Cody Taylor

An anonymous reader writes “So, with the financial crisis and loss of jobs everywhere, what are the chances of getting a good IT job? I’m going to graduate this year with a BS in Software Engineering majoring in Network Security. I’ll be looking for a job as a penetration tester eventually, but I hear that is hard to get right out of college so I’ll be looking for a job as a Junior Network Admin or similar type of job to start off in. Is there a lack of jobs in this field? I figure computers always need fixing so they have to have some sort of IT personnel on staff to maintain the core of their business. Anyone have a good insight on this issue?”

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DragonFire1024 writes with this story from Wikinews that says “access to the Chinese Wikinews website has been blocked in China. Wikinews can also confirm that the English version of the website is still available in China. … Users using the social networking site called Twitter have reported that the site was “blockade[ed] today by the mainland” of China. Others, writing on the Wikimedia Foundation’s mailing list also state that the Chinese version of Wikinews is blocked in major Chinese cities such as Beijing.”

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