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Microsoft Seeking to Patent Automatic Censorship
theodp writes "Microsoft is back at the USPTO, this time seeking a patent for the automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast, a system and method for automatically altering audio to prevent undesired words and phrases from being understandable to a listener as originally uttered."
Now if only Slashdot woild only patent all variants of the "First Post" s the ACs would fear lawsuits for posting them.
If you believe in privacy, and believe you have "nothing to hide" at the same time, you're a goddammed idiot
I ____ _____ that Microsoft would _____ ____ customers and _________ something like ______ ________!!!
This sounds like a good thing to me. Maybe we can help protect our freedoms by patenting the technologies that try to limit them.
Radios have stopped playing the runaway hit by the Naval Boys, "Ship Funk", as half of the song was now inexplicably silence.
FoxNews already has prior art on that.
I'm not a Troll, it's reverse psychology.
...no more talking about Linux on the radio, eh?
Grundes!
For geeks writting OSS this is absolutely harmless... in fact i can see this being a good thing. If they're the only company allowed to use super cookies and have auto-censorship then the world is a better place :D
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Go canucks, habs, and sens!
What the frell are you talking about?
A few years ago _ _ I was having my dinner, I thought of this very same idea. Instead of c _ _ _inuing to eat, I should have put down my _ _ _ _ and got a sh _ _ _ of paper to write the idea down. Oh well, I _ _ _'_ do anything abou_ _ _ now. I got another great idea but this time my _ _ _ _ _ out of ink. ...
Fuck the Xbox.
Fuck Microsoft.
Fuck the 9 year-olds.
M.J.
Let us take a fine example from the wonderful lore of Douglas Adams and simply replace every one of our cuss words with the galaxy's worst word: Belgium.
Belgium to those Belgiuming Belgiumers who censor our every Belgiuming word!
Why should I need that? I should be able to say whatever f---ing s--- I want too. Any A--hole who says otherwise can suck my d---.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
Wow, I didn't think it would be possible to bring together so many things that Slashdot readers love to hate into one single post, but this article has almost done it:
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- Microsoft
- Software Patents
- Censorship
Now, if only Microsoft could extend or apply this patent to automatically censor the topics "evolution" and "open source"
Someone ought to Gates those Clippys up the Allchin and kick them in the Balmers for coming up with an idea that's so WinFS.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
If that means that noone else will be able to implement automated censoring without paying a license fee -- I am all for it ;)
Now if only someone would invent a way to do exactly the opposite so we could find out what the lyrics really are to Louie Louie!
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Everyone has two "methods for automatically altering audio to prevent undesired words and phrases from being understandable to a listener as originally uttered."
They're called "Getting Old" and "Getting Married".
Reduce, reuse, cycle
Fuck that. That sounds too much like work.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.