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Online Porn - The Technology Testbed?
DaveAtFraud writes "USA Today is running a only slightly tongue-in-cheek article pointing out that the on-line porn industry has become the technology testbed for innovative content delivery. On-line delivery of 'adult' content has been wrestling with issues such as digital rights management, video on-demand billing, wireless services, and geo-location software since long before these became issues for 'mainstream' content providers. Maybe having an adult content provider listed on your geek resume isn't so bad after all."
As much as some people would like to deny it Porn built the internet. Before that it fed the BBSes. It seems kind of obvious to me that despite what we have been told the first network was actually built because one geek called the other up and said, "Hey I got this great picture of a naked chick. You wanna see?" Porn, e-mail, and Wolf ET. Life can't get much better than that.
Online Porn is lending a hand to the rest of the industry...
The VCR, the camcorder, and now the Internet. Heck, I bet the second thing Gutenberg did after printing a Bible was to make a book with naughty woodcuts.
And guys at Google right now are wondering why are so many people interested in Gail Harris.
Free XBox, PS2
a only slightly tongue-in-cheek article
...ewww
Damn...I wish I was a writer...
That would actually be a good /. poll.
You pay for internet porn...
Always
Never
Sometimes
I think of CowboyNeal when I masturbate(ewwwwww)
It's all Politics
I wish all industries were so dedicated to testing.
Maybe having an adult content provider listed on your geek resume isn't so bad after all."
The only thing better than surfing the internet for pr0n is getting paid to put it there.
"Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
Where's the -1, Seriously Disturbing Imagery mod option when you need it??
Well, it's certainly the driving force behind the devlopment of one-handed input technology!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
One day I was walking into a Fry's (think circuit city but 10x as large and somehow more evil) and a guy was waiting in line to buy two 120gb drives (this was a couple years ago when that was HUGE). I walked up to him and said, "OHHHHHHHH those would hold ALLLOT of porn wouldn't they!?" The dude just turned bright red and didn't say a word :)
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
Like this is the first article to point out that porn is often used for testing beds!
>Will people still visit porn sites if their employers knew what sites they visit ?
: //www.surfcontrol.com/
Hell yes. I am a system administrator at a 5000+ employees shop and, believe me, you would not believe the stuff people access.
Not only free sites either. Some people were members of the most disctusting things(bestiality & such), accessing from work!
I have to check the URLS for content. Trust me, it is a double-edged sword.
Sometimes it is a nice clean site. Others, well, make me skip lunch.
These are not perfect but, take a look at these solutions:
http://www.securecomputing.com/
http
http://www.websense.com/
The former model and queen of B-movie gems Cellblock Sisters and Galaxy Girls fished nude photos out of a trash can years ago and went on to create a multimillion-dollar Internet company with the world's largest collection of erotic images.
That's very untrue, I have the world's largest collection of erotic images, and no you can't have it.
I know I tested out a lot if different Lubes while perusing the webs finest. Email me if you need some advice!
You hiring?
People don't develop better video codecs so they can email their moms home movies.
Depends on where you grew up and how freaky your mom is.
I remember my daddy telling me when I was a child "go ahead, look at porn as much as you'd like, but I better not catch you paying for it!"
To this day, his stance is that the two things in life you don't pay for are porn and fire extinguishers*.
*Long story
Sony should have invested in the porn industry....
Being an adult webmaster myself
Please post links/pictures
thx
I'd also like to note that a couple of DVD features, such as multiple angels
Nah. The "multiple angels" fantasy predates DVD by quite a bit. It's been the #1 male fantasy since porn was invented.
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> Nah. The "multiple angels" fantasy predates DVD by quite a bit. It's been the #1 male fantasy since porn was invented.
God: "So, Number Two, what would you do if you had a million bucks?"
Lucifer: "Two angels at once."
"from the sound of one hand posting stories-dept"
This guy is way out there
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> My last two gigs were Universal and Sony (I'm in LA) and both were tiny Internet environments compared to this.
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> Our SAN has 7TB of content so far & we're adding 1/2 a TB a month...
So, umm... got, uh... any pics of the server room? Webcam in the colo so's we can watchen das blinkenlights at night? Man, I love the sight a nice rack.
Nothing like a couple of strategically placed mirrors to keep things interesting and fresh.
So THAT's what they look like from the side when they bounce......
wbs.
Huh?
"Watson, I need you."
"Watson, tell me what you're wearing."
... All 20 of them.
Mencken had it right. So glad that's old news.
Every invention of the 20th century has been in some way related to sex.
Cars. Drive off somewhere to get sex, or have sex in a private portable room.
Phones. Call people, arrange to meet them. Have sex.
TVs. Watch people having sex. Boobs, too.
VCRs. See TVs.
Internet. Watch people having sex. Contact people around the world in order to meet and have sex with them. Also, look at porn.
DVDs. See VCRs, only with multiple camera angles for Matrix-style camerawork during porn scenes.
anata sekai o kakumei surush ga nai deshou? Anata no susumu michi wa yoi shite arimasu.
You know your a geek when .......
you've had more computers than girl friends.