• (cs) in reply to Franz_Kafka
    Franz_Kafka:
    Lustig:
    Believe me, all my life I've been exposed to profanity. So fcuking what? Have I became a felon?
    I know I have - I ripped a cd to mp3 and then converted a dvd to mpg. Hoo boy, but I'm a hardened criminal.
    Well, at least you did it the right way - according to today's xkcd
  • g0ats3 (unregistered)

    I think I need to poo again

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to akatherder
    akatherder:
    JoJo:
    Please re-insert the following: ass, butt, poo, prick

    I think this line is funnier out of context.

    But then, you always were a bit of a cvnt.

  • Dudley H. (unregistered)

    A while back I worked for a company with a very active forum. I was in charge of adding newly mandated "dirty words" to the forum's profanity filter. My favorite that was deemed too vile to be displayed on-screen was the phrase "chocolate cha-cha".

    Really? chocolate cha-cha? Has anybody, anywhere ever actually said that?

    Just goes to prove that profanity filters will never be 100% idiot-proof, because idiots are so inventive.

  • (cs) in reply to NullAndVoid
    NullAndVoid:
    JoJo:
    ***rly implemented filters are a *****ly subject with me when you end up with messages like:

    Please click the help ****on if you require ***istance

    Please re-insert the following: ass, butt, poo, prick

    Assrly implemented filters are a buttly subject with me when you end up with messages like:

    Please click the help pooon if you require prickistance

    Umm, I don't get it...?

    poorly implemented filters are a prickly subject with me when you end up with messages like:

    Please click the help button if you require assistance

  • Captain Obvious (unregistered) in reply to bsaksida
    bsaksida:
    poorly implemented filters are a prickly subject with me when you end up with messages like:

    Please click the help button if you require assistance

    Wow! Thank you for clearing what everybody else was wondering about. Who woulda guessed?

    Now don't forget to get your gift, an entirely-free Irony Detector, on your way out

  • (cs) in reply to Captain Obvious
    Captain Obvious:
    bsaksida:
    poorly implemented filters are a prickly subject with me when you end up with messages like:

    Please click the help button if you require assistance

    Wow! Thank you for clearing what everybody else was wondering about. Who woulda guessed?

    Now don't forget to get your gift, an entirely-free Irony Detector, on your way out

    Now solve this puzzle:

    N*GGERS : clue - people you hate

    GO **** YOURSELF *** : clue - phrases

  • Stan'sDad (unregistered) in reply to LightStyx
    LightStyx:
    Captain Obvious:
    bsaksida:
    poorly implemented filters are a prickly subject with me when you end up with messages like:

    Please click the help button if you require assistance

    Wow! Thank you for clearing what everybody else was wondering about. Who woulda guessed?

    Now don't forget to get your gift, an entirely-free Irony Detector, on your way out

    Now solve this puzzle:

    N*GGERS : clue - people you hate

    GO **** YOURSELF *** : clue - phrases

    Congratulations on quoting a South Park episode.

  • Mr.'; Drop Database -- (unregistered)

    We certainly can't have any profanity on "The Daily What The Fuck," can we?

  • (cs) in reply to LightStyx
    LightStyx:
    Captain Obvious:
    bsaksida:
    poorly implemented filters are a prickly subject with me when you end up with messages like:

    Please click the help button if you require assistance

    Wow! Thank you for clearing what everybody else was wondering about. Who woulda guessed?

    Now don't forget to get your gift, an entirely-free Irony Detector, on your way out

    Now solve this puzzle:

    N*GGERS : clue - people you hate

    GO **** YOURSELF *** : clue - phrases

    Hmmm... tough one...

    The first one's quite easy: naggers. I really hate people that nag.

    The second is a bit tougher, but I'm guessing "go tuck yourself in!". Am I close?

  • (cs) in reply to Evo
    Evo:
    LightStyx:
    Captain Obvious:
    bsaksida:
    poorly implemented filters are a prickly subject with me when you end up with messages like:

    Please click the help button if you require assistance

    Wow! Thank you for clearing what everybody else was wondering about. Who woulda guessed?

    Now don't forget to get your gift, an entirely-free Irony Detector, on your way out

    Now solve this puzzle:

    N*GGERS : clue - people you hate

    GO **** YOURSELF *** : clue - phrases

    Hmmm... tough one...

    The first one's quite easy: naggers. I really hate people that nag.

    The second is a bit tougher, but I'm guessing "go tuck yourself in!". Am I close?

    Damn. I only just watched the movie of the n*ggers one. I'm not really original am I? Dunno about the other one though :P

  • wesley0042 (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward:
    I have the word "Belgi*m" in my code SO many focking times!

    Are we talking about the very flat country, with all the EEC and the fog?

  • John (unregistered) in reply to jspenguin

    wtf? Bash.org is up again. And I've been wasting time at work working? Damn

  • Guide (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward:
    I have the word "Belgi*m" in my code SO many focking times!

    Most natives don't even know what it means.

  • John Labovitz (unregistered)

    I used to work for WatchGuard Technology, who made the first appliance firewall (and still, to my knowledge) produces internet security systems.

    My bit of the product was the application proxies -- email, web, etc. We were adding content filtering to the web proxy, and had licensed a third-party database of categorized URLs. My job, then, was to make all outgoing web access first go through this database to make sure the given URL was allowed or denied.

    While I was developing the content-filtering module, I had to do a lot of testing, both for "bad" sites (eg, listed in the database) and "good" (not listed), as well as various permutations of the URLs to make sure the kiddies weren't going to be exposed to the shocking world of the wide-open Internet. (So, weirdly, porn sites were safe for my work at that moment.)

    Once I got the code mostly working, I tried to access my own website... and was denied. Hmm, that's strange. I knew what was there, and knew that I didn't have any the attributes of sex/drugs/gambling/tobacco/etc. that was in the database. Given that my personal website was used an old-style tilde (~) notation, I spent a long time tracking down some weird parsing bug,

    Finally, I realized the truth: looking more closely at the database, I saw that my website was being blocked: for a good variety of attributes -- in fact, more than most "bad" sites got.

    Why?

    At the time, I published the e-zine-list, a very early web resource of about 4000 electronic zines. Apparently the editors of the blocked-sites database had decided that some of those zines were so bad, even the description of the zines on my site didn't pass their "good" filter.

    Of course, once I realized I was on the "other" side of the content-filtering chasm, I tested the system assuming my site would be blocked.

  • (cs) in reply to ih34
    ih34:
    I bet it takes more than five minutes to list all the profanity with standard spelling in one language, let alone half-a-dozen others. Then factor in the substitution of 0 (zero) for O (oh) and z for s etc. etc. not forgetting valid messages e.g Present from Scunthorpe etc.

    You can surely think of a better way than typing them all in... can't you?

    As for matching words inside other words; "clbuttic" and "S****horpe" are wonderful cases of programmers thinking they understand how to write a regex. And failing. Take one profanity list and one dictionary. For each swear, show dumb regex matches in dictionary.

    Without even thinking hard, I get 6135 matches. Like this:

      for swear in $( cat dirtywords.txt ); do
cnt=$(grep -c $swear /usr/share/dict/words)
echo $swear:$cnt ... $bigtot
(( bigtot=bigtot+cnt ))
[[ $fqcnt -lt $cnt ]] && fqcnt=$cnt && fword=$swear
done
echo most frequentest naughty word: $fword with $fqcnt matches
    It's interesting to note that "ass" alone makes over half those hits. I'll leave it up to someone else to pipe that lot through sort. And no temp files, please.

  • (cs) in reply to Captain Obvious
    Captain Obvious:
    Irony Detector

    Sigh. Not the trigger-happy U.S. model that goes off when it detects sarcasm, ennui, cynicism, slapstick comedy, bizzareness, satire, parody, and jadedness?

    In fact, is the commonly-found one that works for all the above, and not irony?

    No wonder they're free...

  • eyrieowl (unregistered)

    Not to beat a long-dead horse, but The Daily WTF should be well versed in content filtering after its troubled period as Worse Than Failure.... My goodness, what WILL the grandmother think?

  • (cs)

    I used to use NSFW language in comments/commit-logs, until I found out that the regulators actually read this stuff...

  • F...ed out (unregistered)

    F...ing was f...ed out by the f...ing f...

    It never was floccinaucinihilipilificating.

  • (cs) in reply to jspenguin
    jspenguin:

    That thread cracks me up, and also illustrates why I don't like the Debian community. Fixing that "bug" would have been far easier than all the BS involved in arguing about it. WTF.

  • (cs) in reply to Mr.'; Drop Database --
    Mr.'; Drop Database --:
    We certainly can't have any profanity on "The Daily What The Fuck," can we?
    Actually it isn't a problem. People are just too much paranoid. Anyways, WTF stand for "Wednesday Thursday Friday", isn't it? They post on here on that days (as well as on other days as well)
  • N Morrison (unregistered)

    What if the comment invites some other person to make love elsewhere? Will that be 'cleaned up'?

