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Let's not forget all the purely unintentional stuff to. We can no longer refer to New York City as NYC, just in case someone converts our text to wingdings.
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I witnessed that first-hand, about eight years ago when I was working on retail software which we supplied to a company which had a branch in that town. How we laughed.
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that town is my home - while at school I delt with this on a daily basis, funny thing is... until the school computers wouldn't let us write sXXXXhorpe we didn't notice that we were the only town in the UK with the word CUNT in it ;)
oh, the things you learn at school :D
Rob
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I was speaking about computer forensics at the university I graduated at a few months ago. I was asked to send my power point presentation to the TA that worked in the forensic department. She didn't get it. Turns out several of the words in my presentation were considered pornographic and offensive, so it was filtered into her spam folder.
Turns out she had all sorts of problems with this issue as they were constantly getting emails from police and medical examiners with words that were tripping the spam filters... mainly because they dealt with sensitive matters. Apparently the word "blood" was enough to get it caught too.
And the IT department basically refused to remove the filter on their email addresses and said "check the filters to make sure nothing important got caught". Certainly doesn't make sense when the bulk of your emails wind up getting flagged for offensive content when they're directly related to your job. :/
Seejay
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I just moved to Manassas. I have a lot of fun spelling that one out for people! :)
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What is wrong with the word gookin? I don't get it..
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Belcat:
Four words.
United Negro College Fund.
I guess they don't have a problem with the word.
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"gook" is a derogatory slang word used to refer to asians.
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Aah ok thanks. Poor mister Gookin, does anyone know if he is asian?
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I once sent a resume to an insurance company which bounced. I got an email insisting that I stop sending them porn.
The reason? My last name is Sexton.
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Indeed, missives from "Brown, Dick" were usually greeted with hilarity (and not always because of the name).
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High pass filtering?
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hear the sound of a thousand submissives, crying out in ecstasy
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I think the best solution to this problem is to remove all filtering. See who complains. Tell the complainer that filtering has been added for them to remove all potential offensive content. Then disconnect them from email, WWW, or whatever is being filtered.
The only sure way to insure that nothing gets through that might possibley offend someone is to make sure that nothing gets through.
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At MU, they assign you a random email address that is your initials plus three random letters or numbers. For example, mine was [email protected].
My brother's name is Shaun Thomas, so his initials being STD is pretty funny by itself. (My mom says they didn't call them STDs back then.) But the day I found out his email, I almost died laughing. [email protected] (And they take away your email when you graduate, so neither address works anymore.)
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Sambody needs to be fired for this absurdity!
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A certain conservative politican from Germany had his nation-wide embarrasment last year or so, when he proposed that a certain web filtering software should be made compulsory for all web users (he even mentioned the name of the product that should be used, which made many people suspect that some money changed hands for this advertising, but I digress...)
Well, it didn't take long for people to find out that this great piece of software even blocked the access to that politician's web site - probably because it didn't believe that it's a good thing that he finished his studies "summa cum laude" :-)
LOL! Captcha: bling! I guess that's what it made :-)
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Listen to what the Urban Dictionary has to say about:
Gook
Gookin
Gookin'
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I suppose Chad Ross could have set up a new hotmail account with the address "[email protected]" with an auto-forward to his real email address...
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Even to this day, ezboard (which I'm going to struggle to refrain from bashing in this post) runs s/script/******/g on all posts submitted to its forums, with no admin option to switch this filter off.
Presumably to prevent evil java******s from being posted.
"Incompetent"? That de******ion hardly does it justice.
The funny part? This happens even on boards that don't allow any HTML content in the first place.
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I don't know about you, but I sort of have objections to a hotmail.com address that forwards to my real address. Spam proxy, so to speak.
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When we tell stories we mention a lot of things that aren't relevant to the moral of the story, but it adds flavor, and makes the story interesting.
So its ok to point out random, uneccessary items, unrelated to the story, EXCEPT for the protagonist's race?
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Censors should be censured.
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I can't remember if it was Prodigy or AOL, but one day, unannounced, the Breast Cancer Support Group vanished due to overzealous censorship. No wonder kids can't spell: they go looking for something exciting, and all the good words are mangled.
captcha: bling (It's more important to LOOK good than DO good.)
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What amused me is that Gookin - Dan Gookin, to be exact - is the name of a well-respected computer-book writer. His "Dos Guru" book is the one that got me started in IT. He also wrote the early "For Dummies" books.
Hmm. Profanity Filters for Dummies. Should suggest it to him!
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Every Day Sucks.
