I counter with another industry: Piracy. Look at the pirate bay. Tracker sites are illegal in almost every country, yet they routinely operate for years on end before the law can finish cutting through the tangle and actually get anything done about them.

You could even combine them - put your porn up on the Pirate Bay for distribution and collect money through included advertising in the videos or bitcoin donations.

As you request.

The survey was conducted by OnePoll. They describe their survey service as "Survey-led storytelling. Our PR surveys generate data driven content for brands & agencies."

http://www.onepoll.com/

Why stick to European? This is the internet age. I can live in London, host my site in Russia and take my payment through a grey-market intermediary in India, all done using developers from Bangladesh and registered (for tax purposes) in Gurnsey.

It's probably safe to assume the plan has 'national censor firewall' as a later component.

We run a system of proportionalish nonrepresentation, with an election held whenever it rains three times on a Thursday.

And yet the situation is still better than in the US.

Those ones were. The Childline survey has been quite throughly discredited: They hired a survey company that actually brags on their website about being able to generate whatever conclusion their customer requires, and the methodology was flawed in several serious ways.

I think that is the plan.
1. Demand self-regulation and age verification, knowing this is an impossible demand.
2. When very few sites adopt age verification, use this lack of action to justify intrusive government regulation.
3. National firewall to censor all the porn sites hosted overseas, along with anything else the governments wants gone.

The Daily Mail is one of the main driving forces behind this anti-porn campaign.

They don't like the competition.

Non-brit explanations: The 'Daily Wail' is a newspaper known for stiring up moral outrage, usually against 'benefit cheats' or immigrants. They have been running a campaign urging action be taken against internet pornography for some time. Their front page is usually filled with the latest gossip columns showing pictures of celebrities in bikinis that cover very little skin, and promises more more 'exclusive photos' at the article.

Bandwidth is going to be tight on a large-scale wireless network. I hope Google have some plans for a distributed caching system too, because they are going to need it if they want video distribution to work.

Go back further. Windows 95 had good reason for OSR2, and Windows 3.0 was pretty much unusable until 3.1.

Operating systems are major projects - usually the largest and most complicated piece of software on any computer. The first major version is always deeply flawed. The are just too big to get everything right first time.

I have noticed the speckly too, but could not work out the mechanism behind it.

Not quite, but it's close enough to provide the illusion that it does. The discrepancy is easily seen by holding a picture of the blue sky up to the actual blue sky. In a side-by-side comparison you can see that the color is only approximate.

I considered the academic path, but rejected it as too high-risk. Instead I went into IT support, where I knew I could be confident of always finding employment - albeit at low pay.

The plan worked: I'm now employed as an underpaid helpdesk-monkey, have had the same job for the best part of a decade, and could have it a decade still.

Humans are squishy and flexible. Computers are not good with this - the only way to even simulate soft-body physics is sheer computational brute force. It's nightmarishly complicated just trying to predict which shame a blob of liver is going to assume if you poke it in a certain place.