It has a user registration system that sends a link via email to activate new accounts.
Some ways of flagging spam involve analysing the content to see if it looks like a spam email. Does your email just contain a link, or a link and a very small amount of text? If so this could be one reason it is flagged as junk.
Try adding some more infromative text (e.g. Welcome text, eplanation, help) and see if this helps any. As the email filter may well score emails to see if they qualify as spam, this may help you you raise your score and get int the user's main mailbox.
I have some experience with these tests. On the whole, they aren't used to screen out employees, but to flag up points of weakness.
For example, if your test responses indicate you prefer working as part of a team, in an interview the employer may ask you how you would cope if you have to work independently at a client's place of work.
Although I do have my doubts about them, they are meant to help eliminate some of the elements of interviews and selection where humans can be fallible - such as making decisions based on first impressions, I have read many times that decisions are often influenced by your first 2 / 8 / 120 seconds of an interview. However, it's still possible for employers to use these irresonsibly and just use them as a blanket screening process.
Back to your question - should you look for something else? Well, these tests are pretty common nowadays, and I think your decision should be based on other aspects of the company - if you like them, the people who interview, and the work environment.
Magnifico writes "The BBC is reporting that Gary McKinnon, a British man accused of breaking into the U.S. government computer networks, could end up at Guantanamo Bay
I think they aren't reporting that he could end up there, just that his lawyer says he could end up there - a small but important difference.
The lawyer is trying legal wrangling to help his client avoid extradition, and it may be something that could never happen but if there is no law preventing it (or more likely a giant fuzzy grey area) the it's probably just a tactic to stall / avoid the extradition.
This has to be considered decidedly anti-Homeland Defense by the current administration. If so, when will we see it if ever?
Anti-Homeland Defense, maybe, but avoiding data leakage will make it very attractive to RIAA / MPAA and other copyright protection lobby groups.
So Maybe we get to see what happens when the RIAA face off against the Department for Homeland Security and the CIA - that would be one I would like to see (Maybe we should just watch them fight them nuke them both from orbit - only way to be sure).
Something less than complex is probably the way to go. My girlfriend doesn't enjoy playing PC games with me, but does enjoy playing Super Mario Kart on the gamecube - I know it's console but maybe that accounts for the easier learning curve, which is good as she's a relative novice at gaming.
Another one, though I haven't played for years, that I would suggest would be Super Bomber Man or a sequel - easy to pick up and fun.
And the person above who suggested a MMO has an excellent point, though depends how casual you want the gaming to be as they generally require a large investment of time.
I went to see Tim Burton talk (when Sleepy Hollow came out a few years ago) and he said he felt that he had helped create a monster by re-energising the superhero francise with Batman.
With Batman, he'd had a free hand to make it the way he wanted. However, the success of Batman meant that each future superhero movie had to not only make a decent film, but have characters and vehicles for Burger Kig tie-ins, action figures, etc.
So when he was offered the chance to direct Superman, he told us that it came with so much extra baggage that he couldn't make it the way he wanted to at the same time as keeping corporate partners happy. But he felt it was his own fault, partially, caused by his Batman movie's success back in '89.
There are two big downsides that I can think of...
Firstly, if the model is 'pay as you go' I would worry that it would reduce enjoyment of playing. If the longer you play the more it costs, it will always be in the back of you mind that each minute / ten mins / hour you play costs you more - breaking the immersion. If you don't worry about the cost, you can explore more freely, experiment, and just have more fun.
Secondly, if I had kids who wanted to play a MMOG, but knew it was charged by the hour, I'd be worried about them running up costs. Even if there are parental control, I think many 16 yr old gamers can beat their less tech-savvy parents' passwords by guessing them / working out common family passwords / finding the post-it note ( will Pop have a 16 character alpha-numeric password, or will he use the name of the dog??).
So currently, if someone has an idea for a book / play / screenplay, they work hard for a couple of years, produce their book, and if it's good enough and they have a bit of luck, they reap the rewards for all their hard work.
But this bill changes the balance of power dramatically. If outlines, sketches of stories, and synopses are allowed to be patented, then all the power lies with the person holding the patent and not with the person who produces the material.
My argument is beginning to sound slightly socialist - the owner of the factory / idea benefits from the poor worker's toil, but it's pretty true that in this case, the fundamental notion of effort being rewarded is totally undermined.
The article stated 'Microsoft said organizations that maintain private consumer information should have to meet some kind of national standard to prove they have at least taken reasonable steps to protect that data from hackers, viruses, or other kind of loss, theft or disclosure'.
