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UK School Introduces Facial Recognition

Penguin_me writes "A UK school has quietly introduced new facial recognition systems for registering students in and out of school: 'HIGH-TECH facial recognition technology has swept aside the old-fashioned signing of the register at a school. Sixth-formers will now have their faces scanned as they arrive in the morning at the City of Ely Community College. It is one of the first schools in the UK to trial the new technology with its students. Face Register uses the latest high-tech gadgets to register students in and out of school in just 1.5 seconds.'"

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  1. Brilliant! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "UK School Introduces Facial Recognition"

    This is very good progress. It is important to keep up with the development of various sexual perversions in our modern fast-paced society. Therefore, recognizing facials as a new part of the curriculum of sexual education in schools is a good thing, even if only in one school in the UK for now. But it is a start, and hopefully facials are recognized soon in every school. It is about time to introduce the recognition of facials!

  2. Re:I wonder how it copes with twins? by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    This absolutely sucks. In my day, all we had to do to sneak out of class, was wait for teacher to turn their back.

    Now days kids have to wear Thermoptic Camouflage armour. What is the world coming to.

  3. Re:Bloody idiots by ZeroExistenZ · · Score: 3, Funny

    what happens if THE SYSTEM is the cause of the fire? Hence, you have no records and can't gather any?

    You're thinking too localized. For missioncritical systems, you'd use an offsite datacenter with a decent SLA-contact. It's up to the datacenter to take the precautions to not have their servers go up in flames (that's why some of these datacenters are bunkered and have high security) and preferably have a redundant setup, spread over more then 1 location which is easy these days with virtualization.

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  4. Re:I wonder how it copes with twins? by CrimsonScythe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Twins? Easy! The evil twin always has a goatee.

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