1. Digital Playground are nobodies in the online porn market. Yes, they produce a lot of content, but it's all for the DVD market. 2. One studio saying something isn't representative of an entire industry. It's actually called a 'Press Release' 3. The vast majority of adult sites allow you to pick your poison in terms of video. Streaming is normally done via flash [.x/h264 mp4 being the norm], and allowing downloads in AVI/DivX/WMV/MPEG formats. 4. What porn does provide is a solid statistics cross-section of internet users - and from the figures I see, flash usage is 96% or higher. The vast majority of purchasing users aren't high tech, they don't use noscript, they don't think flash is evil. 5. Porn (and any commercial) sites aim to make their sites as available to as many people as possible. Forcing users to upgrade browsers, attempting to change browsing habits, etc, is only going to lower the bottom line.
True enough - one could venture that a burqua is a self-fulfilling prophecy; by hiding everything, the male imagination is only more strongly attracted to finding out what's beneath. By the (eventual) banishment of xxx to one area, it's just going to make it more prevalent in the public mind.
Be fair - newzbin was actively creating, sorting and arranging links to copyrighted material - there was manual intervention throughout the entire process. Google, on the other hand, could use the defense that their system is totally hands off.
As they are a point source, lasers adhere to the inverse-square law of decay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law] Previously released lasers from these guys that can light cigarettes etc are only effective within 300mm or so.
I will make the uneducated guess that [hopefully] these 1W versions will be unable to be used with malicious intent / outcome from a large distance.
No need for a bottle opener (especially if you're a smoker) Place fat end of key under bottle cap. Grab bottle by the neck. Pivot the key off your thumb, lever.
There are free servers out there, but the majority of them are text only. Google provides one of the largest [Ranked #10 overall (source, top1000.org)] free services - text only, however.
Here's why: 1. Bandwidth is not free. Storage is not free. 2. Usenet necessitates having a huge amount of both to provide even a sub-standard to average service.
Some numbers: there is an average of ~5.4TB of post data peered daily [source: altopica.com] The industry leader, GigaNews.com provides 622 days of binary retention - that means they have AT LEAST 3.2Petabytes of local storage, and the same in the AMS/IX farm. They also provide most large ISPs with outsourced usenet, and their clients as well - so they're easily pushing 50 - 100TB of bandwidth a day [source: 2:30AM maths]
1. Your bill is reduced by $15. 2. Giganews has 622+ days of binary retention - the best in the industry. If you're not satisfied with the plan that the $15 provides: 3. Usenet Compare find another plan. Unlimited plans start from $8 depending on provider. 4. Spend the extra $7 on a loved one.
There's a problem with these automated tools - and that is that they're the shotgun approach.
We run some mainstream sites, and we also allow affiliate promotion. We have a zero-tolerance spam / mailing policy, but that doesn't stop people trying.
If or when complaints come through (SpamCop, SpamHaus, etc) - we deal with them, and nuke the affiliates - we're just as anti-spam & fraud as the BL guys.
The problem, however, is that with the use of this / these tools, when DNS, upstream and network providers are scatter-bombed with complaints, over, and over, you end up getting blacklisted. Even if you're not in the wrong, you get blacklisted.
If you've ever been on the end of a SpamCop / SpamHaus complaint, as much as they may have intended to setup a good service, their 'service' is incredibly partial.
For example, the latest email back from SH to our host, when we had banned a fraudulent affiliate:
Let's talk about removing the customer instead of offering up yet another affiliate excuse. Regards, -- The Spamhaus Project (SR22) http://www.spamhaus.org/
Their website 'evidence' archives are full of libel and blackmail - if you email SH with a fake complaint, and say that company X participates in money laundering, international fraud and spam - they'll publish it - without an ounce of fact checking.
Somewhat off topic, but these issues burn - who watches the 'watchers' / internet 'police'
Hard to say. The Ukraine is a very interesting place. There is an omnipresent sensation of being crushed - and it's something that manifests in the culture and personalities of everyone.
With that said, there is some amazing history there, and very generous locals. We saw some stuff that's not even on a map (hidden water supply tunnels of Stalin's era, heavy chemical laboratories, abandoned sovietic computer bases (from the day where 1 computer == 5 buildings)) - without any dramas. I guess it's truly who you know:)
With that said, I did get nailed for 200EU to get out of the country.
Getting to Chernobyl isn't the overwhelming task of mental fortitude and endurance most of these 'reporters' want you to think it is. You go to Kiev, you spend 40 - 80USD, and you get taken there. It's very official, it's very routine, and you get an interesting experience from it. And a delicious meal at the end of it..
Just as Chernobyl nature has taken back the surrounds of Pripryat, the Chernobyl stories take on mythical proportion.
Unfortunately, most people who go to Chernobyl (TFA author included) - seem to adopt this faux-investigative journalist approach, as if the entire experience is touch and go. This is entirely not the case - and while there are many interesting elements to Chernobyl, its surrounds, and its history, the above really just isn't one of them.
