He stressed that Brazilian officials had received 50,000 allegations of pedophilia in recent years, and that Orkut was suspected of being an online gathering point for sexual predators of children.
The state prosecutor for Sao Paulo, Sergio Suiama, last month said 90 percent of the 56,000 pedophilia allegations received in the past few years related to Orkut.
"They are exchanging telephone numbers, names of possible victims, the situations in which they live" as well as photos, the senator said.
How many allegations do you need? This is not a conspiracy made up of politicians in the back room, this is a plea for help. 50,000?!? Did you read it? This is not "thinkofthechildren." They are not cracking down on P2P sites or warez traders. They are not blaming violence on video games. THE ARE GOING AFTER KID TOUCHERS, YOU GIANT DOUCHE!!!
What surface area are your panels? I would like to get my condo complex to install them on all of our buildings. I live in Florida, so I need to find some rated for Cat 3+ winds.
The earlier you find a bug in the development cycle, the less it costs to fix. If software engineers find issues in code at the coding stage, they can fix those errors with relative ease whether they find the error when they compile or run their unit test. When Software Integration begins, you go up an order of magnitude in cost and difficulty. Make it to System Integration without finding the bug and you have system engineers writing software error reports for software written by engineers who rolled off the program 3 months ago. I will let you imagine how easy it is to fix a bug at that level. Though most problems at that level result from poor requirements analysis.
Forget subsidizing this with tax dollars. I have a few bucks to invest. Let me buy some stock. Or how about some energy bonds? The US sold war bonds during WWII, let us buy Alternative Energy Bonds for investing in solar and geo and fuel cells.
In the case that they eventually need medical treatment that will be provided or subsidized by the state in any way, they directly effect you and I. In the case that they may become incarcerated ( whether one believes that to be just or not) in a federal institution, they again directly affect you and I. Our taxes will be used in both cases. I took the article and survey to be describing those people who were taking drugs of their enhancing effects, not for their clinical use of combating ADD/ADHD and related disorders.
FTA:"Most respondents said they took the drugs to improve concentration or to improve focus for a specific task. Counteracting jet lag was also a popular reason for drug use."
Last I heard, Ritalin was not prescribed to help "normal" individuals improve focus and concentration or combat jet lag.
Also FTA: "The drugs, they note, are being used more and more in non-medical situations: by shift workers, for example, and by active military personnel."
Diet pills have warning labels for operating machinery. What about Ritalin?
Once a drug is approved it can be used for anything...
Huh? Can you cite that, please? If I am prescribed Tylenol with codeine, I can process that medicine to extract the codeine? How about a little less drastic. I do not need all medication I was prescribed, so I save half a bottle. A few months down the road I cannot sleep, so I take a dose because it helps me sleep. This is okay?!?
It is legal to prescribe drugs for an off-label purpose, but not legal for a drug company to market their drug for off-label purposes. http://www.yourlawyer.com/articles/read/12204 I do not know if being prescribed a drug for a medical reason and then using it for off-label purposes is legal, but I think it is abuse. Some of the responders to the poll indicated they used these drugs daily. I think that is abuse. Legal or not, drug abuse is a problem. Finding legal loopholes will not change that.
They go door to door to interview those people who have either a) not filled out the form correctly or b) not sent the form in at all. So please, everyone, take some time this census to do a good job and turn in your form. It could save a great deal of money.
We discussed this in my Astronomy class in college. All you need is the proper light fixture to direct light where it needs to go, down to the ground where people are walking. There is no need for street lights to shine up into the sky. More efficient light does not need to mean more glaring light placed in the wrong place.
I was more interested in, But this mechanism fails utterly if you and I have different power levels to begin with.
Logically speaking, if two entities start on different power levels, it makes no difference if they both have complete privacy, complete disclosure or some measure in between. That original offset still exists. The mechanism does not fail because of the original power offsets, it only fails if the mechanism is applied unequally to both parties.
This unequal application of the mechanism could be caused by the original offset, but I thought the premise was an equal disclosure of information.
I do not think this is irrelevant at all. I think it puts a different perspective on the story.
I never said she was accusing Jimmy Wales of harassment. If she was sending un-elicited explicit messages and photos to the man she accused of sexual harassment, that would be considered harassment. She was already accused and found guilty of harassing another man. Now if Jimmy Wales was not a public figure, posting what she did on public forum could be described as harassment. She just chose to do it on a blog instead of personal e-mail this time. That is three instances of harassment.
