Sex, porn, other things, oh, and the internet

Today a friend posted a link to a humours piece on some of the trends in google trends. However, he missed one important point. As we all know from the song, The internet is for Porn! So here are some more trends.

1. Sex and Porn

Well, where else to start than the deep end? While sex is king, porn is the rapidly rising star. The top three countries for sex are India, Egypt and Indonesia. Delhi, Chennai and Cairo the top cities. I mean, where are the Americans, not to mention the French? Even Romania is leaving them for dead.




2. hentai and anime

Clearly hentai is the winner here in search, but Anime has it won in the news stakes.



but they both are still loosers when it comes to sex.



3. Sex drugs and rock and roll

Clearly Sex is better than drugs and rock and roll combined, according to the pundits. But according to the media, drugs are more significant than sex.



4. Sex and the Zeitgeist

The Google Zeitgeist lists the most popular search terms. For example, year end 2008, the top two popular search terms in Australia were Games followed by Sydney. Clearly Sex has never been up there in the search terms in Australia. Strangely Craigieburn and Cranbourne beat every capital city in Australia when it comes to searching for sex, and it would seem games.



So maybe the internet is not only about sex and porn. It's a bit disappointing really. If you read the press or listened to the politicians, you would think otherwise.

due process

One of the important keystones in a modern society is proper and due legal process. These things have been put in place with slow development over a thousand years as a result of painful lessons learned. So I wonder why we then have politicians and lawmakers, not to mention a whole host of hangers on, like religious groups, saying, we know what is best for you. Don't question us and that legal processes is just an annoying hindrance. It seems to me that there have been groups that have said that in the past, people have believed them, and then terrible things have happened, all in the name of what is good and proper.

Web watchdog changes tack after blacklist leak

THE communications regulator has been forced to change its internal processes after the address of a prohibited anti-abortion web page in its top-secret blacklist was widely distributed on the internet.

Perhaps our politicians should show their metal, let there be public debate and put in place a proper legal process and frame work.

user names

When I first started using the internet many years ago, I quickly discovered that there were too many people out there with the same name as me. Of course the problem was that when I went to create a user name, say on the times in new york, I would find that byap and brianyap and various combinations were already in use. I did not want to have to create a new user name for each site as then I had to write them all down. This particularly applied to sites I rarely use. At the time I was trying to learn Mandarin Chinese so I chose my name in mandarin as my user name - yewenyi. This is different to my name in hakka (yap) which is on my birth certificate. BTW yap is still spelled incorrectly, it should be yup. For many years this worked. I had my user name to myself. It worked until the chinese started using the internet in large numbers. But still I rarely encounter them and often I will go in and make a user ID if I am considering a site to stop someone else from taking it.

One advantage is that I can search on this name and see how the search engines rank my sites. This morning I thought to look some where else and the result was quite surprising. As far as I can see most of this stuff is virus and other malicious software. Certainly none of it was ever created by myself.

strange email differences.

When I send emails from my mobile phone they all work normally except for one set. The first one here is from a normal email.

    From:     yewenyi@athree.com.au
Subject:     syd
Date:     14 February 2009 12:24:04 PM
To:     mail@yewenyi.net
Reply-To:     yewenyi@athree.com.au
X-Apparently-To:     mail@yewenyi.net via 74.6.114.45; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:24:14 -0800
X-Yahoofilteredbulk:     202.124.68.57
X-Originating-Ip:     [202.124.68.57]
Authentication-Results:     mta105.biz.mail.re3.yahoo.com  from=three.com.au; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received:     from 202.124.68.57  (EHLO auummr1om04.three.com.au) (202.124.68.57) by mta105.biz.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:24:14 -0800
Received:     from auumvs2fe03.three.com.au (auummr1vp02.three.com.au [10.176.58.185]) by auummr1om04.three.com.au (MOS 3.8.3-GA) with ESMTP id DRA64433; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:24:09 +1000 (EST)
Received:     from auumeb0fe02.three.com.au ([10.176.58.143]) by auumvs2fe03.three.com.au  with ESMTP id n1E1O9B4009199 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:24:09 +1000
Received:     from [10.225.223.250] ([10.225.223.250]) by auumeb0fe02.three.com.au (MOS 3.5.5-GR) with ESMTP id ADU21044; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:24:08 +1000 (EST)
Message-Id:     
X-Mailer:     EPOC Email Version 2.10
Mime-Version:     1.0
Content-Language:     i-default
Content-Type:     text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding:     quoted-printable

and the second is from the strange ones. These one have the header in the body, the email addresses themselves are wrong and the title of the email is misplaced and hence my email client cannot find it.