For those of you who are interested - I've been. It's interesting enough. You pay 40 - 80USD, hop in a bus, drive 2 hours, and you're there. There's a quick paper check on the edge of the exclusion zone. You drive to a small village that has more kittens than people, and you're told a little about the history. You drive a little further into a larger town, and buy some Kvass and sausages, and keep going.
From there, you're back in the bus - you see a memorial on the eastern side of Reactor 4, drive to the western side, at another memorial. This is as close as you can get to the reactor (and it's where the author shot his photos from)
From here, it's a crapshoot depending who you went with. Normally, you'll get a speed-tour of Pripryat. They used to do the helicopter / heavy equipment graveyard, but that's no longer done.
Pripryat is quite interesting, but the tours are always superficial. You follow a set path, and everyone sees the same thing: The ferris wheel, the school, the swimming pool. The buildings are decayed - not due to radiation, but simple weather exposure, yet peeling-paint photos somehow always manifest into drama-heavy recants.
Interesting things to take away from the trip are: - There's a lot less 'fuss' than most people imagine - There are active buildings, people in the region - The unchecked nature growth has resulted in truly beautiful surrounds - the forests and plant life are stunning. - Radiation is pervasive and scary. While it's obvious that you can't see, touch, or smell it, it's truly startling to stand somewhere that has slightly-higher than background radiation, take two steps to the right, and suddenly be exposed to several-hundred times background radiation.
Summary: Go and see it for yourself, but don't buy into the mythology.
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Seriously, this is just nonsese.
1. Digital Playground are nobodies in the online porn market. Yes, they produce a lot of content, but it's all for the DVD market.
2. One studio saying something isn't representative of an entire industry. It's actually called a 'Press Release'
3. The vast majority of adult sites allow you to pick your poison in terms of video. Streaming is normally done via flash [.x/h264 mp4 being the norm], and allowing downloads in AVI/DivX/WMV/MPEG formats.
4. What porn does provide is a solid statistics cross-section of internet users - and from the figures I see, flash usage is 96% or higher. The vast majority of purchasing users aren't high tech, they don't use noscript, they don't think flash is evil.
5. Porn (and any commercial) sites aim to make their sites as available to as many people as possible. Forcing users to upgrade browsers, attempting to change browsing habits, etc, is only going to lower the bottom line.
I'm sure the company [ www.pimproll.com ] that dropped 2M + on porn.com would disagree
True enough - one could venture that a burqua is a self-fulfilling prophecy; by hiding everything, the male imagination is only more strongly attracted to finding out what's beneath.
By the (eventual) banishment of xxx to one area, it's just going to make it more prevalent in the public mind.
Absolutely it works, from proof of concept ( http://shiftboston.blogspot.com/2009/10/field-by-richard-box.html ) to the practical [ http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/9305/Free-Fluorescent-Lighting ]
..induction loops.
Be fair - newzbin was actively creating, sorting and arranging links to copyrighted material - there was manual intervention throughout the entire process.
Google, on the other hand, could use the defense that their system is totally hands off.
What's the decay rate / algo of a laser then - genuinely curious.
As they are a point source, lasers adhere to the inverse-square law of decay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law]
Previously released lasers from these guys that can light cigarettes etc are only effective within 300mm or so.
I will make the uneducated guess that [hopefully] these 1W versions will be unable to be used with malicious intent / outcome from a large distance.
This is why SI exists.
No need for a bottle opener (especially if you're a smoker)
Place fat end of key under bottle cap.
Grab bottle by the neck.
Pivot the key off your thumb, lever.
Works with keys, and lighters too.
Free usenet: http://groups.google.com/
There are free servers out there, but the majority of them are text only.
Google provides one of the largest [Ranked #10 overall (source, top1000.org)] free services - text only, however.
Here's why:
1. Bandwidth is not free. Storage is not free.
2. Usenet necessitates having a huge amount of both to provide even a sub-standard to average service.
Some numbers: there is an average of ~5.4TB of post data peered daily [source: altopica.com]
The industry leader, GigaNews.com provides 622 days of binary retention - that means they have AT LEAST 3.2Petabytes of local storage, and the same in the AMS/IX farm.
They also provide most large ISPs with outsourced usenet, and their clients as well - so they're easily pushing 50 - 100TB of bandwidth a day [source: 2:30AM maths]
And that's pretty much why.
This can only be win-win.
1. Your bill is reduced by $15.
2. Giganews has 622+ days of binary retention - the best in the industry. If you're not satisfied with the plan that the $15 provides:
3. Usenet Compare find another plan. Unlimited plans start from $8 depending on provider.
4. Spend the extra $7 on a loved one.
....Perhaps to resize the image and the place the watermark on it?
There's a problem with these automated tools - and that is that they're the shotgun approach.
We run some mainstream sites, and we also allow affiliate promotion.
We have a zero-tolerance spam / mailing policy, but that doesn't stop people trying.
