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| 07-01-13 09:57pm - 4191 days | #3 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
 Is there actually anyone here who actually manages their collection in some form that might be comprehensible to others? As for me, I organize according to whatever the voices in my head tell me to do which seems to involve large amounts of randomness and virtually no model info and virtually no search function. It almost makes think that this would be a great job interview question: "So tell me, how do you organize your porn collection and why do you do it that way?" Guaranteed to be more interesting and insightful than most of the stuff people come up with.I've started changing my mind about "quality" when it comes to file size. For photos, I'm rarely going to DL anything bigger than 3000x2000 pixel sized pics just because I'm pretty much dedicated to viewing porn on my computer and don't ever foresee the day when I'm going to want a wall sized monitor to view some shagging. Same goes with video; 720 p is usually good enough for me and it looks just fine on my 24" monitor. Although drive space is cheap now a days I just don't see the need to have a bunch of externals for stuff I don't look at very often (that is, even though I only have about 1 tb of porn it still takes a while to circle through the collection). If my viewing tastes eventually change then I can change what I DL but I don't see that happening soon. I also "quarantine" my DL's when I join a site. I usually edit the pics in a file down to a reasonable number for viewing. I'll usually skim the video at least once to make sure I want to keep it. Doing this by itself will greatly reduce the volume of stuff you keep. The only real advice I got is to remember that porn is a commodity and as long as the internet exists there will be new stuff to download. You've at least taken the first step in being able to "take a dump" and feel good about it .... And as long as we're talking about one's lower g.i., just go with your gut. If you don't really like something you've downloaded the chances of you changing your mind about it the future are almost nil. Just get rid of it and move on down the line. | |
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| 06-28-13 12:52pm - 4195 days | #5 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Barring midget porn and Amazon porn (no, it doesn't matter how much you like to shop on line, I'm not referring to "that" Amazon) does it really matter? Most of the time you can't really tell how tall they are, especially in solo shots. Sometimes it is a tad humorous when you see a tall model being paired with a stunt dick attached to some guy who might feel intimidated by Tom Cruises' height. In my book, height don't matter ... and as a white guy who can't jump I believe in maintaining my anti-hypocrisy standards. | |
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| 06-26-13 12:39pm - 4197 days | #7 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I don't think much has changed. The guy who got the screw job from DDP waited until the second day of a two day trial to cancel and got caught by prechecked cross sale (I recently did the same 2 day free trial and had no issues cancelling without rebilling). I've ranted more than once about prechecks but they've been around forever and I don't see them going away any time soon. It's been a long time since I got burned on a billing issue and I have to say it's mostly because you got to take a few extra seconds: 1) look over the signup page at least 2x and make sure your scroll all the way up and down and look for boxes to check/uncheck. 2) Always, always, always cancel right away. On a trial that means within the first hour or two. On a month, cancel within the first two days. I almost got burned by babesnetwork.com when I cancelled a month long membership. The cancel page said I would receive an email confirming cancellation. Long story short, I never got an email even in my spam folder and had to jump through some extra hoops yesterday to ensure I got it resolved before the rebilling period started. 3) Use a prepaid credit card with a low $$ amount on it. Even if you miss something or you get screwed, they're only going to take you for a few extra bucks, not a few months worth of membership money. Internet porn is always going to be on the periphery of acceptable / ethical billing practices because it's mostly unregulated and spread all over the damn world. Someone is always going to be looking to take your money, especially once you start strolling further from the mainstream sites. I always treat pornland as "buyer beware" to limit these types of problems. | |
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| 06-26-13 12:29pm - 4197 days | #10 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Since I got my collection fried years ago I operate on the motto of "Even though you got backup you still need backup". One never knows when the dreaded "click-whirr" will start to come from a backup drive so I have another external just to be backup for my backup. Admittedly I only update the duplicate backup once or twice a year but it beats the time and expense of trying rebuild. | |
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| 06-19-13 01:11pm - 4204 days | #2 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Sorry to hear about feeling the need to take some time off. Yes, things are a bit more quiet but my consensus is that's been a developing trend over the last year to two. Fearless Leader Rick says that there is an overhaul coming for PU so I'm interested to see how things shake up once that arrives. Time will tell. I hope you enjoy your vacation. | |
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| 06-19-13 01:07pm - 4204 days | #2 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
