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They're terrified of their brand ever being associated with "adult" material because parents might sue them for said exposing their child to hypothetical adult material.

That must be why Nintendo partnered with Playboy to promote the Nintendo exclusive release of Bayonetta 2.

http://wiiudaily.com/2014/10/nintendo-partners-with-playboy-to-promote-bayonetta-2/
http://bayonetta2.nintendo.com/
http://www.playboy.com/galleries/pamela-horton-nintendo-bayonetta/slide-1

What, as opposed to the 47% of citizens that now net zero federal taxes at all? That the top 1% already pays 40% of the national tax burden?

That's exactly the opposite of what the article said. Did you actually read the article you are linking to? If so, then you're deliberately misrepresenting it.

The actual headline is:

"Yes, 47% of Households Owe No Taxes. Look Closer."

The article says that's true only if you define "taxes" to exclude payroll taxes. It says:

"About three-quarters of households pay more in payroll taxes than in income taxes."

I really get pissed off when people try to have an intelligent, informed conversation and you have to spend 15 minutes checking the conservative sources and have their facts turn out to be wrong. Deliberately distorting facts is the worst thing you can do, IMO. Negligently distorting facts is a pretty close second.

It's a waste of time to try to have an intelligent debate with conservatives. The time is better spent reading Paul Krugman http://www.playboy.com/magazine/playboy-interview-paul-krugman and going to Occupy Wall Street to figure out how to organize politically to stop them from destroying the country.

The playboy article is way better to read the full story, if you got time.. http://www.playboy.com/articles/the-man-who-conned-the-pentagon-dennis-montgomery/

Slashdot wrote about this last year, after Playboy wrote about it. Playboy's story was pretty good.

The moral of the story is anyone who gives good Powerpoint is destined to grow rich

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http://whitherthenytimes.blogspot.com/

That actually is the only reason to read Playboy.

If you want nudity and sex, there are nearly infinite choices out there. Free, even.

Playboy is known for their excellent and often unique interviews. I believe there is even a series of six or more volumes of books that you can buy, called The Playboy Interviews. Well worth the read.

Along that line, here's a Playboy interview with Steve Jobs in 1985:

finally playboy can add video's to their magazine!

www.playboy.com + Mobile Internet Device

Adding videos to their magazine is like adding apostrophes to words that don't need them.

http://www.playboy.com/

Huh huh huh I just "published" porno on slashdot.

I'm an attorney. Making maritime law analogies to aircraft is a fool's errand. Causes of action lie anywhere that recognizes civil or criminal wrongs against their citizens. The aircraft's registry is dispositive as to the controlling civil law.

As for criminal acts: would you argue that a hijacking of Chinese carrier over San Francisco and diverting the craft to Vancouver , BC would convey US Jurisdiction over the bad actors?

Your simplistic conclusions about the Doctor who murdered the troops at Ft. Hood clearly shows that the facts (still being determined by the experts) mean nothing to you - you would rather emote blindly and without any scientific basis for your emotional conclusions.

As for your personal love affair with the whining buffoon that is Glen Beck - your choice of emotion "feeling" over "fact" is the most direct connection that one could have with Mr. Beck's philosophy (short of actual buggery). Read this article about your spiritual fellow-traveler: http://www.playboy.com/articles/triumph-of-the-conservative-underground-review-of-glenn-beck/index.html

Now, whining-conservative little terror-bunny, crawl back under your failed political rock and pray to your "C" street Gods for guidance. I'm amazed that you can even post - the Bushies lost millions of emails....incompetent twits.

The smurfs, as donny darko explained, are asexual. The Na'vi, however, have tits

Take a quick gander: http://www.playboy.com/

Fixed it for you: webmale.google.com.

Multi-User Dungeon - MUD1 Version 1E

* NASA's Super Happy MUD *
* It's Edutainment! *

Origin of version: Sat Sep 15 10:00:50 2007

Welcome! By what name shall I call you?

>> Buzz

Hello, Buzz!

