Are you adult enough to shop for electronics? - Page 1
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author: exe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 07:17:20 pm
content: Man, I just searched for banana plugs on aliexpress, and it asked me if I'm over 18 years old. Am I missing something about electronics?

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 07:23:12 pm
content: Aliexpress has gotten into serious trouble with the EU Commission for selling banned and adult material. This is probably part of their attempt to clean up and not sell banana but plugs to children :-)https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-probes-aliexpress-over-possibly-illegal-online-products-2024-03-14

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 07:30:22 pm
content: So what sort of bananas they sell in that section of Ali ?

author: pcprogrammer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 07:42:35 pm
content: Quote from: Bud on March 16, 2024, 07:30:22 pmThe ones that smell iffy after usage.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 07:45:05 pm
content: Quote from: Towger on March 16, 2024, 07:23:12 pmThat is not what the article says. Aliexpress is being monitored but so far no serious issues have been discovered.

author: pcprogrammer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 07:46:52 pm
content: And what does it show when searched for "banana plug" and telling you are over 18. Nothing but banana connectors

author: voltsandjolts
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 07:51:30 pm
content: This attempt to protect younger folks fromTEAshould be applauded not ridiculed! TEA is real!

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 07:52:13 pm
content: yeah you gotta be over 18 to be able to deal with the frustration of using cheap shitty banana connectors, they trying to limit self harm in frustrated people. The prompt should say "are you ready and mentally strong enough to deal with some bullshit hardware?"If you are making lab hookup get the best it will last

author: Zoli
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 08:36:35 pm
content: For AI the the banana plug is the equivalent of the b*tt plug; the second certainly is adult only

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 08:52:01 pm
content: About stuffing things in the rear end....At the research institute I used to work at, they also did tests with people in a climate chamber. For safety the temperature of the persons needed to be monitored carefully so they used rectal temperature sensors. At on end a tiny NTC encapsulated in rubber and on the other end a big plug to connect to a recorder. Some test subjects found it necessary to insert the big plug in the wrong place

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 10:45:05 pm
content: Quote from: pcprogrammer on March 16, 2024, 07:46:52 pmWere you disappointed?Beyond this "adult material" thing, I've found their search engine to be increasingly hopeless anyway.

author: exe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 16, 2024, 11:14:15 pm
content: > tests with people in a climate chamber> climate chamberLet me guess, the climate chamber was a sauna, and the research institute is named Thermen Soesterberg or Elysium?)> Some test subjects found it necessary to insert the big plug in the wrong placeThat makes, uhm, a more secure insertion?

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 02:23:17 am
content: Quote from: pcprogrammer on March 16, 2024, 07:46:52 pmTheir AI just has a dirty mind... but we do know why connectors were named male and female, after all

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 03:49:40 am
content: Quote from: pcprogrammer on March 16, 2024, 07:46:52 pmSuuuure... And that "personal massager" is for sore muscles.... :⁠-⁠)

author: pcprogrammer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 06:28:44 am
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 16, 2024, 10:45:05 pmOf course, because what man does not think about sexevery seven seconds.Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 16, 2024, 10:45:05 pmIt sure is, and requires erasing cookies to get the best results.

author: Xena E
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 12:19:54 pm
content: Aussie vintage technology website cool 386 was blocked by Google at one point because it featured vibrators. You needed to put your credit card details in for that. John Hunter, who owns the site was understandably miffed that the bloody word police were stopping access to his site.There was the guy at work, (my department), who was investigated for searching for insulating washers on the net, one suggested search term was 'top hat bushes'. . . It returned unwelcome results.It's so inconsistent that one thing could be blocked and another actually show pictures of uncensored mutts.The whining HR snowflake who 'investigated' the incident with the zeal of the Spanish inquisition eventually had to be told to f*ck off and let people get on with their work:over protection causes ignorance, ignorance encourages abuse...parental control is for the home environment, word policing the Internet for everyone is just a f*gg*t¹.¹ traditional meaning, look it up FFS.Xena, since1994 lifetime politically incorrect and proud of it.

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 12:28:21 pm
content: Quote from: Xena E on March 17, 2024, 12:19:54 pmI suppose no German-speaker there ever had a need to researchbassoons?

author: BrokenYugo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 12:59:53 pm
content: I seem to have this memory of a time when children largely weren't allowed on the Internet, what with it being full of weirdos, gore, pornography, and made up bullshit in general. I didn't have private web access until I was like 13 and I was stealing it at the time.Seems like the easier solution to me, but I suppose that would be less profitable, draining mommy's credit card is big business after all.

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 01:37:42 pm
content: Quote from: BrokenYugo on March 17, 2024, 12:59:53 pmThe credit cards aren't to charge money, but to prove you're old enough tohavea credit card. Just age verification.

author: Xena E
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 05:16:34 pm
content: Quote from: pcprogrammer on March 16, 2024, 07:42:35 pmAnyway, bananas aren't any good for that, they go all squishy after a few minutes in the warm

author: HwAoRrDk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 05:19:58 pm
content: A while back I was looking for some metal-bladed squeegees for spreading solder paste onto stencils.Good thing I don't have an HR department monitoring me, because searching on eBay for "stainless steel spreaders" brought back some items which I suppose you could describe as "adult bedroom equipment".

author: pcprogrammer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 07:06:22 pm
content: Quote from: Xena E on March 17, 2024, 05:16:34 pmSounds like experience.

author: Xena E
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 09:01:51 pm
content: Quote from: pcprogrammer on March 17, 2024, 07:06:22 pmShush!

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 10:48:31 pm
content: Quote from: tooki on March 17, 2024, 01:37:42 pmIf users get used to that, phishing would become much easier.

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 11:07:01 pm
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on March 17, 2024, 10:48:31 pmMany free adult sites have been using that method for years, it’s nothing new.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2024, 11:09:27 pm
content: Yes, the method is safe and effective.

author: EPAIII
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2024, 10:46:35 am
content: Quote from: pcprogrammer on March 17, 2024, 06:28:44 amWomen too! As a young lady of my past acquaintance told me, they are just sneaker about it.

author: EPAIII
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2024, 10:50:36 am
content: You were on the internet at 13? What luck!I had to wait until I was around 40 or 45.Quote from: BrokenYugo on March 17, 2024, 12:59:53 pm

author: eutectique
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2024, 12:10:14 pm
content: Quote from: exe on March 16, 2024, 07:17:20 pmAre you looking for a plug with a pony tail or a fox tail?

author: pcprogrammer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2024, 12:48:55 pm
content: Quote from: EPAIII on March 18, 2024, 10:50:36 amIt was not available when I was born and got introduced to it when it got more widely available at around 30 or so. Before that the odd bulletin board but mostly information via school, magazine or the library while playing with my TRS-80.

author: pcprogrammer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2024, 02:47:24 pm
content: Looking for "diotec" on Aliexpress raises the same "are you older than 18" question, but actually gives a lot of adult toys as a result.I tried to see if they had any components from diotec semiconducter, and it turns out to be not a lot.Won't post a screen cap of the result here to protect the innocent of mind.

author: onsokumaru
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: April 03, 2024, 09:19:59 am
content: I got the same message doing a search for some connectors, I got scared about what kind of resultsI was going to get, but in the end just connectors