Naughty Words

12:04 am

Charles points out some rather unexpected results of searching for words that seem innocuous: NIGHTWATCH and SOCIALISM. Not together - separate searches, but both blocked by very literal-minded software.

My most recent experience with a “safe surfing” blocker occurred at work a few months ago…you see, I work at a nuclear-missile base (but not WITH the missiles - relax), and I was doing a bit of research on various missiles in order to better understand the history of same. But: whenever I tried to Google for “TITAN MISSILE,” I was thwarted by the Secure Computing program. Silly me — I puzzled over the blockage for a good ten minutes before I understood.

aggravants, air force

no comments

No comments yet. Want to add one?

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.

« RIP Lenny | Person Of The Year: 2004 »