  • (cs)

    What really annoys me is how my mobile phone censors my text messages for me. In what world would I use "dual", "duck", "eval", and "dubl" more frequently than "fuck"? So childish. Cue Armstrong and Miller sketch...

  • Ken (unregistered)

    My email address quite innocently has the word sperm in it. I'm quite glad that half my mail doesn't get through. Arseholes.

  • David Gerard (unregistered)

    The previous clbuttic story inspired this blog post: Universal Internet filter plans detailed - I'm sure someone in the British government actually thinks this is a good idea.

  • (cs) in reply to Smash King
    Smash King:
    Franz_Kafka:
    Lustig:
    Believe me, all my life I've been exposed to profanity. So fcuking what? Have I became a felon?
    I know I have - I ripped a cd to mp3 and then converted a dvd to mpg. Hoo boy, but I'm a hardened criminal.
    Well, at least you did it the right way - according to today's xkcd
    Except that under copyright law I believe (and if you can provide compelling evidence otherwise I'm happy to be corrected) you are allowed to make copies as long as they are only for your own personal use and you don't distribute them. So as long as you buy the CDs and DVDs in the first place you can rip them all you like. It's called a "backup" ;^)
  • John (unregistered) in reply to JimM
    JimM:
    Smash King:
    Franz_Kafka:
    Lustig:
    Believe me, all my life I've been exposed to profanity. So fcuking what? Have I became a felon?
    I know I have - I ripped a cd to mp3 and then converted a dvd to mpg. Hoo boy, but I'm a hardened criminal.
    Well, at least you did it the right way - according to today's xkcd
    Except that under copyright law I believe (and if you can provide compelling evidence otherwise I'm happy to be corrected) you are allowed to make copies as long as they are only for your own personal use and you don't distribute them. So as long as you buy the CDs and DVDs in the first place you can rip them all you like. It's called a "backup" ;^)
    This is only legal if you do not change the format. So backing up a CD to a CD should be perfectly legal (even though a lot of CDs have copy protection - go figure). However, ripping a CD to MP3 is not legal as you have changed the native format of the recording. Sorry, but you can't legitimately backup your legally owned music THAT easily!
  • KD (unregistered) in reply to John
    John:
    This is only legal if you do not change the format. So backing up a CD to a CD should be perfectly legal (even though a lot of CDs have copy protection - go figure).
    I think you're right in terms of copyright laws but don't make the mistake of thinking that this has any relation to the DRM-crippled MP3s that you may download through iTunes or another music download service. The reason for this is because these services require you to accept draconian license agreements that force you to waive your legitimate rights under international copyright laws. So even though copyright laws say you can legally make a backup, the iTunes user agreement that you accepted entirely quashes these rights. The above quoted XKCD is spot on - the safest way to protect your legitimate rights as a consumer is to simply pirate the goods. This is the world that the music companies have forged for themsleves; I sure hope they're enjoying it.
  • Dan (unregistered)

    I recently wrote a profanity filter for my company's web application. My class comment was:

    • An implementation of the service to filter out swear words from text. It watches the profanity library file and reloads any changes as and when they happen. Fucking ace!
  • Qvasi (unregistered) in reply to JoelKatz
    JoelKatz:
    They published a condolence for the death of "Myra Lip****z". Followed the next issue by an apology.
    What was the real name? Sorry if this should be obvious, but English is not my first language... Neither is names ending with z particulary familiar to me. Google didn't help much...

    BTW: There should be some more obvious feedback when you try to post without filling out "Your Name"... Couldn't figure why nothing happened a couple of minutes there.... ;)

  • Steve (unregistered) in reply to Qvasi
    Qvasi:
    JoelKatz:
    They published a condolence for the death of "Myra Lip****z". Followed the next issue by an apology.
    What was the real name? Sorry if this should be obvious, but English is not my first language... Neither is names ending with z particulary familiar to me. Google didn't help much...

    BTW: There should be some more obvious feedback when you try to post without filling out "Your Name"... Couldn't figure why nothing happened a couple of minutes there.... ;)

    It was actually a doctor by the name of Herman Libshitz and you can read all about it here.

  • weirded verber (unregistered)

    Anyone heard Chuck Berrys version of J****y B. Goode? iTunes have a copy, I'veh eard it's a lot like Johnny B. Goode, but censored for the sake of the kids wtf

  • Paolo G (unregistered) in reply to pscs
    pscs:
    Loren Pechtel:
    That programmer should be embar***ed!