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| 06-12-13 12:33pm - 4211 days | #28 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I doubt we'll see much if any advertising here given that would sort of run contra to the whole PU / TBP brand of being an independent and trustworthy porn review site that has avoided blatant ad placement in the past. I know that there are plenty of review sites that do run advertising, really it's no different here (think "discount sites" and special promos), but it's just more subtle. Frankly, if I were Rick (at least then I'd be younger) I would focus more on rebuilding / rebranding TBP than messing around much more with PU. The money comes from TBP, not so much here. PU has probably never grown to the size that was originally hoped for and it probably never will given that most people just won't put in the effort to bitch or praise about porn sites. On an off topic issue, I sort of think that given the loss of the weekly drawings that the whole badge system has become somewhat pointless. Once you've hit "newbie" status and your reviews actually count for something the rest of the badges really have no meaning. Maybe the trust votes mean something but I think we'll see a lot fewer trust votes in the future since there is no incentive for a user to hand them out other than because we think it means something. After a while I think we'll only see old timers doing trust votes because we're used to doing it. Personally, I think getting rid of the raffle was a bad idea because it reduces incentive for people to participate and participation is really what drives PU. I would have reworked the raffle to maybe just one winner per week or do it monthly or reduced the prize payouts but still kept it going. It will probably take a few months before we know if the number of reviews, comments, trust votes and the like are down or not. I hope I'm wrong but I'd venture at this point that there will be a noticeable decline. | |
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| 06-12-13 12:12pm - 4211 days | #14 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Yes, the world of pay porn that we travel in seems to be getting murkier. I don't necessarily blame companies for auto rebills (I bet they make a lot of money off of those from people who just forget) but I do think they need to tell people this. Most of the disclosures occur in the fine print details of the subscription agreement which most people don't read. However, I note that there are other "mainstream" sites I belong to that don't really disclose repeat billing procedures without digging through the b.s. in the terms and conditions disclosure. Another issue I see cropping up is that a lot of sites now seem to require that you cancel at least 7 days before your subscription expires (again, the fine print). No reason do this given the state of technology other than to trap the unwary. So, like many others here, I don't waste any time between signing up and cancelling, especially with trials, so I don't get caught in any of these traps. Lastly, we all get pelted with spam from endless other sites and scammers once we sign up. I wonder how much of this is actually sold, given that all the buyer gets is an email address and the fact you joined a porn site, and how much is just shared between companies so they can pursue you (your scratch my back and I'll scratch yours). I guess I don't pay as much attention to the privacy issues now that I know everything I do online is being read by a low level techno geek with top security clearance waiting for the chance to expose me to the media. | |
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| 06-06-13 08:10pm - 4216 days | #5 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
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| 06-05-13 12:04pm - 4218 days | #10 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Definitely an improvement. I'd still be looking else / different / new to replace the "Last Poll" section though. | |
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| 06-04-13 11:02am - 4219 days | #2 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I agree that the new layout is a bit "blah" (almost like a blog layout) but I assume something new is in the works. Perhaps a full sized layout of my awesome avatar to let readers know what is in store for them here at PU | |
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| 05-19-13 09:58pm - 4234 days | #4 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Sort of wondering where you took off too ... I just figured the thrill of buying a new Ferrari every year was just too much for the fearless leader to return  Glad to see you're back at the helm ... although you have to admit that Khan is king of this realm. | |
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| 05-16-13 11:59am - 4238 days | #6 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
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| 05-11-13 02:52pm - 4243 days | #3 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Isn't this sort of the universal problem that hoarders face? You got a pile of stuff but can't even remember what you have. When the forum was just getting started I recall that someone was working on a homemade porn organizer program but nothing ever came of that. The only thing I can think of really is to do tags yourself on EVERYTHING. Yup. You have to be consistent and develop your own criteria. That's really the only way unless you really get into files but the disadvantage is that they can only be organized into single tags to be useful (although folders might be more useful for pictures rather than tagging each pic unless you leave your pics in zip files). Regarding how to tag, with Windows 7 all you have to do is right click on the video or image, click on properties, click on the "details" tab, and then type in the tag names you want on the "tags" line. I believe this is also the case with XP. I got nothing regarding Windows 8. There are probably more sophisticated programs that could do this automatically but you're probably going to have to pay and unless you know these types of programs you're probably shooting in the dark as to how easy and efficient any program might be. | |
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| 04-03-13 12:00pm - 4281 days | #13 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Best wishes from all of us. | |
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| 03-29-13 12:29pm - 4286 days | #6 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I put this under the category of "almost a good idea". From the consumer perspective it's a joke, no way I'd fork over a single George just to look at some previews. Where they went wrong was by not giving you a couple of free downloads. That might be worth it as it definitely makes it more tempting and is maybe even a money maker for the site. The way I see it is that sites should have at least a small preview area (although full previews are best by far) and could maybe go the route of a cheap preview with a DL or two in the offering and then full membership prices. | |
