Recent stories have been spreading across the web that employers are asking job applicants for their Facebook password during interviews so employers can check their backgrounds. This has startled many (for good reasons may I add!)
Facebook does not have any immediate plans to take action but they have stood up to make their voice heard about the matter. www.newsandobserver.com states ""As a user, you shouldn't be forced to share your private information and communications just to get a job," wrote Erin Egan. "And as the friend of a user, you shouldn't have to worry that your private information or communications will be revealed to someone you don't know and didn't intend to share with just because that user is looking for a job."".
Facebook allows employers information such as sex, gender, religion, etc which is all covered under the federal employment law. www.foxnews.com states "A Facebook executive cautioned that if an employer discovers that a job applicant is a member of a protected group, the employer may be vulnerable to claims of discrimination if it doesn't hire that person."
Resources:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/03/23/1953436/facebook-warns-employers-not-to.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/25/senators-call-for-federal-probe-over-employers-asking-for-facebook-passwords/
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Apache Vs. Microsoft IIS Server
Through this blog I hope to share with you a feature-by-feature walk through of the differences between Apache and Microsoft IIS Servers. Apache and Microsfot IIS operate very different so you will notice many differences between the two!
Apache Server was originally started in http code. Up until 2002 Apache was largely used by UNIX and sometimes windows. Serverwatch.com states "Apache 2.0 is now supported under a wide array of potential operating systems, including all versions of Windows, Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X, in addition to an array of nonmainstream OSs, like BeOS and VMS." The core of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is " which enables the Apache core to run on more or less any system with a C compiler. A number of multi-processing modules (MPMs) then provide the support for actually accepting and processing requests. Under Unix, this can be the traditional "forked" model or a newer threaded model making use of the threading built into most modern kernels."
Microsoft IIS Server- This is only able to run on windows. When it started it was optional with the Windows NT 4.0. They upgraded to 5.1 with windows 2000 but the changes were minor. In 2003 Windows NT 6.0 was created and was a complete re-do. Serverwatch.com states " It sports a new execution model, better management facilities, and significantly increased performance".
Advantages include: easy to work with the host operating system and easy to navigate through different tools
Hope this information helps!!
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3074841/IIS-vs-Apache-Looking-Beyond-the-Rhetoric.htm
Resources used:
Apache Server was originally started in http code. Up until 2002 Apache was largely used by UNIX and sometimes windows. Serverwatch.com states "Apache 2.0 is now supported under a wide array of potential operating systems, including all versions of Windows, Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X, in addition to an array of nonmainstream OSs, like BeOS and VMS." The core of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is " which enables the Apache core to run on more or less any system with a C compiler. A number of multi-processing modules (MPMs) then provide the support for actually accepting and processing requests. Under Unix, this can be the traditional "forked" model or a newer threaded model making use of the threading built into most modern kernels."
Microsoft IIS Server- This is only able to run on windows. When it started it was optional with the Windows NT 4.0. They upgraded to 5.1 with windows 2000 but the changes were minor. In 2003 Windows NT 6.0 was created and was a complete re-do. Serverwatch.com states " It sports a new execution model, better management facilities, and significantly increased performance".
Advantages include: easy to work with the host operating system and easy to navigate through different tools
| Feature | IIS | Apache |
| Independent Request Handler | Yes | Yes (limited) |
| Multiple Process Request Handlers | Yes | Yes |
| Thread Support | Yes | Yes (on a suitable OS) |
Hope this information helps!!
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3074841/IIS-vs-Apache-Looking-Beyond-the-Rhetoric.htm
Resources used:
Making Money on Pinterest
Pinterest is the new social media website. It is a website where you have your own "pinboard" where you can save your favorite pictures. You log onto the site and it has tons of pictures organized by type: food, drinks, weddings, etc (talk about addicting! Myself and almost all other woman in the world can sit on Pinterest for hours at a time!) It is the best social media website right now...if I do say so myself!
After reading an article on Mashable.com I foudn that pinterest is a great way for companies to get their name out there and get items sold! "Did this Pinterest Spammer make $30,000 a month?" was one of the most interesting articles I have read about pinterest.
A gentleman named "steve" pins Amazon products and makes close to $1,000 per month!! (Sounds like a great job if anyone is looking for a job!) Steve has thousands of spambots that go and pin all over the website. Steve states that this is "by far the easiest website to spam right now". Which does scare me and I am sure many others that Pinterest is so vonerable on the web right now. Pinterest has acknowledge this and said " As a growing service, Pinterest is not immune to challenges faced by sites across the web, including spam. However, it is a tremendous priority for us to quickly address them. Our engineers are actively working to manage issues as they arise and are revisiting the nature of public feeds on the site to make it harder for fake or harmful content to get into them."
Hopefully Pinterest clears up any issues found, but until then hats off to Steve for making tons of money using the website!
Resohttp://mashable.com/2012/03/28/pinterest-amazon-spam/urces:
After reading an article on Mashable.com I foudn that pinterest is a great way for companies to get their name out there and get items sold! "Did this Pinterest Spammer make $30,000 a month?" was one of the most interesting articles I have read about pinterest.
A gentleman named "steve" pins Amazon products and makes close to $1,000 per month!! (Sounds like a great job if anyone is looking for a job!) Steve has thousands of spambots that go and pin all over the website. Steve states that this is "by far the easiest website to spam right now". Which does scare me and I am sure many others that Pinterest is so vonerable on the web right now. Pinterest has acknowledge this and said " As a growing service, Pinterest is not immune to challenges faced by sites across the web, including spam. However, it is a tremendous priority for us to quickly address them. Our engineers are actively working to manage issues as they arise and are revisiting the nature of public feeds on the site to make it harder for fake or harmful content to get into them."
Hopefully Pinterest clears up any issues found, but until then hats off to Steve for making tons of money using the website!
Resohttp://mashable.com/2012/03/28/pinterest-amazon-spam/urces:
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Amazon battle: State over sales tax
Amazon.com is an online retailer striving to achieve low prices, quick delivery, and a secure environment for customers to shop in. This company has not charged sales tax since it opened in 1994 and wants to take a stand to keep it that way! (Althought Amazon.com does have to add sales tax to states where they have actual retail operations).
Amazon feels that not charging a sales tax is a way to be one step above their competing retailers. In nine states legislatures have passed a new legislation banning online retailers from charging sales tax. As stated on www.wsj.com " Credit Suisse recently estimated that if Amazon were forced to collect sales taxes in all states, it would lose as much as $653 million in sales this year, or 1.4% out of an estimated $45.5 billion in revenue".
To play devils advocate- www.wsj.com stated "State and local governments nationwide this year will lose $10.1 billion to $11.3 billion in sales taxes not collected by Web retailers, estimated University of Tennessee researchers in a 2009 report." These laws will eventually have to be sorted out because the "state-by-state" laws are very complicated and seem to frustrate customers and business owners.
Amazon feels that not charging a sales tax is a way to be one step above their competing retailers. In nine states legislatures have passed a new legislation banning online retailers from charging sales tax. As stated on www.wsj.com " Credit Suisse recently estimated that if Amazon were forced to collect sales taxes in all states, it would lose as much as $653 million in sales this year, or 1.4% out of an estimated $45.5 billion in revenue".
To play devils advocate- www.wsj.com stated "State and local governments nationwide this year will lose $10.1 billion to $11.3 billion in sales taxes not collected by Web retailers, estimated University of Tennessee researchers in a 2009 report." These laws will eventually have to be sorted out because the "state-by-state" laws are very complicated and seem to frustrate customers and business owners.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)