Those b#$*@*%s at Microsoft got another patent.This time it's a patent for blocking out or bleeping words in an audio stream. In the patent description the company notes that "The censored speech can either be stored or made available to an audience in real-time."
Originally filed 4 years ago the company only had the patent approved last week. It's expected Microsoft will use the technology in upcoming versions of Xbox Live where it can filter bad words that people use on its network.
news.com suggests that the technology could be used for more than just censoring profanity, suggesting that perhaps China or another government would want it employed for other phrases, such as Tibet or free speech.
Oh and yeah, &%# it! LOL
I wanna hear that in action. If this work, this is going to be fun going to a lobby: "Why You *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* *Beep*"
Indeed.
Here, have some new batteries for your humour detector, yours appear to be flat.
Its not so much getting a patent, but a patent of what....
Other than that, Neowin is turning increasingly Apple-oriented. First the Apple first in the Main menu and the little mini banner. Then this article. And I do recall one of the developers saying in a thread about Neowin 5 something along the lines of "I put Apple first on purpose, I'll show you.". What ever happened to neutrality?
Aside from the fact that not every country has freedom of speech in their constitution - if you are playing on MS servers, you have to abide by their rules. They are not stopping you from swearing, they are just choosing to beep the words out.
I don't have a problem with this tbh - nothing more annoying than playing online with little kiddies who think they are awesome because they swear.
Just because you have the right to say what you want doesn't mean you also have the right to force others to actually have to listen to you.
Say what you like, and where you like, I for the most part don't care. Just don't expect me or anyone else around to listen - we may do, but don't count on it.
Last edited by Slugsie on 21 Oct 2008 - 08:49
Last edited by Majesticmerc on 21 Oct 2008 - 16:23
Nah, screw it. I'll just narf my way to poinkvill by shazboting every time some pooozer noinks me off. That way, I have all the fun of inventing new sear words AND the satisfaction of knowing that the censors aren't as smart as they think they are.
Maybe this'll be a way for words like 'nincompoop' to be used again
I guarantee you if this gets implemented it'll be an optional setting in the parental controls.
boy, those good for *bleeping* nothing *bleep* for an engineers at microsoft must be *bleeping* real hard to *bleeping* come up with this *bleepy* *bleep*.
i guess when you are a *bleeping* big conflagration, you can *bleeping* do whatever you *bleeping* want.
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