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| 03-13-13 12:29pm - 4302 days | #7 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Yeah, I was feeling a bit spirited yesterday. My point? If you're going to take a shit in the forum thinking you've pulled one over on a bunch of pervs with IQ's the size of their "members" expect someone to call you out on your own inadequacies. | |
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| 03-12-13 12:10pm - 4303 days | #3 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Proving once again that the PU forum can handle just about anything, here's my synopsis: One of the densest philosophical books written in the 20th century where you immediately have to differentiate "Being" from "being" and it goes downhill from there. Ultimately you have to decide if his premise that the only way to understand the essence of life is through personal and sociological deconstructionism or if what he is ultimately doing is a fancy pants play on words and shifting the question back and forth between metaphors. I never made it all the way through and my own opinion is that the work is overrated, unless your German in which case he is a national hero so long as you skip over his pro Nazi political leanings. I'd say Sartre and Camus give a clearer picture of existentialist philosophy overall as opposed to Heidegger who it seems is trying to formulate a deconstructionalist philisophy that lacks a solid grasp of circular logic that word and language structures can lead you into. Deconstuctionism is probably better done but only partially better explained by later thinkers such as Foucault. All I can say is that if he included dirty pictures in the book I'd have been more interested and it'd probably give us all into deeper insights into the questions of existence. | |
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| 03-09-13 11:57am - 4306 days | #25 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
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| 02-27-13 12:25pm - 4316 days | #18 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I like the name "pornologics". I'm thinking there's got to be some Silicon Valley start up investor willing to dump big $$ into this venture. A few other awesome sites that are just itching to be made include: MulletMuffins: a photo site of trailer park girls sporting unusually disturbing pubic hair. FudgePackers: self explanatory. WingmanWussies: a gay S&M site showing what happens when the "wingman" fails to live up to his duties. Clockblockers: chastity belt sex (or lack thereof). TheSorcersBoner: what really goes on inside Hogwarts castle. RepublicanPartiers: a group oriented tease site featuring less than attractive white people who talk endlessly about how great the sex will be and end up doing nothing. | |
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| 02-16-13 11:03am - 4327 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Came across this article today called "Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers." A longish read about a guy who spent way too much time digging through the IAFD database. As per most studies of this type, his conclusions are only as good as the source material which as we know ain't always true. However, it does cover a lot of subjects that have repeatedly come up in the forum over the years and gleans some interesting facts. Worth a read. | |
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| 02-12-13 12:04pm - 4331 days | #18 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
If you go, I wish you the best. Edited on Apr 20, 2023, 02:26pm | |
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| 02-09-13 12:14pm - 4334 days | #5 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I finally migrated from a desktop to laptop last year. If I were just using a laptop it drive me nuts, especially if I didn't have a standard mouse for navigation. However, at the same time I bought a separate 23" display that acts as a wireless docking station (only about $180). I have it set up as a dual screen with the laptop screen acting as the second screen. It gives you the look and feel of a desktop with the portability when you need it without all the wires. Best of both worlds. | |
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| 02-08-13 01:07pm - 4335 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
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| 12-25-12 03:35pm - 4380 days | #5 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Even though I show up here about as often as X-mas, I extend my holiday greetings to those who still carry the torch. | |
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| 09-14-12 10:54am - 4482 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
There's been a fair amount of chat in the forum over the years about why porn stars do what they do and what happens when they leave the biz. Apparently there's a new documentary called "After Porn Ends" that interviews about a dozen porn stars including Asia Carrera, Amber Lynn and Tiffany Millions about the whole ride. I've not seen it so I can't offer a recommendation but apparently it's now available on i-tunes and will be out on dvd in a couple of weeks. Here's a link if you're interested in reading more. | |
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| 05-04-12 11:52am - 4615 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
In case any of you social media media nubes haven't heard, the website Pininterest.com is the hot new site. It's basically a bulletin board where you can "mark" any image on the web and have it appear on your personal bulletin board. Apparently, women really dig this site because it's already one of the top new social media sites for them, mostly dealing with recipes and fashion. Men, as usual, are the late comers to Pininterest. Unless I'm into building a mullet identification chart or interested in building a virtual baseball card collection I can't see why I'd want a bulletin board. Until now that is. It didn't take the porn people long to figure out that the same thing could be done for porn. Yup, there are now a bunch of apps that let you build a personal porn bulletin board to extoll your lust for the latest hottie so the rest of the world can admire your good taste (for the article and links go here). Personally, I don't see the interest. I don't share my porn interests with others now, and if adding to my collection is my goal then wasting time showing the rest of the world any fetish I have in Ukrainian Tramp Stamps (I don't) just seems like another time waster. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words (but then what is a GIF worth?) but I don't see the appeal in looking at whatever all the other pervs think is hot and nasty. Of course, these web sites will be great for future reading when some politico gets busted for his porn interests and his pin page gets posted for the world to see. I guess we all like voyeurism in that sense. | |
