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Airport Video Surveillance Goes Hi-Tech
conq writes "BusinessWeek has a piece on new tech used in the airport of Helsinki to monitor behavior and alert people when predefined situations arise. From the article: "The system can alert staff to events which may need further investigation without the need for every camera to be observed by staff. For example, suspect packages or vehicles left unattended will be flagged up and staff alerted. Similarly if the system detects queues growing beyond a pre-defined length in the security zone staff will be alerted of the need to open another lane""
...if the system detects queues growing beyond a pre-defined length in the security zone staff will be alerted of the need to open another lane
Forget the airport, I want this at my local supermarket!
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"
Can't the actual human employees at the head of the line make this determination and alert whomever has the authority to open another lane?
That's not in the job description.
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People are replaceable, 767s cost millions of dollars...
Going by personal experience here, They seem completely unable to know when another line need's opened.
Even if you ask you them about it or paint a big banner with the word's "OPEN ANOTHER LINE YOU BASTARDS".
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
You clearly don't have much experience dealing with Finns if you think that's going to happen.
I do though, and, strange as it is, when I talk to Finns, they respond. It's almost as if the nature of communication is exactly the same between English people and Finns as it would be for English people and..any nationality!
If you are insinuating that they are not predisposed to make idle chatter, I have to agree. But they are still polite and courteous, and wouldn't wantonly ignore you. You weren't wearing some smelly England top were you? I mean, if you slur 'Oi mate open there's a queue 'ere open another fucking lane for fucks sake', whilst farting Maccarat and belching Karhu, well, fuck, I would ignore you.
Besides it's not bad thing if you have to wait a while longer in Helsinki airport - the Finnish women are something else. UK women just look like cheap, ugly deformed swamp donkeys compared to them...
Exactly. People can be easily mass-produced with unskilled labor; airplanes cannot. (With apologies to Wernher von Braun)
I'd be more impressed if they had a system that could scan and tag/match all faces/voices that it sees and hears in an airport.
Hell, I'd be impressed if they had a system that didn't lose luggage.
As for matching faces to voices in the airport, who really wants their conversations overheard by some lackey in a monitoring room?
Cruising the internet on my TI-99/4A @ a whopping 300 baud!
...once these cameras are connected to Skynet.
Quick test: What hangs from the ceiling quite prominently in the checked-in waiting area?
Your balls? As you've clearly got a massive package, which is diverting the blood from your brain, as the parent was quite obviously making a generalized comment with an attempt at humor about airport security lines, and not your precious Helsinki...
Don't anthropomorphize computers: they hate that.