Cape Canaveral Launch Pad.
You stand in your Converse (tm) Brand space suit on the Launch Pad, before you is a towering shuttle with the huge Coca-Cola (tm) logo on the side of it. A crowd watches in anticipation and enjoys the T-Mobile (tm) cameras broadcasting the cabin and crew live to their cell phones.
[Exits: shuttle, bathroom]

>> bathroom

Bathroom Adjacent to Launch Pad.
You rush into the bathroom and rip off your helmet to deposit your stomach contents in the toilet. Luckily you have Rolaids (tm) antacid in your Converse (tm) Brand space suit. You pop a few pills into your mouth ... ahh much better, Rolaids spells relief.
[Exits: door]

>> door

Cape Canaveral Launch Pad.
You stumble out of the restroom and back on to the launch pad. Oh no, a congressman spots you! "Hey, why if it isn't Buzz!" he says as he moves in for a photo op!
[A Congressman] is at [quite a few]
Your pierce *** MASSACRES *** A Congressman!
A Congressman's pound scratches you.
Your pierce *** MASSACRES *** A Congressman!
Your pierce DISEMBOWELS A Congressman!
[A Congressman] is at [big nasty]
You stop using A diamond-tipped dagger.
You wield a legendary greatsword.
A Congressman sees your attempt to trip him in time to avoid your foot.
[A Congressman] is at [big nasty]

Your fiery slash *** DEMOLISHES *** A Congressman!
[A Congressman] is at [pretty hurt]
A Congressman sees your attempt to trip him in time to avoid your foot.
Your flaming slash *** DEVASTATES *** A Congressman!
[A Congressman] is at [pretty hurt]
Your burning slash *** OBLITERATES *** A Congressman!
You trip A Congressman, sending him sprawling to the ground!

Your flaming slash *** OBLITERATES *** A Congressman!
A Congressman is mortally wounded, and will die soon if not aided.
[A Congressman] is at [dying]

You trip A Congressman, knocking him unconscious. A Congressman is mortally wounded, and will die soon if not aided.
[A Congressman] is at [dying]

You trip A Congressman, knocking him unconscious.
A Comgressman is mortally wounded, and will die soon if not aided.
Your burning slash *** DEMOLISHES *** A Congressman!
The Congressman's body becomes limp and the politician drops to the ground DEAD!!

You receive 212000 experience out of 280012 total. [neutral]
[Exits: shuttle, bathroom]

>> shuttle

You stagger into the elevator paid for by Playboy Magazine and begin your assent to the cabin. The slow motion walking thingy starts to happen as you cross the bridge ... Before you enter the cabin, you hug the Doritos (tm) "Who Wants to Meet an Astronaut" Sweepstakes winner and step inside. You turn on your Sony Brand headset that sounds like a dream and prepare for blastoff ...

That's all we have so far. I think you can see just how exciting this game is goi

Are you saying that when people talk about "adult" websites, they're also referring to violent websites? Generally speaking it seems to be a euphemism for porn sites. But anyway. To clarify, I am talking about porn sites here. I'm sure we can apply a similar policy to violence websites, but I'm not going to go into that here.

So now only "hardcore porn" gets .XXX, even though "mainstream magazines" may pass your "sex"/"tits"/"porn" test?

If they do that then they're still porn, so why do we care that they've fallen into the "porn" category? The point of the "sex"/"tits"/"porn" test wasn't a rigid example. Just a quick, off the cuff, example of a filter that will only give you stuff that's unsuitable for children.

Whatever. Now we just have to define "hardcore porn"...

No. We just need to define porn as that which claims to be porn not porn as that which doesn't. Playboy is a grey area. Do you really care if your kids see this?. That's about all they're going to get. Do you care if that is blocked? What about if [Not Safe For Work Link!!] is seen by your kids? Is there any question? How much is there that claims not to be pornographic but is remotely as explicit as a porn site?

So "adult" to you means "sex",

YES! "adult" means sex to just about everyone.

but violence is OK?

Violence needs to be dealt with separately. Where are these sites that are too violent for a child?

Yeah, I'm sure Playboy wouldn't mind giving up "playboy.com".

Playboy isn't exactly hardcore porn. They're a mainstream magazine that tends to fall into the grey area that I'm not suggesting should go into the xxx category.

And I'm sure porn sites won't mind making changes to their servers to make them easier for everybody to block everywhere. Yup, sounds like a winner.

It also makes it easier to find, and to know what you're getting.

