I haven't been following the debate. Has there been mention of:
(a) It being 'opt-in' rather than 'opt-out' for the surfer? (I have a feeling you've talked about this or something similar recently?)
Or
(b) Sites registering themselves (perhaps with some really specific metadata or something simple like that) rather than being picked up by a magic robot?
My knowledge is admittedly limited, but it's always seemed to me as though most internet porn sites are pretty unapologetic about it and there's really little to be gained by them from not opting in since so many of them keep the bulk of their content behind credit card paywalls? I mean, they obviously have advertising too but how many folk really run across porn sites accidentally and are underagers really their desired market? One has to assume not...
Sure there are 'gateway' sites who presumably run on ads and would therefore decline to sign-up as 'adult', but it would be pretty hard to feed a 'serious' porn habit with three minute preview clips from paid sites or amateur vids on PornTube or YouPorn or whatever - indeed, I've always thought that the amateur stuff being really accessible was (a) just not particularly horny (although, again, I'm biased as porn doesn't really do it for me) and more importantly (b) quite nice to have online and accessible because it gave people a nice 'everyday' view of sex and presented all the kinks and twists and bits and bobs in a way that made pretty much anything seem ordinary, and that's, if anything, a good thing. Also people recording stuff in their bedroom and uploading it themselves aren't exactly being 'exploited' so it makes next to no difference to the 'evils' of the porn market itself. The last two porn 'movies' I saw were a couple having sex while their cat pestered them mercilessly, and a guy masturbating into a particularly complicated shoe. Sexy.
As an addendum to the gas gauge piece, speedometers also lie to you. I've calibrated mine against my sat nav and above 20mph it registers that I'm going 4mph fast than I actually am, all the way to 80mph. I believe this is deliberate so you when you are breaking the speed limit in real life, you're really breaking it on your speedo. Then you have no excuse...
The logic of the fuel gauge reads remarkably like the logic of the battery metre on a mobile, I seem to recall reading an article with very similar language awhileback.
workflowy looks good - like an online version of the A4 notebook I write everything down in at work.
Porn, meanwhile: this whole story had me going "but I like porn!" Otoh, I just had to opt out of receiving "adult content" on my mobile. Not that I would look up porn on my mobile, but I might want to look at sites that have, oh I don't know, words like "Lesbian" in them. or "Great tits".
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andrewducker) wrote2010-12-22 11:30 am
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I haven't been following the debate. Has there been mention of:
(a) It being 'opt-in' rather than 'opt-out' for the surfer? (I have a feeling you've talked about this or something similar recently?)
Or
(b) Sites registering themselves (perhaps with some really specific metadata or something simple like that) rather than being picked up by a magic robot?
My knowledge is admittedly limited, but it's always seemed to me as though most internet porn sites are pretty unapologetic about it and there's really little to be gained by them from not opting in since so many of them keep the bulk of their content behind credit card paywalls? I mean, they obviously have advertising too but how many folk really run across porn sites accidentally and are underagers really their desired market? One has to assume not...
Sure there are 'gateway' sites who presumably run on ads and would therefore decline to sign-up as 'adult', but it would be pretty hard to feed a 'serious' porn habit with three minute preview clips from paid sites or amateur vids on PornTube or YouPorn or whatever - indeed, I've always thought that the amateur stuff being really accessible was (a) just not particularly horny (although, again, I'm biased as porn doesn't really do it for me) and more importantly (b) quite nice to have online and accessible because it gave people a nice 'everyday' view of sex and presented all the kinks and twists and bits and bobs in a way that made pretty much anything seem ordinary, and that's, if anything, a good thing. Also people recording stuff in their bedroom and uploading it themselves aren't exactly being 'exploited' so it makes next to no difference to the 'evils' of the porn market itself. The last two porn 'movies' I saw were a couple having sex while their cat pestered them mercilessly, and a guy masturbating into a particularly complicated shoe. Sexy.
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Porn, meanwhile: this whole story had me going "but I like porn!" Otoh, I just had to opt out of receiving "adult content" on my mobile. Not that I would look up porn on my mobile, but I might want to look at sites that have, oh I don't know, words like "Lesbian" in them. or "Great tits".
The whole thing seems pointlessly unworkable.
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