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| 05-19-13 09:58pm - 2 days | I'm back... and motivated. (13 Posts) - #4 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User  Posts: 979 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 - 5 days | PU Official: Raffle Update (28 Posts) - #6 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Like others have said, no shocker here. I think it was a cool idea at the time but it doesn't seem to have drawn a crowd of new reviewers to PU. Most of the reviewers are now essentially "old timers" and that's who seems to win most of the raffle money anyways (I count myself as an old timer btw). I don't see why it has to be scrapped entirely though. Possibilities include free site access or a deep discount to a site(s). Another possibility is to have winners of each weeks raffle just win tickets to some type of grand prize raffle to be held periodically (every month, quarter, year, etc.) where money or other goodies are then given away. My point here is that why scrap it entirely if you don't know for sure how much traffic and chat is directly tied to the raffle itself (anecdotal evidence offered by some people voicing their opinion isn't always the best evidence). The raffle is unique to this site so, if I were running the joint here, I'm not entirely sure that it makes sense to scrap it entirely. I also bring up the point I made in a separate post a few years back that our reviews are essentially help drive the engine that makes TBP a profitable business. Not only do you get official TBP reviews, you get to read the impressions of others from PU which essentially drives the review count up at TBP. I raise this point not in defense of having a raffle, I don't really care, but in saying that it ain't a bad idea to help reward the people who make TBP a big boy in the porn review world. Admittedly I bring this up to just to be a bit contrary (what fun is a forum without making a few waves) but I do think there is some value in thinking about it. This thought sort of coincides with my other general observations about PU/TBP as a whole. Since the TBP 2.0 revision a few years back, not much has changed. The voices in my head (and there are soooo many) tell me that social media is not where porn review is headed. I couldn't care less about the PU / TBP facebook or twitter accounts (they basically look a lot like tube and tgp sites) and I don't see any evidence that more people are hopping on the PU bandwagon because of it. While PU is a cool community it has somewhat stagnated in terms of growth / participation and newness / uniqueness. This isn't just a PU/TBP problem, I think it a problem with all review sites and the internet porn world in general. I guess I'm not entirely sure what my point here is (stop listening to voices in my head). As someone who advises businesses, my initial take is to say that when your business model has stagnated the first action shouldn't necessarily be to make cuts but to get creative in terms of what can be done to continue forward. | |
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| 05-11-13 02:52pm - 10 days | Pornorganizer, (25 Posts) - #3 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 48 days | A Note from Khan (50 Posts) - #13 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Best wishes from all of us. | |
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| 03-29-13 12:29pm - 53 days | Pay for previewing? (27 Posts) - #6 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 69 days | Heidegger (8 Posts) - #7 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 70 days | Heidegger (8 Posts) - #3 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 73 days | Porn in the news (26 Posts) - #25 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Not really porn but what happens when you mix social media with some frickin' moron who secretly harbors a pornstar wanna be fantasy life. Can you say "too much information"? | |
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| 02-27-13 12:25pm - 83 days | New Porn Website Name ! (24 Posts) - #18 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 94 days | The Truth About Pornstars? (5 Posts) - Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
The Truth About Pornstars? 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 - 98 days | The End Of The Line? (51 Posts) - #18 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
If you go, I wish you the best. I took a break for quite a while and now only intermittently stick my head back into the fray. I suspect that, like me, you'll eventually be back but it's always good to take a break once in a while. And frankly, I don't think anyone really cares about who gets entered into the weekly raffles so don't let that issue bug you. | |
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| 02-09-13 12:14pm - 101 days | Overall, between either a lap-top or desk-top, which is the better for a porn user? (36 Posts) - #5 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 102 days | Looking for some advice on storage (25 Posts) - #8 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
