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3-D Surveillance Technology

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-choose-the-3d-pill dept.

scubacuda writes "According to this Technology Review article, a new surveillance technology called Video Flashlight melds 3-D models from background scenes. This "tweening process" allows security persononnel to fly around a subject such as a pedestrian, getting a detailed look without jumping between widely separated views." That's just flat out cool.

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  1. Scary... by donnacha · · Score: 1, Flamebait


    It's kinda scary that the reporter is, in a sense, selling us on this aspect of the ever more frightening reach of surveillance into our lives by tying it in so heavily with one of the coolest films of recent years, The Matrix.

    While the film itself was pretty damn cool, we should bear in mind that the world it depicted would be pretty damn shit to actually live in.

  2. Eye without a face (Fucking Americans) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Eyes Without A Face

    I'm all out of hope
    One more bad dream could bring a fall
    When I'm far from home
    Don't call me on the phone
    To tell me you're alone
    It's easy to deceive
    It's easy to tease
    But hard to get release

    Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face
    Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face
    Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face
    Got no human grace your eyes without a face.

    I spend so much time
    Believing all the lies
    To keep the dream alive
    Now it makes me sad
    It makes me mad at truth
    For loving what was you

    Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face
    Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face
    Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face
    Got no human grace your eyes without a face.

    When you hear the music you make a dip
    Into someone else's pocket then make a slip.
    Steal a car and go to Las Vegas oh, the gigolo pool.
    I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip
    Reading murder books tryin' to stay hip.
    I'm thinkin' of you you're out there so
    Say your prayers.
    Say your prayers.
    Say your prayers.

    Now I close my eyes
    And I wonder why
    I don't despise
    Now all I can do
    Is love what was once
    So alive and new
    But it's gone from your eyes
    I'd better realise

    Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face
    Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face
    Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face
    Got no human grace your eyes without a face.
    Such a human waste your eyes without a face
    And now it's getting worse.

    Savez vous au moins decrire le refrain ?