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Is it "reasonable" to ask IT job candidates to prove their skills?

Increasingly, IT professionals are asked to take some sort of test when they go for a job interview, to prove they know the technology that's on their resume, even when lawyers, accountants and HR pros in the same organizations are not. Is this fair? by Deb Perelman

Tags: Job, Information Technology, Job Interview, Slashdot, Job Candidate, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-09-15

Summer reading for kids

A user on Slashdot asked yesterday for summer science fiction reading suggestions for his preteen kids. There were, of course, plenty of great thoughts from other Slashdot members that included all of the usual suspects from Bradbury to Asimov to Pratchett to Douglas Adams. However, the...

Tags: Kid, Slashdot, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-08

AVG changes its stance on LinkScanner

A few days ago I wrote a story about AVG's LinkScanner causing a massive amount of additional traffic on the net in the name of protecting customers... yeah.  Well, here's a quote from the original article to give some background: Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Whirlpool Corp., Search Result, Slashdot, AVG, LinkScanner, Web Site Development, Search, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA

Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...

Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Slashdot Gadget 1 (Windows)

Keep up to date on the latest news at Slashdot.com. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Gadget, Slashdot, Timothy J Collins, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-12-09

Yesterday, Slashdot asked 'What if TinyURL goes down?' Today, it's down (and it hurts)

Yesterday, Slashdot asked 'What if TinyURL goes down?' Today, it's down and it hurtsBrittle WWW?>Almost in answer to Khaitan's question, the >disappearance of TinyURL's services is >demonstrating just how brittle the Web is.Uh, no. I surfed the WWW for an insane number of hours, just like always, and it wasn't...

Tags: Channel management, What-if TinyURL, Slashdot

Discussion threads 2007-11-20

Yesterday, Slashdot asked 'What if TinyURL goes down?' Today, it's down (and it hurts)

Update:  TinyURL.com is back online. Ask and you shall receive. Yesterday, in Slashdot's huge-gigantic-massive-insignificant-concerns dept, Indus Khaitan posed this hypothetical question: Thanks to twitter, SMS, and mobile web, a lot of people are using the url minimizers like tinyurl.com, urltea.com......this could be a...

Tags: Twitter, Slashdot, TinyURL, TinyURL.com, Channel Management, 3G, Podcasts, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Online Communications, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Second Life gets a voice; Slashdot adds social news features; Pandora lands on Facebook; Digg vs Netscape (redux)

Second Life gets a voice; Slashdot adds social news features; Pandora lands on Facebook; Digg vs Netscape reduxSecond Life gets a partial voice...Just to clarify your roundup about the Second Life voice client, it's currently only available to Windows and Mac users. Linux users, however, are SOL until the proprietary...

Tags: Second Life, voice, Second Life Get, Linux User, Linux, Facebook, Slashdot, Netscape Communications Corp., Digg

Discussion threads 2007-08-05

Second Life gets a voice; Slashdot adds social news features; Pandora lands on Facebook; Digg vs Netscape (redux)

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Second Life gets a voice. Although is has been available in Beta form for a few months, voice capability is now part of the main Second Life viewer (the virtual...

Tags: The Social Web weekly

Blog posts 2007-08-03

Lawgarithms Links for 7/20/07

Now that I'm smitten with keeping a link blog, I'll endeavor once a week or so to cull through it for things I think might be of particular interest to Lawgarithms readers. So, here we go. I'm curious whether you find such undertakings useful or not, so there's...

Tags: Social news, Social networking, Privacy, Patent, Live Web, Links, Licenses, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Copyright, Collaboration, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-07-20

Smash - Digg, Slashdot, Techcrunch Mashup 1 (Windows)

Smash is a mashup of the popular Digg, Slashdot, Techcrunch Technology News sites. Smash aggregates these three RSS feeds into one and pushes their content to your desktop via the Yahoo Widget Engine. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: TechCrunch, Digg, Slashdot, Richard White, RSS, Microsoft Windows, Collaboration, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-06-22

Why I won't be pointing to Slashdot (at least for now)

Why I won't be pointing to Slashdot at least for nowCould you not remote or proxy from home...Or that other ZDnet proxy?I'm not sure how virtualization would help anymore than just going thru a different route/proxy? Or if possible, actually have Cnet/ZDnet address the issue, seems just a touch...

Tags: VPNs, NETWORKING, Network security, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VPN, network, Slashdot

Discussion threads 2007-06-18

Why I won't be pointing to Slashdot (at least for now)

If you follow the tech news at all, then you've got to be suffering from the same overload problem I am. A few years ago, finding interesting tech news was like hanging your tongue under a dripping faucet in the middle of the desert. But now, it's like drinking...

Tags: General, Security, Software Infrastructure, Web technology, Wired &, Wireless

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Slashdot 1.01 (Windows)

Slashdot is a widget that displays the headlines from Slashdot.com. Features include: Window shade mode, where it can display a different number of headlines on mouse over; Continues to show last headlines downloaded even after disconnection from Internet; Display of last time headlines were updated; Ability to force refresh of...

Tags: Headline, Slashdot, Maneki Neko, Mice, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Construction, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-06-05

Slashdot, SourceForge, ThinkGeek carry VA Software

Its been a long time since Ive bothered to look at VA Softwares earnings. But with a ticker like "LNUX" I figured Id get some color on the Linux market. Not quite.VA Software doesnt have much software any more. By revenue, its a media and e-commerce outfit. Aside from $2.1...

Tags: Web technology, OPEN SOURCE, VA Software Corp., SourceForge, e-commerce, LNUX, Slashdot, revenue, Linux, software

Blog posts 2006-11-28

IE7 and standards compliance - Microsoft's Chris Wilson charts progress

IE7 and standards compliance - Microsoft's Chris Wilson charts progressSlashdot is about zealotsSlashdot made a horrible mistake reposting a year old article by Paul Thurrot. If I'm not mistaken, slashdot did a post on Paul's article when it first came out. The only thing the repost did was cause...

Tags: Quality, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, anti-Microsoft, browser company, zealot, standards, Web browser, Slashdot

Discussion threads 2006-08-16

Slashdot the Apache of open source journalism

Slashdot the Apache of open source journalismAnarchy?GPL communities are not anarchies. They're invariably self-organizing. Pick any project and you'll find that it has a primary maintainer and a well-defined pecking order among the contributors, even when that heirarchy isn't formally documented.And yet I always browse at -1Because 90% of the...

Tags: Slashdot, open source journalism, Apache Software Foundation, open source, GPL community

Discussion threads 2006-08-11

Slashdot the Apache of open source journalism

How far down the road to true open source journalism has Slashdot really gone?Pretty far, but not all the way. While blogs like this may mean ZDNet is in a Shared Source mode, Slashdot co-founder Jeff Bates says his site is more like Apache. Staffers taking "DaddyPants" duty are like...

Tags: journalism, Slashdot, open source journalism

Blog posts 2006-08-11

Slashdot, you don't matter much anymore

Slashdot, you don't matter much anymore/.: This original Techie blogIt's true, Slashdot was the place you wanted to be mentioned even up until just a couple of years ago. Unfrotunately it hasn't changed a bit, and as any "cool" community is destined to suffer over time, it just gets filled...

Tags: comment system, Slashdot

Discussion threads 2006-08-11

Slashdot, you don't matter much anymore

There once was a time that Slashdot was the nexus of news from the technologists in the trenches. To have your online article"Slashdotted" was akin to receiving heavy airplay on the radio. I've seen some of my posts obtain signficantly more traffic after being picked up in Slashdot...

Tags: Wiki, Slashdot

Blog posts 2006-08-11