In other news, Playboy Magazine recently launched Playboy.com, which allows the worlds premier men's magazine to be made available online! You can skip the brief article, and go straight to the archives [NSFW].

http://www.playboy.com/girls/amateurs/features/wom enofwalmart/walmart.html

We clearly need IPv7, which will raise the number of network ports available to Unix systems to 2^256. Then we will divide those port ranges in a meaningful way - for example one half of the ports will be allocated to various American universities.

Of course we will not be able to remember those long port numbers, which is why we will use convenient hierarchical ASCII names, which are then resolved to port numbers by a network of servers known as the Port Name System (PNS). Then people can filter out all traffic to http://playboy.com/ connecting on port pns://porn.playboy.us. Except for those in the UK, who will block port pns://pornography.playboy.co.uk. Of course, there will be ways to circumvent that - like people setting up ad-hoc port names like pns://totally-not-porn.cs.stanford.edu, but maybe we can filter those out by mandating that all porn will be forwarded by routers only at certain intervals, where home users can then block it.

To that end, I propose a hierarchical naming scheme for intervals...

• Drive bys with BB guns in Kentucky.
• A riot for spots in line in Burbank.
• Read - 10 to 12 people robbed in PS3 line (dubious, but possible). [Via Digg]
• Read - Sheriffs shut down another California store for rowdy behavior.
• Read - Police break up NY SonyStyle store fight.
• Read - Brawl breaks out at another Wally when manager plays musical PlayStation chairs. Seriously, what an idiot. [Thanks Kyle D.]
• Read - Shots were apparently fired at a Texas Wally. Pics here and here of the 5-0. [Thanks, Jason]
• Read - Two armed, masked robbers overtook a customer in Springfield. [Thanks, Jason]
• Watch - North Fresno / Merced had stampede-riot insanity. [Thanks, Jonathan]

Oh wait...

Because of their limited experience (I'm not just talking about sexually, but socially as well) with real women, if they consume lots of porn, they might get warped ideas about real women.

That's a very good point; I hadn't thought of it. However, if you don't mind my cynicism, it seems as thought most young women these days are "just a couple of drinks away from a girl-on-girl adventure". And you're right, that kind of thing can be mitigated with frank discussion. Why these young women seem to want to be seen as pieces of meat is beyond me. Drunken one night stands just don't feel anywhere near as good as sober, loving, sexual relations. Your senses are dulled by the alcohol and you're not trying to share yourself with that person, you're just looking for some way to relieve tension. Sure, it feels good, but it doesn't feel great.

Odd as it sounds, I'm almost glad I was raised in the Catholic school system. As twisted as it is that they have to avoid any discussion of contraception, the early sex education that I got in grade school did teach me that sex should be meaningful, that it should be something more than "I wanna get off"—and I've realised that it can only be meaningful if you're in a meaningful relationship with that person.

Of course, that sort of ethic does put the porn industry on rocking footing, doesn't it? Well, maybe it doesn't. As I said previously, the human body is a great thing and we should be proud of them, not ashamed. Publications like Playboy work pretty much exclusively in the realm of pinup nudity; I don't recall seeing any lesbian or penetration scenes in any photoset in that magazine. If I'm mistaken, please let me know the publication dates, but Hugh Hefner's on the record as saying that Playboy is, ultimately, about celebrating the beauty of the human body.

So what does my ideal universal attitude towards sex look like? Get rid of all the other porn producers except Playboy and let anybody buy it. Parents, teach your children about what sex is really about—procreation—and that you should only have sex with someone you'd be willing to have a family with. Teach them this early. Don't be ashamed of your body and don't teach your children the same. While it isn't particularly appropriate to masturbate in public, there's absolutely nothing wrong with doing it privately. If our children grow up seeing sex and their bodies as good things, not bad things, maybe the world we give them will be a lot less insane.

That's almost precisely the comment I was going to make.

First premise: Look at Japan. More to the point, look at the prevalence of seijin manga in Japan. Here's a culture that's apparently obsessed with violent rape fantasy, yet their rate of violent crime is significantly lower, per capita than that of the USA. [N.B.: I have no figures to back this up. I could be completely wrong. Nevertheless, my second premise stands.]

