HP's studied response to this. http://dvice.com/archives/2009/12/hp-responds-to.php <http://dvice.com/archives/2009/12/hp-responds-to.php>
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@...> wrote: > > Wow... > > http://elev8.com/better-living/products/sheeri-mitchell/new-hp-webcam-ca\ nt-see-black-people/ > VIDEO: New HP Webcam Canât See Black People? > By Sheeri Mitchell <http://elev8.com/author/sheeri-mitchell/> December 23, > 2009 9:45 pm > > [image: desi natal and hp > webcam]<http://elev8.com/better-living/products/sheeri-mitchell/new-hp-w\ ebcam-cant-see-black-people/attachment/desi-natal-and-hp-webcam/>Questio\ n: > Can a webcam be racist? > > Answer: Probably not. > > However, it certainly can discriminate based on color, as this Youtube video > proves. Two co-workers, Wanda and Desi, one White woman and one > African-American man of a darker hue, demonstrate the failure of Hewlett > Packard to create a webcam that can track folks with dark skin. > > Could the failure be a snafu caused by lighting or just a failure of R & D > to test their camera out on non-whites? I would have loved to have seen if > the camera failed to track other people of color and to see at exactly what > shade of brown it stopped working properly. I wonder what HP will have to > say about this development. From this point itâs only a matter of time > before the âRacist Webcamâ ends up as a skit on Saturday Night Live. > > Check out the video below and tell us what you think. It might be funny if > it werenât such a big FAIL for HP. > > Read more: > http://elev8.com/better-living/products/sheeri-mitchell/new-hp-webcam-ca\ nt-see-black-people/#ixzz0ahGxkqAi > > > -- > Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >