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| 05-04-12 11:37am - 4615 days | #5 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
It doesn't end with porn. The ESPN website is a prime offender of this rule and don't even get me started about the regular sites that just start automatically running advertisement vids and clips of other stuff on the sides of the web page. Can't think of anything more exciting than trying to read a news article online and suddenly having a Viagra ad blaring at you (yes, I keep my speakers turned off when I surf too). Makes me feel sorry for the folks who only have dsl or a dial up connection. The only reason I can think of why websites do this is that they base their advertising models on the premise that he who yells loudest does best. Look at me, I have moving pictures on my site, that means the customers will like me! I especially don't get it in that websites pay for band width and if someone is just looking about it seems that they're wasting money. Maybe I'm old fashioned in this sense but I don't get it either. | |
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| 05-02-12 11:10am - 4617 days | #6 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I seem to recall reading a while back that the trend for younger guys is to also go hairless down below, most like influenced by the porn industry. It seems that if a woman's primary reason for waxing the board is sex related then shouldn't she expect the same in return? | |
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| 04-11-12 12:02pm - 4638 days | #2 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I'm not really a techie but my general advice would be that if you are having problems with the drive now then you're just asking for trouble if you try to convert to a standard issue hard drive. I can't think of anything worse then getting it to work and you start using it in the way you want to just fail again in a few weeks. If someone isn't able to help you here then I'd suggest doing a web search for "tech support forums". There are a number of free support sites that answer questions like yours and I've used them in the past. Good luck. | |
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| 04-06-12 11:18am - 4643 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
OK, this is a rhetorical question: the only answer is "as much as you got, bring it on bro". While this never say attitude is what fuels a lot of us here it looks like it also fuels the rest of the world. Came across an interesting article that actually attempts to calculate the size of the internet porn world by actual usage, not just dollars spent (click here for the article). In a nutshell, the article claims that as much as 30% of the worlds total web traffic is taken up by us pervs looking at porn. Other statistics in the article show that despite some PUer's having porn stashes in the 20 terabyte range that there's still plenty of content out there waiting to be collected. Admittedly, some of the mind boggling numbers in the article are extrapolations based more on guessing than true data but even if porn only consumes 15% of all web traffic it's a telling sign that despite many governments trying to block porn that it's here to stay. In other words, if you're worried about porn going away from the internet any time soon the sheer size of the industry almost dictates that it's impossible to get rid of despite censorship rules and hardware. In other words, internet porn is sort of like that nasty rash you've got down there ... you just keep telling yourself it's just a temporary problem but it's there to stay unless you're willing to go medieval on it. | |
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| 04-02-12 11:09am - 4647 days | #18 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
My  on the subject is that for most young kids it won't be a huge problem; just an extension of the old Playboys and stuff most of us first encountered as kids. For those kids with a propensity for addiction or social isolation I think it will accelerate those problems. In all actuality I think the hyper driven social media world is the biggest problem for kids. When you can't think or act without telling someone about it or getting approval for it, that's a real problem. I've already seen it in one business run by a bunch of 20 somethings. Everyone in the office was living off of instant messaging, Facebook, twitter and whatever else. There was no time for reflection or thought, just a go and post mindset. You end up with a group dominated by the strongest personalities / most popular / best at applying pressure, sort of like bringing high school into the work place. This probably isn't anyone's idea of a business that's going to have long term success. | |
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| 03-23-12 10:10pm - 4656 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
As crazy and messed up as that dude is (there's a reason why if you internet search "Santorum" you'll find the real definition behind the man) it wouldn't shock me to find out he has large collection of stuffed gophers coated in an unappealing familiar white substance .... | |
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| 03-20-12 11:32am - 4660 days | #3 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
