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Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts 836

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, 2009 @02:17PM from the are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been dept.

justinlindh writes "Bozeman, Montana is now requiring all applicants for city jobs to furnish Internet account information for 'background checking.' A portion of the application reads, "Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.' The article goes on to mention, 'There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.'"

Submission + - Google Earth Blurs Poland's Death Camps 1

Submitted by Greg on Monday April 20, 2009 @01:22AM

Greg writes: Exploring Poland on Google Maps shows an interesting pattern. Many areas in Poland have hi-res satellite images however when you get close to a death camp like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibór and others you for some reason see only low-res imagery, which will not let you see any details of the death camps. In some cases you can clearly see the difference in the image resolution as you get close to the camps.

Submission + - The Internet Archive Demands Same Rights as Google (fictioncircus.com)

Submitted by

Miracle Jones

on Saturday April 18, 2009 @07:19PM

Miracle Jones writes: "Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive has jumped on Google's "Authors Guild" settlement and asked to be included as a party defendant, claiming that they ought to get the same rights and protections from liability that Google will receive when the settlement is approved by federal court. From the Internet Archive's letter to Judge Denny Chin: "The Archive's text archive would greatly benefit from the same limitation of potential copyright liability that the proposed settlement provides Google. Without such a limitation, the Archive would be unable to provide some of these same services due to the uncertain legal issues surrounding orphan books." Who deserves the rights to out-of-print literature more? Google or Kahle's internet library?"

Comment Re:Need a way to un-highlight (Score 1) 702

by boomer_rehfield on Friday November 07, 2008 @03:27PM (#25679263) Attached to: (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks?

sheeeeeeeezzzz..... I always thought that was a bug or something was screwed up somewhere....I've wasted a few years of my life unindenting pasted code. :cry

How Do I Get Open Source Programs Written For Me? 285

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 07, 2008 @11:26AM

An anonymous reader writes "I am a biomedical researcher interested in having general-purpose, scientific programs developed and released as open source. Interface design and reusability of the code are of primary importance to me. For my purpose, Cocoa applications relying on Core Data seem to be the best way to get the job done quickly. While I have some programming experience, I have few connections to the industrial world. So my question to Slashdot readers is: how do I find someone (individual or business) to write high-quality programs? Are there reputable contractors experienced in Cocoa? What sort of rates should I expect, to use as a starting point in negotiations? Would a requirement that programs are released as open source make it more or less difficult to find someone to do the job?"

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