 From:  yewenyi@athree.com.au
Date:  21 February 2009 9:45:04 AM
To:  mail@yewenyi.net, Spoin@three.com.au
Reply-To:  yewenyi@athree.com.au
X-Apparently-To:  mail@yewenyi.net via 74.6.114.34; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:45:08 -0800
X-Originating-Ip:  [202.124.68.60]
Authentication-Results:  mta108.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com  from=three.com.au; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received:  from 202.124.68.60  (EHLO auummr1om02.three.com.au) (202.124.68.60) by mta108.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:45:08 -0800
Received:  from auumvs2fe02.three.com.au (auummr1vp02.three.com.au [10.176.58.185]) by auummr1om02.three.com.au (MOS 3.8.3-GA) with ESMTP id AUY28575; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:45:06 +1000 (EST)
Received:  from auumeb0fe02.three.com.au ([10.176.58.143]) by auumvs2fe02.three.com.au  with ESMTP id n1KMj6wD031615; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:45:06 +1000
Received:  from [10.227.46.11] ([10.227.46.11]) by auumeb0fe02.three.com.au (MOS 3.5.5-GR) with ESMTP id ADU51188; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:45:04 +1000 (EST)
Message-Id:  <200902202245.adu51188@auumeb0fe02.three.com.au>

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Subject: prostitutes
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:45:01 +1100
Message-ID: 
X-Mailer: EPOC Email Version 2.10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Language: i-default
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Edit: added (2009.02.24)

Here is another trace from when my yahoo mail bounced the email. For a while, my yahoo mail disappeared from the network.

Return-Path: 
Return-Path: 
X-RocketTIP: 202.124.68.57: NO_TIP_HEADER_ALLOWED
X-RocketSRV: s_ip=202.124.68.57;d_t=1235258193;url=spoink.com,mailto:blog@spoink.com,three.net.au,mailto:0kqkzrrdtk1f.tzyygp14@smtp.three.net.au;Retro=Y;
X-Rocket-Track: cat=UK; info=ip:NN;ipsh:UK;mcusg:UK;sv:UK;sg:UK;subj:UK;url2db:UK
X-Originating-IP: [202.124.68.57]
Authentication-Results: mta101.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com  from=athree.com.au; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 202.124.68.57  (EHLO auummr1om04.athree.com.au) (202.124.68.57)
by mta101.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:16:33 -0800
Received: from auumvs2fe03.athree.com.au (auummr1vp02.athree.com.au [10.176.58.185])
 by auummr1om04.athree.com.au (MOS 3.8.3-GA)
 with ESMTP id DRW93014;
 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:16:31 +1000 (EST)
Received: from auumeb0fe02.athree.com.au ([10.176.58.143])
 by auumvs2fe03.athree.com.au  with ESMTP id n1LNGVMC008846;
 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:16:31 +1000
Received: from [10.224.148.234] ([10.224.148.234])
 by auumeb0fe02.athree.com.au (MOS 3.5.5-GR)
 with ESMTP id ADU54540;
 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:16:29 +1000 (EST)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:16:29 +1000 (EST)
Message-Id: <200902212316.adu54540@auumeb0fe02.athree.com.au>
From: "yewenyi" 
Reply-to: "yewenyi" 
To: Brian Yap , Brian Yap (AOL) ,
      Spoin@athree.com.au

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Subject: unisex
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:16:25 +1100
Message-ID: <0kqkzrrdtk1f.tzyygp14@smtp.three.net.au>
X-Mailer: EPOC Email Version 2.10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Language: i-default
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Greed and Fear, file sharing and drugs

A little rambling philosophy about this case: Pirate Bay joy at charge change

Pirate Bay co-founder Frederik Neik said it showed prosecutors had misunderstood the technology.

The music industry played down the changes as "simplifying the charges".

In our society we let people do things but stop others. For instance you are free to kill yourself using cigarettes but not free to do so with other inhaled drugs in a system that is stymied by powerful interested and large amounts of money, the difference between those with power and money (tobacco) and those that don't (marijuana). One thing that has always surprised me is that you are allowed to buy bongs. Perhaps they could also be used for smoking.

Similarly, you can drive your car, but no one holds the car manufacturers responsible because you used the car to make a car bomb, do a kidnapping or transport some of those illegal drugs. But you are not allowed to do the same with your own personal tank. The benefit of the car is seen to outweigh the detriment. Also we probably do not have any need for tanks in day-to-day life.

So what we see here is a battle. A battle between powerful men with lots of money against those who provide a service. But is the service like a car or like a tank? I ask? I actually do not know enough about it to know the answer. But this is the question. If it is like a car, then the powerful men should be told to piss off. It is the criminals they are chasing, not the makers. If it is like a tank then you should put in place a regulation limiting the use to those with a licence.

Anyway I am impressed by the sheer gutsiness of the defendants. Bravo.

Gulgong Folk Festival

I sent this as a bug report to Facebook. My work place filter also did not like the site, but still let me in.

Hi, I tried to post the link to a local folk festival here in NSW, and was prevented form doing so because the sight was said to be: reported as abusive by Facebook users.

it is: http://gulgongfolkfestival.150m.com/

I think that this is unfair and unjust. :(

people using the internet to make wild statements

A man recently, who failed to identify himself, left the message below on one of my Flickr photos. Of course I immediately banned him from my stream. I have encrypted the accused's name as I want no part of this. Though if I could identify the one who left the comment I would. I expect that Telstra is big enough to hide the identity.

局 勢體能和 is a little adultering cunt who cheats on his wife with a married woman! 局勢體能和 of Sydney Australia who works at Telstra. Ask him about it sometime. I know because it was my wife

Internet snooping

It seems that the plans to provide free public wifi have hit a legal hurdle, they need to know who you are.

Under the Telecommunications (Interception) Bill, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must supply user identifiable information such as IP and MAC addresses to law enforcement.