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Phoenix School to Install Face Scanners
I'm Spartacus! writes "CNN reports that a Phoenix middle school is intstalling face recognition scanners to help locate missing children and identify sex offenders. Civil Libertarians are justifiably concerned."
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you GNU/Linux fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a GNU/Linux box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this GNU/Linux box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various GNU/Linux machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a GNU/Linux box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the GNU/Linux machines faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 800 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that GNU/Linux is a "superior" machine.
GNU/Linux addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a GNU/Linux over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Just being cynical here but - I'll bet the scanners only come in black and white.
...and you can just take a wildass guess as to which 'color' gets picked more often in the line-up?
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
Yasser Arafat was found dead today at 03:47 in his compound of an Israeli bullet. Even if you haven't been personally suicide bombed by one of his terrorist minions, I'm sure you've noticed his contributions to Middle Eastern politics. He will be missed; truly a modern-day icon.
*Click* it up your ass pal. No YHBT YHL HAND for you one this one. If you pin up a "successful troll" of a troll trolling a troll, its meaningless. Try knapping someone who is fucking serious and not trolling themselves. You caught a shark that bit your arm and broke your pole, freak.
YOU are the dumbass that can't understand what alleged means. It's not my fault you're a dumbass.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.