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Note I said 'can', not 'is'.

Typically I expect that sexual assault survivors do have it worse.

But I suspect there are many women for whom the violation of the pictures can be as bad if not worse than some classes of sexual assault.

I think it's more a case of quality.

The project manager has a plan and making stable easy to maintain code is hard. Now one of the programmers is going in, screwing around with the logic to support their Easter egg and if not introducing bugs at least introducing headaches for the next programmer who has to go in and make a change.

There's places where they're appropriate, particularly games where they add character and a bit of fun (which is the whole damn point afterall). But for more serious applications? It becomes hard to justify the potential cost.

I'm not sure it is ludicrous. True a single act of rape is truly horrendous, but there's only a single violation and the perpetrator can be caught. With this there's a violation with each person who views the picture, it goes on constantly for years, and it never goes away. Moreover that violation can include a great many of the people whom the victim personally knows.

Some people might not mind being a revenge porn victim, and on average I suspect it's less damaging, but I wouldn't be shocked if there's a substantial portion of people for whom it's just as bad if not worse.

In a sexual assault you've had your naked body viewed and touched by one person without your consent.

In revenge porn an intimate moment with your naked body has been viewed by thousands or even millions of people without your consent, possibly including many people in your social circle.

Yes, it absolutely can be as traumatizing as a sexual assault.

Sorry for being a lazy proofreader, the intent of my statement was still pretty clear.

The obvious correction is to drop the 's which came from a previous iteration of the sentence, and I'm not sure the insertion of 'as' before traumatizing actually adds anything besides extra letters.

Your alternate "correction" becomes gibberish when inserted into the original sentence, and even then it still doesn't clearly convey the meaning you attached to it.

You're right, it involved about 10,000 victims. 10,000 instances of what can be be fairly compared to a sexual assault.

I'd rather have dinner with a person who screwed up one time and became a hit & run drunk driver than be in the same room as that guy who did this for years.

Tobacco smoking is an interesting point though people who smoke do it largely by choice, these girls never chose to have their photos posted online.

The studies I've seen show that novice-novice is still pretty damn effective as a productivity and learning strategy.

Despite the summary I've TA'd 1st year courses and we had a great experience from having people work in groups. 1st year students can spend a lot of time stuck on really simple problems that are due to some weird misconceptions or simply a lack of familiarity. Having them work in pairs means instead of just giving up they start trouble shooting together, when they finally did get to asking a question it was at a much higher level, this meant I could spent more time assisting the individuals or groups who really needed it.

Most importantly the people who go into CS tend to be introverted and terrible collaborators, I know I'm personally far too ready to sludge through problems alone and ask for help far too late. If I'd had some pair-programming experience when I was in undergrad I think I would have benefited immensely.

Because an egregious violation of someone's privacy that's can be traumatizing as a sexual assault is a minor thing.

I would expect someone who writes a comment accusing the subject of being misinformed would at least RTFA to ensure they aren't completely misinformed on that very fact:

In a letter to FBI Director James Comey, the Minnesota Democrat asked for more information about the agency's authority to police against revenge porn, or the act of posting explicit sexual content online without the subject's consent, often for purposes of humiliation and extortion.

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Franken wrote in his letter. "As technologies rapidly advance, it is our responsibility to ensure that our nation's laws keep pace with those technologies. But it is also our responsibility to ensure that existing laws are strictly enforced."

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In addition, Franken wants information on any limitations within current law that may have impeded the FBI from carrying out investigations or making arrests. Franken, who asked for a response by May 8, is exploring whether legislation may be necessary to combat revenge porn, his office said.

In summary Franken is saying that revenge porn is a serious problem and he wants to know if the FBI can do more with the laws already there or if they need additional laws to fix the problem. Isn't this exactly what you want a legislator to do?

War vs non-war isn't always a clear line. Iran is a local power who supports a lot of groups who furthers their interests. It's not a good thing but it isn't terribly different from any other moderately powerful country, and while they're supporting these organizations they're very likely not ordering individual attacks or telling them to declare war.

I agree on that count. The successors to both Rhouani and Khameni will be particularly interesting.

I don't know, that strikes me as quite a conspiracy theory in itself, particularly given how easy it would be to trace back the bomb (my understanding is they can trace back to the specific reactor).

