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Hacking Big Brother With Help From Revlon

Posted by Soulskill on from the better-option-than-back-alley-eye-transplants dept.

skids writes "All those futuristic full-face eyeliner jobs in dystopian cyberpunk fiction might not be that far off the mark. A New York University student spent his thesis time exploring computer vision technology (OpenCV) for ways in which one could confound first-stage algorithms that initially lock onto faces. Then he mixed in a bit of fashion sense to predict future geek chic. Now, whether you want to go for the coal-miner look just to stay out of the data mine, that's up to you."

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  1. Re:Hollywood Masquerade by timmarhy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Obama is on track to rob more then 1000 people....

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  2. nobody owns words by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    and words shift in meaning all the time. the way they spoke in 1960, 1910, 1860... the meanings of words you use today as they were in 1960, 1910, 1860... its completely fluid and outside of anyone's control

    so why do you fucking care so much about a fucking word?

    "hacking" has evolved to have different meanings. big fucking deal

    for whatever bizarre reason, you have a huge attachment to the meaning of "hacking"

    whatever, drama queen. get a life

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  3. no, you're not a grammar nazi by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you suffer from asperger syndrome. you have clear social defects

    no one cares, and you can't control the meaning of words

    deal with it

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