December 07, 2007
Alsų Wik

Let the Python jokes begin:

A Norwegian news site is reporting that a young boy and his sister were attacked by a moose ... the boy reportedly "taunted' the moose away from his sister, and then feigned death, causing the moose to lose aggro and leave. "Just like you learn in level 30 in World of Warcraft," the boy is reportedly quoted as saying.

See, ma? Games are good for something!

Posted by scott at December 07, 2007 12:43 PM

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This roughly the first time I wish I new the alt char set well. It'd just be funny to play with it like they did in their credits.

The question is, who's getting sacked?

Posted by: ronaprhys on December 7, 2007 12:56 PM

Wouldn't do you any good anyhow; Scott's spam filter apparently freaks if you have more than one umalut in your post. (Yes, I've tried.)

Posted by: Tatterdemalian on December 7, 2007 02:04 PM

It also does't much like the ellipse '...' character(s) either.

Posted by: Mark on December 8, 2007 04:01 PM

Yeah, we're pretty much limited to the basic 96 ASCII characters. That's the problem with regex filters, they're too easy to defeat by substituting some random high-order unicode for the characters in your spamvertisement.

I wonder if anyone has made a pass-through filter to "flatten" Unicode glyphs into their related alphabetic characters, so they can be checked for spam without having to make expressions that take the entire extended Unicode set into account.

Posted by: Tatterdemalian on December 9, 2007 03:25 PM
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