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- badwithcomputer, on 10/20/2008, -2/+53that should come in *bleep*ing handy
- MrPillowPants, on 10/20/2008, -0/+44"SHUT THE ***** UP, YOU BITCH ASS ***** BITCH!"
That was screamed at me over xbox live from a 12 year old during a Gears match. - inactive, on 10/20/2008, -7/+41Online ames without inappropriate language are dull.
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -2/+26This should slow some of the verbally abusive on-line gamers down a bit.
- techfish, on 10/20/2008, -4/+23I don't see how this could possibly work.
- HomeNucleonics, on 10/20/2008, -1/+19I find it funny that society has determined that there are certain words that cannot be said, when other words that share the same meaning could be said without censorship.
- avasol, on 10/20/2008, -1/+17Because, you know, they won't be able to call you assriding cockmonkey any more...
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -2/+18Must suck if you live in Fukuoka, Japan.
- Jaablaze, on 10/20/2008, -0/+15or you could just mute the player.
- chadsmith729, on 10/20/2008, -4/+16Oh well ***** that. It's my game I can say what I want.
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -3/+14***** WINDOWS 98
- Surferess, on 10/20/2008, -1/+10"profanasaurus" now that's funny!
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -0/+9And thus, no one was ever able to refer to the beautiful province of Phuket, Thailand again.
- Beaches, on 10/20/2008, -2/+11goodbye traditional xbox live.
- fistulaspume, on 10/20/2008, -0/+8There's too many mother uckers ucking wit my shi!
- netdroid9, on 10/20/2008, -0/+8I heard they're using it to censor out anything that sounds like it might not be from a profane, idiotic 12 year old. So far they've had trouble telling whether it's actually working or not.
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -1/+9F*** that sh**!!
Oh sh**... it's already happening!!!
You motherf****rs!! You blew it all up!! - d0nkeym0nkey, on 10/20/2008, -0/+8Millions of 9-year-old xbox live users cry in unison.
- Czechxican, on 10/20/2008, -0/+8**** it! We'll do it live.
Man that would make so much stuff less epic. - aspec, on 10/20/2008, -0/+8Yeah, but I don't have to hear it. This would be a nice addition to say... Halo 3 deathmatches (where children tend to start screaming the first time they die and not stop until the end of the round), but I'm not sure how they can discern that from similar sounding words.
What if I want to talk about George Clinton? Or Rick James? - chadsmith729, on 10/20/2008, -0/+8How in the hell are you not banned yet? I keep reporting you but you just wouldn't go away.
- Haroshia, on 10/20/2008, -0/+7Great...now we'll just have to invent new profanity. Frack you Microsoft.
((or Frak if you're a youngin)) - inactive, on 10/20/2008, -0/+7No, it won't.
It's not like they're some organization bent on soiling children's ears with profanity. They're just other kids who get pissed off and say "*****" and "*****" and "fag" and "bum rubbish". Well, only the british kids say the last one.
Anyways, a kid knowing that another kid has censored earphones isn't going to stop him from swearing his ass off. - Murdats, on 10/20/2008, -0/+7if there is one thing cod4 has taught me, profanity filtered servers drive away most of the idiots.
if you have your sever tagged as profanity filtered, and x profanities gets you banned, then ***** retarded kids will avoid it because they will just get their ***** asses banned. - tamaker, on 10/20/2008, -1/+7probably so they can rid the world of all mentions of Red Ring of Death.
- silver26, on 10/20/2008, -1/+7***** waste of money
- Zapkiller, on 10/20/2008, -0/+6Ah, a perfect thing for America. Yes, why not? Let's censor everything.
- burketo, on 10/20/2008, -0/+5There is a massive difference between recognizing and bleeping swear words and the much more complex task of censoring conversation topics as the author suggersts the chinese might do.
Based on this word recognization technology, a program would be restricted to having some fixed parameters or "keywords" to look out for. It would then probably run some sort of google-esque algorithm to discover the most likely topic of conversation. this would have a very limited effect. it would be difficult to adapt to ever changing slang and what's worse is that keywords would be very quickly identified by trial and error so that if someone wanted to say "kill" they would simply say some other random slang or code word. further more, it would be very sdifficult for a program to recognize when something is alluded to. e.g. "A: I got laid off today. B: You aren't alone. How did they let all this happen?" A program would conclude that they are talking about the company that A works for where in reality they could very well be talking about their govwernment. it is all about context.