Second premise: Boys begin puberty around ten or eleven years of age—after all, gentlemen, when did you start getting really interested in sex—but tend to have the most frustrating six, seven, maybe even eight years of their as yet short life because Western culture dictates that "everything about what's between your legs is evil and if you even think about it for a second, you're a terrible, disgusting person!"

What am I getting at? Basically, that letting kids read pornography (not necessarily hardcore pornography, but Playboy at the very least, because it's really just pinups) can't possibly hurt or warp them. If anything, it'll let them become more balanced adults, because they'll learn for themselves that the human body is a wonderful thing, something to be celebrated and not mourned, and they won't feel immense amounts of guilt for touching themselves after school, before their parents get home. I'm almost be willing to bet that a lot of North American rapists turn to rape partially because of the frustrated guilt they feel over looking at their fathers' naughty magazines and getting caught. And, of course, in time, they'll discover that sex with a loving partner can be the most wonderful thing that you can do with another person; that's it's sharing yourself, body, mind and soul with them. Sex is, honestly, the closest I've ever come to a truly religious experience.

If anything's truly harmful to children, it's the way that Generation Xers are giving their children anything and everything they want, in a desperate attempt to be their child's friends. Children need parents, not overgrown playmates. If you're being proper parents to your children, then they'll become the good adults you want them to be. It's just that simple.

But that's a rant for another story, and another time.

Playboy Calendar

To be fair they probably block a good number of sites that deal with heterosexuality as well. Such as this one.

You're right, they're not the same thing, which is why I think most web filtering is stupid. Tell the kids what is not appropriate to look at, make it clear that if they're caught they won't have web privileges anymore and then give them a TEACHER. I wrote an ipchains based filter for a high school here in Canada, but it blocked pages individually, under the direct control of the teacher... such as the flash game everybody was playing that day.

Of course, if you're in one of the states that voted to put anti-homosexuality clauses in your constitution then web filtering in schools is just a symptom of a much deeper problem.

as a funny offtopic info. apparently playboy mirrors files for eclipse, apache, freebsd, and some other stuff! coolness. I fuond this out in some other article clicking around. look for yourself

I will have enought money to finish building my "real" woman.

I run this "real" site, and dumb men give me money.
http://www.moneyslave.fetishfantasygirl.com/
Well, not really, but I could do something like that.

Just like the dumb men that give money to the ppl here.
http://www.playboy.com/

or here.
http://www.nfl.com/
http://www.nba.com/
http://www.mlb.com/
http://www.nhl.com/

Yah, I said Christmas. Not Happy Holidays.

Hey now, don't start talking about that or you'll put companies like Playboy out of business!

That's probably because Playboy is an official mirror of, among other things, Mozilla Thunderbird. Nifty, isn't it?

That's probably because Playboy is an official mirror of, among other things, Mozilla Thunderbird. Nifty, isn't it?

Those guys at mirrors.playboy.com have to be careful.

For anyone that missed the jest, check out mirrors.playboy.com (it is WS). One of my favorite places to suggest when somebody asks where they should grab one of a few Linux distros. It's also a handy way to explain to your boss why you were visiting the playboy.com domain.

That and hey! When you support Playboy, you're supporting Linux! Go Tux! (He just got more than most Slashdotters I'm afraid... :)

You can get more than Perl mods: http://mirrors.playboy.com/

From their site:

Playboy's resident tech nerds would like to thank the authors, contributors, bug testers, and everyone else involved in the Open Source software we use on a daily basis. THANK YOU!

I've worked with the tech guys at playboy.com almost daily for about 3 years now. They are some of the brightest, hardest-working and funniest guys I've had the pleasure to deal with.

I get my Perl modules from them too. They're amazingly geek-friendly lately. :)

Maybe you could get your fedora core release from here.

Site seems quite slow though. Wonder who's using all the bandwidth at that site. Maybe slashdotters downloading the latest iso's... ;)

how about http://mirrors.playboy.com/? Finally all that pr0n bandwidth used for something :)

No, the original point was that you said " guess the other thing is that Apache/PHP seems to scale better (or at least easier/cheaper [internetnews.com] than Tomcat." The article you link to doesn't mention java or tomcat at all. The presentation that is linked from the article doesn't mention tomcat but it does say good things about java/jsp/j2ee but they couldn't use it because freebsd's threading sucks. I should have known better than to start a discussion with someone that cites an article to back up his claim when it doesn't even mention what he's claiming.

