Microsoft Patents Looks-Are-Everything Dating

theodp writes "Screw that eHarmony Compatibility Matching System nonsense. 'Physical appearance is generally considered one of the most important search criteria among users of online dating services,' according to a patent granted Tuesday to five Microsoft Research Asia inventors. Its Image-Based Face Search technology not only allows people to specify the 'gender, age, ethnicity, location, height, weight, and the like' of their prey, explains Microsoft, it also allows them to 'provide a query image of a face for which they would like to search for similar faces.' So, even though you can't have the real Angelina Jolie or Natalie Portman, Microsoft will fix you up with a look-alike."

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Any more shallow than the fucks who allow animals to be raised in shitty conditions, living a life that we wouldn't wish on our worst enemies so the same said fucks can eat Chicken McNuggets or a Big Mac? After all, that counts for roughly 95% of the human race.

Or how about slave child labor in China? The market for diamonds is strewn full of injustices. The number of ventures out there that are part of a cycle of all kinds of shady business that include child sex slaves and terrorism is so large that you'd likely never find the ends of it all.

People are ugly pigs but they like to think themselves better by hiding it behind pseudomorality and little sayings that make it easier to live with that ugliness.

If you think you're above this level of shallowness there is a near 100% probability that with a little inspection of your life I can prove you wrong.

Have a nice day living in a world built on the lives and deaths of the exploited.