Could this be Microsoft's motivation for the bill? Big companies like Microsoft can pay to get their products through a certification process, and thus used by companies who must comply with this act, but lots of OS software (some Linux distros and many apps) will not have the necessary resources to go from 'Release' level to 'Government Certified Release' level - leaving no option but for companies in the future to use the certified Microsoft WonderServer2009 over open source alternatives.
I was confused by one of the lines from the post, taken from the article.
a federal court has instructed the six-member Federal Election Commission to draw up regulations
I was under the impression that courts enforced the laws and regualtions written and approved by the Legislature, and wasn't in the business of ordering regulations to be made. I couldn't find anything to explain this in the article, but it's left me perplexed.
I am not totally familiar with the workings of the US legal system, but can anyone shed any more light on this for me? (Maybe it's just an inaccuracy in the article, but I'd like to know more).
If I remember, the previous story on Slashdot was like this, about a strange plague on WoW???
ringbarer writes "News is coming in that the lands of Azeroth have become infected with a deadly plague which the developers never intended to spread. Originating from the new P'R instance, the plague has spread from marektng bot to marketing bot via 'consultants'. Entire teams are being rendered incpable of independent thought and expression, yet players are surprisingly finding this rather predicatable!" From the article: " Some answers have gotten so bad that you can't read them without getting covered in bullcrap (and anyone less than like level 50 nearly immediately drowns in it). GM's even tried quarantining marketing bots in certain areas, but they kept escaping the quarantine and spreading their nonsense."
In relation to your IDE question, for web based development using Java I have tried a few IDEs and think if you are comfortable with Eclipse you should stick with it, as in my opinion it's the best of the bunch.
Although it's primarily associated with Java it's got plug-ins for many programming languages including some, if not all, of those you mention above.
For the XML (which I guess you'll be using a lot if you are using J2EE) there's a very good plug-in called XML buddy that I can recommend.
And if money's no object, I think a great luxury to go with the perfect set-up for coding would be a mini-fridge in the same room, for minimal distance to obtain the next fix of Dr Pepper / Diet Coke / Caffeinated beverage of choice.
Just let me see if I get this - one of the reasons that Slashdot posters are annoyed is because the Fudduckers site linked to another site without permission, and used their bandwidth?
See, if only Slashdot had the forethought to write to the US Patent Office and patent 'Slashdotting' before, then we'd have had some real ammo to use against them. Go get 'em , fellas.
I know two people who, in separate years, applied for jobs with IBM. They both passed the interview, got written offers, but decided to take jobs with other companies.
A few weeks after telling IBM that they did not want the job, they got letters telling them that their offers had been withdrawn as they had failed to achieve 2:1's (type of British honours degree).
However, both of them had managed to get this grade of degree, just decided IBM wasn't for them. If it had happened once I would have figured it was a mistake, but twice seems to me that their personnel system can't cope with the fact that people may actually turn down a job with them, and a form letter is sent out by their bureaucracy.
I work as a research computer scientist at a University in the UK. We have a saying regarding time spent on research where the info is already available to those who will look.
"A few months in the lab can save you a few hours in the library."
I think that the original headline to this article isn't the most informative - Invading Privacy for School Credit
I'd say that the opposite is true - this information is in the public domain, and the students were able to demonstrate how easy it is to access and collate, thus stimulating debate (look, we're having a real debate, on Slashdot!).
Invasions of privacy, in my mind, constitute one of two things. 1) Attempting to make someone reveal personal information about themselves that they may not want to, or 2) revealing data on someone else that you have not been given permission to reveal.
While some of the original sources of the data that the students used could have invaded privacy to get the data, by using data already in the public domain the students weren't invading privacy.
If they'd acted illegally or persuaded someone to breach someone else's privacy as part of the project, that would be another thing, but the students weren't allowed to do that as part of this project.
I think that it's a good start and may well make a big difference in companies which use Windows as their desktop platform and have system administrators who can control user accounts.
This section from the article seems to have a good point: A strictly enforced LUA model could make it harder for worms and viruses to take over Windows systems. But Microsoft may have a tough time changing user and developer behaviour, even with new features that support the LUA regime in Longhorn, experts warn.
On home systems, we still currently have enough problems trying to convince people not to open dubious attachments, or with people giving sites permission to install practically anything on their machines. It will take a big shift in attitudes (or Microsoft forcing the user to jump though hoops) to make many home users have anything but admin-privilege accounts.
This is an interesting story but the Original poster gives 2 links to the petition website but not links to the decision by the NTIA.
By following the link from the petition site to the NTIA home page, there's nothing there about this particular decision, and some preliminary hunting hasn't shown up the relevant article for this.
