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HP computers are racist
2009-12-21, 12:16 PM #1


el oh el

HP's comment:

"Some of you may have seen or heard of a YouTube video in which the facial-tracking software didn’t work for a customer. We thank Desi, and the people who have seen and commented on his video, for bringing this subject to our attention." ... "We are working with our partners to learn more. The technology we use is built on standard algorithms that measure the difference in intensity of contrast between the eyes and the upper cheek and nose. We believe that the camera might have difficulty 'seeing' contrast in conditions where there is insufficient foreground lighting."
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2009-12-21, 12:18 PM #2
Dammit, Pommy. I just logged on to post this. :argh:
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2009-12-21, 12:27 PM #3
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Look on the bright side dude. When the robot revolution comes and all the humans are being eliminated by HP kill-bots, you'll be safe because they can't see you! Whereas all the white people will be instantly tracked down and destroyed.





Ha!
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2009-12-21, 3:21 PM #4
When he started talking about "My Blackness", I couldn't help but start imagining royalty of some sort.

Well, I say that but I actually started picturing Shaft in a Crown. :P
nope.
2009-12-21, 4:36 PM #5
I think the reason for the issue is quite clear. The computers themselves are black. Obviously a black computer wouldn't be racist to a black person. It could be more of an Uncle Tom black computer, feeling a need to please its white users. It could possibly be a traitor to its race but not racist. I wonder if a white version of the computer would feel the need to pander towards a black user kind of like many white Americans in the last presidential election.
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

2009-12-21, 5:18 PM #6
I think Wookie is just angry he no longer has control over his ATA device 1.
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2009-12-21, 5:38 PM #7
oh man i cant believe i got it.
2009-12-21, 6:29 PM #8
Better Off Ted already did this joke.
2009-12-21, 6:42 PM #9
Originally posted by Wookie06:
I wonder if a white version of the computer would feel the need to pander towards a black user kind of like many white Americans in the last presidential election.


Does blaming white guilt for Obama's election make you feel better? Because I can't imagine it serves any other useful purpose.
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2009-12-21, 6:52 PM #10
Wookie is trying to turn a thread about computers, and the idiots who use them, into a partisan debate.
:tinfoil:
2009-12-21, 7:02 PM #11
Yeah, I'm sorry. I shouldn't be feeding the troll.
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2009-12-21, 7:02 PM #12
Originally posted by Wookie06:
I think the reason for the issue is quite clear. The computers themselves are black. Obviously a black computer wouldn't be racist to a black person. It could be more of an Uncle Tom black computer, feeling a need to please its white users. It could possibly be a traitor to its race but not racist. I wonder if a white version of the computer would feel the need to pander towards a black user kind of like many white Americans in the last presidential election.


it's posts like this that make me wish you would get trampled by a camel
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2009-12-21, 7:16 PM #13
Maybe it isn't racist, maybe it's sexist. :hist101:
DO NOT WANT.
2009-12-22, 3:15 PM #14
I didn't believe it was possible to even bring politics to this discussion... But somehow wookie managed...
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2009-12-22, 3:26 PM #15
lol

I thought what wookie said was pretty funny but I think you guys are taking it too seriously
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2009-12-22, 3:29 PM #16
I think it's more that Wookie still comes off as an *** when he's trying to be funny. :P
nope.
2009-12-22, 3:31 PM #17
Funny? I was being serious.
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

2009-12-22, 3:32 PM #18
Originally posted by DrkJedi82:
it's posts like this that make me wish you would get trampled by a camel


They've had their shot and they lost. They don't taste half bad though.
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

2009-12-22, 6:42 PM #19
Nothing is more racist than Walt Disney!
2009-12-22, 7:33 PM #20
Originally posted by silent_killa:
I didn't believe it was possible to even bring politics to this discussion... But somehow wookie managed...


Introducing politics to a topic that involves racism, even humorously, is not exactly a high degree of difficulty for Wookie.
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2009-12-22, 8:34 PM #21
Since only republicans and conservatives can be racist, it follows that I would be one.
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

2009-12-22, 9:03 PM #22
Walt Disney was a Republican.

RACIST
2009-12-23, 3:09 AM #23
The security company I worked for had facial recognition but it didn't work on black people :XD:
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2009-12-23, 5:15 AM #24
Well duh, it's security.
nope.
2009-12-23, 6:07 AM #25
I love the last comment he makes. lol
2009-12-23, 7:27 AM #26
Originally posted by Emon:
The security company I worked for had facial recognition but it didn't work on black people :XD:


All non-white people look the same!
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2009-12-23, 7:38 AM #27
Originally posted by Baconfish:
Well duh, it's security.


Shouldn't it be focusing entirely on the black guys then?
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2009-12-23, 8:05 AM #28
Originally posted by Baconfish:
Well duh, it's security.


hahahahahah
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2009-12-23, 9:18 AM #29
didn't that project natal thing MS was working on not work for black people too?
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2009-12-23, 9:21 AM #30
I wonder if there was better lighting on the man's face if it would pick it up at all. Most of the light seemed to be coming from behind him.

Good testing on HP's part though.. hah
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2009-12-23, 9:27 AM #31
some tests i'd like to see
a white man in blackface
corpse paint
emo hair
hockey mask
michael myers mask
burn victim
zombie

all with the same lighting conditions
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2009-12-23, 11:20 AM #32
Originally posted by KOP_AoEJedi:
Good testing on HP's part though.. hah


I can hear it now. HP is racist because they want to see if black people can use their computers.
"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

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