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I'm curious to see which companies were examined - if any were investigated and were found to be meeting regulations, or could be held up as exemplary. The paper details 30 compani…

I've never had that experience, but I've been turned down on a couple of home rental applications when past arrests have turned up when running a background check. I'd assume the t…

This is a really nice idea. I was working on a similar project a few years, audioname.com. The trick is in networking with larger social service and building integrations so that p…

>> Interestingly, the "divisiveness" of this rug was apparently turned into an issue by none other than Julie Ann Horvath. I get that you're trying to take a cheap shot, but that w…

>> I [was] not contacted during my investigation either. ie, not necessarily related to the exact situation at github, but referring to a situation at another company.

The analog to that goes something like: all participants in a hand of blackjack can win. And even the house doesn't ”lose”: it makes an expected payout, which incentivizes the play…

I don't know about anyone else, but I still go looking for an expert when I need any of my Windows machines fixed: whereas when any of my Ubuntu machines have issues, I'm comfortab…

I don't know if i'm missing something, but I've seen very little introspection in the responses to the situation. The guy who was called out's apology notwithstanding, out seems li…

It's not issue of being held accountable for something they said: http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/cowards-are-blackmailing-youn... Its an issue of protecting users who are using app…

Ha! By far the worst of the stackexchange network sites I've seen. My wife and I sometimes read it for laughs.... Funny that people who can come up with a dozen ways to solve a tri…

That's a good word for it. There was a short-lived trend in design a few years back that used the term ”maximalism” to mean something similar - covering every surface, layering met…

As part of the 99% of developers who work for other people, I resent troll-bait comments like this. Twitter, in addition to being a genuinely interesting social phenomenon, has alw…

What I actually found most interesting reading back over the book lately was the very 90's take on ethnic balkanization. I don't think that ever really came to pass in the way it w…

Yes, since each ” pixel” is just an additional box shadow. Very clever. I've never experimented with the number of box shadows that can realistically be drawn on modern browsers, w…

Who is the target audience who would have enough of these applications installed that they would "own the dock"? At most I only ever used maybe 5 programs out of the whole Creative…

Latest Ubuntu has kernel version 3.2. What distros are still on 2.6?

That looks surprisingly good for me in Firefox, but from my experiments making these tricks work in production, browser standardization is a long way from the point where we can do…

Given that breastfeeding has been declining in America over the past couple generations, it reflects a misunderstanding of American sexual pathology, if, in fact, it was meant as m…

Nonces, used properly, should be fairly decent protection against the kind of CSRF attack you're describing. They're not bulletproof, but, someone who knows enough about the intern…

The php code would be inside a shortcode that looked like [php][/php], so no, that wouldn't protect you. The smart fix is to check for user permissions and nonce before rendering t…

Have to ask what software you were using, that it was so easy to get his password from out of his login account. This must have been in the days before passwords were hashed or som…

Tangential to the actual topic of discussion: what exactly has changed in Facebook's developer/app policies that an app like this is possible today, while a year ago something like…

I thought I recognized this - wasn't something very similar to this used on the demo documents for the scripty framework a year or so ago? Its a nice looking finished product, I'd …

This is really nice. I've been working on a very similar project in fabric.js this past week (captioning a picture, dragging text around on it and posting to facebook and pinterest…