Porn and your career - the maths

A Japanese worker's prolific use of the internet to download porn during work hours raises technical as well as moral questions

The (usually august) IHT reports on the Japanese civil servant demoted for accessing porn sites 780,000 times during office hours. Reading on, that's 780,000 times over a nine-month period, and 170,000 times in July alone.

There were 22 working days last July, so that works out at an average of 7727 times a day. Let's assume a man with this attitude to his work doesn't massively overdo the hours; say nine a day; that's 858 times an hour, which is 14 times a minute. So, now the big questions: Who can open 14 web pages in a minute, let alone look at them? Who's supplying this man's broadband? Where do I sign up to this internet service provider?

SKIP THIS BIT: The report isn't very specific, so it could be that the figures are for browser requests - if he's downloading pages with a lot of images, especially if they're delivered by different servers, we could well be looking at a figure of more like one page every two minutes. Which still doesn't leave much time for luxurious enjoyment of the visual magnificence of the human body. Alternatively, my sources tell me that porn sites sometimes load popups of other sites behind the main browser window, but this man sounds as though he would be a sufficiently experienced web user to get around this.

TUNE BACK IN AGAIN NOW: But what I really want to know is: Demoted? Demoted? How much porn do you have to look at these days to get sacked?