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Submission + - Copyright or License Your Resume?

Submitted by on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @10:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: Have you ever submitted a resume to a recruiter, and the recruiter significantly modified your resume for submission to a prospective employer? In fact, they munged it to the point that you feel that not only the format was changed, but substantial content was modified? Over the years, I have modified my resume many times, working to make it as readable and informative as I can. I will admit it is long, but I have a lot of experience, and I feel it is well laid out and pretty easy to read. I feel that some of the modifications that recruiters make actually detract from the format, and sometimes make the meaning different from the original intent. I can understand removing my contact information when submitting, as they don't want employers doing an end-run around them to contact prospects. Would it be a good idea to attach some kind of copyright, or require that recruiters submit resumes as I submitted to them?

Submission + - India's IT Industry Hit by Rising Rupee (outlookseries.com)

Submitted by

textman

on Sunday June 10, 2007 @03:54PM

textman writes: "India's Information Technology sector, which has played such a major role in the country's economic expansion, is afraid it is going to be hurt by a significant appreciation of the local currency."

Submission + - SchizOS Features the Personalities of Linux (distrooftheday.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10, 2007 @02:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: Some clever fellow has decided to use streaming virtual machine images to showcase linux distributions. There are so many awesome developers out there building different flavors of linux for me, but its so time consuming to try them all out to see if their goals are in line with mine. Also, its important to raise awareness of whats out there so that our community can spend less time duplicating work unnecessarily. Some folks are alreading doing a great job with this, but this just takes it one step further.

Submission + - CPS-3 Encryption Scheme Broken (exophase.com)

Submitted by

zshadow

on Sunday June 10, 2007 @01:37PM

zshadow writes: "It's taken awhile, ten years to be exact, but Andreas Naive has successfully managed to break the protection on Capcom's CPS-3 arcade system board. The CPS-3 powered less than a dozen arcade classics, including JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Red Earth, and Street Fighter III. The security system of the CPS-3 was rather advanced for its time. Any tampering to the game's security cartridge would result in the decryption key being erased, thereby rendering the respective cartridge useless. So, the decryption is broken, what does this all mean? In one word: Emulation. Now that the decryption task is done, the folks over at MAME have already started work on a CPS-3 emulator."

Submission + - ECMAScript 4 Reference Implementation Released (ecmascript-lang.org)

Submitted by

mad.frog

on Friday June 08, 2007 @08:14PM

mad.frog writes: "Dave Herman has posted a note on lambda-the-ultimate.org announcing that the first pre-release of the reference implementation of ECMAScript Edition 4 (a.k.a. JavaScript 2) is now available. Language geeks will be interested to find that the reference implementation of ECMAScript is being written in Standard ML, rather than pseudocode."

Submission + - Indian Nationalists Censor Orkut

Submitted by starkravingmad on Friday June 08, 2007 @07:51PM

starkravingmad writes: The Economic Times is running a story on Hindu nationalists in India threatening to wreck internet cafes that don't block parts of Orkut that the vigilantes find offensive. From the article:

"Orkut is used by many destructive elements to spread canards about India, Hindus, our gods and cultural heritage," said Abhijit Phanse, president of Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, the student group.
"We are gently telling Internet cafe owners that it is their responsibility to see that surfers do not use their facility to carry out such hate campaigns," he said.
"Or else, we will have to do that job for them." Last week, dozens of Shiv Sena workers vandalised some Internet centres, saying they were not stopping their customers from accessing Orkut groups involved in sending hate messages.
The campaign is being run by the Shiv Sena, which has, in the past, fought against such threats to Indian society as Valentine's Day, the movie "Fire" which showed a lesbian love affair, and more recently, Richard Gere. They hold power in the Mumbai local government, and in the past have formed governments at the state level and were part of the coalition in the last national government in India.

And just to prove that they are more than an illiterate medieval mob who like to burn things down, they are taking a 21st century approach to censorship this time:

Phanse said his group was developing a special software that Internet service providers could install to block any message containing certain words and phrases such as "I hate" or "I despise". "The software should be ready in 2-3 months"

Submission + - 25% of all Americans are Confused

Submitted by

jd

on Friday June 08, 2007 @07:37PM

jd writes: "A recent survey has shown that 25% of Americans simultaneously believe in literal Creationism and Evolution. Whilst it comes as no surprise that Americans are divided on the issue of Biblical or Darwinian origins, it is seriously perplexing as to how so many can believe completely and passionately in two mutually contradictory theories."