You're pretty much in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. If you adopt the hoarder mentality that you gotta keep it all then you're stuck with what to do with it. Frankly, there really is no great advice to give as of this time. I agree that you can't really depend on sites. The mega sites will probably be around for years to come and having a huge archeive benefits them by keeping most people around longer. Storing all that porn is fairly cheap for them. However, you don't know if at some point they just start cutting off the really old stuff or become a zombie site and keep the same look but hide the old stuff in order to bring it out as an update in the future. Like others above have said, you never know. Unlike Ragingbuddhist, the only drives I've had fail on me are the bare / internal hard drives, not externals. You could store it in the cloud but that's still expensive and you never know who can access it or where it's being stored (a lot of cloud stuff can be located in countries that have less than friendly porn laws). Hard drives can on occasion fail or have a problem that requires a tech to fix them (not ideal either). I don't really see a fairly safe long term storage solution until solid state drives grow into the TB range and get a lot cheaper. For me, I just have a different mindset. Porn is a commodity that shows no signs of slowing down. There will always be something new and cool for the foreseeable future. so, I just keep the stuff I like and purge my collection every so often (I just dumped about 20% of it last month). My collection is quite small compared to others but I look at it. With the volumes of content you have now, you couldn't probably look at everything to start editing it down without checking out of life for a few years or decades. The only answer to your situation is to change your future downloading and viewing ways or keep on storing stuff and realize that at some point you might have a drive failure. | |
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| 12-25-12 03:35pm - 147 days | Merry Christmas (10 Posts) - #5 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 249 days | After Porn Ends (10 Posts) - Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
After Porn Ends 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 - 382 days | Pininterest for Porn (3 Posts) - Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Pininterest for Porn 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 - 382 days | Is this a new site trend or is it just getting under my skin? (6 Posts) - #5 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 384 days | Interesting article on pubic hair shaving in The Atlantic (8 Posts) - #6 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 405 days | Any advice please re adding a hard drive to motherboard. (15 Posts) - #2 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 410 days | How Much Porn Can You Handle? (25 Posts) - Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
How Much Porn Can You Handle? 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 - 414 days | Is easy access to hardcore going to cause problems for youth? (24 Posts) - #18 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 424 days | Why a vote for Santorium is a vote for porn. (15 Posts) - #4 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 427 days | could my porn review blog show brief clips from scenes? (7 Posts) - #3 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 429 days | What site(s) would you recommend to a like-minded porn buddy? (16 Posts) - #8 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 439 days | How do they know? (24 Posts) - #4 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 445 days | How "Out There" Are You? (27 Posts) - #17 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 445 days | How "Out There" Are You? (27 Posts) - #13 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 446 days | How "Out There" Are You? (27 Posts) - Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
How "Out There" Are You? 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 - 470 days | When good Porn Goes Bad ! (27 Posts) - #4 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 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 - 473 days | Super Bowl XLVI (14 Posts) - #3 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
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 - 482 days | Way to go, Denner! (29 Posts) - #4 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Good to see R.B. still lurking in the shadows around here ... although I'm not sure if Buddhists really "lurk" as much as just observe (sort of goes hand in hand with today's poll question). Congrats on the big milepost Denner. | |
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| 01-18-12 12:31pm - 489 days | Forum Awards??? (8 Posts) - #4 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Man, tough audience around here. The bottom line is that I'm self employed and branching out to include new services so that is basically sucking all of my time right now. I do plan to get around to them but it's on hold at the moment. I may just have to buckle down and spend a few minutes a day working on them to get them out. Glad you liked them though  | |
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| 01-18-12 12:27pm - 489 days | SOPA! (11 Posts) - #2 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
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 - 510 days | Hey what was your favorite gift you recieved or gave this year ? (17 Posts) - #13 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
