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1991 called and they want credit back for this new face "morphing" thing.
http://www.criticalcommons.org...

Pause any morph in the state between two faces and you have the very realistic looking face of a person who does not exist. Couple that with our modern software algorithms that identify various landmark points on a person's face (used by SnapChat and other filters to put sunglasses on a person's face in the right location, etc), and voila... you have infinite face creation with no manual input by blending input images together. It's very clear in some of the images on the website from TFA that they are using actual face photos as their source input, so what they are doing is a derivative on the face morphing, perhaps using multiple inputs instead of two.

Someone's been watching too much Star Trek.

How Microsoft think patch management in Git works: video

50 points!

http://www.criticalcommons.org...

A few days ago, Sumana released this video, Pipeline, a critique of the tech industry's treatment of women. It's relevant to the overall discussion re: hospitality and worth watching (the main point being, "getting women into tech" doesn't really solve any problems if the actual experience in the industry is a terrible one).

Obligatory.

But don't worry the government will provide you with subsidized insurance. Ask John Stossel.... Who bought an ocean front property.

Yeah, but then someone would point out that old people just don't give a shit. It's what makes them so endearing.

I am sure they give a shit, watching their nieces and nephews get blown to bits by remote control, from the link:

A report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalists has uncovered Pakistani government documents suggesting the civilian death toll from US drone strikes is higher than previously thought. In a three year period 147 people were killed, including 94 children. Adam (@adamsich) takes a look at how many kids have been killed in Pakistan by US drones. See below for sources and extra links.

So yeah, I'd say old people are just as/more likely to want revenge (i.e a threat) as any other age range,,,

Actually, the plot of the first episode of The Lone Gunmen (the X-Files spinoff) predicted the WTC disaster:
http://criticalcommons.org/Members/ironman28/clips/lonegunmen911prophesy.mp4/view

The main characters of the show were wild conspiracy theorists themselves, and this pilot episode aired just months before the WTC fell.

Ridley Scott gave us a foreshadowing of *something* like this, exactly 30 years ago. If you were around back then, did you think what Deckard was doing was (a) impossible, (b) something nobody would ever want, or (c) a taste of the future?

http://criticalcommons.org/Members/ironman28/clips/bladeRunner3DphotoH264.mov/view

I wonder if Lytro drew any inspiration from the movie?

Hmm, with that resolution we could do the science fiction standard nonsense:

"Select quadrant in top right corner. Enhance.
Select the reflection on the subjects glasses. Zoom 50X and enhance.
See the face of the murderer.."

Remember Blade Runner?
http://criticalcommons.org/Members/ironman28/clips/bladeRunner3DphotoH264.mov/view