Most of the time us Slashdot readers can find the information for ourselves, but here we are being asked to sign a petition based on the evidence presented by the poster, not by reading the docs for ourselves (of cause we would all have RTFA if it was posted, obviously). I think it's a bit underhand asking us to sign this petition on an obsure decision that is not easy to find, without providing a link to the decision.
If anyone can find a link to the decision I'd be very grateful.
I personally hate the idea of DRM. I want to be able to do what I want with my books / music / software if I have acquired it legitimately. I seem to have this in common with many Slashdot posters, however I must admit that it doesn't have much logical basis, more the fact that this is how I am used to using my media.
Although I'd rather have a limited number of non-DRM songs than Napster-To-Go's 'all-you-can-eat-for-as-long-as-you-pay', by the time my kids are buying music, if they start off with the idea of renting rather than owning music and software, maybe they'll have less qualms than we do. So, is there a legitimate reason for my fear of DRM, or am I just an old stick-in-the-mud?
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Some ways of flagging spam involve analysing the content to see if it looks like a spam email. Does your email just contain a link, or a link and a very small amount of text? If so this could be one reason it is flagged as junk.
Try adding some more infromative text (e.g. Welcome text, eplanation, help) and see if this helps any. As the email filter may well score emails to see if they qualify as spam, this may help you you raise your score and get int the user's main mailbox.
For example, if your test responses indicate you prefer working as part of a team, in an interview the employer may ask you how you would cope if you have to work independently at a client's place of work.
Although I do have my doubts about them, they are meant to help eliminate some of the elements of interviews and selection where humans can be fallible - such as making decisions based on first impressions, I have read many times that decisions are often influenced by your first 2 / 8 / 120 seconds of an interview. However, it's still possible for employers to use these irresonsibly and just use them as a blanket screening process.
Back to your question - should you look for something else? Well, these tests are pretty common nowadays, and I think your decision should be based on other aspects of the company - if you like them, the people who interview, and the work environment.
I think they aren't reporting that he could end up there, just that his lawyer says he could end up there - a small but important difference.
The lawyer is trying legal wrangling to help his client avoid extradition, and it may be something that could never happen but if there is no law preventing it (or more likely a giant fuzzy grey area) the it's probably just a tactic to stall / avoid the extradition.
Anti-Homeland Defense, maybe, but avoiding data leakage will make it very attractive to RIAA / MPAA and other copyright protection lobby groups.
So Maybe we get to see what happens when the RIAA face off against the Department for Homeland Security and the CIA - that would be one I would like to see (Maybe we should just watch them fight them nuke them both from orbit - only way to be sure).
Another one, though I haven't played for years, that I would suggest would be Super Bomber Man or a sequel - easy to pick up and fun.
And the person above who suggested a MMO has an excellent point, though depends how casual you want the gaming to be as they generally require a large investment of time.
Oh no!! Earth is going to be destroyed by VD!! Blame the damn liberals!!
What, kind of like enforcing a Blacks only section on a private bus service? I don't think so.
With Batman, he'd had a free hand to make it the way he wanted. However, the success of Batman meant that each future superhero movie had to not only make a decent film, but have characters and vehicles for Burger Kig tie-ins, action figures, etc.
So when he was offered the chance to direct Superman, he told us that it came with so much extra baggage that he couldn't make it the way he wanted to at the same time as keeping corporate partners happy. But he felt it was his own fault, partially, caused by his Batman movie's success back in '89.
Firstly, if the model is 'pay as you go' I would worry that it would reduce enjoyment of playing. If the longer you play the more it costs, it will always be in the back of you mind that each minute / ten mins / hour you play costs you more - breaking the immersion. If you don't worry about the cost, you can explore more freely, experiment, and just have more fun.
Secondly, if I had kids who wanted to play a MMOG, but knew it was charged by the hour, I'd be worried about them running up costs. Even if there are parental control, I think many 16 yr old gamers can beat their less tech-savvy parents' passwords by guessing them / working out common family passwords / finding the post-it note ( will Pop have a 16 character alpha-numeric password, or will he use the name of the dog??).
That's my 2 cents (a minute) worth.
So currently, if someone has an idea for a book / play / screenplay, they work hard for a couple of years, produce their book, and if it's good enough and they have a bit of luck, they reap the rewards for all their hard work.
But this bill changes the balance of power dramatically. If outlines, sketches of stories, and synopses are allowed to be patented, then all the power lies with the person holding the patent and not with the person who produces the material.
My argument is beginning to sound slightly socialist - the owner of the factory / idea benefits from the poor worker's toil, but it's pretty true that in this case, the fundamental notion of effort being rewarded is totally undermined.
