Re: Linking = Showing = Transferring?
Suppose we interpret Linking = Showing as For all web pages x and y, Showing(x) and Linkto(x,y) --> Showing(y) Meaning: In all cases, if a page is being shown and it links to another page, then the other page is being shown. With this kind of transitivity I would not be surprised if a third of the web sites are showing pornography. For example (made up titles!), Transitors --> Electronics Distributers --> Ray's TV --> Springfield Businesses --> Bob's Photography --> Plenty Pictures --> Photography Resources --> Asian, Female --> World Nudity --> John's Porno Shop. The poor guy trying to be helpful to those learning electronics now has a pornopage. Perhaps some kind of fuzzy logic could apply. If one believes in such a thing. I wonder if I have a pornopage. Dar =========================================================== Dar Scott Home phone: +1 505 299 9497 Dar Scott Consulting Voice: +1 505 299 5790 8637 Horacio Place NE Email: darscott@aol.com Albuquerque, NM 87111 dsc@swcp.com Fax: +1 505 898 6525 http://www.swcp.com/~correspo/DSC/DarScott.html ===========================================================
I wonder if I have a pornopage.
Of course you do (assuming the stupid transitive definition of a pornopage). Start at your home page http://www.swcp.com/~correspo/DSC/DarScott.html --> follow link to "National Instruments" in second paragraph http://www.natinst.com/ --> follow link to "Reference" a few lines form the bottom of the page http://www.natinst.com/links.htm --> "WWW Virtual Library" near the top of the page http://epims1.gsfc.nasa.gov/engineering/ee.html --> "WWW Virtual Library" right at the top of page http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html --> "Other virtual libraries" near the bottom of the (rather long) page http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Virtual_libraries/Overview... --> "Yahoo - A Guide to WWW" http://www.yahoo.com/ --> "Entertainment" http://www.yahoo.com/text/Entertainment/ --> "Magazines" http://www.yahoo.com/text/Entertainment/Magazines/ --> "Sex" http://www.yahoo.com/text/Entertainment/Magazines/Sex/ --> you figure out the rest
Alan Barrett writes:
I wonder if I have a pornopage. Of course you do (assuming the stupid transitive definition of a pornopage).
Start at your home page [...] One could define some kind of new metrics let dp(x) shortest number of hops to go from page x to any "porn" (sexy) page, Now, I bet that dp(x) < infinity for any page x that have links on their site that goes outside their site, thanks to the "strange attractor" represented by search engines & index, which are the most linked pages
<dp(x)> (mean dp) is prolly around 4 or 5 For instance, what is the pornography distance of whitehouse ? Without complete search, their dp(http://www.whitehouse.gov/)<=7 : -> textual representation of this page. {sorry, i had to go there,using lynx} http://www.whitehouse.gov/White_House/html/White_House_Home-plain.html -> Executive Branch (http://www.whitehouse.gov/White_House/EOP/html/3_parts-plain.html) -> government information locator service (GILS) (http://info.er.usgs.gov/gils/index.htm) -> IMAGINATION NEEDED HERE! (http://www.usgs.gov/public/gils/imagine.html) -> [Other Topics] {lots of remote pointers, but lots of outdated links too} (http://www.usgs.gov/public/gils/other.html) -> Another List of Internet Search facilities {netscape's search page} (http://home.mcom.com/home/internet-search.html) Search for "playboy" for instance at infoseek, or anything in fact... (btw where is that fast playboy's mirror ?) -> sexy pages! Regards dl -- Laurent Demailly * http://hplyot.obspm.fr/~dl/ * Linux|PGP|Gnu|Tcl|... Freedom Prime#1: cent cinq mille cent cinq milliards cent cinq mille cent soixante sept
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