Go take a look at http://www.cp80.org/ and see if you can collect the numerous technical reasons that assigning Internet port numbers for particular content (meaning porn and other things that kids shouldn’t see) is such a bad idea. Silly wabbit, ports are for protocols, and last time I checked, protocols don’t care about content and shouldn’t. Not only is it too much work to completely redesign TCP/IP to address this hairbrained scheme, but it is doomed to fail even if you could.
And too bad port 69 is already taken for something really ironically useful (you get extra points if you know off the top of your head what it is).
Let’s get that .xxx TLD going, not that that is much of a solution, either. Any solution is going to be more parental than technological, anyway.
Favorite comment from Annalee Newitz: The group “sadly isn’t a phalanx of uptight androids who enjoy mysteriously homoerotic relationships with mailbox-shaped companions.” Doesn’t that bring something to mind? What a wasted effort.
“Go take a look at http://www.cp80.org/ and see if you can collect the numerous technical reasons that assigning Internet port numbers for particular content (meaning porn and other things that kids shouldn’t see) is such a bad idea.”
Better yet, why don’t you post those technical issues in their forums. I hear a lot of people say there are technical issues, but they never actually list what those issues are. I would like to see them.
“Silly wabbit, ports are for protocols, and last time I checked, protocols don’t care about content and shouldn’t.”
I understand that the administrative range (up to 1024) of ports are for specific protocols, but the higher ranges are not necessarily limited to such a strict interpretation.
“Let’s get that .xxx TLD going, not that that is much of a solution, either.”
So settle for less than a solid solution? Huh?
“Favorite comment from Annalee Newitz: The group ‘sadly isn’t a phalanx of uptight androids who enjoy mysteriously homoerotic relationships with mailbox-shaped companions.’ Doesn’t that bring something to mind? What a wasted effort.”
It’s easy to shoot down efforts that would actually change the world. You don’t like it, find and support a better solution.