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It's a shame it could taint the discussion between her and airbnb regardless.

This definitely puts a taint on Dropbox, for me. We'll see if that leads to action.

This is Coinbase, Kraken et al throwing MtGox under the bus to stop the taint from spreading. Note there is no mention of any help for MtGox or its customers.

"stop with the ad hominem attacks" Michael, you're complaining about rude attacks the day after you wrote "Choke on a fucking taint, Google. Choke.

Let that taint your view of the language if you wish, but keep in mind that there may be an approach that will be a lot nicer. For some people and some teams, that's not what they want out of a language, and that's fine.

The kernel devs specifically cited the quality of the drivers when adding it to the taint list. Check the mailing list if you don't believe me.

If the programmer had run Perl with taint mode enabled, he would have discovered this bug instantly. I think it's a mental thing: most people writing code never think "how could this go wrong", since they assume that they don't make mistakes.

If society gets burned on a big scale by some experiment, it may taint attitudes for years or decades. For example, the crash of 2008 has to made a lot of people extremely skeptical about financial innovation.

The developers give you additional stuff to play through for, for those people that might complain about its brief length, but for the rest of us who understand, it was something you just can't taint.

Not only is it entirely made up, but it puts an unnecessary taint of corruption on a program that saves lives. As anyone scanning thread can attest, the last thing a foreign aid program needs is any kind of association with corruption - especially one that is made up.

I can't tell you how many times I've laid awake at night wondering if my code has a bug in it that I can't find and will taint my research results. I suspect another big problem is that one student writes the code, graduates, then leaves it to future students, or worse, their professor, to figure out what they wrote.

It also curbs the brand of extortion, so routine in American law as almost to have lost its ethical taint, by which lawyers use the costs of the process itself, or the risk of a fluke outcome found in any trial, to strong-arm their opponents into settlement." I'm facing this very scenario right now.

In particular, we wanted to allow proprietary, closed-source drivers to be shipped for OpenSolaris without a Linux-esque "taint" of the system. We also wanted distros to be created that had entirely proprietary components -- including the binaries that constituted elements of the system that we could not ourselves open source due to third party restrictions.

Not only do they freeze assets, and add on ridiculous charges like 15 counts of wire fraud because the document in question contained 15 pages, they also use effective PR campaigns - bringing out the defendant in handcuffs, staging press conferences where they go into detail on the alleged crime before the trial has even begun in order to taint the jury pool. For prosecutors, many cases are not about justice but about winning at any cost - often to further their own political career.

My only fear is that a collapse of Groupon--which I actually see as a non unrealistic possibility--will taint other Internet/tech IPOs and, even worse, prompt the Federal government into more kneejerk regulation even stupider and more onerous than Sarbanes-Oxley.