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2020-10-27 Cyber

Virtual profanity filter bans the word "Bone" at a paleontology conference

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Posted by Beavis 2020-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 The system was evidently designed for business and industry events...

So pork(ed) is out at the Iowa Meatpackers convention? Come on, man!

Posted by Raj 2020-10-27 01:24|| 2020-10-27 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Once or twice is funny but this s#it has moved way beyond funny to grotesquely annoying.

Posted by AlanC 2020-10-27 08:31|| 2020-10-27 08:31|| Front Page Top

#3 For Firemen I guess hose is out too..

Posted by Warthog 2020-10-27 09:59|| 2020-10-27 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 I worked for a digital mapping company in the 90s and we had a filter that found possible dirty words. Sewage Treatment plants were frequently flagged, it took awhile to realize you could have a treatment plant without EATME in there.

We also had a lot of Bloody in the Southwestern states because of battlefields and red rock features but because we used the same software in the UK Bloody was flagged as a swear word.

Takes human interaction sometimes, computers are only so smart.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-10-27 13:57|| 2020-10-27 13:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Next will be 'Spine'.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-27 18:13|| 2020-10-27 18:13|| Front Page Top

#6 it took awhile to realize you could have a treatment plant without EATME in there.

Back in the early days of filtering naughty words on the interwebs, the town of Scunthorpe was found to be problematic.

Posted by SteveS 2020-10-27 19:12|| 2020-10-27 19:12|| Front Page Top

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