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Comment Re:Who cares (Score 2) 160

If you do any web development, these browser stats control how much testing and effort you have to spend supporting various browsers. IE unfortunately is difficult to work with as the "standards" they choose to implement often work differently than the standards that Firefox, WebKit and others use.
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Submission + - NSA claims it would violate Americans' privacy to say how many of us it spied on (networkworld.com)

colinneagle writes: Would you believe the Inspector General from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it would violate the privacy of Americans for the IG office to tell us how many people in the United States had their privacy violated via the NSA warrantless wiretap powers which were granted under the FISA Amendment Act of 2008?

The annual Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) report [PDF] showed that electronic surveillance increased yet again in 2011. Applications for what the government calls "business records," but also includes the production of tangible things, swelled from 96 in 2010 to 205 in 2011. The EFF said those business records are one in the same as the government using the notorious Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA) is up for a five-year extension, but Senator Ron Wyden said he'd block FAA renewal until Congress received an answer from the NSA about how many "people in the United States have their communications reviewed by the government" under FAA powers.

Comment Re:Standard practice? (Score 3, Insightful) 192

I think everyone fails to keep this in perspective.
This is LinkedIn, not your bank, not the government, nothing important.
If you use the same password on some bunk website as important things, then you deserve what you had, but if, for some reason, I used the same password for slashdot as LinkedIn, and someone hacks my slashdot, whatever. The thing to really worry about is what these companies do with all of our personal information.
Security

Submission + - Looking for an Excellent Resources on Excessively 1

rhartness writes: "I am a long time Software Engineer, however, almost all of my work has been developing server-side, intranet applications or applications for the Windows desktop environment. With that said, I have recently come up with an idea for a new website which would require extremely high levels of security (i.e. I need to be sure that my servers are as 100% rock-solid, unhackable as possible.) I am an experienced developer, and I have a general understanding of web security, however, I am clueless of what is requires to create a web server that is as secure as, say, a banking account management system.

Can the Slashdot community recommend good websites, books or any other resources that thoroughly discuss the topic of setting up a small web server or network for hosting a site that is as absolutely secure as possible?"

Comment Old Timers (Score 4, Insightful) 435

I've been doing a lot of interviews lately, and as long as you can demonstrate you have the skills necessary to complete the work in the job, I could care less how long since you've had an "actual job." Though, I'm not sure how much HR screening goes on before I see any resumes. The hard part is just coming up with a good way to demonstrate that you have the necessary skills. The last applicant we hired brought a laptop with him and was showing us parts of a cool project he'd been working on, there isn't a much better way to show of your skills than to talk intelligently, then just show off what you can do. Good luck!

Comment Technical Debt (Score 5, Insightful) 435

In today's agile world, who gets time to maintain technical debt. How does paying technical debt ever give your app that new feature that your marketing department is pushing for -- to have out by tomorrow. I think the rules have changed in how companies push their software development organizations to deliver software. That may be the biggest reason that quality is different than it was. That and the other programs have been worked on forever.

Comment Re:Due process (Score 1) 186

No.
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation"

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/pdf/con016.pdf

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