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[Count Dookkake]

I wonder what Ralph Ellison would make of this.

 

[2DMention]

In before "HP is racist."

 

[Chris R]

Well this is good news for the jobless whites out there. Just look at Better Off Ted.

 

[baultista]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM

:lol

How did HP not test this technology on black people before putting it on shelves? Is this similar to the Natal problem where it wasn't tracking black people as well as white people?

He has a wicked sophisticated black guy voice.

 

[Jean-Claude Picard]

Is it a surveillance camera?

 

[fireside]

is this it?

http://www.hulu.com/watch/89107/better-off-ted-secrets-and-lives#s-p1-so-i0

No, it's the fourth episode of season one, titled "Racial Sensitivity". It's not on hulu or abc.com

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Did somebody already make a George Bush/Katrina joke? Oh snap...yeah, they did.

 

[K.Jack]

Is it a surveillance camera?

Subtle but easy. I like your angle.

 

[xelios]

 

[levious]

I wonder what Ralph Ellison would make of this.

nice

 

[Leckan]

"My wi---uh, co-worker Wanda". :lol

 

[Count Dookkake]

nice

Thanks for restoring my faith in GAF.

 

[Zoramon089]

HOLY SHIT!
Where'd he come from?

 

[Cimarron]

:lol

They should include this as a racial modifier for Drows and dark skinned humans in D&D.

+10 racial modifier for technological stealth.

 

[Davidion]

I wonder what Ralph Ellison would make of this.

Might say something on the lower frequencies. :lol

 

[A.R.K]

I think cam has race detection technology not face detection technology. See the cam bounces around with joy when it detects white race but gets sad when it detects a black race in the frame.

HP. Invent.

 

[The Faceless Master]

i remember when my friend showed me this pic and said "when you see it.. bla bla" and after a few minutes i said "did the lady shit herself?" and he was like "no, do you see the black guy there?" and i was like "yeah, i saw that, but i saw that right away"

 

[AmICoolYet]

i remember when my friend showed me this pic and said "when you see it.. bla bla" and after a few minutes i said "did the lady shit herself?" and he was like "no, do you see the black guy there?" and i was like "yeah, i saw that, but i saw that right away"

My school newspaper printed an issue at the beginning of last year with all of the administrators names and pictures. The one black Assistant Principal's picture was a black rectangle with eyes, teeth and forehead shine. Though this was probably caused by shitty newspaper printing.

Edit: There was another one where he was posing with a group of students and my friend, who wrote the story, came up to show me the picture. This was my exact reaction, basically verbatim: "What is this girl doing with her arm... HOLY SHIT!" She had her arm around him but his head and pants blended with the back ground so well it looked like she was making some weird bird pose.

 

[MidnightScott]

Hell I'm white and WarioWare Snapped can't see me when I'm sitting in front of a bright colored wall. lol

 

[ReiGun]

Well, fuck you too, HP.

He bought one for Christmas. :lol

:lol

 

[IcebergSlim3000]

You would think that with all the countries police departments salivating at the opportunity to racially profile black folks from 300 yards away, HP would have perfected this by now. Lots of money to be made in that sector.

 

[The Faceless Master]

http://consumerist.com/2009/12/consumer-reports-tests-racist-hp-webcam.html

 

[Tobor]

http://consumerist.com/2009/12/consumer-reports-tests-racist-hp-webcam.html

Wait, people actually thought it was HP being racist? :lol

Of course it's a technical limitation. It's still HP's responsibility to provide a product that works, or help the customer figure out why it's not working, like a low light warning.

 

[Particle Physicist]

i was at the gym just now and cnn had a story on this.. they showed the video in the OP, but they also showed one where some asian kid took off his glasses, used his fingers to exaggerate his asian eyes, and all of a sudden, his face got duplicated with a chinese hat, it was floating across the screen and a picture of Mao was also floating around..

i haven't seen that on the internet.. was cnn duped by a fake video?

i have no idea what they said about it since i couldn't read the subtitles where i was.

 

[Socreges]

Well, it isn't racist. The uploader may have been joking with the title, but CNN had a report on this and used the same language in a serious way.

HP are just retarded that's all. How could they not have anticipated this? Or were they willing to risk it, regardless?

 

[Particle Physicist]

found the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy5saRyMymM


i think cnn thought it was real. :/

 

[Tobor]

found the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy5saRyMymM


this is fake right?

i think cnn thought it was real. :/

:lol Come on dude, of course it's fake. Very funny though.

 

[Particle Physicist]

:lol Come on dude, of course it's fake. Very funny though.

i swear.. CNN was pushing this shit as if it were real.

and you are way too quick for my slick edit.

 

[Nemesis121]

The YT responses are F N racist, the guy was clearly was joking around.......but some fools on dumbtube took it seriously.

 

[harSon]

The YT responses are F N racist, the guy was clearly was joking around.......but some fools on dumbtube took it seriously.

Online anonymity has proven that racism is alive and well in relatively large numbers unfortunately. Xbox Live, online PC games, Youtube, or anything that's relatively anonymous with a means of communicating is littered with it :lol

 

[NumberTwo]

Online anonymity has proven that racism is alive and well in relatively large numbers unfortunately. Xbox Live, online PC games, Youtube, or anything that's relatively anonymous with a means of communicating is littered with it :lol

PSN, don't forget PSN!

I can only imagine what is being said in the privity of living rooms on any given day.

 

[AlphaSnake]

Wasn't this an episode of Better Off Ted?

It was indeed. It seems weird having reality imitate fiction.

 

[The Faceless Master]

PSN, don't forget PSN!

I can only imagine what is being said in the privity of living rooms on any given day.

i dunno, maybe racists are cheap, but i hear less racism on th PSN... of course, i hear less everything...

 

[NumberTwo]

i dunno, maybe racists are cheap, but i hear less racism on th PSN... of course, i hear less everything...

Less in general, however I still hear just random out-of-left-field racial slurs being thrown around so casually in FPS games more than anything else. Regardless of the platform.

..and yeah it is the reason my headset rests in its cradle most of the time.

 

[Davidion]

found the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy5saRyMymM


i think cnn thought it was real. :/

:lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[minus_273]

hmm its odd that the software didnt use RGB values and look for two white eyes ins a circular area with low green val.