Do you know what the OFCCP is? It is the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and that little taste of bureaucratic alphabet soup is a part of the Department of Labor's Employment Standards Administration. The OFCCP's job is to ensure "that employers doing business with the Federal government comply with the laws and regulations requiring nondiscrimination." In essence, that makes the OFCCP one of the many departments that exist within the government to monitor activities and make sure things are done properly and fairly. A noble goal, to be sure, but the OFCCP has distinguished itself with a new rule going into effect this week regarding the tracking of those who apply for jobs on the Internet, and it may have repercussions for anyone using electronic means to search for a new career.
My God folks, the article offers no clue whatsoever about where this supposed set of rules is coming from. No Legislative reference, no Government department - Nothing.
Then it spins into a collection of rather bizarre "tips" for job applicants, most of which don't really seem to have anything to do with the alleged changes in government hiring practices, or even reality.
Ok, in some parts of the world it is already Feb 3rd and some damage is already probably done. If you know any story related to this event, please share with us .
Samir Datt wrote to tell us about "unconfirmed reports" of damage in Bangalore, Ludhiana and Delhi. (email arrived 1am EST, 6am GMT).
Yup, that's the whole thing. Sure glad that the folks at Ziff Davis linked to it!
What you're missing is that every radio station, including NPR affiliates, targets programming at a narrow and very specific demographic.
They then sell those listeners to their customers: the advertisers.
Just as AdSense selects ads based on the content on your web page, advertisers buy radio time based on who is listening to your radio station.
Rock stations may target males 18-32 years old, soft rock may target females in the same age range. NPR sells ears that are well educated and with good incomes.
Actually dMarc is actually a good fit for Google. What dMarc's RevenueSuite does for commercial broadcasters is offer an automated way to fill unsold inventory. At the end of the day the Sales office at a radio station will close the ad logs, and the RevenueSuite software will schedule their client's ads into any unsold spaces in the logs.
There's no work for the station staff, and everyone makes a few extra bucks.
That's really not dissimilar to what Adsense does.
What can I say, I wanted a Commodore 64 so that I could rescue some old files. Arrived and was given 18 C-64s, a handful of C-128s, 7 Vic-20s, 2 monitors, a pile if Floppy Drives, 3 cassette drives, software, and a Timex Sinclair.
When I asked the owner how she came to have so many Commodores she replied "Oh, I just sort of collected them one by one."
My off-topic question that sort of remains on-topic is this: With all the cheap labor available online (from students, amateurs and those trying to build portfolios of work), does anyone know of good websites where I can upload my photographs and let others "compete" openly to making them look better?
Really there's only one place to enjoy serious photoshopping of images.... artistry I tell ya...
I am alone in thinking that the 'net on a 1 1/2 inch phone screen is almost pointless? Slow, ugly, and frustrating to the extreme.
Accessing the 'net on my Motorola is almost always something done while stuck in a boring lineup, and the local weather report is the only thing that I've bothered to bookmmark.
Yikes, the post above is almost incoherent, so here's a clip from the press release. Cohen has agreed to remove links to copyrighted content from the Bitorrent search:
The agreement negotiated Tuesday requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to remove Web links to pirated versions of movies from his Web site, bittorrent.com, effectively frustrating people who search for illegal copies of films.
The agreement involves connections to content owned by the seven studios that are members of the Motion Picture Association of America.
"BitTorrent Inc. discourages the use of its technology for distributing films without a license to do so," Cohen said in the statement. "As such, we are pleased to work with the film industry to remove unauthorized content from bittorrent.com's search engine."
The deal will not prevent all illegal copies from being swapped using the BitTorrent technology. Cohen said during a news conference that even after links to files are removed from his search engine, some files could still be found using other means such as google.com.
After years of building and maintaining my own systems I finally tried a new direction and bought a new Powerbook. Aside from some problems specific to transferring things like e-mail files over to the Mac, (all the gory glory is on my blog) and of course oddities like the lack of a right mouse button and backspace key, it has been pretty painless.
I guess that I just don't have the patience anymore to try and wrangle motherboards, CPUs, hard drives, peripherals, and Windows into a happy coexistence.
I wanted something that I could just plug in and run.
40. Pete Seeger The Essential Pete Seeger CK92835 827969283523
They applied DRM to a disc by Pete Seeger?
Man, I don't know where to begin with THAT one!
In the end, it seems the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment.
A minor quibble.
The Environment always wins, and will always be here. The Environment doesn't give a rat's bum about global warming or the levels of one or more pollutants in the air.
Now I will admit that the critters that live within that Environment might find things bit diffcult, and almost certainly will be replaced, as were the dinosaurs, but The Environemnt will do just fine thank you.
FWIW a journalist friend who lives in China assures me that anyone who needs it has already figured out one way or another of bypassing the so-called Great Wall. Usually via proxies from what I'm told.
