less indignation about peoples politics *if they don't impact their behavior in the business setting* seems like a good plan to me. I dislike the trend.
I'm pro gay marriage, but stopped using Firefox yesterday at work. I was already using Chrome at home anyway, switched to it at work as well and already don't miss it. Perhaps I'm not consistent, and maybe he *really* resigned of his own free will, but Eich still felt thrown under the bus to me, and I'd not want to reward a company that caved so easily...
Are they not grand? Where do i sign up?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
How, so now we really are purging everybody who does not agree with us 100% on political issues. Who is next, are we going to go thru the voter records and dismiss anybody who ever voted Republican or Libertarian ??
BRB, deleting everything from my dropbox and discontinuing service.
Oh, can't we have both? I'd buy tickets to watch that.
I mean *nudge nudge* she may have chipmunk teeth, but she's not so bad looking that it explains why she's never been married *wink wink*
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Was the Iraq war worth 36,710 dead and wounded US military personnel (4,488 dead)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
The father knew not to take out Saddam. The son, not so much. And it was a war initiated on completely false pretenses (sort of a False Flag event).
BlameBillCosby.com
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the White Man began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy -- willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the White Man began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the White Man began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the White Man began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the White Man began to hate.
Than anyone the GOP is offering in the next presidential go-around and Hiliary.
Condoleezza Rice was the first (and only) female African-American US Secretary of State and the second African-American Secretary of State. What has slashdot got against successful black women?
Are you dickheads trying to run another conservative out of technology. Nazis.
an ill wind that blows no good
my comment above is **not trolling or flamebait**
i think the decision was bad...I gave pithy analogies to other known controversial hirings
my points are falsifiable & on topic
seriously...i was downmodded for reasons other than trolling or flame!
Thank you Dave Raggett
...by saying "aren't savvy" and "effortlessly". You've not mentioned any other factors so I presume they aren't important enough to mention. In other words don't bother solving problems that aren't terribly important to you.
So then use a cloud storage provider. Dropbox, SkyDrive, Box, whatever.
Just know that those other, unmentioned factors may come back to haunt you some day. Although if most people's behaviour can be applied to you (sorry, but I have to have something to go on), then you'll worry but not change your activities.
"I won't do business with or respect anyone who supports torture"
Comedic post of the day!!!
I would assume you've never bought gasoline or bought a "made in China" product or paid taxes then?
Probably all your clothes were made by children in poor countries. Your computer and your cell phone are made by something just short of slave labor.
Priest: "Universe from nothing, no laws of physics, sped up time"+ huge discrepancies. Creationism? No. Big Bang Theory
During George W. occupancy of the 'White House" on occasion could be viewed prancing down the corridor of the second floor and singing, "Candi,
My Candi A wild thing, My Dandi, Candi Candi Cum With Me, In the E-vening."
Oh well. George W. is far below George H.W. as all who have knowledge knows !
Ha ha
She's a war criminal who belongs in the dock at the Hague.
I'm changing to mega.co.nz effective immediately
Considering how it's already come out that Wolfawitz parked his girlfriend in the State Department on a higher salary than Rice and not under Rice's orders, I wonder if we'll find out some day exactly how much if the State Department Rice was allowed to run.
Maybe she was just a figurehead chosen for maximum PR - which is more of a comment on those who chose here and wasted her abilities than on herself. Unfortunately it could be twenty years before the documents telling the true story are released.
Hillary on the other hand had her fingerprints all over many knives from the leaked cables. Manning has done the United State a patriotic duty by releasing the information that will prevent her from being trusted enough to become President.
There were plenty of people warning about the outcome. Rumsfeld responded by shutting down one of the army training schools that produced a lot of them. It went to the textbook warning of how not to do it.
There were portions of the US Army designed for the job and a training school to give them and others those skills. However Rumsfeld decided to make cutbacks and remove them from the "known knowns" and then pretend later that the expected outcome of not committing enough resources was unknown.
interesting.
Dropbox as an American cloud provider never was an option at all. Providers in the USA are by default untrustworthy. Sorry, not your fault, ask your gouvernment why they wreck trust with a sledgehammer.
I suggest you google that name to get the story. She was parked in the State Department for some time, but Rice was not allowed to do anything other than pay her very high salary. That's a good example of a lack of control and in fact utter contempt of her leadership IMHO. It makes me think that Rice was not really allowed to be properly in charge of the State Department when people like Wolfowitz could do that to her department.
Put yourself in that position - how would you feel about having to pay for an extra employee (who earns more than you) out of your budget but you are not allowed to issue them with tasks? Wouldn't you see it as a situation where you are being treated with contempt?
A woman who had a role to play in torturing human beings is on the board of a product I enjoy using. I wish I lived in a world where someone like her would be avoided due to the harm she inflicted not just on this country, but on the fight for human rights. How I wish the people who advocate for torture would be the ones having to face it if they get captured. All of a sudden we'd see them go on at great length about the virtues of human rights.
Hey, let's appoint someone who supports warrantless wiretaps to help run a data storage company! This seems like an appropriate time to plug storj.io, a blockchain-based decentralized cloud storage option that is under development and has received over $250k of private funding.