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 - 515 days | Passed/stopped PU activity (28 Posts) - #20 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Man, I've been time strapped this year so the annual forum awards are on hold for the moment. If it happens it won't be until January ... plenty of time to buy additional kevlar undies to cover your ass. | |
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| 12-22-11 12:01pm - 516 days | Passed/stopped PU activity (28 Posts) - #3 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Since I started the "Thoughts about the PU points system" thread (where Khan rightfully beat down my ideas like a red headed step child) I figure I'll take another stab at it here. I really don't care about who has the most points or not. I'll never be one of the ones on top nor do I care to (nor do I have the time or porn budget to do so). The question I guess comes down to marketing. Do we go with the current "hall of fame" system where people get acknowledged for life time achievements or do we go with an "all star" system that rewards the best of the current generation / contributors? I suppose the latter might appeal to people who are new to PU in that they can move up the ladder more quickly and get acknowledgment for that. Then again, it's going to take quite a while to make the top 5 list even if the change were made so that by the time you hit the big time in points you're going to be considered an old timer by internet posting standards. For me, I wouldn't mind seeing a requirement that people be required to post a review / comment / reply every six months or year in order to maintain their official point status. That would at least change things up more over time. Then again, it probably wouldn't be anything more than "change for the sake of change" in that it wouldn't really affect my input or most peoples input here. Six of one, half dozen of another. | |
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| 12-21-11 03:44pm - 517 days | A dilemma in hard drive space, when is too much (28 Posts) - #13 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I'm with Pat on this one. If I don't watch it every so often I usually just toss it. If I get tired of looking at the scenes I have then they get deleted. Ditto with the low quality files of old I have. I don't even have one TB of porn mostly because I edit down my photo sets and only keep "the best" videos. For me, it's mostly just a mindset I have that carries over from real life: I don't really have any collections to speak of, if I find that I don't wear the clothes I have then they get donated, I despise knick knacks and other stuff like that labeling it all as "junk". For me, if I keep my stuff at a manageable level then I find I'm happier. The only reason I can see for keeping huge volumes of porn is the occasional discovery of some gem that you forgot you downloaded. Really though, it's just a mindset. I never download whole sites because I only want the stuff I like and will look at. I guess you could liken it to some food snob who raves about five star meals but disses the all you can eat buffet. When it comes to food I'm all about mass quantities but when it comes to porn I'm a high class snob ... although most would say I'm just in a class by myself. | |
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| 12-16-11 03:46pm - 522 days | Jokes (24 Posts) - #21 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
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 - 526 days | Computer Setup? (134 Posts) - #124 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Like the early internet, the rules of the cloud are pretty much dictated by those who operate the cloud. Privacy is only covered to the extent it's discussed in the "fine print" and the overall security of their system. Lots of big companies are shifting to the cloud but they can afford to pay for exclusive server status and extra protections that the general public can't. You also don't know the extent that your "digital stuff" is stored in other countries (ie: where are the server farms keeping your porn located?) For most uses, the good ol' computer is going the way of the tablet and the cloud. For those who want or demand extra privacy and security, there will still be stand alone desktops and hard drives and protected networks but they will be the exception, not the rule. Until more formal privacy protocols are established for the cloud, I see it more as a potential rainy for my use as opposed to the gateway to the world. | |
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| 12-08-11 12:11pm - 530 days | Giving up internet porn? (19 Posts) - #4 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
If you've been around porn for any period of time you've probably been hit up with fraudulent charges (I have several times over the years). Like the others said, stay with big name billing processors and get a prepaid card or a credit card with a small limit that you only use for porn charges. That cures most of the headaches. | |
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| 11-29-11 12:51pm - 539 days | Coming to a Theater Near You - no: brothel! (16 Posts) - #5 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
