Nearly 1/3rd of all internet traffic is pornography?

Posted: April 9, 2012 in Food for thought
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Advertising is yet another avenue to sell the sexualisation of women

According to Mail Online, quoting a report by ExtremeTech, the internets biggest porn site has 4.4 billion page views and 350 million unique visits per month.

The report used cookies to gather information about users from Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner .

It then used these figures and data from the second biggest porn site, to extrapolate how much data is being transferred out of the site’s servers.

The figures are truly stunning and a sad indictment on society today.

It based the first calculation on the average length of time spent on the biggest site, which is 15 minutes, and it was assumed a low resolution video was being streamed.

From this it estimated that around 29 petabytes of pornography is being transferred a month, or 50 gigabytes per second.

However, it upped this estimate to 35 to 40PB per month after learning that the second largest site hosts over 100TB of porn, gets 100million page views and transfers 950 terabytes per day.

To get that into perspective, that’s the equivalent of 10 dual-layer DVDs per second.

At peak times, it speculates that the biggest site is streaming 1,000 gigabytes per second (or one terabyte), which, the report points out, is one fifteenth of the total amount of connectivity between London and New York.

The ExtremeTech investigation surmised that the smaller of the two sites accounts for two per cent of internet traffic, with 30 per cent of all web traffic being pornography related.

Is it any wonder we see a rise in sexualisation of minors, rape and depraved activity?

Then you get those that argue it is harmless fun.

Words fail me.
Source http://tinyurl.com/72y5xkn

2014 : Your backside will probably replace your keys

Posted: January 1, 2012 in Food for thought
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A group of clever Japanese scientists have come up with a biometric scanner that can identify you by your backside.

The scanner measures 360 pressure points to build a 3D profile of how a person sits. It can apparently identify who is sitting in the seat with 98 per cent accuracy.

The discovery could do away with car keys and could even be used in offices instead of computer passwords.

The scientists, from Tokyo’s Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, said it is a simple matter of fitting pressure sensors inside a normal car seat – and it could be in production cars as early as 2014.

A small price to pay for a big scoop!

Posted: December 11, 2011 in Food for thought
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Simon EroroI’m not sure if Simon Eroro is a hero or a masochist.

Eroro, who is always looking for a ‘scoop’, went the whole nine yards when it came to meeting the demands of a group of jungle rebels in Papua New Guinea. He wanted an exclusive interview at any cost.

 What was the price? A year’s supply of beer perhaps? No. A suitcase full of tax-free unmarked bills maybe? No.

 The real price was a little more unusual. It was that he be circumcised in the traditional way - with bamboo sticks. I can only hope he was not circumcised already, or it was clearly going to present a small problem.

 It was, apparently, all part of their cleansing ceremony. They obviously hadn’t heard of the concept of soap.

 He eventually won the annual News Limited award for ‘the best scoop’ with his article on exposing cross-border movements of Free West Papua militants. It seems fitting  then that he was required to expose ‘Richard and the twins’ to a group of rebels more experienced in warfare than doing a delicate medical procedure in the jungle, using bamboo, that could easily alter a man’s ‘status’ if they didn’t do it properly.

 How he was able to concentrate on his article whilst being in a world of pain is admirable.

 Whether it was worth it is a mute point considering he won the news award, but you really do have to admire a man who puts his manhood on the line for the sake of a good story.

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