Jimmy Wales established this organization that represents collaboration and preservation of information to a great many people. Rachel Mardsen was employed by this organization that represents the dissemination of disinformation to a great many people. Many people would see these organizations as the antithesis of each other (many of them/. readers) yet somehow they found their way into each others bed. The both sound like real winners.
As for not being a peach, if one has experienced this kind of woman, than one might not understand. Saying she is not a peach is being kind. But, yeah, that's my own opinion. I thought I might be able to put my opinion in to the conversation. I joined
Some people are not apologists, astroturfers or worshipers at the altar of the Great Wiki. Some just want to point out more information to add to the discussion. Some think if Ms. Mardsen is going to add Mr. Wales' laundry to the public record, why not talk about Ms. Wales' laundry that is already in the public record. That is part of the story.
Besides being a (former) talking head on Fox's Red Eye, Rachel Mardsen has been accused of harassment in the past. You might also note from the same article that she has falsely accused a man of sexual harassment. Ms. Mardsen target in the sexual harassment case claimed she sent him sexual e-mails and photographs.
It does not matter who wins in Texas. Besides the regular delegates (which they will split almost straight down the middle,) how can a super-delegate look at Texas and say "Hillary won in Texas, she gets my vote!" It is down to the super-delegates now and an win in Texas should have no impact whatsoever on who they vote for. A Democrat cannot win in Texas against a Republican! Texas is a red state! Why does it matter if Barack or Hillary won there?!?
1) If you have not figured it out yet, early adoption can bite you is the ass. (Just wait for DR-DVD v2 to render every player but the PS3 obsolete.)
2) If you shell out enough cash to content producers during early adoption, the market never has a chance to affect the outcome.
3) Giving away the razors (PS3 compared to vanilla BR-DVD player) and selling the hell out of the blades is still a viable business model.
The only thing that remains to be seen is whether on-demand streaming content will come to market soon enough and be enticing enough to defeat BR-DVD before Sony sees a return on its investment.
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Why should that surprise you? Most physical and astronomical theory begins with back-of-the-envelope calculations.
I always wondered, if we are all writing FOSS on machines with FOSS OS's using FOSS development environments...who is making money?
Use a masochistic language to break a German code...groovy.
The riots, you forgot about the riots and the burning cars and Reverend's Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
He stressed that Brazilian officials had received 50,000 allegations of pedophilia in recent years, and that Orkut was suspected of being an online gathering point for sexual predators of children.
The state prosecutor for Sao Paulo, Sergio Suiama, last month said 90 percent of the 56,000 pedophilia allegations received in the past few years related to Orkut.
"They are exchanging telephone numbers, names of possible victims, the situations in which they live" as well as photos, the senator said.
How many allegations do you need? This is not a conspiracy made up of politicians in the back room, this is a plea for help. 50,000?!? Did you read it? This is not "thinkofthechildren." They are not cracking down on P2P sites or warez traders. They are not blaming violence on video games. THE ARE GOING AFTER KID TOUCHERS, YOU GIANT DOUCHE!!!
This is why I read /.
What surface area are your panels? I would like to get my condo complex to install them on all of our buildings. I live in Florida, so I need to find some rated for Cat 3+ winds.
The earlier you find a bug in the development cycle, the less it costs to fix. If software engineers find issues in code at the coding stage, they can fix those errors with relative ease whether they find the error when they compile or run their unit test. When Software Integration begins, you go up an order of magnitude in cost and difficulty. Make it to System Integration without finding the bug and you have system engineers writing software error reports for software written by engineers who rolled off the program 3 months ago. I will let you imagine how easy it is to fix a bug at that level. Though most problems at that level result from poor requirements analysis.
Forget subsidizing this with tax dollars. I have a few bucks to invest. Let me buy some stock. Or how about some energy bonds? The US sold war bonds during WWII, let us buy Alternative Energy Bonds for investing in solar and geo and fuel cells.
In the case that they eventually need medical treatment that will be provided or subsidized by the state in any way, they directly effect you and I. In the case that they may become incarcerated ( whether one believes that to be just or not) in a federal institution, they again directly affect you and I. Our taxes will be used in both cases. I took the article and survey to be describing those people who were taking drugs of their enhancing effects, not for their clinical use of combating ADD/ADHD and related disorders.
FTA:"Most respondents said they took the drugs to improve concentration or to improve focus for a specific task. Counteracting jet lag was also a popular reason for drug use."
Last I heard, Ritalin was not prescribed to help "normal" individuals improve focus and concentration or combat jet lag.
