The 1:(10-15) manager to engineer ratio fairly common.
For a geek manager, managing 10-15 people is a good ratio because you will have time to talk with each employee on a regular basis. If you manage 40 people there aren't enough hours in a day to talk to them all. Typically management:worker ratios of 1:40 works fine in a factory floor environment where you give more orders and have less involved workers.
I'd like to see actual statistics about how much child porn is produced in a year. And I'm not talking about pictures of kids taking a bath. Nudity isn't illegal. It's the explicit sex acts involving children that are what compose "child porn". Where are the real statistics on that?!
The little research being done (principally at University College Cork in Ireland within the COPINE project supervised by Professor Max Taylor) shows that the number of children drawn into the traffic is consistently increasing. In 1998/99, a study was made of how much child pornographic material was being distributed within News Groups. Over one year, more than 50,000 child pornographic pictures were collected. A couple of thousand children were exposed, and for every week there was a new child, previously unseen. Parts of the study were repeated in 2002/2003 and it was noted that the weekly frequency of new children had doubled.
I'd like to see actual statistics about how much child porn is produced in a year. And I'm not talking about pictures of kids taking a bath. Nudity isn't illegal. It's the explicit sex acts involving children that are what compose "child porn". Where are the real statistics on that?!
the government shouldn't be responsible for sustaining someone's broken business model. The market should decide what that model should be and if a business can't adapt to changing market conditions, it deserves to die.
And please show her this youtube'd old Rapport news broadcast from Swedish National Television. It's from the 70's and the music industry says they want a DISCO FEE because the new DISCO music is killing the [old] music industry. Sounds familiar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdjcSGo1hJg
When someone discusses Usenet, inevitably, someone (me! me!) will point out that what the RIAA is doing is very similar to what Hitler and the Nazis were wishing for.
Hitler considered it appropriate for the state to adopt a view of what is a life worth living (ein lebenswertig Leben) and cast this ideal in aesthetic/ethical, or quasi-biological terms, and, he gave the state the means to the implementation of this ideal. The RIAA is, like Hitler, telling us how life should be lived and paints this ideal in ethical terms and they want to have the means to implement this ideal.
Text books in the Third World are expensive, especially when they have to be replace yearly do to editing of corrections and updating them.
I don't think you see how basic the need is in the third world. The need is huge for very basic skills in reading and algebra. Those books don't have to be updated at all.
You can buy more than 100 books for the $100 of a single OLPC, providing reading material for an entire school.
Do remember that this is a SCHOOL... It's purpose is to educate the kids, not to facilitate them playing games
Humans have educated others through games since forever. Even chess is a strategy game meant to teach others about warfare. The military uses games even today to train soldiers how to behave in combat.
Schools would be better if they used more games to educate their students.
A smart professor could use Halo3 to teach about gender issues or the biology of human perception.
The summary: A 16 year old student wanted porn. He got it in 30 minutes. The government tried to fix the filter. The 16 year old student wanted more porn. He got more in 40 minutes. 16 year old says the porn filter is waste of money.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the government programmers are slashdot readers and are secretly supporting the teen's cause for free pr0n, so they aren't really making the filter hard to break. Just enough of a mental challenge for a horny 16 year old. (This may be why there are so few girl programmers. They don't have the right motivation.)
by creating gravitons and detecting where they go (if they go somewhere else we say they went to another dimension above spacial #3) we can determine the existence of the extra dimensions
If we can create gravitons and send them to another dimension, and detect that, doesn't that mean that if people in the other dimensions can do the same, we can communicate with them?
As for African cultures, the majority of the Sahara desert became so because of goats, which were protected from predators by humans.
Wow, that's so misinformed I can only laugh. Do you have any idea on how many goats that would take?
Sahara, for example, was born 4000 years ago because of a climate change. Land use by man was not an important factor in the creation of the Sahara. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/390097.stm
...exactly how would a human *know* if a mouse is schizophrenic?
The mouse keeps talking to itself and is having paranoid thoughts about "people are out to get him". But the real give away is when the mouse believes it is a researcher in control of a giant computer called "Earth".
Some "tools" are inherently immoral. Chemical weapons such as nerve agents strke me as a unambigious example since there is no legitimate use of these kind of weapons. A weapons grade ebola virus would be another example. If you can't do anything "right" with a so-called "tool" then the creation, use and even the existance of said "tool" are all "wrong".
It might be right to kill people under certain circumstances. For example, play with a fake situation that you are standing next to a group of terrorists who are busy making child porn and then killing the children. Your only weapon is a canister of weapons grade ebola virus. Would it be wrong to use the ebola to kill the terrorists? I think it would be better to kill the terrorists.
Most weapons are meant to kill people. We need to morally justify each and every kill, and it doesn't depend on the type of tool used to kill.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I also found it tasteless. Center-of-mass hits are much more reliable than head shots.
No, you have to remember that the only way to kill a zombie is by shooting it in the head
There's even a nice Qibla Finder for iPhone which always will show the direction to mecka for your afternoon prayer.
Says the guy with the UID 30% bigger than mine.
Slashdot must be the only instance where men compares sizes, and smaller wins.
They may just like sun on their backs and not in their eyes.
As most glider pilots can tell you, cows have their backs against the wind. We use them for wind cues during emergency landings.
The 1:(10-15) manager to engineer ratio fairly common.