All in all i think it is a little tin-foil hatty to imagine an automatic bleeper be used as a big-brother type censor, at least effectively. - inactive, on 10/20/2008, -0/+5Yes Murdats, you caught my meaning there, subtle as it was. You're very smart. Here's a cookie.
- SniperZero, on 10/20/2008, -0/+5If they have to process the audio for this then wont that cause like at least 1 second delay? Meaning that 1 second could be a matter of life and death?.
- Frostek, on 10/20/2008, -2/+7Did you just get back from your drama class?
- PennFarmer, on 10/20/2008, -0/+5The telephony idea is possible, but much more difficult. There is a world of difference between bleeping specific words and censoring someone's speech live. yes, you can take out words like communism, government, and authoritarian, but if people wish to talk about it still, they will simply begin using different words for these things. To catch that would take live operators who could then input the changes into the system with the result being an ever widening list of unmentionable words.
This quickly ceases to be feasible as the people having the conversation will continue to evolve their speech and the whole thing becomes a game that in itself is a direct indictment of the government. Authoritarian regimes are bad and this technology could be misused, but it would have to improve quite a bit to be able to do live censorship of a range of topics. Something to keep an eye on.
On the other hand, with live operators, they might just arrest them instead. - dilbert, on 10/20/2008, -2/+7So, how can the system tell whether I'm going to say FUUUUUUUUUNNNNN or FUUUUUUUUUUCK?
- Frophauser, on 10/20/2008, -1/+5You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens when you FIND a stranger in the ALPS?! This is what happens!
- nem0, on 10/20/2008, -0/+4They're also working on an algorithm that bleeps "Apple" and "Linux."
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -3/+7Oh noes, now the highballs little kids can't swear on the intawebs? WHAT WILL WE DO DIGG? WHAT WILL WE DO?
- Asianwaste, on 10/20/2008, -0/+4People will first have fun with it, then find a way around it.
- Smills, on 10/20/2008, -0/+4Where?
- prgmctan, on 10/20/2008, -0/+4I think you missed the point, Chad.
- xister, on 10/20/2008, -0/+4No doubt- all you'd have to do is break the word down into syllables. That ffff uuuhh kkking mmmuuuther fff uuu ker!
If it isn't human, it isn't going to be able to censor worth *****. Stupid idea. - cnot3, on 10/20/2008, -0/+4or *****, Austria
- DarkPrincess74, on 10/20/2008, -0/+4So you're saying kick out the 12 year annoying boys from the games? I think it would be great if it was possible to not play games with kids. I've had great conversations on xbox games when I've played some games with other people older than 18.
- jakash, on 10/20/2008, -3/+6It's not impossible to say '*****' on the internet, y'know.
- bentrinh, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/11/
- Mujokan, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3Run it all through DSP and do really fast voice recognition, I would guess. You're only looking for a few words.
As AchaIemoipas said it would get some false positives (though the first syllable there is pronounced like halfway between "foo" and "hoo" so "Fukuoka" might not get caught). You could fool it by saying fuuuuuuuck too.
Might lead to a funny arms race to invent new swear words.
Back in the day it was hard to chat in Japanese in UO (written chat) if you were used to ordinary romanization, because "*****" comes up a lot in that language (pronounced sheetay). - aleclerc, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3What's with the picture? Do you temporarily go blind when you swear also?
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3And I should be allowed to use either at my leisure. I honestly don't give a ***** if it offends you either.
- ReyX, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3Phuket?
- chadsmith729, on 10/20/2008, -2/+5I thought that Halo 3 had a Mute in it already. Did I think I saw that? Because most games from almost EVERY reputable manufacture has implemented a way to mute one or more players. That way in your scenario you could mute that whiny kid and not have to read or hear what they say. Even back in Unreal Tournament 2004 it had that, which let's face it was what 4 years ago? I'm sorry if Microsoft hasn't caught up to that as of yet.
The real issue here is will they use their patent for just games? Unlikely, they will implement it into IE8 no doubt. Imagine looking at digg and having digg be censored ... NOT from Digg (because they are way cooler than that) but by Microsoft. That's where I see this going and it makes me afraid for all who still are dumb enough to use IE to surf the Interwebs. - inactive, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3My problem with profanity filters is that there is no way to detect context, which is especially problematic when they're overzealous. If some 12-year-old's gonna be an *****, he'll find a way to get around the filters, but meanwhile I'm sitting there, knee-deep in my enemies' blood, and I can't say "Goddamnit!"
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