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I remember when on GameFAQs you couldn't say "wristwatch" or it would set off the censor. To say nothing of many Japanese names, even stuff like "Fukushima"
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I may know of this guy. My hiking buddies had been recommending an electrolyte drink known as "Gookinaid", and I recently bought some. At first I assumed the name came from "gook" rhyming with "book", a word I often heard in my youth as approximately synonomous with "gunk", and I thought it was an innocent but unfortunate choice of brand name. Then I looked at the can and saw that the owner of the company is a Mr. Bill Gookin.
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I have a Chinese looking friend (Chinese father, Aussie mother) surname = Coon. In true Aussie fashion, all my mates are called by their last name./
I got a slap from my mum when I first introduced my mate Coon.
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That needs a 'NSFW' tag ! The page links to that of Penistone, where I learned: Penistone is twinned with the Icelandic town of Grindavik.
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Are there any laws about names? What is there to stop me (aside from ridicule) from changing my name to "Homofag Cuntly McNiggerton" (or "H.C. McNig" for short)? Is that the most awesome name you have ever heard or what? On the other hand, it would be somewhat awkward to hand that form to a homosexual black woman...
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Sweeet! I think the tense was a bit off on the capcha, though--should be "will burn..." for LOL'ing.
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Drug reference.
Sounds like you're either too old or too young. When ah was a whippersnapper, there was a cattle tranquilizer called PCP [aka Angel Dust] that had a certain cult following as a recreational drug. Lots of kids went off the deep end playing with it. They called the practice "dustin'"
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giggle
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Nothing is wrong with the name Gookin. Unfortunately, the epithet "gook" referring to people of Southeast Asian origin, played a very active part in support attitudes that depersonalized the victims of bombing raids, defoliation, occasional slaughter of entire villages, and similar atrocities during the Vietnam War.
While relying on software as a substitute for human judgment is extremely stupid, so also is insensitivity towards racial or other epithets. They kill innocent humans, often by the millions.
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Probably "too old." Young people definitely know what dustin' is, but it means something different these days. It means to inhale the gas from a Dust-Off can. Which, I must say, is an even dumber thing to do than taking PCP.
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I work for a retail company. Anything that looks like a CC# triggers the ban filter.
It really SUCKS when we try to mail (IBM mainframe)system logs of abended jobs.
captha: craaazy "How did you know?"
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What is wrong in being black, asian etc.?
Being ashamed of your own race seem rather racist.
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Yay! My home town on DailyWTF. I'm so proud :)
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Hmm, I remember spending some time puzzling over why all internal company emails that discussed the auction of a company car kept getting classed as spam by Outlook.
The car was a Rover 214....
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hmm... no access to it... gets filtered out... category 'entertaining'... we are not allowed to entertain ourselves over here... let's go back to work :(
captcha: gygax... like gigantic gag?
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I blog on a site that has garbled words I've used ~ like "multitude" and " analysis". One can't help but think that of the "i d i o t" factor that thinks up ways to "bastardize" words.
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Those icelanders always seem to get amused that our local power company is named Tussa Kraft. For a similar reason the Honda Fitta was renamed Honda Jazz in Norway and Sweden.
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At least in the states, a judge has to clear your new name change before you are legally allowed to use that as your name. Sometimes you see in the news "Judge allows Briggs to change her name to Obi-Wan Kenobi", or "Judge allows man to change name to Jesus Christ", or "Judge denies man permission to change name to Peyton Manning". All of which actually happened. I'm fairly sure most judges would find such a name to be in poor taste.
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I just got some strange looks after laughing out loud at that!
I remember, years back I worked doing tech support for CompuServe... I had a guy called up wander why his account was cut off. The reason? He had his name down as Jesus Christ and his address as something like 1 Angel Way, Pearly Gates, Heaven.
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That is awesome.
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Damn, that's twice I've received weird looks for laughing at my desk. That is simply the best name I've ever seen!
And can someone explain the Rover 214 thing? I'm not getting that one at all, and I'm not normally totally stupid.
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On a related note, I was once sent some porn-spam - nothing odd there, but it related to paedophilia. So I went to the metropolitan police website to see if there was a forwarding address for such things.
Nope, but there was a telephone number for reporting paedo webstuff. So I rang it and spoke to a very helpful officer, who asked me to print out the email and fax it to him. I asked if I couldn't forward the email to him instead, especially since he might want to see all the headers. No - their filters would almost certainly block the message. And, yes, he did know that this was absurd, given the purpose of his department.
In the great scheme of things, it probably didn't matter. When I pointed out the problem with the headers, he asked me what headers were...