My vote is that if it isn't going to mess up any personal relationships or your fantasy life then give her a spin. My personal thought is that the reality of hooking up with a porn favorite will never meet expectations since you're probably just going to be treated as another quick shag. Then again, the entire European economy is about to collapse so that 200 in euros burning a hole in your pocket will be worth about 2 loaves of bread and a dirty magazine by Christmas. I guess if you're going down with the Titanic you might as well do it with a smile on your face  | |
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| 11-18-11 12:37pm - 550 days | What TV series, or movie do you miss from when you were younger ? (43 Posts) - #13 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Short list: - The Young Ones (great outrageous Brit-com) - The A Team (just because one can't enough of bad explosions, car wrecks and people walking away unscatched from a hail of bullets) - Monty Python (will probably never be duplicated) - MTV (when they actually played videos and had vj's) - The Wild, Wild West (funny and interesting, unlike the shitty Will Smith movie remake) - Gilligan's Island (mmmmm, Mary Ann or Ginger)(also, it got me pissed when some stupid thing called The Watergate Hearings pushed them out of their daily time slot for a while). And maybe one or two also mentioned. | |
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| 11-15-11 02:23pm - 553 days | Off Topics: The richest man in the world (2 Posts) - #2 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
With the exception of the stinking rich dudes in Western nations, most of the worlds super rich (including the one's who don't appear on any lists, the Saudi royals for example, because their finances are so opaque) live in developing countries where they could radically change a lot of their fellow citizens lives without seriously denting their checkbooks. That's just how the world works. These types of super rich exist where taking care of your friends and family and/or tribe take precedent over any sense of "communal responsibility" (at least when it comes to money) as we understand it. Some of these people in these sorts of countries do give back but mostly in the form of monuments to themselves or other forms of low impact giving (nothing that really helps the people at the bottom). Lots of other super rich made their money from of crony capitalism (Carlos Sims did and so did all the Russian oligarchs) and in countries where the rule of law and anti-trust / anti-monopoly concepts are pretty weak. Again, the point here is that in these cases where family/tribe don't mean quite as much it's still a case of a c Philanthropy by the super rich didn't really exist on any grand scale before the Rockefellers and several other early 20th century tycoons sort of invented the concept. In Western countries it is now somewhat fashionable (by that I mean it enhances your social standing) to show that you care by giving away some of your billions. The rest of the world has yet to catch up with the idea. Unfortunately, lots of super rich in the West don't do much with their money. They give to their colleges (Harvard University's endowment fund sits at $26 billion and yet they still charge big ass tuition fees) or to hospitals or art museums and the like. Giving to these places enhances their social respectability amongst their super rich peers and lets them have nice parties to show what their money bought (look at that nice Picasso my donation got). Not many engage in social engineering or devoting themselves to fixing basic problems, the Gates Foundation excepted. The reason? It's hard to do, the results can take years or decades to achieve if ever (no instant gratification) and it can be controversial (a no-no when trying to impress your super rich buddies). I don't understand why most super rich don't give away their money. I can see leaving some for the family but if you give your kids too much money they just turn into life long party animals and do nothing but spend their windfall. To me, it seems that too many of the Western self made super rich have a hard time getting over the idea that they worked damn hard to make all that money and just giving it all away runs against everything they've worked at all their lives. I think there is also the idea that they view themselves as being more important than they are in history and that by keeping their money somehow signifies that they aren't getting old and that leaving a bunch of money to their relatives will make them seem more important than leaving it to strangers. | |
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| 11-09-11 12:06pm - 559 days | Who or what is “Porno Dan”? (8 Posts) - #2 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
I just did a google search and it appears to be a newish skin flick. That means you'll probably have to shell out some dough to buy the dvd or go the illegal torrent download route. Otherwise, just give it a few months and I'm sure it will pop up on some dvd website. | |