Submission + - Google, Microsoft and Yahoo DNS records hacked (thecoils.com)

Submitted by

Yaron Orenstein

on Friday June 08, 2007 @07:11PM

Yaron Orenstein writes: "I wanted to point your attention to a very interesting story we have found two days ago and just published. The DNS records of three of the top world Internet companies Google, Microsoft and Yahoo has been hacked. I have published the whole story in English here: http://www.thecoils.com/2007/06/08/google_microsof t_yahoo_dns_hack/"

Submission + - Court: Cops Can Steal and Lie to Conduct Searches (lawbean.com)

Submitted by

Spamicles

on Friday June 08, 2007 @05:59PM

Spamicles writes: "Police officers faked a car jacking in order to search a car that was suspected to be used in drug trafficking. They discovered drugs and arrested the owners of the car. A lower court ruled that the warrant-less search and seizure violated the Fourth Amendment and that the drugs could not be used as evidence. This ruling was overturned today."

Submission + - Interview with hardware modder Ben Heck (gamealmighty.com)

Submitted by

Jaklar

on Friday June 08, 2007 @05:58PM

Jaklar writes: "Posted an interview with hardware modder extraordinaire Benjamin Heckendorn, best known for his portable Xbox 360. Interview covers his inspirations, how he got started, dream projects, favorite inventor and more. Your readers should find it interesting.
http://www.gamealmighty.com/story-individual/story /Interview_with_Modding_Genius_Ben_Heck/"

Submission + - Dell will preinstall Linux this month

Submitted by

javipas

on Friday April 20, 2007 @06:06AM

javipas writes: "There have been several Slashdot news that made clear the Dell's proposal for preinstalling Linux on some of their desktop and notebook PCs. No one knew if that could come sooner or later, but Steven Vaughan-Nichols reveals that sources close to Dell confirm that option by the end of this month. Possible Linux distributions: openSUSE, Fedora, Novell SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux and, of course, Ubuntu, which as you may know, is used by Michael Dell himself."

Submission + - Easy-to-make material scratches diamond

Submitted by holy_calamity on Friday April 20, 2007 @05:59AM

holy_calamity writes: A material tough enough to scratch diamond that can be made without resorting to massive pressure has been developed at UCLA. A regular furnace and a zap of current is enough to meld boron with the metal rhenium.

Submission + - Russia's floating nuclear plants

Submitted by slashdotmsiriv on Friday April 20, 2007 @05:49AM

slashdotmsiriv writes: Russia has started building the world's first floating nuclear power station. Russian officials view the highly mobile nuclear power plants on ships as a safe way to power remote isolated areas, without the risk of nuclear proliferation. Greenpeace however, strongly disagrees with this approach and calls it "The most dangerous project that has been launched by the atomic sector in the whole world over the past decade"

Judging by the safety record of reactors in submarines and icebreaking ships, is Greenpeace once again overreacting over nuclear power? Also, who will have administrative control over those ships, Russia or the hosting country?

Feed Suing a cartel should be easier, says OFT (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Friday April 20, 2007 @05:32AM

Competition rules under scrutiny

Consumers and businesses harmed by cartels and other anti-competitive practices should be better placed to recover their losses, according to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which launched a consultation (pdf) on changing competition rules this week.

Submission + - Microsoft Plans To Offer Three dollar Windows

Submitted by

TheCybernator

on Friday April 20, 2007 @03:41AM

TheCybernator writes: "Thursday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said that the company is planning to release a 3 dollar software suite for students in developing countries. The announcement marked the US software giant's most ambitious attempt to date to bridge the digital divide between technologically advanced and developing countries. The Student Innovation Suite was announced as Microsoft faces increased challenges from open source operating systems like Linux and free web-based applications like those offered by Google, both of which target the company's dominance in personal computer software. http://www.playfuls.com/news_07054_Microsoft_Plans _To_Offer_Three_dollar_Windows.html"

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