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  1. 12-21-2009, 02:07 PM #1
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    HP Computers are racist

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  2. 12-21-2009, 02:09 PM #2
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    Funny shit. Hahaha.
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  3. 12-21-2009, 02:21 PM #3
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    maybe he's just a vampire?
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  4. 12-21-2009, 02:30 PM #4
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    "as soon as my blackness enters the screen...... nothing."
    "Shit, I'll choke her while she's cleaning, and I'll do it wearing a helmet cam mounted on a full-face helmet.
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  5. 12-21-2009, 02:33 PM #5
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    Nah, I would really be racist if it followed him all around the shop
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  6. 12-21-2009, 02:36 PM #6
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    That is pretty funny.
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  7. 12-21-2009, 06:38 PM #7
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    wanda looks like the catcher in the movie A League of Their Own

    "the HP computer does not pick up.....negroes"

    funny video
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  8. 12-21-2009, 06:48 PM #8
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    Up here in crackerville thats fuckin funny.
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    That was pretty funny, especially the part about buying one for xmas.

    I wonder if it can be tuned to fit the skin tone of the user or how using it in different lighting would affect it.
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    I can see that breaking, causing your webcam to be stuck super zoomed in to a far corner
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  11. 12-22-2009, 09:17 AM #11
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    Funny - I "know a guy" that works at HP. This is getting quite a bit of internal press...
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  12. 12-22-2009, 09:37 AM #12
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    Face recognition software is based on Contrast. If a camera can't "see" the eyes, nose, and mouth of a darker skinned person it's not going to think it's a face that needs tracking, but simply a dark blotch in the landscape. To have a face-detection setting with higher resolution and more discerning of lower contrast subjects would take up way more room (for the sensor) or be more CPU intensive for existing systems.

    That's not racist, that's electronics.
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    Tipp, maybe you noticed the people smiling and laughing? I think they get it.
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  14. 12-22-2009, 09:46 AM #14
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    I was wondering why the canon snapshot camera I used this weekend was framing the white people in the pictures but the black peoples' faces weren't picked up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gonehuckin View Post
    I was wondering why the canon snapshot camera I used this weekend was framing the white people in the pictures but the black peoples' faces weren't picked up.
    Try it in front of a white backdrop and it will be reversed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman View Post
    Tipp, maybe you noticed the people smiling and laughing? I think they get it.
    Oh I know. Just throwing it out there for the more easily outraged/cornfused of our little community of retards.
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    Then those automatic sensor washroom faucets first came out, they didn't work for black people. They just hadn't thought to test them with anyone but white folks. I'm sure its a similar deal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tippster View Post
    Oh I know. Just throwing it out there for the more easily outraged/cornfused of our little community of retards.
    I think she is offline
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  19. 12-22-2009, 12:07 PM #19
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    fair to say when retard is mentioned most people think Phill - and look! there you are!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Conway View Post
    fair to say when retard is mentioned most people think Phill - and look! there you are!
    I'm glad not to disappoint
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  21. 12-22-2009, 12:19 PM #21
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    How do we know the computer is racist? Maybe it's sexist.
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    In true corporate fashion, HP responds very seriously:
    http://www.thenextbench.com/t5/Voodo...-Us/ba-p/51351
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    Quote Originally Posted by jibij View Post
    In true corporate fashion, HP responds very seriously:
    http://www.thenextbench.com/t5/Voodo...-Us/ba-p/51351
    "We believe that the camera might have difficulty `seeing' contrast in conditions where there is insufficient foreground lighting."

    Yeah, right, Frosty. Racist.
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