The intellectual property world gets a lot murkier when dealing with video as opposed to the written word. My pea brained understanding is that it's fine to quote an author of book when doing a review so long as you attribute the source information. That's been a long standing and recognized rule. Video is more difficult. I think that if you were a reviewer it would probably be OK to link to an official trailer in your review. However, it sounds like you're going one step further here and actually downloading the original, editing it, and then posting a revised video without express permission to do so. I'm thinking this is creating a problem that has no solution except shelling out some $$ to a lawyer when you get a cease and desist letter. The fact that you aren't making any money from your blog is of no consequence here. I think you need to do some more research before jumping in with this one. | |
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| 03-18-12 09:06pm - 4661 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
If s/he we're a true friend you'd should refer them to some completely lame-ass site with dogsh*t level quality that hasn't had a single update this millenia so that they would end up so pissed off at porn that they'd give it up and just take you out and buy you drinks with their extra money instead. This way you'd both benefit but only one of you would be screwed ... in reality not sure who's worse off; your buddy for being nice to your while you secretely scammed them out of a lot of on-line hotties or you for being the self interested porn perv who is trying to save a buddy from a long term time and money habit. Isn't this the only correct answer ... unless your buddy is tea totalling bastard in which case all bets are off? Edited on Mar 18, 2012, 09:15pm | |
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| 03-08-12 03:15pm - 4672 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
The basic answer to the original question is that the authorities track your IP address. While you may clean out your cookies and web history regularly, your ISP tracks all the sites you go to and saves them for some period of time, from months to years. The originating website sometimes tracks your IP address too when you start downloading. Even if they don't it's simple enough to load a tracking cookie or similar virus into a download (often hidden as an mpg, jpeg or other file to avoid detection using standard virus checking software) to find out who really downloaded the offending content. There are other ways to track people as well but I believe these are the most common. It's easier than you think. Your only options are to not download illegal content or to go use an ISP that cloaks or rapidly changes the IP address your using so it becomes very difficult to track. I think there is some software you can use to mask an IP address but I don't know much about those or know how effective they are. | |
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| 03-02-12 04:57pm - 4677 days | #17 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
If they can't do it already, they probably already know that you have others using your web engine and, if you have kids, how many and about how old they are. You phone, if an android, is also tracked in combination with some web use. There are only a few sites that really aggregate the data, besides Google, for a lot of web stuff so it doesn't take them long to put all this together and start making decisions about who you are, your family and what everyone likes or has interests in. We all have different style and grammar and rate of typing (yes they can measure that too) so it isn't hard to figure what individuals are on line and when. The job is made easier whenever someone logs into their gmail account. So, by just getting on line and checking your email they pretty much know who you are right there. Where it goes from there is up to them, not you. | |
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| 03-02-12 12:35pm - 4678 days | #13 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I think Ed and Hod do make valid points. It's easy to not care, most of the the time I don't. I rarely click on ads but have done so occasionally and most of surfing is innocuous and not of much help to advertisers since I'm not a very loyal customer to anyone. And, yes, we are already a good ways down the proverbial road to hell in terms of lost privacy. What gives me pause though is that all this info is being collected without any overarching rules other than "cash is king", meaning you don't know who or what is happening with your info. More importantly, as computer alogorithms and processors get better this info can lead to a very complete picture of who you are. Maybe not today but that future is very near. Frankly, without knowing who might get access to "me" and how that info will be used I am concerned. I'm not trying to make a purely ideological stand. I know that we are all going to be more public as time goes by, there's no way around that unless you suddenly go full on Amish with your lifestyle. Nor do I trust that government regulation will solve much (lawyers and lobbyists get paid to take care of that). I guess my point is why make it easy for them when you don't know what your getting in return. Yeah, I get access to the web but does that mean I have to surrender all my on-line activity information to some corporate behemouth? I want some something more than what I'm currently getting before I'll give it all up for capitalism. | |
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| 03-01-12 11:36am - 4679 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
To everyone who clicked on this thread hoping to read salacious tales of peoples personal perversions (the P to the 3 principal ... does that make it the P4 rule?) I apologize. No, instead this thread focuses on the fact that Ides of March have come early this year. Today marks the 1st day that Google introduces it's new "privacy" rules which are really anything but that and that maybe today is the day we should start thinking about taking more control over our passive web lives. Basically, the universal Google has revamped it's privacy rules and consolidated everything it had into one main policy that everyone has to follow. Basically, the new rules allow them to collect and store even more personal information about you: (For a good article with links discussing this in depth, go here). From a business perspective, I don't really blame Google. Collecting more info about you makes them more money because they can brag to advertisers about all the good inside stuff they know about you. It also makes life easier for your everyday tasks; Google's personalized search program is