You make it sound like that would be a bad thing. I think recruitment processes today in many ways filter out people on very shallow parameters. Like how they often filter out people who lack a formal education instead of actually checking what specific competence the person actually have.

Having someone that knows you better and are perhaps also more vocal promoting you seems like a good idea to me.

In most cases things work as expected. The things that causes most problems are when we are using redirect links (temporary redirects) that are only ment to be used once. Normally the user doesn't see them and the browsers aren't supposed to cache them. Which works fine until the filtering companies like to do double of everything.

Well we are running with SSL but the filtering company has their proxy inside the corporations and can thus intercept the SSL requests.

These double requests also causes a lot of trouble for some people.

I'm working for a company running a web service for corporations and we have a very high level of logging and surveillance in order to provide a good service. However we get a lot of strange alerts from double requests from different ip numbers. It appears that some content filtering companies like to do the same (Bluecoat I'm looking at you) and they even do requests with cloned cookies (so they act in the same session as the user).

A lot of funky things happens if you assume that a user is only going to access certain (GET) links once but a filtering company is intercepting the request and sometimes manage to make the request faster than the user.

Frankly, it becomes meaningless if we enable it by default for all our users. Do Not Track is intended to express an individualâ(TM)s choice, or preference, to not be tracked. Itâ(TM)s important that the signal represents a choice made by the person behind the leopard and not the software maker, because ultimately itâ(TM)s not Firefox being tracked, itâ(TM)s the user.

I wonder what's behind that reasoning from Mozilla.

It's not like it would be very complicated to make a feature in the browser to pop up a question whether the user want to be tracked or not and save the answer.

Given the release rate of Firefox they should be able to have it out by Tuesday.

Can anyone who keeps more track on the stock market tell me if my suspicion that the stock buyers are slowly learning that a hyped (tech) IPO initially only benefits those already with stock?

The stock market really feels like a game and people are slowly learning the rules.

Also, I think part of the problem with facebook is that it is so well known. A large part of the US (and the world) has a facebook account so most people know what the deal is about. I think that many can accept that there is value in the company in itself and the service for the users. However I also think that many find it problematic to "monetize" on it. Since the company really only have one product, the site, thinks can get sour quick if the users start to leave.

Is this really such a big deal?

From my understanding there are many countries in the world that requires a registered commercial organization (and all the required administration that follows) to perform certain kind of jobs.

Perhaps sad for the Ukrainian people that working internationally becomes more cumbersome but I can also understand that the state want to keep track of what business is conducted from the country.