W a t c h your mouth

[GerdW]

Some new "auto-correction" occured on me…

Can someone speaking English as native language explain to me why I cannot write a "C" followed by a "4" without being corrected by the forum software?

[Hooovahh]

C-4?  No idea why this is censored.

[GerdW]

I wrote it without the hyphen!

(I remember this C 4 (without a space inbetween)…)

[JÞB]

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@GerdW wrote:

I wrote it without the hyphen!

(I remember this C 4 (without a space inbetween)…)

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Without the space

My spam filter is busy rejecting several "Unbelivable" offers for this fine product

[johnsold]

That combination of a letter and a number may refer to a military explosive. Bad guys make things go bang. Maybe they think using that combination makes you a bad guy.

Lynn

[LiliMcDonald]

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@johnsold wrote:

That combination of a letter and a number may refer to a military explosive.

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Yes, this is the reason why C4 was a banned word. As I mentioned in this other thread, this word was being blocked due to some word restrictions we had setup for one of our foreign language boards. This has since been remedied.

Thanks,

[Ben]

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@LiliMcDonald wrote:

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@johnsold wrote:

That combination of a letter and a number may refer to a military explosive.

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... we had setup for one of our foreign language boards. This has since been remedied.

Thanks,

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So only non-english speaking LV developers are terroists?

Maybe it was good I never passed French II.

Ben

[LiliMcDonald]

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@Ben wrote:

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@LiliMcDonald wrote:

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@johnsold wrote:

That combination of a letter and a number may refer to a military explosive.

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... we had setup for one of our foreign language boards. This has since been remedied.

Thanks,

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So only non-english speaking LV developers are terroists?

Maybe it was good I never passed French II.

Ben

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Some countries have strict word restrictions as mandated by their government -- and we do our best to comply with these restrictions.

[SnowMule]

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@johnsold wrote:

That combination of a letter and a number may refer to a military explosive. Bad guys make things go bang. Maybe they think using that combination makes you a bad guy.

Lynn

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Good guys make stuff go bang too...

(sucks going through airport security though, residue hangs around for about a week and it's a 45-minute delay in screening...)

[Ben]

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@SnowMule wrote:

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Good guys make stuff go bang too...

(sucks going through airport security though, residue hangs around for about a week and it's a 45-minute delay in screening...)

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Residue is not required.

Try;

flying into Tel aviv

on the eve of ramadan

traveling alone for business

sporting a beard

and then making the mistake of answering the question "What are you here to work on?" by saying "An Atomic Force Microscope".

It earned me a visit to a cinder block room with cameras for hours only to be entertained by two gentlemen wearing vests in August asking more questions and discussing my replies in Hebrew.

Eventually one asked

Is that a screwdriver in your pocket? (gesturing at the NI Pocket screwdriver I carry in my pocket proector)

I replied "Yes, would you like to see it?" and them replying "How did you get through security from the US with that?"

I answered "I don't know but I did it twice."

That was a long day.

Ben