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IBM Touts Smart Surveillance System
mikesd81 writes "Reuters reports that IBM hopes to capitalize on the enormous growth in video surveillance. They'll begin selling technology from their research labs that performs real-time analysis on footage captured by security cameras in stores and sensitive locales. IBM contends that it is the first to add advanced search functions, which make use of computers' improving ability to recognize video content. For example, the IBM system would let a user search for all instances of a green car passing by a store on a certain day. It can also incorporate data gathered from audio or chemical sensors. And IBM said S3 includes important privacy enhancements, such as the ability to automatically obscure faces of customers or passers-by. IBM said that S3's target market includes retail outlets, banks, airports, freight terminals and mass transit systems. It is also being sold to public security agencies and other government departments." C|Net reports that the software is so impressive, it may be monitoring border crossings before too long.
My work here is dung.
Breasts. Can that be your keyword for your search? If so, I'm totally for this advanced technology.
Maybe it will record IBM employees plagiarizing software....
Yeah, you must be ANXIOUS to see this come out. It will make it possible for you to see breasts for the first time in your life.
Nerd.
I for one welcome out new Bir Grother Overlor... (Connection reset by peer)
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A surveillance system that respects the privacy of those it's observing.
Http://SPP.GOV for the Security and Prosperity Partnership initializing the Texas trade Corridor, that builds a superhighway through North America from Mexico to Canada (ruining the jobs of a million USian truckers).
Also, notice how much restored faith IBM has collected by challenging the most minute of encroachments on the people with the right to property, and now they shove their new surveilance technology up our noses. LOOK AT ALL THE TOLL ROADS that STEAL our ORIGINAL free Biways of the common ways! Hear in southern California (Westminster), there is a camera on every stoplight. What will really scare everyone is the fact that the local Police have NO ACCESS to the surveilance system because it is all property of the Department of Defense. Perhaps the Police are disclosed certain elements of copyright information from the DOD and are granted a limited agency for the care of that information, but the DOD holds all the stops on this.
Its Globablism! The Police that participate will eventually lose their jurisdiction and their Hire to a consolidated international criminal racket that asserts to fine the people for more than the typical Non-Tort Violations that the schaudy Police are known for; the internaional surveilance is going to tax based on vehicle size and weight and occupancy and income leve -- completly respecting a measurement inconsistent with the equalities made known in science.
You all just wait until the new fuel sources (that have been available and despised/hidden for a hundred years) save everyone from participating in an unfair payload metric. Check out information on the "Joe Cell" and "Water Electrolysis" for information on helping the vessel energy problems. For the general energy difficulties, look for information on the "Hummingbird Motor" and "Sundance Generator."
Thanks and good luck, ya'll.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk
Clearly, the fact that it can be tied to chemical and audio sensors is so that they can spot who farted.
If every time "Joe" is in the frame when the audio and "chemical" sensors detect the presence of a farter then Joe will be moved to the secondary cube farm, further away from HR.
A little misleading about being the "first". Take a look at http://www.3vr.com/
- No one ever got fired for choosing Linux
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Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Now excuse me while i have some smart corflakes and take a smart shower, Im late for the smart beer i should be drinking down the smart pub.
God Be Gone
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/ - a book about how IBM helped Nazis data-mine Jews. People went up in smoke and IBM took the profits.
which ibm just won as a tier 2 (systems integration) effort. there they're running a bunch of vision algorithms to index video to support intelligence analysts trying to sort through the insane amount of video intelligence that's gathered on a daily basis.
On how many times i give the cameras the bird?
Phfft. If im not doing anything wrong, its none of anyones business where i go, or what i do.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Suddenly, Apple's 1984 commercial seems even more appropriate.
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Mexicans are painting giant dollar bills on the sides of their cars, to make them invisible to scanners.
Remember, IBM leased and maintained punchcard systems to that were used to run the holocaust. (Granted, I'm typing this post on an IBM-branded Thinkpad with an IBM-branded keyboard.)
No, I will not work for your startup