    I didn't know raß was a swear word :-?

    Maybe you've never spent any time with Jamaicans... "Rass" is one of the commonest swear words they use. It is used in much the same way as "f...ing" (without the dots, of course), as in "shut your rass mouth!"

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered) in reply to pscs
    pscs:
    Loren Pechtel:
    That programmer should be embar***ed!

    I didn't know raß was a swear word :-?

    That's not what I *ed out. I wrote the word just as one overly-aggressive profanity-filter on comments did to me.

  • (cs) in reply to squeem
    squeem:
    Anonymous Coward:
    I have the word "Belgi*m" in my code SO many focking times!

    I have it tattooed on my S**prini.

    <points>Out!
  • (cs) in reply to jspenguin
    jspenguin:
    Also:

    Malachi 2:3: Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces.

    Oh, faces. I didn't half misread that first time round and was going to post that it seemed a pretty redundant activity to me ...
  • Jim Woods (unregistered)

    Personally, I am getting sick and tired of filtering. I even getting more fed up with idiots that think they can tell me I should not see. I am quite capable of deciding for myself than you very much.

    Jiff www.Privacy-center.net

  • KKKoder (unregistered) in reply to LightStyx
    Now solve this puzzle:

    N*GGERS : clue - people you hate

    That's easy. NIGGERS are people I hate.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    At an old job the computer would generate "product codes" with one of those schemes where the first letter is "D" for deoderant and "F" for fragrance and so on, the second letter meant something else that I forget, etc. One day the computer generated a code that was a vulgarity. Somebody caught it before they printed it on thousands of labels, so they added a vulgarity-checker to the code generation. And one of our people was assigned the task of making a list of all the vulgar and obscene words that he could think of. What a job! He got paid to write down obscene words! How do you put that on your resume?

  • Jay (unregistered)

    On the serious side: While of course my life will not be destroyed if I hear or read an obscene word, personally, I'd rather not subject myself to it. I won't die from stepping in dog excrement or having someone throw up on my shirt or watching a reality program, either, but these things are unpleasant and I avoid them. I've never understood why someone people get such pleasure from using words that they know offend or annoy others.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    On the serious side: While of course my life will not be destroyed if I hear or read an obscene word, personally, I'd rather not subject myself to it. I won't die from stepping in dog excrement or having someone throw up on my shirt or watching a reality program, either, but these things are unpleasant and I avoid them. I've never understood why someone people get such pleasure from using words that they know offend or annoy others.

  • fuckshitass (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    On the serious side: While of course my life will not be destroyed if I hear or read an obscene word, personally, I'd rather not subject myself to it. I won't die from stepping in dog excrement or having someone throw up on my shirt or watching a reality program, either, but these things are unpleasant and I avoid them. I've never understood why someone people get such pleasure from using words that they know offend or annoy others.

    I think of it like this: say I post here saying how dumb I think Flat Earth Society people are. If one of them reads my post, they will likely be offended, ne? Should I worry about that? Surely almost nobody would argue that I should, because their position is just so damn ridiculous. Well, I find the idea that certain words can be "bad" just by their mere nature to be equally inane, so I don't really see a reason to curb their usage just because someone might be offended.

    That being said, I do avoid cussing around children, etc... IRL.

  • (cs)

    Classic! <-- people rally against Censorship, start here!

  • lokey (unregistered) in reply to Ken
    Ken:
    My email address quite innocently has the word sperm in it. I'm quite glad that half my mail doesn't get through. Arseholes.

    I hope all your mail doesn't get through Arseholes - the smell alone would be quite nasty...

  • Graham Asher (unregistered)

    There is a serious point here. Anything that removes swearwords has to contain a list of swearwords. I was bitten by the same thing in the early 80s when I worked on a Sinclair Spectrum game called Valhalla. I naively put the list of swearwords in an array in the interpreted BASIC part of the game (this was a long time ago, remember) and a user, or in fact I think a user's mother, found it and wrote to complain. I suppose I should have used some weak encryption on the list, like XORing.

  • Jem (unregistered)
    <comment filtered>
  • Aluan Haddad (unregistered)

    At least it is explicit. Very readable.

  • eric bloedow (unregistered) in reply to Kermos

    i used to play the game Runescape, and the filters on it's forum pages used to block the word "sextant"...and yes, that word was used in-game, you needed one to find buried treasures.

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