Then when you decline a candidate because of lack of experience, they slam you with an age-discrimination lawsuit which you'll eventually have to settle to your detriment.
My last hiring committee appointed someone otherwise unrelated to the process to do the internet search to see if the applicants had published anything concerning. Only this person was "contaminated" by information otherwise unrelated to the qualities specifically sought for the position, and this person steered clear of any other facet of the application process.
This process could, I think and fear, clear employers of the EEOC concerns.
In response to the "Patriot" Act, my local library does not store any information about any books I have checked out, except for those on which I currently owe fines. Check out this page, on which the ALA describes its policies with regard to user information:
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/ifresolutions/libraryusagerecords.cfm
I think google, who does no evil, needs to follow that example, and then lead by example. If you know that some outside entity can force you to turn over personal data, then by storing that data you are aiding and abetting, and all your statements regarding 'privacy' are nothing but b.s.
He's not claiming that he is being censored. This isn't breaking news about nefarious activities of the government. This is about an art exhibit that is inspired by typical and ongoing nefarious activities of the government. From the article:
Paglen's initial interest in the government's so-called "black projects" took shape while combing through U.S. Geological Survey archives of satellite prison photos in 2002. He noticed that many of the photo frames of prison sites were missing or, in some cases, heavily edited. "I thought: What the hell is this? We still have blank spots on maps? We've mapped the whole structure of the cosmos and the human genome, so what's this all about?" Paglen said. Eventually, those blank spots led Paglen to other covert subjects and turned a hobby into a full-time job -- one with a decidedly political stance. "For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge," Paglen notes. "So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it -- something that was very aggressive and dangerous -- and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence."
I found the article interesting and inspiring. I'm glad Slashdot led me there.
http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?a=340836&z=2
ST. PAUL -- Authorities are investigating the death of a suicidal 21-year-old man who died after St. Paul police shocked him with a Taser.
Police say they responded to a call of a suicide in progress involving a controlled substance just after 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
Police say the two arriving officers were confronted by a partially clothed man. As they tried to calm and control him for the paramedics, the man attacked both officers. Police say a chemical irritant spray had no effect on the man, and a third officer shocked the man with a Taser after he bit the other two officers.
The man kept fighting, but officers were able to restrain him. He then became unresponsive. Paramedics were unable to revive him and he died at the scene.
Both officers were treated at Regions Hospital and released.
On Friday, I quit my job as a senior software engineer with a very large company which paid me very, very well to develop middleware. In July, I'm starting back to school for a year to get my teaching certificate. Yes, I'll start at a quarter of my salary, if I'm lucky, but I'm walking on air. My kids are thrilled to see me without my badge and laptop. I love working with kids, the work matters infinitely more than the nit-picking design decisions I was wrestling with last week, and the summer camping trips are going to rock.
You have my vote. Take the leap.
I spent a year in Fairbanks, Alaska making ice-cream for minimum wage. I was happy, but I thought there must be more. I got married, get certified to teach, and we moved to a remote Yup'ik Eskimo village on the Bering Sea. I was making about $36,000 a year, expenses were high but there were no restaurants, no movie theatres, no bars, so what we didn't spend on necessities didn't get spent, and we were happy. When our first child arrived, I was worried that I'd spend too much time in the classroom (during those 180 days of the year when school was in) and therefore I thought I'd move to a cushy job in IT. Went back to school, then got hired by a truly gigantic company in the midwest to write software. I'm making well over a hundred grand, but since I'm always working we always eat out, and sure the house has running water, but boy, those amenities will cost you, and alcohol is way too easy to come by, and so I'm not saving much more money, and I don't get to spend much time at all with my children, and I'm decidedly not happy, and I no longer know how to end a sentence. So I'm with you. I gave notice, and at the end of this month, I'm done with this little jaunt. Even my manager admitted she was more than a bit jealous. The other rats who fled this ship before me have no regrets. Nor, I hope, will you, or me.
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Then when you decline a candidate because of lack of experience, they slam you with an age-discrimination lawsuit which you'll eventually have to settle to your detriment. My last hiring committee appointed someone otherwise unrelated to the process to do the internet search to see if the applicants had published anything concerning. Only this person was "contaminated" by information otherwise unrelated to the qualities specifically sought for the position, and this person steered clear of any other facet of the application process. This process could, I think and fear, clear employers of the EEOC concerns.
and Amazon trembles.
For tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his owne petard.
Fixed it for you.
-- Olde English Grammar Nazi
Fixed it for you.
--Olde English Grammar Nazi
In response to the "Patriot" Act, my local library does not store any information about any books I have checked out, except for those on which I currently owe fines. Check out this page, on which the ALA describes its policies with regard to user information: http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/ifresolutions/libraryusagerecords.cfm I think google, who does no evil, needs to follow that example, and then lead by example. If you know that some outside entity can force you to turn over personal data, then by storing that data you are aiding and abetting, and all your statements regarding 'privacy' are nothing but b.s.
http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?a=340836&z=2 ST. PAUL -- Authorities are investigating the death of a suicidal 21-year-old man who died after St. Paul police shocked him with a Taser. Police say they responded to a call of a suicide in progress involving a controlled substance just after 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Police say the two arriving officers were confronted by a partially clothed man. As they tried to calm and control him for the paramedics, the man attacked both officers. Police say a chemical irritant spray had no effect on the man, and a third officer shocked the man with a Taser after he bit the other two officers. The man kept fighting, but officers were able to restrain him. He then became unresponsive. Paramedics were unable to revive him and he died at the scene. Both officers were treated at Regions Hospital and released.
On Friday, I quit my job as a senior software engineer with a very large company which paid me very, very well to develop middleware. In July, I'm starting back to school for a year to get my teaching certificate. Yes, I'll start at a quarter of my salary, if I'm lucky, but I'm walking on air. My kids are thrilled to see me without my badge and laptop. I love working with kids, the work matters infinitely more than the nit-picking design decisions I was wrestling with last week, and the summer camping trips are going to rock. You have my vote. Take the leap.
I spent a year in Fairbanks, Alaska making ice-cream for minimum wage. I was happy, but I thought there must be more. I got married, get certified to teach, and we moved to a remote Yup'ik Eskimo village on the Bering Sea. I was making about $36,000 a year, expenses were high but there were no restaurants, no movie theatres, no bars, so what we didn't spend on necessities didn't get spent, and we were happy. When our first child arrived, I was worried that I'd spend too much time in the classroom (during those 180 days of the year when school was in) and therefore I thought I'd move to a cushy job in IT. Went back to school, then got hired by a truly gigantic company in the midwest to write software. I'm making well over a hundred grand, but since I'm always working we always eat out, and sure the house has running water, but boy, those amenities will cost you, and alcohol is way too easy to come by, and so I'm not saving much more money, and I don't get to spend much time at all with my children, and I'm decidedly not happy, and I no longer know how to end a sentence. So I'm with you. I gave notice, and at the end of this month, I'm done with this little jaunt. Even my manager admitted she was more than a bit jealous. The other rats who fled this ship before me have no regrets. Nor, I hope, will you, or me.