Pornography to get its own space on the Interwebs but will it work?

Posted: June 28, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Business, Government, Interesting, Internet, Web 2.0 | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

After a ten year battle between Icann (the people who look after the http://www. protocol) and Stuart Lawley a British internet entrepreneur the .xxx domain has finally been approved.

The idea is that all pornography or ‘top shelf’ related material will move from .com, .co.uk, .net, .mobi etc to the new .xxx domain.  Porn is still the most searched item on the web but it is only in the last two year’s that sites like Facebook and Twitter have kicked the porn sites from the Alexa top 50

It’s a good idea as it makes the Internet as easier place to police, it also makes it a lot easier for parents to content filter what their kids are looking at online by simply blocking the .xxx domain on their machines.  Companies like NetNanny who specialise in web filtering will surely welcome the new domain and anyone operating a public machine will see the benefits.

That said, it will never work (in its current form). Believe it or not porn sites actually want you to look at their sites, no matter who you are so they go out of their way to step around web content filtering, this new domain is simply that, a new domain.  It has been set up by a business man not an authority or a Government so it cannot be policed.  Porn sites cannot be forced to use the domain and they are surely not going to give up their valuable .com domains in a hurry, In 2007 porn.com was sold for $12m and there has been a near 20 year battle over sex.com. Read the rest of this entry »

Cheaper by the dozen ? Not any more !

Posted: June 27, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Apple, Belfast, Business, Do something Now is good, Government, Interesting, Internet | Tags: , , , , , | 3 Comments

A new barmy law has been passed down from our good old buddies in the European Union.  All food sold in EU stores must be advertised, priced and sold by weight and not quantity.

Until now, Britain has been exempt from EU regulations that forbid the selling of goods by number. But last week MEPs voted to end Britain’s deal despite objections from UK members.

This means Eggs, bread rolls and oranges too, so gone will be the day of buying a box of 6 egg’s for 99p.

Now you will have to buy 382grams of egg’s or 396grams of eggs depending which box you pick up, no box of 6 egg’s will ending up the same price as the next as it is nearly impossible to get 6 egg’s to weigh the same, unless we can somehow program the chickens to fire out 50gram eggs on comand but that would probably be in human.

What a load of balls, not two balls of course, a load of balls.  Who thinks of these stupid laws?  How is this helpful to the general public ?  I want 6 egg’s, I’m quite happy to open the box and judge if the egg’s I am buying are big enough after all, I am not a complete moran ! Read the rest of this entry »

Coca Cola vs BP

Posted: June 17, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Do something Now is good, Funny, Interesting | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Just saying…..

Flashforward – well they didn't see that one coming !

Posted: June 2, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Business, Interesting, Internet, Web 2.0, Wi-Fi | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

One of the better cult TV drama’s to hit the screens in the last few years has no sooner gained traction only to be binned by its owner ‘ABC’

Looking at the American viewer numbers its quite easy to why, over 12 million viewers in the first episode falling to nearly a third of that in the last few episodes.  Easy to see why they cancelled it, that is, if you are in fact a complete moron and don’t look at all the facts.

Let’s compare it, if you will to one of the other large ‘TV’ chart toppers of the last decade ‘lost’.

Lost first aired in 2004 with a whopping (in TV terms) to (just under) 16 million viewers and the show was syndicated to around 180 countries. Read the rest of this entry »