"What would are some very large sites using jsp, which for all the links you posted, you haven't been able to show.More and larger sites use php than jsp. I pointed out ebay, which is still using dlls for much of it's heavy load. You brought up playboy, which seems to be mostly a static site running some cgi scripts: http://cyber.playboy.com/cgi/ab.cgi."

eBay used to use a dll. The dll is their old architecture, when they finish the migration the dll will disapear. eBay is a complicated site and the migration will take time. A lot of ebay is currently running on websphere. You can't easily tell because they don't use the .jsp extention for their files. That's a big site. They may have 1/3rd the traffic of yahoo but their profits and revenues are about the same. Playboy does use java. I think they use a mixture of JBoss and Tomcat. Just because a page says .html doesn't mean it's a static page. A lot of times, I've noticed this with JBoss especially, files look like html but they're not. You can see this at the sims online too, which also uses jboss. Look at this url from playboy http://www.playboy.com/magazine/playmate.html?sour ce=playmate_sectionfront since when can you pass query parameters to STATIC HTML? We used this technique with sites I've worked on as well where we set up our container to recognize .html files as jsps. If you look at netcraft.com for the server info you'll see playboy.com uses mod_jk whick is the connector to Tomcat. Sometimes it's hard to tell what sites use java since many times they'll use a servlet controller that calls the jsp's behind the scenes. Sometimes you'll see a .do which is the typical way to use Struts, but not always. Here's a bit of info on capital one they use java for a lot of their stuff. I think they use oracle's application server. B&H Photo uses java for their ecommerce site (Probably the most popular online photo/video retailer) but you can't easily tell from looking at the urls unless you know what to look for. bnh is the servlet context, controller is the main servlet handler and home is a page handler. Years ago they used to use Bluestones application server. Now it seems they're just using Netscape Enterprise Server. If your brouse certain sites with cookies disabled you can sometimes see a jsessionid in the url, that's a sign it's running a java web container. Verizon Online uses Java for their clients web email and a bunch of other support functions. Have a look at Bea's Client list among some other big names you'll find Amazon.com and FedEx. Ofoto.com, now Kodak Easy Share, uses jsp. Here's a story on jboss writing their own postnuke style cms in java because php didn't scale as well. These are just the few I could remember off the top of my head. And I've done my own benchmarks for m

No, the original point was that you said " guess the other thing is that Apache/PHP seems to scale better (or at least easier/cheaper [internetnews.com] than Tomcat." The article you link to doesn't mention java or tomcat at all. The presentation that is linked from the article doesn't mention tomcat but it does say good things about java/jsp/j2ee but they couldn't use it because freebsd's threading sucks. I should have known better than to start a discussion with someone that cites an article to back up his claim when it doesn't even mention what he's claiming.

"What would are some very large sites using jsp, which for all the links you posted, you haven't been able to show.More and larger sites use php than jsp. I pointed out ebay, which is still using dlls for much of it's heavy load. You brought up playboy, which seems to be mostly a static site running some cgi scripts: http://cyber.playboy.com/cgi/ab.cgi."

eBay used to use a dll. The dll is their old architecture, when they finish the migration the dll will disapear. eBay is a complicated site and the migration will take time. A lot of ebay is currently running on websphere. You can't easily tell because they don't use the .jsp extention for their files. That's a big site. They may have 1/3rd the traffic of yahoo but their profits and revenues are about the same. Playboy does use java. I think they use a mixture of JBoss and Tomcat. Just because a page says .html doesn't mean it's a static page. A lot of times, I've noticed this with JBoss especially, files look like html but they're not. You can see this at the sims online too, which also uses jboss. Look at this url from playboy http://www.playboy.com/magazine/playmate.html?sour ce=playmate_sectionfront since when can you pass query parameters to STATIC HTML? We used this technique with sites I've worked on as well where we set up our container to recognize .html files as jsps. If you look at netcraft.com for the server info you'll see playboy.com uses mod_jk whick is the connector to Tomcat. Sometimes it's hard to tell what sites use java since many times they'll use a servlet controller that calls the jsp's behind the scenes. Sometimes you'll see a .do which is the typical way to use Struts, but not always. Here's a bit of info on capital one they use java for a lot of their stuff. I think they use oracle's application server. B&H Photo uses java for their ecommerce site (Probably the most popular online photo/video retailer) but you can't easily tell from looking at the urls unless you know what to look for. bnh is the servlet context, controller is the main servlet handler and home is a page handler. Years ago they used to use Bluestones application server. Now it seems they're just using Netscape Enterprise Server. If your brouse certain sites with cookies disabled you can sometimes see a jsessionid in the url, that's a sign it's running a java web container. Verizon Online uses Java for their clients web email and a bunch of other support functions. Have a look at Bea's Client list among some other big names you'll find Amazon.com and FedEx. Ofoto.com, now Kodak Easy Share, uses jsp. Here's a story on jboss writing their own postnuke style cms in java because php didn't scale as well. These are just the few I could remember off the top of my head. And I've done my own benchmarks for m