If or when complaints come through (SpamCop, SpamHaus, etc) - we deal with them, and nuke the affiliates - we're just as anti-spam & fraud as the BL guys.
The problem, however, is that with the use of this / these tools, when DNS, upstream and network providers are scatter-bombed with complaints, over, and over, you end up getting blacklisted. Even if you're not in the wrong, you get blacklisted.
If you've ever been on the end of a SpamCop / SpamHaus complaint, as much as they may have intended to setup a good service, their 'service' is incredibly partial.
For example, the latest email back from SH to our host, when we had banned a fraudulent affiliate:
Their website 'evidence' archives are full of libel and blackmail - if you email SH with a fake complaint, and say that company X participates in money laundering, international fraud and spam - they'll publish it - without an ounce of fact checking.
Somewhat off topic, but these issues burn - who watches the 'watchers' / internet 'police'
So you're saying the grass really is greener on the other side? ..must learn to preview.
So you're saying the grass really is on the other side?
Every time I think of the youtube Development Labs, I imagine they've got a huge poster on the wall
- Got a money saving idea?
o Does it require reencoding everything?
o Yes? Return to your desk
o No? Visit management.
Depends where you're from. ;)
I live in france
I stand corrected - thanks for the update :)
It's also a complete hoax
Pity - it was / is well written.
Hard to say. The Ukraine is a very interesting place.
There is an omnipresent sensation of being crushed - and it's something that manifests in the culture and personalities of everyone.
With that said, there is some amazing history there, and very generous locals. :)
We saw some stuff that's not even on a map (hidden water supply tunnels of Stalin's era, heavy chemical laboratories, abandoned sovietic computer bases (from the day where 1 computer == 5 buildings)) - without any dramas. I guess it's truly who you know
With that said, I did get nailed for 200EU to get out of the country.
One of the best parts of going to Pripryat was seeing one of the Woodpeckers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Woodpecker looming in the distance.
Was there on a lovely day and managed to slip off from the group at Pripryat to see some unique perspectives.
http://ninjito.com/2009-09-12-PANO/qx-pano-pripyat-1.jpg
The hotel Polissia.
http://ninjito.com/2009-09-12-PANO/qx-pano-pripyat-2.jpg
Roof of said building, you can see reactor 4 in the distance to the right.
http://ninjito.com/2008-08-16/qx-pripyat-1.jpg
Rarely seen fresque honouring the cosmonauts.
Getting to Chernobyl isn't the overwhelming task of mental fortitude and endurance most of these 'reporters' want you to think it is. You go to Kiev, you spend 40 - 80USD, and you get taken there. It's very official, it's very routine, and you get an interesting experience from it. And a delicious meal at the end of it..
Just as Chernobyl nature has taken back the surrounds of Pripryat, the Chernobyl stories take on mythical proportion.
Unfortunately, most people who go to Chernobyl (TFA author included) - seem to adopt this faux-investigative journalist approach, as if the entire experience is touch and go.
This is entirely not the case - and while there are many interesting elements to Chernobyl, its surrounds, and its history, the above really just isn't one of them.
For those of you who are interested - I've been. It's interesting enough. You pay 40 - 80USD, hop in a bus, drive 2 hours, and you're there. There's a quick paper check on the edge of the exclusion zone. You drive to a small village that has more kittens than people, and you're told a little about the history. You drive a little further into a larger town, and buy some Kvass and sausages, and keep going.
From there, you're back in the bus - you see a memorial on the eastern side of Reactor 4, drive to the western side, at another memorial. This is as close as you can get to the reactor (and it's where the author shot his photos from)
From here, it's a crapshoot depending who you went with. Normally, you'll get a speed-tour of Pripryat. They used to do the helicopter / heavy equipment graveyard, but that's no longer done.
Pripryat is quite interesting, but the tours are always superficial. You follow a set path, and everyone sees the same thing: The ferris wheel, the school, the swimming pool. The buildings are decayed - not due to radiation, but simple weather exposure, yet peeling-paint photos somehow always manifest into drama-heavy recants.
On my trip, I was lucky enough to slip away from the group, and get some more interesting perspectives:
http://ninjito.com/2009-09-12-PANO/qx-pano-pripyat-1.jpg
The hotel Polissia. It was quiet a pleasant day.
http://ninjito.com/2009-09-12-PANO/qx-pano-pripyat-2.jpg
Roof of said building, you can see reactor 4 in the distance to the right.
http://ninjito.com/2008-08-16/qx-pripyat-1.jpg
Rarely seen fresque honouring the cosmonauts.
Interesting things to take away from the trip are:
- There's a lot less 'fuss' than most people imagine
- There are active buildings, people in the region
- The unchecked nature growth has resulted in truly beautiful surrounds - the forests and plant life are stunning.
- Radiation is pervasive and scary. While it's obvious that you can't see, touch, or smell it, it's truly startling to stand somewhere that has slightly-higher than background radiation, take two steps to the right, and suddenly be exposed to several-hundred times background radiation.
Summary: Go and see it for yourself, but don't buy into the mythology.