Harmonious Botch - Slashdot User

Submission + - Where do you look for (full-time) jobs?

Submitted by on Sunday December 30, 2007 @03:00PM

An anonymous reader writes: I find myself thinking about finding a new job but not seeing too many opportunities. The last time I did this, I mostly used craigslist, though I also browsed 37signals, 43folders, CrunchBoard, GigaOM, Joel On Software, Slashdot and The Daily WTF. I am also aware of CareerBuilder, Dice and monster but have found that they offer very few interesting opportunities and most positions tend to be contract. I used to have more than a hundred jobs to skim through each day but now I'm frequently seeing ten or fewer. It's possible there are just fewer jobs available but I suspect a lot of companies have just found new listing sites. What resources are you using when searching for full-time jobs (not contract)?

Submission + - Nominate best Slashdot sigs

Submitted by alexo on Thursday December 27, 2007 @12:58PM

alexo writes: Some readers may disagree but to me, the user signatures are an integral part of Slashdot discussions, often providing additional perspective about the posters' opinions.
However, sigs are not normally considered a part of the discussion and commenting on them is liable to get you moderated "off topic". Likewise, sig moderation is not provided.

Maybe it's time to acknowledge and celebrate the lowly sig.
Please nominate the best (and worst) Slashdot sigs of 2007.
Which ones did you find the funniest? The most insightful? Trollish?

Let the quoting begin.

Submission + - What if the economic unit of account was the watt? 2

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday December 26, 2007 @11:55PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "I am no economist but if certain individuals are to be believed fiat currency is a bag of lies. With energy seeming to be the driving force behind our economy, something we'll always need in some form or another, would it make sense to move to a monetary system in which each dollar represents a fixed amount of energy? Would such monetary policy push us toward reliable and renewable energy sources... would everyone buy solar panels in some futuristic version of a gold rush? I'm just curious to see what Slashdot readers, especially those with an economic background, have to say."

Submission + - Jet From Black Hole Blasts Neighboring Galaxy (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @03:28PM

An anonymous reader writes: A jet of highly charged radiation from a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is blasting another galaxy nearby — an act of galactic violence that astronomers said yesterday they have never seen before. "What we've identified is an act of violence by a black hole, with an unfortunate nearby galaxy in the line of fire," said Dan Evans, the study leader at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge. He said any planets orbiting the stars of the smaller galaxy would be dramatically affected, and any life forms would likely die as the jet's radiation transformed the planets' atmosphere.

The Transistor's 60th Birthday 185

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 16, 2007 @01:47AM from the silly-hats-will-be-worn dept.

Apple Acolyte sends in a Forbes piece noting the 60th birthday of the transistor on Dec, 16. For the occasion the AP provides the obligatory Moore's-Law-is-ending, no-it-isn't article. From Forbes: "Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, three physicists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., built the world's first transistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen and William Brattain had been looking for a semiconductor amplifier to take the place of the vacuum tubes that made radios and other electronics so impossibly bulky, hot and power hungry."

Submission + - Why Everyone Should Hate Cellphone Carriers (wired.com) 2

Submitted by

The Byelorrusian Spamtrap

on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @09:00PM

The Byelorrusian Spamtrap writes: "Wired Magazine's made its position clear on the state of play in America's cellular industry, delivering a long, satisfying screed on why all of us should stop complaining and do something about it. Legislation is under consideration in congress to heavily regulate carriers, and it wants you to support it: contact your critter today!"

Submission + - Microsoft's EU patent pledge incompatible with GPL (vnunet.com)

Submitted by

pete314

on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @08:28PM

pete314 writes: "Linux vendors will be unable to license Microsoft's interoperability patents under the terms that were mandated by the European Commission. Because the license doesn't allow for downstream licensing (licensing beyond the vendor and first buyer), it would violate the GPL. As a result, no Linux distributions will be able to benefit.

Mark Webbink, former general counsel for Red Hat and currently a director with the Software Freedom Law Center however argued that there is some hope. "It will take some degree of effort, but one should not assume that they will simply have to take the patent license.""

Submission + - China behind daily internet attacks on Germany

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @06:14PM

Stony Stevenson writes: China is conducting almost daily spying attacks on businesses and government agencies in Germany, according to one of the country's intelligence officers. Hans Elmar Remberg, vice president of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution, told a Berlin conference on industrial espionage that his country was involved in "the Chinese cyber war".

"In our view, state Chinese interests stand behind these digital attacks," he said. "Supporting this view is the intensity, structure and scope of the attacks, and above all the targets, which include authorities and companies." Remberg's comments follow a recent spate of government statements that China is using hacking to gain information.

Submission + - Quantum cryptography speeds slowed by" dead ti (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Saturday September 29, 2007 @11:32PM

coondoggie writes: "Researchers said today that technological and security issues will stall maximum transmission rates at levels comparable to that of a single broadband connection, such as a cable modem, unless researchers reduce "dead times" in the detectors that receive quantum-encrypted messages. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), technological and security issues will stall maximum transmission rates at levels comparable to that of a single broadband connection, such as a cable modem, unless researchers reduce "dead times" in the detectors that receive quantum-encrypted messages. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20061"

Submission + - Processor Throttling in Windows XP

Submitted by TomSlick on Saturday September 29, 2007 @11:30PM

TomSlick writes: Michael Chu, a former Intel employee, has written up a fairly interesting and easy to read summary of Windows XP power schemes as they relate to processor throttling. An old topic, but one still relevant as many business notebooks remain Windows XP.

Submission + - Fedora Unity Releases Updated Fedora Linux 7 Re-S (fedoraunity.org) 1

Submitted by

devkhadka

on Saturday September 29, 2007 @10:53PM

devkhadka writes: "The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora 7. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora 7 and all updates released as of September 12th, 2007. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via jigdo starting Friday, September 28th, 2007. We have included CD Image sets for those in the Fedora community that do not have DVD drives or burners available. Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included. These updates might otherwise comprise more than 700MiB of downloads for a default install. This is a community project, for and by the community. You can contribute to the community by joining our test process."

Submission + - Choosing a primary care physician

Submitted by Harmonious Botch on Friday July 06, 2007 @02:42PM

Harmonious Botch writes: I'm switching medical plans, and need to choose a primary care physician. I figure that slashdotters switch jobs — and thus medical plans — more often than the average person, and I also assume that they understand the science behind the medicine better than the average person. So, I'm asking slashdot how to do it.

First, of course, I checked google for questions to ask the candidate, and got obvious ones like "how long in practice", and an amazingly large number of lame ones like "what hours is your office open" and "do you have parking". WTF?? There seems to be many copies of one industry standard set of questions out there, and that set of questions is nearly worthless — almost as if it were designed to conceal incompetence.

I need questions to ask a physician so I can determine if he really knows his stuff. I'm inclined to start with "do you believe in astrology" to weed out the scientifically illiterate, but even that allows a dishonest one to see through my intentions and lie.

( BTW, if anybody has personal experience with Blue Cross of California in northern LA, any particular pro or con recomendations would be appreciated. )

Thanks to all contributors.

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