performance != scalability.

The original point was 'jsp doesn't seem to scale as well as php', and none of the reams of text you've pasted here comes close to disproving that.

What would are some very large sites using jsp, which for all the links you posted, you haven't been able to show.

More and larger sites use php than jsp. I pointed out ebay, which is still using dlls for much of it's heavy load. You brought up playboy, which seems to be mostly a static site running some cgi scripts: http://cyber.playboy.com/cgi/ab.cgi.

The proof is in the implementation, we know php scales and jsp, well there are plenty of fanboys who will post endless scholarly diatribes about how great it would be if someone would listen too you, but you don't seem to be able to produce any very high load sites to back up your case.

So I'll ask again, what are the largest sites running jsp? If you are going to post benchmarks again (b/c you can't find any jsp sites of major size), please try to stay on topic: benchmarks showing how java/jsp handles thousands of concurrent users, how it compares to apache/p* in a high performance cluster, etc.

Actually, the open source movement does have backing (SFW).

You should also read How the Teenage Mind Works.

Interesting (fact sheet).

Dude, just go buy a Playboy.

"Playboy won't support iPod photo"

Oh wait... Done already.

Hef has Playmates. Bob Guccione has Pets.

I wonder how those firewalls treat http://mirrors.playboy.com/ :) (office safe, really)

Yeah, seems like it :)

No problem, drop on in!

First, you have to obtain a copy of some PORNO. You can also apparently obtain some porno using BitTorrent.

Second, you need to succeed in posting to slashdot.org, a popular "news for HOMOs" website.

Third, you need to spank it to the porn you just found.

First, you have to obtain a copy of some PORNO. You can also apparently obtain some porno using BitTorrent.

Second, you need to succeed in posting to slashdot.org, a popular "news for HOMOs" website.

Third, you need to spank it to the porn you just found.

What logic puzzle? Are you messing with me? You're messing with me.

On every cover of playboy, they hide a small bunny with bowtie. The time it takes to find this hidden rabit can be used to determine IQ. I know it sounds amiss, but within my social group, it works. The members generally considered smart seem to find it quicker. Others never seem to find it. Not scientific at all, but fun for coctail parties, and an acceptable reason to whip out a playboy in public.

If you read playboys website FAQ, they comment on the hidden bunny:

Why is a Rabbit Head always hidden on the cover?
The tradition began in the Sixties as a lighthearted way to challenge readers.

Their website will also instruct you how to fold a dollar bill to see a rabbit head. Rabbit heads are everywhere!

I would close by saying if you trully want to become enlightened, bathe yourself in the playboy philosophy. As Reverend Roy Larson states: "Playboy is more than just a handbook for the young-man-about-town: It's a sort of bible which defines his values, shapes his personality, sets his goals, dictates his choices and governs his decisions. The Playboy philosophy has become...a sort of substitute religion."

Check out the playboy philosophy at http://www.playboy.com/worldofplayboy/hmh/philosop hy/

Read the full text of the Playboy interview, compliments of the SEC. (Warning: It is a very long HTML file; wait for it to load. If your browser (such as IE) loses the fragment anchor, do a text search to find the beginning of Appendix B.) Of course, if you want the pretty pictures, you're going to have to buy it.

I've also picked up the Google/Playboy issue on my flagship blog.

It gets better -- the alt text for the pics of the two Google guys is "Matt Damon." This is surely the first time geeks have been mistaken for hunky Hollywood stars!