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| 11-03-11 01:21pm - 565 days | The justice system in the US can be exceedingly slow. (9 Posts) - #8 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Don't worry, not much has changed. If you read stories about Lincoln or some of the founding fathers, you'll see that it wasn't unusual for them to have cases lasting 5 years or so. Here's the real world answer to the problem: Courts don't have armies or treasuries. They rely on others to be funded they are always getting slashed. With the recent financial woes of the world it's not unusual now that if two parties in a civil lawsuit (as opposed to a criminal case) expect a trial to last more than a few days then they won't even get a trial date because there is no time and no judges available. On the federal level, about a third of the federal judge positions sit empty because the Senate can't even agree to vote on people that would otherwise pass unanimously. Lastly, the wheels of justice in America were never designed to turn fast. The whole process of motions, exchanging information, posturing, etc. takes time and was sort of designed to take time in order to ensure fairness and to dampen the emotions involved. Tack on the other two reasons and you get the current mess. Hell, there are lawyers who have spent their whole careers working a case. Don't worry though, there are places in Europe and other parts of the world where we look like speed demons. | |
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| 11-03-11 01:06pm - 565 days | Am I asking for too much? (12 Posts) - #7 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Don't get me started on crappy resolution pics (I pretty much say in my reviews that a site can't score in the 90's without pics or low res crap. Two prime offenders are RealityKings and NaughtyAmerica. They have lots of good content but (take your pick) ... 1) continue to use the first digital cameras ever made which limits their pics to 900x600; 2) are just claiming to be futurists by foreseeing the rise of cell phone porn and originally modeled their sites years ago to accommodate cell phone noobs; 3) have servers that gleefully accept video files that measure hundreds of mb's but can't seem to find the space to accept 200k pics; 4) they just don't care. Pic lovers are admittedly in the minority when it comes to porn. The average spanker force fed a steady diet of tv and family videos as a child apparently can't appreciate good photography or lacks the imagination to fill in the gaps that photos leave out compared to the annoying chattering, bad dialogue and fake orgasms videos let you enjoy. Pics are actually so damn easy to do well now a days. Even pocket cameras can shoot damn fine pics in the 10 mb range and if the lighting isn't right even the free photo editing software can fix that with a few clicks. No need for grainy pics (unless the bozo editing the ginormous original pic files doesn't know that his editing software might automatically set the "grain" at 72 pixels before editing down a file), excuses for file size (it might cost a buck or two a month more to rent servers for high end pics), bad cropping (don't get me started), or only 20 pics in a set. The bottom line is that if sites don't have decent pics then it just means they don't care about pics. End of rant.  | |
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| 10-12-11 02:02pm - 587 days | 'In The Crack' subscription experiences? (12 Posts) - #6 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
There's no such thing as being "completely secure" on the net. However, I don't think any of us regulars here have ever had a problem with our data being mishandled through CCBill. They're one of the biggest on line processors for porn and they can't afford to have their reputation trashed for trying to make a quick, short term buck at someone's expense. | |
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| 10-04-11 11:50am - 595 days | Thanks a lot, Denner ... (10 Posts) - #5 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Does that mean all you Cannucks and Euro types will have to spend more on BBW and older women websites  | |
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| 10-02-11 10:41pm - 597 days | Mass reviews (20 Posts) - #11 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Let me put it this way. I don't post that much here compared to what I used to. However, in about 3 minutes I just dolled out 5 negative trust votes (with comments, cause I go the extra mile ... sometimes) and got into the weekly raffle. Killed 2 bird with 1 stone is how I look at it (or is that 5 or 6 with one stone, I get lost when dealing with imaginery numbers, oops, I mean reviews). | |
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| 09-30-11 11:59am - 599 days | Loosing stash/collections - and how to avoid it? (20 Posts) - #3 | |
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Wittyguy (89)
Active User Posts: 979 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Two ready solutions. One is to go to the cloud and use a backup service. The problem is cost, upload speeds and never really being sure how secure your data is from prying eyes. Another solution is to go to a RAID system. BadAndy talked about this a while back (here's the link) and that thread in general talks about other backup solutions. Basically it involves setting up a series of drives that automatically replicate each other so that if one drive fails you have backup on others. That's way beyond my computer know how and, again, it involves money and some tech savvy to work it. The last option is burn everything to cds and mail them to me so that I can be your personal porn repository. Of course, I'll have to view everything to make sure that you're not collecting crap Edited on Sep 30, 2011, 12:06pm | |
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