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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/12 14:34, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2012 13:51:26 +0100 Mark Evans > <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Mark, > >> Even if you were to stick with just "porn" can you actually have >> an objective definition. > > Indeed: > > Penistone was thinking of changing its name to Pennistone to avoid > problems with censorship, allegedly. This is actually known as "Scunthorpe problem". > > My wife's employer had a system in place whereby any profanity was > blocked. What's wrong with that? She works in the legal > profession, and if a witness said "~&*@!", that's what had to be > written. IIRC there was a lawyer with the surname "Babcock" who was barred from signing up to some automated service. But was allowed to use the name "Babpenis"! > > Finally, there's the architects' firm that couldn't send out > emails with the word erection in it. I'm sure there was a website of "Smut where only a computer would look" or some such. A sultable alternative would be "How to fail Natural Language Processing/Understanding". Arguably even worst than machine translation systems which come up with the likes of "The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten." or machinary operated by "wet sheep". There being very few words used in porn which do not have completly unrelated meanings. Not just words there are even whole sentences which without context you cannot tell if the subject is cooking poultry or sexual massage. On the other hand you've had TV programmes containing profanity brodcast in children's slots because the words in question wern't offensive in the USA, Australia, etc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+leaEACgkQsoRLMhsZpFdAdgCfa1JeYhA539x4nrd9XitVrjnO 3E0An1fb64v/4sw/I9+MgPht314o3Bnj =990w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq