Re: [microsound] OT: those programs spammers use to generate random text?

[Derek Mason <derek.mason@xxxxxxxxx>]

That is true DADA text...


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Ashcraft" <ashcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [microsound] OT: those programs spammers use to generate random text?
> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:39:26 -0600
> 
> 
> Some years ago, soon after 9-11 happened, my girlfriend got a new 
> Dell PC laptop computer. One time after getting this new computer 
> she was typing something  in the MS Word program and as she typed 
> words started appearing that she herself was not entering.  The 
> phrases were goobledy-gook for the most part interspersed with 
> brief word strings of intelligible text. The intelligible text word 
> strings had to do with hijackers, terrorist stuff, and various hot 
> and threatening types of news.  The computer seemed to be picking 
> up some sort of secret terrorist communications almost as if it was 
> jihadist automatic writing! It was unnerving to say the least in 
> the paranoid mood after 9-11.  We investigated this by calling Dell 
> tech service and they told us that the computer probably shipped 
> with the voice/text recognition feature switched on.  We then 
> discovered that the laptop was picking up television broadcast news 
> snippets from the tv that was on in the corner of the room and 
> entering some of the newscaster's spoken words as written text. You 
> might try duplicating this with a voice to text program.....in a 
> glitched kind of way.
> 
> TA
> 


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