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HP Probes 'Racist' Webcam Claim
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| Dec 22, 2009
| Paul McDougal
Posted on 12/22/2009 12:25:36 PM PST by DCurts
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To: Finalapproach29er
Especially since this scenario was used in one of the original episodes of “BETTER OFF TED”.
THEIR SOLUTION: Hire a white guy to walk around with every black guy. (creating new jobs!)
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posted on
12/22/2009 1:06:11 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(M)
To: DCurts
His white friend was a woman. How does he know the computer doesn’t just hate men? :)
My theory is the webcam is designed to follow brain wave activity and this idiot wasn’t generating quite enough. :)
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posted on
12/22/2009 1:09:59 PM PST
by
Above My Pay Grade
("I don't have a whole lot of mercy for the bad guys, I'm on the good guys' side." -Sarah Palin)
To: DCurts
Retrofit with 500 watt quartz halogen bulb. Improved camera sensitivity for black people, suntans for white.
Win, win.
To: DCurts
I can see now that it will be necessary to amend the laws of physics as regards the characteristics of light. We simply cannot have light waves behaving in a racial way.
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posted on
12/22/2009 1:15:07 PM PST
by
davisfh
( Islam is a very serious mental and social illness)
To: TexasCajun
this couch is racist ,too
![Image Hosted by ImageShack.us](http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5503/camocouch.jpg)
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posted on
12/22/2009 1:18:38 PM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: DCurts
It’s a question of dynamic range. There’s a reason why you don’t see many models with very dark skin. Photographic emulsions (and CCD imaging chips designed to photographic mimic emulsions) don’t have the same dynamic range as the human eye and thus can’t record subtle variations in skin tone in very dark skin. No matter how attractive a dark skinned model might be, if the camera can’t image her skin properly, then she just won’t make it in print work. In this case, the lack of dynamic range means that the facial recognition software won’t function properly. No racism; just physics and photochemistry.
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posted on
12/22/2009 1:27:01 PM PST
by
Redcloak
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
Good to know if any Soldier go into my Grandmothers living rooom, they will be able to hide.
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posted on
12/22/2009 1:29:11 PM PST
by
sharkhawk
(Always love your country—but never trust your government--Robert Novak)
To: WOBBLY BOB
Good to know if any Soldier go into my Grandmothers living rooom, they will be able to hide.
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posted on
12/22/2009 1:29:18 PM PST
by
sharkhawk
(Always love your country—but never trust your government--Robert Novak)
To: DCurts
Oh, yeah; and "GOD" is racist; he turns the sky black at night ONLY.....
Gimme a break, you racist fools.
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posted on
12/22/2009 1:30:34 PM PST
by
traditional1
("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
To: traditional1
And God makes it hard to find us nakked white people in snowstorms!
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posted on
12/22/2009 1:32:47 PM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: DCurts
I’m guessing that sending our jars of white face paint would be an unPC approach?
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posted on
12/22/2009 1:34:14 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: dangerdoc
Yeah, the 500 watt light will help, but it will be a hard sell when customers see the laptop battery:
To: DCurts
G-d needs to adjust the nature of light so that high contrast is banned, and we live in a uniform 11% gray world.
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posted on
12/22/2009 1:47:35 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(If you need a < / sarc> tag, you're not paying attention.)
To: DCurts
Madness. Complete madness.
To: ltc8k6
I noticed that the complainant’s last name is “Cryer” (at least that's what I think it said).
To: ejonesie22
What dat battery fo?
Also, I wonder if this camera would follow obama. Maybe half the time?
To: Slings and Arrows; DCurts; All
Phreepers are phunny, I love this thread!
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posted on
12/22/2009 4:07:20 PM PST
by
Titan Magroyne
(Freedom is taken, not given.)
To: Titan Magroyne; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ..
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posted on
12/22/2009 6:48:49 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
To: DCurts
"Dude! That's weak!"
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posted on
12/22/2009 6:58:33 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
To: texan75010
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posted on
12/22/2009 7:05:08 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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