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Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
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Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
I'm not a huge fan of Condoleezza, but why single her out in particular? Lots of those in previous administrations have gone on to do work for private companies, and some a bit more disturbing than a fileshare business. Reality Internet Personality |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
I'm not a huge fan of Condoleezza, but why single her out in particular? Lots of those in previous administrations have gone on to do work for private companies, and some a bit more disturbing than a fileshare business. Doesn't that site precisely describe why? SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
I'm not a huge fan of Condoleezza, but why single her out in particular? Lots of those in previous administrations have gone on to do work for private companies, and some a bit more disturbing than a fileshare business. It describes why she should possibly face charges and not be allowed into politics again, but it also points out what an extremely capable person she is. I am not seeing the connection with that and dropbox. Does dropbox have the power or the inclination to start a war for profit? Its not like she went to work for Halliuburton. Reality Internet Personality |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
As I see it dropbox keeps user data and she too compromised herself to grant her any permission to deal with user's private data in any way. SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
As I see it dropbox keeps user data and she too compromised herself to grant her any permission to deal with user's private data in any way. Well that makes more sense than all the complaints that are thrown in there. Whoever wrote the petitions needs to rewrite it to make their case better. Then start another one to have her tried for war crimes because the issues are separate. Reality Internet Personality |
Мишель Send message Joined: 26 Nov 13 Posts: 3073 Credit: 87,868 RAC: 0 |
Indeed, they could have left that stuff about the Iraq war and being involved with the torture program out. Just say she personally authorized illegal wiretapping operations against civilians should be sufficient to get the point of her untrustworthiness with user data across. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I was watching Lori renewing Avast virus protection on her laptop last weekend, when.........ahoy.........Dropbox showed up. I was very annoyed, because she trusts me when I tell her how to do things. And this was quite unannounced. We went into Program Manager later and uninstalled it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34830 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
IMHO, anyone who uses "cloud storage" and expects their data to be safe is an idiot to start with. Cheers. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Wiggo you speak wisdom. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34830 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I do have my moments. :-D Cheers. |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
IMHO, anyone who uses "cloud storage" and expects their data to be safe is an idiot to start with. I use it, but only for my teaching resources, I don't think the world is going to end if someone gets hold of a load of physics worksheets. Reality Internet Personality |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
IMHO, anyone who uses "cloud storage" and expects their data to be safe is an idiot to start with. I guess it depends on just who's worksheets they are. Some may be more important than others. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
KWSN - MajorKong Send message Joined: 5 Jan 00 Posts: 2892 Credit: 1,499,890 RAC: 0 |
It's very clear we must censor all Bush W. appointees for starting this. The differences between Bush the Younger and Obama? Not bloody much, as far as I can tell. https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE #Texit Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016. Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power. |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
It's very clear we must censor all Bush W. appointees for starting this. Well there is one difference. When Bush Jr. drew a line it wasnt crossed. [/quote] Old James |
Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
IMHO, anyone who uses "cloud storage" and expects their data to be safe is an idiot to start with. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34830 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Now most of yous are just talking about government snooping, but don't forget about the hackers out there that just love to break into things like this. Cheers. |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
The Stupid Hounding of Condi Rice If Condoleezza Rice were as self-pitying and politically crass as Attorney General Eric Holder, she would be wondering aloud what it is about her race and gender that accounts for the hostility to her. Rice’s speaking gigs on college campuses and her ascension to the board of the Internet company Dropbox have sparked protests calling for her to be disinvited, cashiered and generally isolated and shamed. Condi Rice is not a natural lightning rod. She’s such a disreputable figure that she’s on the board of the Kennedy Center and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. She’s such a lightweight that she’s a Stanford University professor. She’s such a yahoo that she once accompanied Yo Yo Ma on the piano. The mob nonetheless believes that her due punishment for serving the wrong administration in the wrong cause should be her banishment from the company of any person or institution who disagrees with her. When the University of Minnesota invited her to give a lecture Thursday night as part of a series marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the herd of independent minds that is the school’s faculty roused itself. Roughly 200 of them demanded that the invitation be revoked, mostly because of her association with George W. Bush administration interrogation and detention policies, but also because she is unfit to be part of a civil-rights lecture series. What would give anyone the idea that a woman who was the nation’s first female African-American secretary of state, whose grandfather was the son of a sharecropper, who experienced Jim Crow first-hand during her childhood in Alabama, who was friends with one of the girls killed in the Birmingham Church bombing, whose parents instilled in her an ethic of striving despite the hatred around her would have anything relevant to say about civil rights? The Minnesota professors say that it is in a “spirit of free expression†that they ask for the reversal of Rice’s invitation. Because nothing says free expression like shutting down someone’s lecture. The faculty claim they would love to have Rice come to the school on some other occasion, although they don’t stipulate what that would be. Presumably to sit in the dock at a mock war crimes trail, conducted by the best forensic talent that the departments of sociology and global studies and of gender, women, and sexuality studies can muster. The Rutgers faculty reacted in a similar vein to the selection of Rice as the school’s commencement speaker. It approved a resolution calling for undoing the decision. It included a proviso explaining that “a Commencement speaker, who is entrusted with speaking to graduating students about the direction of their future lives, should embody moral authority and exemplary leadership.†If we indulge the conceit here that students determine the future of their lives based on what they hear (assuming they are listening) at commencement speeches, does the Rutgers faculty think Rice will urge graduating students to start “wars of choice†and do “extraordinary renditions� me@rescam.org |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22216 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
And a technical reason why not to use Dropbox and the like: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27285786 Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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