" I stopped using RealPlayer after the "G2" version came out (1998, I think?). "
Real may be favorite whipping boy around here, but honestly it does its job fairly well, at least on my PC, it installs fairly easily, and near as I can tell has removed all of the bad stuff from several years ago.
Personally I find Windows Media Player more annoying and tire of Quicktime insisting that I need to upgrade to Quicktime Pro.
Really folks, if you're going to slag the product, at least comment on a reasonably current version.
"Techs fumbling around for an answer, problems transferring calls, long queue times? "
It's really refreshing to see someone in the Open Source community try to meet or exceed the same fine quality of support provided by commercial software houses.
Can copy protection and shrinkwrap licenced be far behind?
Let me understand this.... Best Buy, like pretty much every big retailer, refuses to allow returns or refunds on software. Usually they lay out that old canard about it being "because of copyright laws".
Now though they'll happily sell used game software.
Our of idle curiosity I went looking to find out what it would cost this guy (assuming he's in the US of A) to file a dipsute.
It appears that he would do so through the National Arbitration Forum. The E-Z Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy instructions are here.
Thankfully the National Arbitration Forum understands the needs of small business. In fact they describe them thus:
High litigation costs and the time-consuming nature of lawsuits can be a deterrent to anyone needing to solve a legal problem. That's why from large complex cases to smaller commercial and individual claims, parties trust the resolution experts at the National Arbitration Forum.
Having just moved from a three bedroom house to a one bedroom apartment, I can tell you that you best choice is to just get rid of as much stuff as you can.
Books, records, old software, old computers.... there is no end of stuff that seems too good to lose that in fact you can toss easily.
If it can be easily replaced, sell it at a yard sale, on e-bay, or just give it to friends with less means that yourself. If you haven't used in it in a year, toss it out.
Hell, I've given away cars in the past, and a seven foot aluminum stepladder today. The more that you do it, the,more fun it is.
Really, any of us have about 300% more stuff than we really need.
It sounds as if your problem isn't with technology - honestly, some to-do lists in Excel would be adequate - but with self discipline.
Any of these systems will help you, but it is imperative that you get into the habit of writing or entering details and logged items immediately when they happen or are brought to you.
I suspect that only half of what you need is being entered into MS Project or whatever system you have tried, with you relying on memory to fill in the gaps.
That seldom works well, especially when handling multiple complex projects.
Slashdot Mirror
I would suspect this is really an anti-affirmative-action scheme.
Congratulations on being the first person willing to stick their neck out and suggest the obvious.
Hurrah - someone with research skills!
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The actual rule:
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/fedreg/final/20050201
Obligation To Solicit Race and Gender Data for Agency Enforcement Purposes
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060207-612
Do you know what the OFCCP is? It is the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and that little taste of bureaucratic alphabet soup is a part of the Department of Labor's Employment Standards Administration. The OFCCP's job is to ensure "that employers doing business with the Federal government comply with the laws and regulations requiring nondiscrimination." In essence, that makes the OFCCP one of the many departments that exist within the government to monitor activities and make sure things are done properly and fairly. A noble goal, to be sure, but the OFCCP has distinguished itself with a new rule going into effect this week regarding the tracking of those who apply for jobs on the Internet, and it may have repercussions for anyone using electronic means to search for a new career.
My God folks, the article offers no clue whatsoever about where this supposed set of rules is coming from. No Legislative reference, no Government department - Nothing.
Then it spins into a collection of rather bizarre "tips" for job applicants, most of which don't really seem to have anything to do with the alleged changes in government hiring practices, or even reality.
Even for slashdot this is pretty weak.
Yup, that's the whole thing. Sure glad that the folks at Ziff Davis linked to it!
Just last week my girlfriend watched both Bullitt and The French Connection, and wouldn't you know it, the very next day she had a car accident!
I guess it's back to Tele-Tubbies and Woody Allen movies for her!
Next thing you know, someone else is taking this info and posting it saying "It has to be true, I read it on Slashdot!"
Well, Slashdot is on that Inter-net thing, so it must be true!
What you're missing is that every radio station, including NPR affiliates, targets programming at a narrow and very specific demographic.
They then sell those listeners to their customers: the advertisers.
Just as AdSense selects ads based on the content on your web page, advertisers buy radio time based on who is listening to your radio station.
Rock stations may target males 18-32 years old, soft rock may target females in the same age range. NPR sells ears that are well educated and with good incomes.
Actually dMarc is actually a good fit for Google. What dMarc's RevenueSuite does for commercial broadcasters is offer an automated way to fill unsold inventory. At the end of the day the Sales office at a radio station will close the ad logs, and the RevenueSuite software will schedule their client's ads into any unsold spaces in the logs.
There's no work for the station staff, and everyone makes a few extra bucks.
That's really not dissimilar to what Adsense does.
What can I say, I wanted a Commodore 64 so that I could rescue some old files. Arrived and was given 18 C-64s, a handful of C-128s, 7 Vic-20s, 2 monitors, a pile if Floppy Drives, 3 cassette drives, software, and a Timex Sinclair.
