When young men reach the age of 17, (in Australia) they obtain their driving licenses. Then they buy a cool car (death trap) that isn’t worth the money that they or their parents paid for it. The next three years of their lives are spent “tricking” out the car with the best mag wheels, [...]
Or – The Havenots become the Haves. Preamble It’s a well known fact that when placed under restricting circumstances, all animals will look for an escape or release from the restriction. “The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” – John Perry Barlow. ——————————————————————————————————————————– The Article IRC stands for [...]
Yesterday I creamed News Limited for fake and political reporting, targeted at influencing the outcome of the iiNet trial currently underway. They used non-empirical data and ancient quotes from an misnamed organisation all designed to create FUD. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. That’s what the media these days considers is what is necessary for [...]
I used to run a BBS in the eighties. The famed KKK. Koltai's Kakadu Konnection. The technology to run a BBS required many hours of dedication and weeks of waiting for new widgets/gadgets, and hours waiting for the overnight UUCP email responses from technical support in the USA and England. I used a combination [...]
I guess the new star of the Internet, Zynga has started looking for M&A’s. Not that they want to be taken out yet. Fig 1. Farmville User Numbers daily growth through August. – Source – Facebook. User numbers were doubling every two weeks – although have slowed recently mainly due to transaction (caps) [...]
For some time we (Perceptric) have been collating statistics on downloading patterns. Most will agree with me that the majority of P2P takes place apparently from 7:00 pm on a Friday night to 10 PM on a Sunday with a flow on effect on a Global basis that actually means the wave commences at [...]
Part 1. – P2P is threatening the US Monetary system It took humanity 25,000 years to create the “perfect financial system” and less than a hundred years to destroy it. Perfect? Well that depends on who you are talking too. For sometime, we at Perceptric have been saying that the world needs [...]
Governments have for sometime been attempting to legislate against content on the Net. Here's an article I wrote in May, 1993 for a magazine called Chips 'N Bits. It would appear that little has changed in the intervening 16 years.COMPUTER PORNOGRAPHY A little Peek at XXX The Reverend Fred Nile is famous for his stance [...]
Culture: is a shared, learned, symbolic system of values, beliefs and attitudes that shapes and influences perception and behavior Very few obstacles erected by man are successful in halting the ocean. Dykes, dames, flood-gates, Thames tributary locks, don’t stem the tide; they just block one narrow area of interest. ENIAC, a wave, turned [...]
Hollywood is not the only casualty of P2P. In 1998, Forrester Research published a report on the online “adult content” industry which speculated on an industry-wide aggregate figure of $8-10 billion The prefix porno- is derived from the Greek term for a prostitute; hence, it may be argued that pornography is as old [...]