I use Citysearch to look for new and interesting places to eat and go out.
It won’t let me enter my location ‘Draper’ – it complains about ‘Inappropriate Content’:
Here’s my location:
Here’s the complaint:
Looking at the content all I can assume is that ‘Draper’ contains ‘rape’ – and that’s bad.
I hope they don’t extend the service to people living in Cockermouth or Scunthorpe.
I don’t know how offensive this might be:
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I found an interesting article via Digg about twenty years of computer viruses.
Touch wood I’ve been virus free for a dozen years. Good practice and a well honed sense of paranoia I guess.
My ‘virus claim to fame’ was being one of the first people to find ‘SMEG.Pathogen‘ in the wild – this was in the summer of 1994. I found it on a hard drive from a customers laptop.
It infected a lot of my floppy disks and my main PC. I vividly remember thinking that ’something was wrong’ with my system – and I took an example of an infected executable to the Dr Solomon’s labs in Aylesbury on a day off. I remember meeting Graham Clulely and getting some raw code to at least detect and quarantine this first polymorphic virus.
I had to give a few statements to the police – including a ‘financial impact statement’ describing how much the outbreak had personally cost me and my company.
The virus author – Chris Pile – was famously sentenced to 18 months.
I’d love to hear your stories of close encounters with viruses and malware. Feel free to comment – anonymously if needed.
Written at: Draper, UT
I found an interesting article via Digg about twenty years of computer viruses.
Touch wood I’ve been virus free for over a dozen years. Good practice and a well honed sense of paranoia I guess.
My ‘virus claim to fame’ was being one of the first people to find ‘SMEG.Pathogen‘ in the wild – this was in the summer of 1994. I found it on a hard drive from a customers laptop.
It infected a lot of my floppy disks and my main PC. I vividly remember thinking that ‘something was wrong’ with my system – and I took an example of an infected executable to the Dr Solomons labs in Aylesbury on a day off. I remember meeting Graham Clulely and getting some raw code to at least detect and quarantine this first polymorphic virus.
I had to give a few statements to the police – including a ‘financial impact statement’ describing how much the outbreak had personally cost me and my company.
The virus author – Chris Pile – was famously sentenced to 18 months.
I’m struggling with some defects in WordPress 2.0.3 – specifically around the widget configurations.
I’ll dig into the code later – but for now I’m stuck with some half working widgets. Oh well.
So finally we got to see "An Inconvenient Truth" - and it was stunning. A really well produced - but not slick and markety - and thought provoking film.
Al Gore did a great job of presenting the arguments - and did so in a very humbling, personal way.
A "must see" for everyone. Actually - I'll make that stronger - if you live in the developed world - and especially within the US - you must see this movie. Go with an open mind.
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