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cstacy writes:
In the present economic jobless "recovery" with rising unemployment, and many unemployed professionals no longer even being counted in the gloomy statistics, are more people turning to social networking to make job connections? Personal networking has always been the best way to find good jobs. This Mashable article http://mashable.com/2009/10/14/linkedin-50-millon/ cites a huge recent growth spurt in social networking, and this McKinsey article http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Organization/Talent/When_job_seekers_invade_Facebook_2317 also notices the trend. In the last few months I've had more people connecting to me on LinkedIn and Facebook, and a lot of them are recently unemployed. Do you see more people using SN for job seeking? And does it work? Or is it just more people giving away their personal info so that they can play Mafia Wars and Farmville?
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cstacy writes:
In the present economic jobless "recovery" with rising unemployment estimated at 10-17%, and many unemployed professionals no longer even being counted in the gloomy statistics, are more people turning to social networking to make job connections? Personal networking has always been the best way to find good jobs. This Mashable article http://mashable.com/2009/10/14/linkedin-50-millon/ cites a huge recent growth spurt in social networking. In the last few months I've had more people connecting to me on LinkedIn and Facebook, and a lot of them are recently unemployed. Do you see more people using SN for job seeking? And does it work? Or is it just more people giving away their personal info so that they can play Mafia Wars and Farmville?
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cstacy writes:
The United States has been trying to extradite Gary McKinnon from the United Kingdom. He admits hacking into 97 military and NASA computers in 2001 and 2002. He insists he was looking for evidence of UFOs. Prosecuters say he committed the "biggest military computer hack of all time" and faces up to 70 years in prison. Today the High Court agrees he should be extradited, calling it "a lawful and proportionate response to his offending". His latest bud comes after unsuccessful appeals with House of Lords and the European Court of Human Rights. He can still appeal to the UK Supreme Court. His lawyer argues that the extradition treaty is for terrorists, and "Gary McKinnon is no terrorist." However, McKinnon did leave a rant on one of the computers he hacked: "US foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these days? It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand-down on September 11 last year...I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels."