Kinect Self-Awareness Hack

One can only imagine how enraged the Kinect would have been if it found out he had broken the ToS.

This is horrid

[Shikaku]

Even by idle standards.

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[Derekloffin]

You sir are way, WAY too kind. :P

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[GameboyRMH]

Aw come on it wasn't bad. I had lols.

tb;dw

[sakdoctor]

Too bearded;didn't watch

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[Anonymous Coward]

Used a semi-colon, didn't read.

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[mcspoo]

Too deaf, no caption, did not watch (TD;NC;DNW)

What the???

[Kiall]

What the f**k is this? Slashdot has gone downhill over the last two years - this takes the cake though.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Everything devolves. You must be new to this species.

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[Jake Griffin]

Everything evolves. You must be new to this species.

FTFY. "Evolve" means "to undergo gradual change" and does not imply getting "better" (or "worse").

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[AlienIntelligence]

Everything evolves. You must be new to this species.

FTFY. "Evolve" means "to undergo gradual change" and does not imply getting "better" (or "worse").

Really? Are you confident you know what evolution is?
I'm pretty sure a planet full of species, would be willing
to disagree with your non-scientific assertion.

-AI

fwiw, I think you made a common mistake and confused
the definition of evolution with the definition of evolution
of species. And I only made this post since you did say,
species.

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[Jake Griffin]

Yes, I am confident, as the "evolution of species" includes the extinction of a species through natural selection. Do you consider extinction as "better"? If so, then I think we have a different problem on our hands and you should be institutionalized.

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[JWSmythe]

Humans are the most destructive species on the planet. If they can't dig it up, cut it down, pave over it, build on it, blow it up, burn it down, or otherwise manipulate it into unnatural fashions, ... well ... it doesn't exist. They've taken remains of long since dead creatures, and used it to pollute the sky, waters, and land. They've taken relatively safe radioactive elements (safe in their naturally occuring form) and processed them into large scale weapons. Even the radioactive eleme

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[cheekyjohnson]

Not to mention how stubborn and illogical they seemingly are. Nearly everything is about profit. How much damage is causes is irrelevant to them. If it helps the imaginary economy and keeps it on life support for a bit longer, go for it!

Most of the pollution wouldn't even exist if they put more effort into finding other solutions (oh, wait, that again requires money, which is the most important object in existence).

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[JWSmythe]

Well, everything is about profit in some cultures. Unfortunately, those cultures have polluted virtually every other culture there is.

Humans trying to step back to the "simpler time", where money is not an issue, and self sufficiency is, are looked at as hippies in communes, Amish (to some degree), or fringe nutjobs who are trying to escape the trappings of capitalist life. They frequently are called names and looked down upon. If you've never heard "dirty hippie", "communi

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[cheekyjohnson]

Do you consider extinction as "better"?

That depends on the species. Factors could include things such as how much harm they do to the planet or how ignorant, stubborn, or irrational many of them are (regardless of their degree of intelligence in other areas).

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[$0.02]

Everything evolves. What evolving means today may not mean tomorrow.

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[twidarkling]

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp10092003.shtml [somethingpositive.net]

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[Confusedent]

Funny, I just joined about two years ago. What are you trying to imply?

Meh

[The Aethereal]

I liked it, but it has no business being on slashdot. It isn't news. (No, I'm not new here.)

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[hammer_gaidin]

Agreed, get it off.

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[mr_mischief]

Everything is relative, isn't it, 1160051? ;-)

(Now for some 3-digit guy to come along and confirm that for me...)

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[nhtshot]

How about lower 6 digit?

Consider yourself confirmed

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[Merls the Sneaky]

I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined.

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[Yert]

Wah.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Man? This is collegehumor, it's a commercial operation. It'd be quite impressive if it were a random youtube by someone, but this is par for the course for the kind of stuff that collegehumor do.

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[Heretic2]

So I take it "par for the course" = "quality of what one OK video editor could produce after a couple hours." Adding overlays => not that hard.

You, sir, are easily impressed.

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[twidarkling]

Have you watched a collegehumor vid? You just described them accurately. "What one ok editor could do in a day." I think the only reason it'd be impressive by a youtuber is because a) they're not getting paid to bother, and b) 90% of youtube is of absolute shit quality.

WTF == nothing but a stupid comment????

[unil_1005]

It would have been better stated thusly: "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gymbol in the wabe."

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[Desler]

You expect anything BUT crap from samzenpus?

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[badboy_tw2002]

There's a video. So not just a stupid comment. A stupid comment AND a stupid video!

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[badboy_tw2002]

It took a while to pop up for me. Chrome 10 on Win7.

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[HTH NE1]

I can only guess it must be some kind of flash app embedded in the story page. it's completely invisible to me. All that remains is the meaningless summary with no context.

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[snowraver1]

You joke... but such a patch would be pretty awesome.

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[unjedai]

Me too. Tried it in Chrome, Firefox and IE. Nothing.

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[oodaloop]

What are you, Johnny Depp?

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[Qzukk]

My mome raths are outgrabed by this news article!

Ok, no slashdot business but...

[Anne Honime]

I laughed my ass off. 'nuff said.

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[eiiiI'monslashdot]

and it absolutly has nothing to do with this site. other than that, i guess you can say what u said. but it shouldn't be on this url adress.

This is news?

[Grapplebeam]

Because it looks like comedy. In fact, it is comedy, and not news. It's not news about comedy either, just comedy. Which is tragic.

Whoa.

[Tibia1]

As soon as you see the world IDLE you should already be skeptical that you will be receiving any real information. Sometimes this happens. I, too, had lols, and under no circumstance will I complain about that, even if it's "not what I signed up for" here at Slashdot. Besides, even if you guys have an "amazing point", hasn't this been said on here at least x amount of times already? where x = (uninformative submissions) * (0.20 * userbase) * 100; // Real original guys....

Funny

[G3ckoG33k]

Deadpan!

Nice idle

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot posts lots of kinect hacks. I think that this is appropriate, slashdot-relevant humor for idle. Also I was amused.

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[Red_Chaos1]

You saw a yellow rectangle? Thanks to RequestPolicy I didn't even see *that*. :P

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[d6]

Playing with RequestPolicy right now. - thank you

Flash? Really?

[Dachannien]

You'd think that of all places, Slashdot would post a downloadable FLV link instead of (or in addition to) an embedded SWF, so that their readers wouldn't have to install Flash just to watch a video.

This is a local site...

[NoSleepDemon]

For local people! We'll have no humour here! ... Gosh, my nose is bleeding, won't anyone run a story about that??

Wankers!

[srodden]

Don't you people have better things to do with your time than whine about a not-news item being posted on /.? Yeah, it probably should've been tagged as idle instead of games but big deal. If the quality of news is that important to you, try getting out there and making some news that'll make the grade.

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[balzi]

Yep.. totally Agree. Why complain about accidently watching some humour that wastes your time, when you chose to waste the time coming to a news site?

Maybe whining would be sensible if you only had 5 minutes each day to read news, and you had a medical condition called chronic-hyper-inverse-news-allergy.
I think not!

This is what happens when I am gone for a week...

[Stregano]

It is like they did not even try. I am not going to lie, I wasted 30 seconds that I want back reading that, and wasted 2 minutes typing this that I want back. Now /.!

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[drkim]

Wait!

Don't leave /. yet!
I just found a video of a cat that's high-larious!