Also FTA: "The drugs, they note, are being used more and more in non-medical situations: by shift workers, for example, and by active military personnel."
Diet pills have warning labels for operating machinery. What about Ritalin?
Once a drug is approved it can be used for anything...
Huh? Can you cite that, please? If I am prescribed Tylenol with codeine, I can process that medicine to extract the codeine? How about a little less drastic. I do not need all medication I was prescribed, so I save half a bottle. A few months down the road I cannot sleep, so I take a dose because it helps me sleep. This is okay?!?
It is legal to prescribe drugs for an off-label purpose, but not legal for a drug company to market their drug for off-label purposes. http://www.yourlawyer.com/articles/read/12204 I do not know if being prescribed a drug for a medical reason and then using it for off-label purposes is legal, but I think it is abuse. Some of the responders to the poll indicated they used these drugs daily. I think that is abuse. Legal or not, drug abuse is a problem. Finding legal loopholes will not change that.
SciFi's interpretation also spanned multiple books. I think it ended at either Children of Dune or God Emperor of Dune.
They go door to door to interview those people who have either a) not filled out the form correctly or b) not sent the form in at all. So please, everyone, take some time this census to do a good job and turn in your form. It could save a great deal of money.
If you drive 30-40 miles north of Las Vegas on SR15, the seeing is amazing.
We discussed this in my Astronomy class in college. All you need is the proper light fixture to direct light where it needs to go, down to the ground where people are walking. There is no need for street lights to shine up into the sky. More efficient light does not need to mean more glaring light placed in the wrong place.
I was more interested in, But this mechanism fails utterly if you and I have different power levels to begin with.
Logically speaking, if two entities start on different power levels, it makes no difference if they both have complete privacy, complete disclosure or some measure in between. That original offset still exists. The mechanism does not fail because of the original power offsets, it only fails if the mechanism is applied unequally to both parties.
This unequal application of the mechanism could be caused by the original offset, but I thought the premise was an equal disclosure of information.
I do not think this is irrelevant at all. I think it puts a different perspective on the story.
/. readers) yet somehow they found their way into each others bed. The both sound like real winners.
I never said she was accusing Jimmy Wales of harassment. If she was sending un-elicited explicit messages and photos to the man she accused of sexual harassment, that would be considered harassment. She was already accused and found guilty of harassing another man. Now if Jimmy Wales was not a public figure, posting what she did on public forum could be described as harassment. She just chose to do it on a blog instead of personal e-mail this time. That is three instances of harassment.
Jimmy Wales established this organization that represents collaboration and preservation of information to a great many people. Rachel Mardsen was employed by this organization that represents the dissemination of disinformation to a great many people. Many people would see these organizations as the antithesis of each other (many of them
As for not being a peach, if one has experienced this kind of woman, than one might not understand. Saying she is not a peach is being kind. But, yeah, that's my own opinion. I thought I might be able to put my opinion in to the conversation. I joined
Some people are not apologists, astroturfers or worshipers at the altar of the Great Wiki. Some just want to point out more information to add to the discussion. Some think if Ms. Mardsen is going to add Mr. Wales' laundry to the public record, why not talk about Ms. Wales' laundry that is already in the public record. That is part of the story.
Besides being a (former) talking head on Fox's Red Eye, Rachel Mardsen has been accused of harassment in the past. You might also note from the same article that she has falsely accused a man of sexual harassment. Ms. Mardsen target in the sexual harassment case claimed she sent him sexual e-mails and photographs.
It does not matter who wins in Texas. Besides the regular delegates (which they will split almost straight down the middle,) how can a super-delegate look at Texas and say "Hillary won in Texas, she gets my vote!" It is down to the super-delegates now and an win in Texas should have no impact whatsoever on who they vote for. A Democrat cannot win in Texas against a Republican! Texas is a red state! Why does it matter if Barack or Hillary won there?!?
If it streams, you can catch it.
Well, at least is cooled the planet...
1) If you have not figured it out yet, early adoption can bite you is the ass. (Just wait for DR-DVD v2 to render every player but the PS3 obsolete.)
2) If you shell out enough cash to content producers during early adoption, the market never has a chance to affect the outcome.
3) Giving away the razors (PS3 compared to vanilla BR-DVD player) and selling the hell out of the blades is still a viable business model.
The only thing that remains to be seen is whether on-demand streaming content will come to market soon enough and be enticing enough to defeat BR-DVD before Sony sees a return on its investment.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
What? You don't watch Stargate-Atlantis? What? You do?!?