There are some very sensitive souls on the Internet who object to seeing swear words. To that end, a huge industry has sprung up around “Profanity Filters” – services which claim to be able to detect naughty words and automatically redact them. The approach of dumbly looking for strings of text leads to a range…
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Annoyingly, FourSquare has started be be a source of spam for me. I get friend request from people who only like certain brands of stores, from recruitment consultants trying to work out who I’m visiting, and from cultists who are desperate for me to visit Scientology centres. I also get friend requests from people I’ve…
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