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Smart Cameras To Predict Crimes
hairybacchus writes: "The Independent News is reporting that scientists at Kingston University in London have developed video processing software that is able to predict behavior patterns of the people on-screen. They say it will be used to alleviate congestion in the London Underground or alert police to potential muggings. I wonder how long it will be before this is combined with face-recognition technology? It's spooky." I can't wait. "We searched you because the computer told us to." Trust the Computer.
The could use it to determine which of us are likely "pirates". Oh wait, they have no need. They consoder us all pirates.
Camera 1: I predict that I'm going to be stolen in 10 seconds.
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**Damn** I hate it when I'm right!
One forgets that when the computers hold sway over the people, those chosen few who program the computer are Gods. I REALLY can't wait, becuase this is where it all pays off...
"Gnovos, the computer has informed us that your progress in the 'QuakeSex Research Project' has been incredibly successful, and we are to give you another $100 million extension to the grant. Personally, I don't see how playing deathmatch games against your friends between sexual encounters with supermodels contributes to global peace, but it's not my place to dispute the wisdom of the computer. Machines are always right, after all. Oh, and another Nobel prize came today, should I put it in the box with the others?"
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
Very difficult to spot during editing apparantly ;-) Wonder what it would make of that?
Why can't women be like Hedy Lamarr - beautiful, talented and inventors of frequency-hopping spread-spectrum techn
Cameras set up at Kingston University in London marked everyone coming into the computer lab as "criminal" as it predicted each individual was about to illegally download copyrighted music.
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Mike Nugent
-- Mike wildcard@illuminatus.org
...but one oft-proposed use of this technology is to catch shoplifters. If you're running around the store flapping your coat like a bird, I have a feeling that a little computer is a small worry compared to those nice men in white taking you away right now.
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Every psycologist worth his salt knows that you can't predict the behavior of individuals or even small groups. You need a large group before the mathematics of psycology can be applied with any acceptable degree of accuracy, on the order of the population of a medium to highly populated planet. Seldon would be rolling in his grave if he'd been born yet.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
I live 20 steps from Times Square in the only residential building on my block. As such, I probably can't pick my nose without being recorded on 15 different cameras. Of course, you think this is bad, but consider the possibilities!
1. If I seem lost in thought, change the contents of some of the digital billboards to warn me about wandering into traffic.
2. If I seem sleepy, send an email to my employer warning them not to let me touch any code that day.
3. If I seem irritable, call my girlfriend and warn her to leave me alone for a few hours.
4. And of course, if I seem shifty and nervous, like someone about to do something hazardous and antisocial, someone with something to hide, who is going to do harm to everyone around them... warn the police because I am about to experience flatulence.
;-P
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
In that case I'd like to be the first person to complain about flocks of geese looking like soviet nuclear missiles...
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Being American doesn't mean you are incapable of getting the name of a newspaper right, surely?
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Automatic Toilets in NZ and Australia -
Camera notes customer velocity, gait down hallway.
Computer computes desperation factor , and closes other door stalls to 'engauged', except last 'vip' stall that accepts $2 in coins.
For extra realism dummy legs and shoes can be electronically positioned on other thrones , loudspeaker noises added , to convice payeee, that that was the best 'penny' ever spent.
Dreamt up by the same architects who put the same number of stalls in mens and womens. Adding a coinbox to stalls is good, but just wait till the camera tells it to set a higher price.
these are americans - remember the bond film license revoke , or rather license to kill after a survey revealed that many americans didn't know what revoked meant, or harry potter and the philospher's stone - or rather sorceror's stone , americans didn't know what a philospher was. anything involving literacy gets dumbed down to the lowest common denominator - american comprehension.
So when robbers learn to adapt their pattern of dress and behavior when they go out on the streets to mug people, and say, start dressing and shuffling about as old ladies, the police will start arresting old ladies on the street because the computers told them they fit the behavior patterns of robbers? :)
Whatever you do, don't EVER get a large bag of red balloons and release them into the summer sky. Boy, I learned my lesson...