For a geek manager, managing 10-15 people is a good ratio because you will have time to talk with each employee on a regular basis. If you manage 40 people there aren't enough hours in a day to talk to them all. Typically management:worker ratios of 1:40 works fine in a factory floor environment where you give more orders and have less involved workers.
I'd like to see actual statistics about how much child porn is produced in a year. And I'm not talking about pictures of kids taking a bath. Nudity isn't illegal. It's the explicit sex acts involving children that are what compose "child porn". Where are the real statistics on that?!
Here: http://www.unicef.org/magic/media/documents/beyond_all_tolerance.pdf
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I'd like to see actual statistics about how much child porn is produced in a year. And I'm not talking about pictures of kids taking a bath. Nudity isn't illegal. It's the explicit sex acts involving children that are what compose "child porn". Where are the real statistics on that?!
Here: http://www.unicef.org/magic/media/documents/beyond_all_tolerance.pdf
chunkylover53 is going to be most displeased.
So will ManOfStyle...
And please show her this youtube'd old Rapport news broadcast from Swedish National Television. It's from the 70's and the music industry says they want a DISCO FEE because the new DISCO music is killing the [old] music industry. Sounds familiar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdjcSGo1hJg
would give up a 50" TV for 6 months of sex?
Now how many women would give up a 50" TV for 10" of love?
When someone discusses Usenet, inevitably, someone (me! me!) will point out that what the RIAA is doing is very similar to what Hitler and the Nazis were wishing for.
Hitler considered it appropriate for the state to adopt a view of what is a life worth living (ein lebenswertig Leben) and cast this ideal in aesthetic/ethical, or quasi-biological terms, and, he gave the state the means to the implementation of this ideal. The RIAA is, like Hitler, telling us how life should be lived and paints this ideal in ethical terms and they want to have the means to implement this ideal.
There. Did it. Happy now?
Text books in the Third World are expensive, especially when they have to be replace yearly do to editing of corrections and updating them.
I don't think you see how basic the need is in the third world. The need is huge for very basic skills in reading and algebra. Those books don't have to be updated at all.
You can buy more than 100 books for the $100 of a single OLPC, providing reading material for an entire school.
Do remember that this is a SCHOOL... It's purpose is to educate the kids, not to facilitate them playing games
Humans have educated others through games since forever. Even chess is a strategy game meant to teach others about warfare. The military uses games even today to train soldiers how to behave in combat.
Schools would be better if they used more games to educate their students.
A smart professor could use Halo3 to teach about gender issues or the biology of human perception.
(Norwegian eurodance circa 1995-2005 is impossible to get)
Thank God.
this is not really about a comic strip, but about religion and freedom of speech
Like water and oil, they don't mix.
5:The government now knows about every cab ride you have taken, within an accuracy of 1m - 10m, for the past 10 years.
We already do: Apart from the routine tracking of your cell phone, you also have a rfid implant under one of your nails.
Have a nice day!
A national database of naked children, duh!
While I thought your joke was funny I also want to share that the database actually exists using one-way hashes: it's maintained by NetClean with contributions from police forces around the world.
The summary: A 16 year old student wanted porn. He got it in 30 minutes. The government tried to fix the filter. The 16 year old student wanted more porn. He got more in 40 minutes. 16 year old says the porn filter is waste of money.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the government programmers are slashdot readers and are secretly supporting the teen's cause for free pr0n, so they aren't really making the filter hard to break. Just enough of a mental challenge for a horny 16 year old. (This may be why there are so few girl programmers. They don't have the right motivation.)
by creating gravitons and detecting where they go (if they go somewhere else we say they went to another dimension above spacial #3) we can determine the existence of the extra dimensions
If we can create gravitons and send them to another dimension, and detect that, doesn't that mean that if people in the other dimensions can do the same, we can communicate with them?
Graviton telegraph. You heard it here first.
Mounting the laser could be a slight problem if the shark is conscious
Just turn the shark upside down before mounting, that makes it go into tonic immobility for about 20 minutes.
As for African cultures, the majority of the Sahara desert became so because of goats, which were protected from predators by humans.
Wow, that's so misinformed I can only laugh. Do you have any idea on how many goats that would take?
Sahara, for example, was born 4000 years ago because of a climate change. Land use by man was not an important factor in the creation of the Sahara. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/390097.stm
...exactly how would a human *know* if a mouse is schizophrenic?
The mouse keeps talking to itself and is having paranoid thoughts about "people are out to get him". But the real give away is when the mouse believes it is a researcher in control of a giant computer called "Earth".
It might be right to kill people under certain circumstances. For example, play with a fake situation that you are standing next to a group of terrorists who are busy making child porn and then killing the children. Your only weapon is a canister of weapons grade ebola virus. Would it be wrong to use the ebola to kill the terrorists? I think it would be better to kill the terrorists.
Most weapons are meant to kill people. We need to morally justify each and every kill, and it doesn't depend on the type of tool used to kill.
And what the hell is this shooting your car with paintballs? Or EMPing all your electronics?
It's a joke, that is what it is.
Am I the only one who finds that Americans are more and more comparing themselves to the old Rome?
This comparison is nothing new for the American elite - why do you think their rulers are called Senators?
They also match Rome in decadence and orgies, but then again so I hear the German VW union leaders do too.