Could this be Microsoft's motivation for the bill? Big companies like Microsoft can pay to get their products through a certification process, and thus used by companies who must comply with this act, but lots of OS software (some Linux distros and many apps) will not have the necessary resources to go from 'Release' level to 'Government Certified Release' level - leaving no option but for companies in the future to use the certified Microsoft WonderServer2009 over open source alternatives.
a federal court has instructed the six-member Federal Election Commission to draw up regulations
I was under the impression that courts enforced the laws and regualtions written and approved by the Legislature, and wasn't in the business of ordering regulations to be made. I couldn't find anything to explain this in the article, but it's left me perplexed.
I am not totally familiar with the workings of the US legal system, but can anyone shed any more light on this for me? (Maybe it's just an inaccuracy in the article, but I'd like to know more).
ringbarer writes "News is coming in that the lands of Azeroth have become infected with a deadly plague which the developers never intended to spread. Originating from the new P'R instance, the plague has spread from marektng bot to marketing bot via 'consultants'. Entire teams are being rendered incpable of independent thought and expression, yet players are surprisingly finding this rather predicatable!" From the article: " Some answers have gotten so bad that you can't read them without getting covered in bullcrap (and anyone less than like level 50 nearly immediately drowns in it). GM's even tried quarantining marketing bots in certain areas, but they kept escaping the quarantine and spreading their nonsense."
that this story will be duped by the end of the week
I heard that they ran off with the farmer's wife, who cut off their tails with carving knife.
Although it's primarily associated with Java it's got plug-ins for many programming languages including some, if not all, of those you mention above.
For the XML (which I guess you'll be using a lot if you are using J2EE) there's a very good plug-in called XML buddy that I can recommend.
And if money's no object, I think a great luxury to go with the perfect set-up for coding would be a mini-fridge in the same room, for minimal distance to obtain the next fix of Dr Pepper / Diet Coke / Caffeinated beverage of choice.
See, if only Slashdot had the forethought to write to the US Patent Office and patent 'Slashdotting' before, then we'd have had some real ammo to use against them. Go get 'em , fellas.
A few weeks after telling IBM that they did not want the job, they got letters telling them that their offers had been withdrawn as they had failed to achieve 2:1's (type of British honours degree).
However, both of them had managed to get this grade of degree, just decided IBM wasn't for them. If it had happened once I would have figured it was a mistake, but twice seems to me that their personnel system can't cope with the fact that people may actually turn down a job with them, and a form letter is sent out by their bureaucracy.
"A few months in the lab can save you a few hours in the library."
I'd say that the opposite is true - this information is in the public domain, and the students were able to demonstrate how easy it is to access and collate, thus stimulating debate (look, we're having a real debate, on Slashdot!).
Invasions of privacy, in my mind, constitute one of two things. 1) Attempting to make someone reveal personal information about themselves that they may not want to, or 2) revealing data on someone else that you have not been given permission to reveal.
While some of the original sources of the data that the students used could have invaded privacy to get the data, by using data already in the public domain the students weren't invading privacy.
If they'd acted illegally or persuaded someone to breach someone else's privacy as part of the project, that would be another thing, but the students weren't allowed to do that as part of this project.
I think that it's a good start and may well make a big difference in companies which use Windows as their desktop platform and have system administrators who can control user accounts.
This section from the article seems to have a good point: A strictly enforced LUA model could make it harder for worms and viruses to take over Windows systems. But Microsoft may have a tough time changing user and developer behaviour, even with new features that support the LUA regime in Longhorn, experts warn.
On home systems, we still currently have enough problems trying to convince people not to open dubious attachments, or with people giving sites permission to install practically anything on their machines. It will take a big shift in attitudes (or Microsoft forcing the user to jump though hoops) to make many home users have anything but admin-privilege accounts.
Well, is this an owning of Slashdot to coincide with April 1st?
Did someone not get enough April Fools when they were a kid and have to take it out on us?
By following the link from the petition site to the NTIA home page, there's nothing there about this particular decision, and some preliminary hunting hasn't shown up the relevant article for this.
Most of the time us Slashdot readers can find the information for ourselves, but here we are being asked to sign a petition based on the evidence presented by the poster, not by reading the docs for ourselves (of cause we would all have RTFA if it was posted, obviously). I think it's a bit underhand asking us to sign this petition on an obsure decision that is not easy to find, without providing a link to the decision.
If anyone can find a link to the decision I'd be very grateful.
Although I'd rather have a limited number of non-DRM songs than Napster-To-Go's 'all-you-can-eat-for-as-long-as-you-pay', by the time my kids are buying music, if they start off with the idea of renting rather than owning music and software, maybe they'll have less qualms than we do. So, is there a legitimate reason for my fear of DRM, or am I just an old stick-in-the-mud?