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Borders Nixes Face Recognition
jeffy124 writes "Due to recent criticisms surrounding their implementation of face-recognition technology to watch known shoplifters, Borders Bookstores is suspending the approach. This doesn't mean it's gone for good, it may return in the future. They want to resolve the issues brought up by privacy and human-rights activists."
Bookstore patrons aren't the most likely to steal books when you can just as easily sit in the middle of the place and read the whole damm thing anyways...
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Arnold, as well as every other guy in your town, would have to problem identifying the top of your mom's head.
25th post!
That's horrible, really.
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Some little bitch in my managment class interviewed the GM at the Borders here next to James Madison U. She actually thought to ask the GM about the English Borders and the camera policy. You can read it on our class BB; the GM didn't really say much, except drone on about how she supports the company and how the have access to numbers that GMs and the public don't blah blah blah. The really have those managers numbed whenever it comes to anything stamped "corporate policy."
Now prices won't come down. And all the criminals will be able to keep stealing books and we'll all have to pay for it. Everyone jump for joy.
Put the crack pipe down and step away...NOW!
How does the captured image of a face translate to a "match" with a picture on file? Does it have refernce points, much like a fingerprint? How are these points defined? Does anyone have a link? Does it consider skin tone as an identifying factor?!
It's simple for a person to look at two pictures of a face and say "yeah, it looks like this person." But face recognition, I thought, was a bit of a mystery to human psychology - I mean, all faces a pretty much the same, but human beings can note and register the most subtle differences.
Would this sort of logic hold up in court? I mean, the witness says the guy on the (non face scanning) security camera isn't the man on trial - but the scanning-camera logic thinks it's a match, so it must be him! Who gets precedence, the human or the computer?
My guess the logic flows through a simple computer. Anyway, here is the simplest computer around, and the interface is perfect because we are all born with it - the interface is human DRIVE. The computer works like this: I stick my pee sprout in your mom's poop chute for 1, and I stick it in her pee hole for 0.
poop chute = 1
pee hole = 0
Sometimes I stick it in her mouth, but that is for parity.
Sometimes complex operations can take a long time to complete, but that's okay! We're looking for simplicity here, not speed. And waiting for this interface isn't that bad.
This simple computer is very susceptable to visuses. In fact, it comes pre-loaded with several.
For review:
poop chute = 1
pee hole = 0
This computer also fits into Microsoft's
poop chute = 1
pee hole = 0
I never pick my ass in public unless there is a camera around.
Do you know why they make aspirin white?
Because they want them to work.
When I was back in HS, I was busy fucking the shit out of your sister. I'd jam it in her ass to it bled, and then I'd have spooge and blood dripping all over my balls. Your sister would like it off, and then I'd punch her in the face. Man, those were good times.
I once had the same problem. Turns out that the wallet I had recently purchased had a security device in it that had never been deactivated - it was tucked deep into a photo pocket and I had no idea it was there. Caused me a slew of embarassment until I figured it out.
I used to work retail and it was great amusement to try and stick security tags on the bottom of other employee's shoes, inside their ties, etc.
It was also amusing to ball your sister in the stock room.
Man, good times.
For every leftist, there is a fascist waiting to break out.
Your a godamn fascist! If the U.K. wants to pull a 1984, let them. This is America.
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Hell no. We had misidentifications all the time, too. But most of the pictures we had to look at were niggers, and they all look the same. Even if we did mis-ID one, no biggie; the manager was just glad to get them out of the store, criminal or not. Most nigs are too stupid to file a lawsuit anyway, unless they think they can get free fried chicken or orange soda out of a settlement. So even when they did it was cheap to settle.
i saw right through that link, goatse boy!
it is an amerika run by jews and sand nigs.
Sneh. Who needs search on the internet?
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But they don't. Every goddamned time I go into Borders, they never have PC Gamer. So I tell the manager, "Get PC Gamer, damnit, B&N has it!" But they never do. Other Borders carry it, but not this one! What the hell.
The fact of the matter is, not carrying PC Gamer has more impact on my day-to-day life than some stupid camera matching me scratch my ass in the Self Help section. And their freakin' Iced Chai taste like shit, I think they make it from some instant crap instead of brewing it like it should be done. And they keep filing some of Andy Summer's music under Jazz, and some under Ambient. Yeah, technically that may be true but keep all an artist's work in one section so I can find it! Do think I have all damned day to wander around their store looking for shit, sipping on some shitty iced chai? NO! I'm a busy man with shit to do - and one of those things I have to do is read PC Gamer so I can go to ElBo and make an intelligent buying decision! Instead I have to go home and brush my teeth to get that chai powder out of my mouth, and read Computer Strategy Plus instead which isn't my cup of tea
This is one consumer they don't listen to! If it weren't for that red head with the tight shirts and big tits they have working there, I wouldn't go there at all! And Jeezus, are they going to use The Princess Bride as their demo movie FOREVER? It's only on TV every freaking 15 minutes anyway; show me a movie I might actually want to buy! And what the hell - could they get toilet paper that is any scratchier? Rubs my ass raw
And do they really need that many handicapped parking spaces? If they had a Wheelchair Readers day at the store they wouldn't use all those spaces. And why the hell is that Jurassic Park box set so expensive? And putting those Dale Earnhardt books on display is just cashing in on a tragedy. And can they push that damn Ken Burn's Jazz book down my throat any harder? I'm surprised they haven't pinned me down and tatooed Billie Holliday on my chest!
This is one consumer they don't listen to, let me tell you that, bub.
Remember when Denny's got slapped with a lawsuit for violating the civil rights of black customers? That was in the U.S.
I never ate at a Denny's before then. When that lawsuit came out, I became a regular customer.
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You do know that there is more than one brit on slashdot, right?
Kevgull is smarter than most of his countrymen, but how uncommon is that? Think how many of your countrymen (wherever you live) are stupid fucking morons. This is pretty much a universal, despite the high-pitched whine of the euro-bigots.
They should have a camera that sounds a loud buzzer whenever a nigger, a fag, a dot head, a woman, or a jew enters the store. It would be the best store ever.
I've been whacking off all day long. Got my pecker worn down to a little red nub.
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You've been warned
brother! capitalism rules, but at some point us(libertarian, for me) folks have to say enough is enough. GODAMNIT. DON'T U UNDERSTAND A SLIPPERY SLOPE
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Moronic, intentionally misunderstanding facts for poltical effect
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people, the problem is where does it STOP? seriously? when? because some soccer mom cares about security more than ANY PRIVACY! FUCK THAT! I'LL BE KILLING LEFTISTS AND BIBLE-THUMPERS THAT HAVE NO CONCERN FOR PRIVACY WHEN US THAT CARE ABOUT FREEDOM REVOLT!
if you honestly believe that a CORPORATION "saving" money is going to make prices less, you're a FUCKING RETARD, and need to STFU
Oh shit, he's onto us.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
Hey, where's the Penis Bird in this thread???