How'd "eating your words" taste + your foot in your mouth & washed down w/ "the bitter taste of SELF-defeat" too? Here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
(Ahem: Zontar - Libeling me's OR me via attempting to LIE about apps I wrote above's one thing, however also being caught in it & being uanble to backup your OTHER lies too -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ) - Take your meds for THAT one: You're HALLUCINATING again, Zontar!
Please...
APK
P.S.=> Now, you just KNOW I've just GOTTA say it, now don't you? Ah, but of COURSE you do:
THIS? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" & it always is, especially vs. LYING libelous done ZERO losers & admitted loonybirds like Zontar ( multiple personality disorder http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + manic depression http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )
... apk
How'd "eating your words" taste + your foot in your mouth & washed down w/ "the bitter taste of SELF-defeat" too? Here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
(Ahem: Zontar - Libeling me's OR me via attempting to LIE about apps I wrote above's one thing, however also being caught in it & being uanble to backup your OTHER lies too -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ) - Take your meds for THAT one: You're HALLUCINATING again, Zontar!
Please...
APK
P.S.=> Now, you just KNOW I've just GOTTA say it, now don't you? Ah, but of COURSE you do:
THIS? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" & it always is, especially vs. LYING libelous done ZERO losers & admitted loonybirds like Zontar ( multiple personality disorder http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + manic depression http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )
... apk
Back in 2008 when Israel attacked Israel because of foolish Hezbollah misadventures, Condoleezza famously said:
Here is the source.
To this day, the words "New Middle East" is believed by a vast majority over there as a USA conspiracy against Arabs/Muslims. When the 2011 revolution broke out, the first explanation by many was : "It is the USA conspiring against Mubarak, Egypt, Arabs, ...etc."
Now both sides of the political divide in Egypt (pro-Military, pro-Muslim-Brotherhood) point to the other party as an accomplice or agent for that conspiracy.
It is so powerful and pervasive .. no thanks to that ideologue of a Condy ...
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No need to pretend to be utterly stupid in an attempt to be sarcastic - I'm merely pointing out that some people who like to self-apply the word "libertarian" have politics that diverges wildly from what you think the word means. I've done that by pointing out one of the strangest and contradictory extremes. Take a look back to the days when Koch was running for office and there really was the weirdness of effectively going for a new feudalism with Koch as King - "strong" leaders sorting things out and none of that Supreme Court trash - off with their heads!
"You barge into discussions with your off-topic hosts file nonsense" - by Zontar The Mindless (9002) on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:51PM (#46731153) FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
You said my "APK Hosts File Engine" is a virus/malware http://slashdot.org/comments.p... but it's EASILY PROVABLE it's not, right there in that link too.
Now PROVE YOUR FALSE ACCUSATION above: Show me a quote OR POST of me posting off topic on hosts where they did NOT apply... go for it!
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You avoided backing up your accusation where YOU said I say you are Barbara, not Barbie = TomHudson (same person http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... , & sockpuppeteer like you) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Funny you can't back up your "bluster" there either, lol...
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Why, Lastly?
You're crackers! See here multiple personality disorder http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + manic depression http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
APK
P.S.=> So, THIS quote below is my policy on sockpuppeteers like you Zontar = TrollingForHostsFiles (your sockpuppetry):
"The only way to a achieve peace, is thru the ELIMINATION of those who would perpetuate war (sockpuppet masters like YOU, troll -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ). THIS IS MY PROGRAMMING -> http://start64.com/index.php?o... & soon, I will be UNSTOPPABLE..." - Ultron 6 FROM -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Which quite obviously, I am, since none of you DOLTISH TROLLS are able to validly technically disprove my points on hosts enumerated in the link to my program above of how hosts give users of them more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity... period!
(Trolls like YOU that use sockpuppets http://slashdot.org/comments.p... (your sockpuppet "alterego" TrollingForHostsFiles) & TomHudson - Barbara, not Barbie too http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... before you)
... apk
"You barge into discussions with your off-topic hosts file nonsense" - by Zontar The Mindless (9002) on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:51PM (#46731153) FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
You said my "APK Hosts File Engine" is a virus/malware http://slashdot.org/comments.p... but it's EASILY PROVABLE it's not, right there in that link too.
Now PROVE YOUR FALSE ACCUSATION above: Show me a quote OR POST of me posting off topic on hosts where they did NOT apply... go for it!
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You avoided backing up your accusation where YOU said I say you are Barbara, not Barbie = TomHudson (same person http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... , & sockpuppeteer like you) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Funny you can't back up your "bluster" there either, lol...
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Why, Lastly?
You're crackers! See here multiple personality disorder http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + manic depression http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
APK
P.S.=> So, THIS quote below is my policy on sockpuppeteers like you Zontar = TrollingForHostsFiles (your sockpuppetry):
"The only way to a achieve peace, is thru the ELIMINATION of those who would perpetuate war (sockpuppet masters like YOU, troll -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ). THIS IS MY PROGRAMMING -> http://start64.com/index.php?o... & soon, I will be UNSTOPPABLE..." - Ultron 6 FROM -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Which quite obviously, I am, since none of you DOLTISH TROLLS are able to validly technically disprove my points on hosts enumerated in the link to my program above of how hosts give users of them more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity... period!
(Trolls like YOU that use sockpuppets http://slashdot.org/comments.p... (your sockpuppet "alterego" TrollingForHostsFiles) & TomHudson - Barbara, not Barbie too http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... before you)
... apk