Kind of like the military industrial complex driving the space program, only with more naked people. Very effective analogy :)
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT - Porn sites have their uses Michael makes a good point. While we may or may not approve of the content of porn sites - that's obviously a moral issue - the problems they face and the techniques they adopt to solve them are interesting indeed. For every concern we might have about hacking or theft or unauthorised entry, porn sites have the problem tenfold. I bet every problem you fret about, someone in a porn site has solved it already. While the morality or otherwise of adult sites is off topic here, it's got to be acknowledged that adult sites are driving many of the techniques of web business along and very fast. For example, it was the adult sites that forced the development of techniques of handling images and thumbnails. They were the ones to perfect credit card transactions on the net, they drove password protection schemes (stopping people sharing passwords) and many other things. Not to mention streaming of video, and the benefits (or otherwise) of popup windows, banners, the multitude of ever-more-creative ways of driving traffic from one site to another, using the same content on multiple sites. They are the ones that are driving the supply of ever increasing bandwidth. And of course don't forget the constant back and forth battle between the search engines and the porn sites is forcing the search engines to get better at what they do, in order to keep porn sites out and the sites they want in. Then there are the less-savoury techniques they're developing. Like stealing bandwidth, copyright issues that are being resolved in order to stop the wholesale theft of images. Then there is the scam I read about not so long ago where a porn site grabbed a legitimate and quite high-traffic domain name, and redirected it to their porn site. People reasonably trying to find out something about their electricity utility or some such were suddenly presented with a porn site, which promptly opened half a dozen windows for their other sites. All these things -both good and bad - are driving changes on the web. The bad things cause the rest of us to develop defences against hackers and unsavoury practices. The good things give us all benefits we can employ on our own sites. We ought to be watching the developments in porn sites - not for titillation but for professional education. Those guys are way ahead of us in technology. And while I don't know for sure, I'd be willing to bet that the real figures would show that at least 5 of the top ten money makers on the web are porn sites. Cheers, Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP WebWorks -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT(apologies) For those who do not understand the reference, whitehouse.com is not a government site. It is an adult site that uses the whitehouse name to get people to come in. I can't say if it is using CF or not (I don't know) but I do know programmers for adult sites who use CF for their work. A lot of user and login managment is done in CF to protect these sites against fraud (multiple people logging in under a single username). While I don't approve of these sites, I do find the problems and solutions that they face interesting. At 02:21 PM 12/13/01, you wrote: >Dude. Don't post that in here. I don't really think that's appropriate... > >(Not that I care, but someone else just might...) > >-----Original Message----- >From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:51 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: RE: OT(apologies) > > >www.whitehouse.com > >On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Kris Pilles wrote: > > > half.com victorias secret.com > > New York State > > New Mexico > > Federal Government > > Aol (corporate site) > > Eminem.com > > > > Theres tons of them > > > > Kris Pilles > > Website Manager > > Western Suffolk BOCES > > 507 Deer Park Rd., Building C > > Phone: 631-549-4900 x 267 > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Moneymaker, Jon S CONT (WPNSTA Yorktown) > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:37 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: OT(apologies) > > > > > > Ok, I have lurked on this list for some time now and remember some > > time ago a brief flurry of activity about "who uses CF in the real > > world." I seem to recall a list somewhere or an article someone wrote > > about some of the big companies who use CF.... I was asked this > > question the other day and could only come up with a couple....(I > > choked actually)..... > > > > any help would be appreciated. > > > > Ya'll (guess what part of the country I am in) are great.... > > > > Jon S. Moneymaker > > Network Administrator > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