It's important to recognize a lot of the Israel stuff for what it is, rhetoric. And to be honest Israel, a country full of relatively Western white people, has managed to turn a good portion of the Western white world against them in favour of a bunch of dark-skinned Muslims. How charitable do you expect a different bunch of dark skinned Muslims to feel towards Israel? If anything I think the Israel angle could be the best aspect of the deal. If Iran gets better relations with the US then Israel feels pressure to clean up their act Settlement-wise to maintain US support while Iran pressures Hamas and Hezbolla for the same reasons. At that point you've actually made some real progress towards a solution to the Israel-Palestine situation.

I really disagree with this. I'm going to spend about half my waking life at the office, I sure as hell want it to be an interesting place.

I don't know about other people but for me productivity is 90% motivation, if I whittled away half the day but worked with complete focus for the remaining half I would be a fantastically productive employee.

So for that I would say to keep things fun and focused, tasks should be small with well defined goals, even if you make some busy work it won't matter because the workers will be that much better. There's nothing worse than being given a giant task with no clear purpose or metric by which to try it. Include a couple paid coffee breaks. People can't work effectively for 4 hours straight, a couple glances at /. aren't the solution and developers sure as hell won't waste personal time recharging for a couple minutes at the office. Give them a pair of coffee breaks, encourage them get away from their desks, the increased productivity will more than make up for the lost time.

Make some sort of intermittent fun events at the office, food events or games of some kind, don't make it a corporate spirit thing, just a thing for people to have fun. It breaks up the monotony for the people who participate, if nothing else it makes the office a more engaging social environment and gives people an opportunity to interact.

It doesn't work for everyone, in general the older the employee the stronger their non-work commitments and the less they'll be interested if office socialization, but if you can make the office environment more engaging you'll improve productivity and quality of life for everyone involved.

A final thought might be to try pair programming. It hasn't really caught on because programmers tend to be fairly introverted and computers are very personal spaces. But the published studies suggest it can be very effective for both productivity and employee satisfaction, you improve knowledge sharing since its a lot easier to ask a question when you're already talking and you kill a lot of time wasting since it's a lot harder to zone out when interacting with someone.

I know a lot of Iranians and have a similar experience, note that you're looking at an a-typical sample, if anyone is going to be particularly against the regime it's likely to be people leaving the country.

Even assuming the laughable assertion that they're a bunch of sociopaths who would happily sacrifice their own population, and they didn't give a crap for even their own survival, what possible motive would they have for doing Nuking the US?

You're describing a cartoon supervillian.

Btw, the very fact they accepted this deal demonstrates you're wrong and that they do care about their people, because otherwise they would have simply kept stalling until they had a bomb, the civilians were the ones bearing the brunt of the sanctions.

So supporting an organization to some degree means you're responsible for all of their actions?

I can't even imagine how many wars would be added to the US tally using that standard.

Did you really read that article? You make it sounds as if it was almost entirely Iran running unopposed through Iraq. Yes they started reversing the Iraqi gains in 1982 but in reality Iraq had a lot of Western support leading to lot better equipped military. As well they used chemical weapons, were the first ones to attack cities directly, and right up until the end in 1989 their ceasefire proposals involved Iraq making territorial gains.

Basically your evidence for the claim that Iran is an irrationally aggressive nation is the fact they didn't concede territory after being invaded. Come to think of it by your Hamas standard I could claim that the US is responsible for the Iran-Iraq war!

Nothing like some irrational fearmongering to brighten your day.

What on earth does your mental model of Iranians look like?! A nation of genocidal suicide bombers??

You know how many wars Iran has launched since 1979? Zero.

You know who does the suicide bombings? Not Shias, the dominant religion in Iran.

Yes their human rights record sucks, yes the probably want a Nuke or at least some practical Nuclear expertise to deter attacks from Israel or the US. But they're not cartoonish supervillians and I have no idea what evidence you're basing your predictions on. Healthy relations between the US and Iran is a good thing for everybody.

Actually this one had potential in the headline.

Imagine coming to /. and finding that all the articles written in buzzfeed style, done completely seriously but instead of regular stories having listicles of open source security vulnerabilities and "How this maintainer responded to a kernel patch will make your day!"

Now that would be some serious April fools satire.