When I asked the owner how she came to have so many Commodores she replied "Oh, I just sort of collected them one by one."
My off-topic question that sort of remains on-topic is this: With all the cheap labor available online (from students, amateurs and those trying to build portfolios of work), does anyone know of good websites where I can upload my photographs and let others "compete" openly to making them look better?
Really there's only one place to enjoy serious photoshopping of images.... artistry I tell ya...
I am alone in thinking that the 'net on a 1 1/2 inch phone screen is almost pointless? Slow, ugly, and frustrating to the extreme.
Accessing the 'net on my Motorola is almost always something done while stuck in a boring lineup, and the local weather report is the only thing that I've bothered to bookmmark.
Hmmmph.... news? Thunderbird does RSS just fine, and displays the blog page to boot.
Yikes, the post above is almost incoherent, so here's a clip from the press release. Cohen has agreed to remove links to copyrighted content from the Bitorrent search:
The agreement negotiated Tuesday requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to remove Web links to pirated versions of movies from his Web site, bittorrent.com, effectively frustrating people who search for illegal copies of films.
The agreement involves connections to content owned by the seven studios that are members of the Motion Picture Association of America.
"BitTorrent Inc. discourages the use of its technology for distributing films without a license to do so," Cohen said in the statement. "As such, we are pleased to work with the film industry to remove unauthorized content from bittorrent.com's search engine."
The deal will not prevent all illegal copies from being swapped using the BitTorrent technology. Cohen said during a news conference that even after links to files are removed from his search engine, some files could still be found using other means such as google.com.
After years of building and maintaining my own systems I finally tried a new direction and bought a new Powerbook. Aside from some problems specific to transferring things like e-mail files over to the Mac, (all the gory glory is on my blog) and of course oddities like the lack of a right mouse button and backspace key, it has been pretty painless.
I guess that I just don't have the patience anymore to try and wrangle motherboards, CPUs, hard drives, peripherals, and Windows into a happy coexistence.
I wanted something that I could just plug in and run.
We'll see if I guessed right.
40. Pete Seeger The Essential Pete Seeger CK92835 827969283523
They applied DRM to a disc by Pete Seeger?
Man, I don't know where to begin with THAT one!
In the end, it seems the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment. A minor quibble. The Environment always wins, and will always be here. The Environment doesn't give a rat's bum about global warming or the levels of one or more pollutants in the air. Now I will admit that the critters that live within that Environment might find things bit diffcult, and almost certainly will be replaced, as were the dinosaurs, but The Environemnt will do just fine thank you.
FWIW a journalist friend who lives in China assures me that anyone who needs it has already figured out one way or another of bypassing the so-called Great Wall. Usually via proxies from what I'm told.
" I stopped using RealPlayer after the "G2" version came out (1998, I think?). "
Real may be favorite whipping boy around here, but honestly it does its job fairly well, at least on my PC, it installs fairly easily, and near as I can tell has removed all of the bad stuff from several years ago.
Personally I find Windows Media Player more annoying and tire of Quicktime insisting that I need to upgrade to Quicktime Pro.
Really folks, if you're going to slag the product, at least comment on a reasonably current version.
"Techs fumbling around for an answer, problems transferring calls, long queue times? " It's really refreshing to see someone in the Open Source community try to meet or exceed the same fine quality of support provided by commercial software houses. Can copy protection and shrinkwrap licenced be far behind?
Let me understand this.... Best Buy, like pretty much every big retailer, refuses to allow returns or refunds on software. Usually they lay out that old canard about it being "because of copyright laws".
Now though they'll happily sell used game software.
Am I missing somthing?
Having just moved from a three bedroom house to a one bedroom apartment, I can tell you that you best choice is to just get rid of as much stuff as you can.
,more fun it is.
Books, records, old software, old computers.... there is no end of stuff that seems too good to lose that in fact you can toss easily.
If it can be easily replaced, sell it at a yard sale, on e-bay, or just give it to friends with less means that yourself. If you haven't used in it in a year, toss it out.
Hell, I've given away cars in the past, and a seven foot aluminum stepladder today. The more that you do it, the
Really, any of us have about 300% more stuff than we really need.
It sounds as if your problem isn't with technology - honestly, some to-do lists in Excel would be adequate - but with self discipline.
Any of these systems will help you, but it is imperative that you get into the habit of writing or entering details and logged items immediately when they happen or are brought to you.
I suspect that only half of what you need is being entered into MS Project or whatever system you have tried, with you relying on memory to fill in the gaps.
That seldom works well, especially when handling multiple complex projects.
Magma has incredible service and support and in my experience is about as rock solid reliable as you will find.
If there has ever been an e-mail outage I certainly haven't noticed it in several years. And I rely a lot on e-mail.
Great anti-spam filtering too.
I mean really, how much impact could any event have that only happens once every three or four years....