http://www.drop-dropbox.com/

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We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them.

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.

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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?

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We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them.

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?

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.

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Reality Internet Personality

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.

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We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them.

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.

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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.

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.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

IMHO, anyone who uses "cloud storage" and expects their data to be safe is an idiot to start with.

Cheers.

Wiggo you speak wisdom.

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I do have my moments. :-D

Cheers.

IMHO, anyone who uses "cloud storage" and expects their data to be safe is an idiot to start with.

Cheers.

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.

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IMHO, anyone who uses "cloud storage" and expects their data to be safe is an idiot to start with.

Cheers.

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.

I guess it depends on just who's worksheets they are.
Some may be more important than others.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

It's very clear we must censor all Bush W. appointees for starting this.

Then all Obama appointees for expanding it.

Bush/Obama. What's the real difference?

The differences between Bush the Younger and Obama? Not bloody much, as far as I can tell.

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#Texit

Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016.

Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power.

It's very clear we must censor all Bush W. appointees for starting this.

Then all Obama appointees for expanding it.

Bush/Obama. What's the real difference?

The differences between Bush the Younger and Obama? Not bloody much, as far as I can tell.

Well there is one difference. When Bush Jr. drew a line it wasnt crossed.

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IMHO, anyone who uses "cloud storage" and expects their data to be safe is an idiot to start with.

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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.

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”?

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And a technical reason why not to use Dropbox and the like:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27285786

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?