evidence of this. It also allows integrated platforms for gathering personal info (they track your Android use, Google docs use, gmail and other stuff) and for making life easier for the lazy masses. In other words, Big Brother has come not in the form of the government but in the form of a company offering to make your life easier and sporting a friendly "First, Do No Evil" corporate motto. Most people don't really care about all this since they don't see a direct impact on their lives. However, being someone who does engage in some risk management work, you have to think about the consequences. One of my favorite punching bags is former Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld who did have this memorable line about dealing with strategic situations: "[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; there are things we do not know we don't know." So, you know their taking your web info (almost all of it) and offering to target you with more advertising. What you know you don't know is who they are giving / selling this info to and what exactly they are going to do with it beyond some innocent advertising banners. The unknown unknown stuff is what the hell might happen with your personal knowledge in the future (hackers, government tracking, identity theft, whatever your perverted mind can conjour up). If you know that your being used like the web tool you are, then why put up with it? Personally, I'm in the process of migrating away from Google and taking privacy a little more seriously. What I've learned is that there's a lot of good stuff out there that does the same job as all the Google offerings but with better privacy. Here's the quick primer: 1. Quite Google. A very good explanation of how to it is here. I am currently trying Icloud for email and documents and the Wolfram Alpha search engine as mentioned in the article and both are recommended. 2. Find out who is tracking you all the time (how "out there" are you). Collusion is new cool tool that lets you visually see how you are tracked every time you go from site to site (go here for more info, do run the demo to see how it works). The program can't block all the tracking but it does show how integrated web sites are in terms of who is tracking you and sharing data about you. 3. Find some useful cookie cutters, aka programs that destroy tracking cookies and cut down on web advertising while you cruise the internet seas (I only use adblock plus with Mozilla and cookie destroying program that runs everytime I finish a surfing session but I am looking for a good real time cookie limiter program). 4. Sleep better at night knowing that Mark Zuckerberg's soon to be billions coming from Google's IPO offering won't be subsidized by you. Edited on Mar 01, 2012, 11:39am | |
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| 02-06-12 12:06pm - 4703 days | #4 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I've also become a lot more ruthless about quality. I used to have lots of old sets lying around but after a while I just tired of looking at tiny pics or grainy 340 x 480 vids no matter how hot the content is. My view is that porn is a commodity with new stuff being cranked out each day so that once I delete the old stuff I tend to forget about it fairly quickly. | |
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| 02-03-12 11:12am - 4706 days | #3 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
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My two favorite NFL teams both stunk this year so I really don't care about the Big Game. About the only reason to even bother watching, if I do, is to catch the commercials. | |
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| 01-25-12 11:15am - 4715 days | #4 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
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| 01-18-12 12:31pm - 4722 days | #4 | |
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| 01-18-12 12:27pm - 4722 days | #2 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
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Thanks for posting on this Capn. I thought about starting a thread on this a while back but, as seems to be my motivation level around here lately, I just didn't get around to it. My overall impression is that it much ado about mostly nothing. SOPA is the music / movie industries response to potential lost profit. Their idea was to get a law passed that would make websites, search engines and ISP's liable for linking to sites that contain pirated material. Of course this would mean sites like You-tube and Google would go out of business or just become the first stopping place for people whose lives revolve cute animal videos. The lasting effect would be the destruction of the free flowing internet we know today. The bill was / is a bad idea and I think the Congressional Neanderthals who barely know how to email are finally waking up to this fact. Do note that something, probably not this year since too many politicians are playing the election year game of "cover your ass", will probably emerge regarding stricter sanctions against pirated material. It's too early to really tell what a proposed final version will look like. | |
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| 12-28-11 12:52pm - 4743 days | #13 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
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I finally took another step into the 21st century by getting a wireless router. Eventually I'd like to set it up so that my hdtv (which has the ability to receive wireless input) can access the web. Probably won't happen until next x-mas. | |
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| 12-23-11 10:04pm - 4747 days | #20 | |
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| 12-22-11 12:01pm - 4749 days | #3 | |
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| 12-21-11 03:44pm - 4750 days | #13 | |
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| 12-16-11 03:46pm - 4755 days | #21 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
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Not a joke but I found this today: another hilarious example of unnecessary censorship that will make you rethink your favorite childhood nursery rhymes. | |
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| 12-12-11 11:40am - 4759 days | #124 | |
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