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Face-Scanning Vending Machine Denies Children Access To Pudding
smitty777 writes "What do you do when you spend over a billion dollars on products targeted specifically for adults? Simple, just put a device on your pudding dispensing vending machines that scans faces, and denies the delicious food to the kiddies. The Minority Report-like device will apparently judge the age of the individual based on the space between their eyes and ears. If the criteria is not met, the vending machine will shut down and ask the individual to step away from the machine. There are some vending machine combos that this makes sense for, but seriously — pudding?"
...even if you've had your meat.
(apologies to Pink Floyd)
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Too bad for you.
Perhaps it's a pudding with some sort of heinous liquor in it?
I mean, we must think of the children...
One thing I know, and that is that I am ignorant...
Now they just need vending machines that can detect little fat kids.
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I can get that they made a pudding that, supposedly, is designed for adult tastes, and they'd like to get it so their target audience is who gets it, but I don't think this really deals with the real problem of an automated free samples machine.
And that problem is, whether an adult or child, you'll get people that keep coming for more and more samples if they can. Even just one guy/lady doing that can ruin this by taking all of the puddings. And without some old lady handing out the free samples, even the slight shame from going back for more free samples won't come into play. I'm sorry old lady! But you microwave a damned good hot pocket.
Also, given reverse psychology and all that, denying kids something because it's "for adults" makes it more likely that kids will go out and buy ASAP. So this is marketing on MULTIPLE levels. DEVIOUS.
So what about a person who has a growth problem and doesn't grow any bigger than the size of a 10yr old. This is a law suit waiting to happen.
The Japanese Cigarette vending machines with facial recognition were pulled, when they discovered that holding up a scale photo or magazine picture would pass the age check.
1. Put in a smart vending machine that can veto a purchase
2. Accept a bribe from Pepsi to "accidentally" deny Coke purchases on occasion
3. Profit!
Put a scale in front of it. :)
Anyone over 100 Kilo will not be served
Privacy is terrorism.
While good in theory, in practice they are about as open to abuse as diebold's voting machines.
I simply do not trust that a machine with hidden logic will remain untainted, either from the touch of a hacker OR a corrupt programmer.
Now counting to see how long it takes for one of these machines to be abused like DRM.
As the article actually states, the reason they're using this technology isn't because of some pudding shortage or the contents of the pudding. It's just that Jell-O is marketing the pudding to adults and they only want to sell it to their demographic. I'm sure this will go over well in the future, when companies decide that they only want white people to buy their products or that they don't want their vending machines selling anything to gingers.
and every other technology outlet that covers the technology machine and every outlet concerned about health or childrens rights that covers this machine. Seriously could you imagine the amount of buzz/free advertising that would be generated by targeting only Men for example, and the number of women who would buy the product just to say "screw you I'll eat it anyways"?
Jello may have just invented the advertising by exclusion business model.
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But first they need to link any machine that dispenses meat type products to machines dispensing pudding. After all; you can have any pudding if you don't eat your meat.
My karma is not a Chameleon.
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Claus, Santa
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Postal Code: H0H0H0
It's worked so far, he actually replies!
"judge the age of the individual based on the space between their eyes and ears." ...and the space between the 2 sides of their waist.
"Step away, fatso, no pudding for you!
I was not expecting to see whiskey, but this instead.
When you recognize love in another and realize how precious it is, everything else seems so insignificant.
"Criteria" does not go with "is", thank you.
First they came for the pudding, and I didn't speak out because I was on a diet...
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A while back I did some work looking at how people faces change with age for a medicinal application. One quite surprising thing is how little the distance between the eyes actually change, quite young children will have the the same distance as adults. On the other hand noses keep growing throughout life.
There are four sorts of people in the world: fools, lunatics, idiots and morons. - Umberto Eco, Foucaut's pendulum.
I want some more..."
-Charles Dickens
It's a gateway dessert.
If the machine is going to meter pudding based on the metrics of the would-be buyer, then it should base its decision on the relative size of belly or bum to height (or some similar fat/slender axis), not on the size of the head.
Of course, it would be better if the machine did not attempt to make any such decisions, as there are probably enough cases where the decision would be wrong (small adult, etc.). Lawsuits ahoy!
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
The kids will either block the camera's view and get what they want or, if that does not work, take revenge and permanently block the camera's view in some way so nobody will be able to get some.
WTF is a pudding dispensing vending machine FFS?
Quoting Dr. Burks from the linked page, with my emphasis: "There haven't been any good scientific studies that show that there is an adverse effect on a child or adult's behavior chronically with the ingestion of foods." I'd guess some might worry about the acute effects of a rise in blood glucose causing a child to want to become more active. Have any studies looked at the correlation between blood glucose and a child's urge to play, and if so, could you link to the a report?
the US jailed one person for possession of hentai comics.
Are you talking about the cases listed here? If so, the relevant statute incorporates the Miller test, meaning any cartoon CP with serious artistic value is excluded from the ban. In the case of Steven Kutzner, for example, the use of copyrighted characters created by Matt Groening might have been an aggravating factor in determining lack of serious artistic value.
Here's your extra big ass fries. You are a bad mother and your children will be taken away from you. Minority report doesn't have anything on Idiocracy when it comes to vending machines.
What about the height challanged? What about those kids that had growth spurts and are bigger than what they should be for their age? This recklessness in having a machine arbitrarly saying who can and can not get something is outrageous. I think a lawsuit is in order. There had better be a phone number that can be called to override for override the ruleing by this machine. Oh my the machines are now ruling us!!!!!
I don't like this face scanning thing. What if the dude before me has Stuxnet virus and I put my face in the scanner. Now I gotta reboot all my damn servers. I wouldn't even touch a common bathroom sink tap. What if the kid is wearing a mask? What if they ask a grown up to get one for them? How well does this scanner work when you rock the machine? How long till somebody decides to put sneezing powder on the scanner. Good idea though, those kids got too much damn freedom. I say we limit their water and air supply as well.
On the other hand noses keep growing throughout life.
Because you can't untell a lie.
Well, why do you eat muscle tissue and drink cow milk?
Because they don't have blood in them. Meat (animal muscle) has had its blood drained out of it, and milk doesn't have blood in it for the same reason that sweat doesn't.
Anyone else think "what the heck?!" when they first read the article title?
just dig through mom & dad's old halloween junk for one of these http://i.imgur.com/YnqsJ.jpg
Carl's Jr. will start using these.
ED-209: "Citizen! Please step away from the pudding!"
*BRRRRRT-SplatterGibSploosh*"
ED-209: "Thank you for your cooperation."
How much anyone want to bet its really for catching criminals AND to save the scans of our faces for further intrusive advertising somewhere down the road. Lets boycott the makers of Jello. Do they scan our faces as we walk by also?
Jack of all trades,master of none
I suspect this is a test of the system. Put somerhing in their that kids want that is not true contraband like cigarettes. Kids will figure out how to defeat the security by, say wearing masks or holding up newsweek magazine covers. Maker of machine then improves software. The war continues till kids can't defeat it. Now you can load it with cigarettes and alcohol.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
the parent perceiving the abnormally low level of activity as "normal" for their child
You make a good point. But in that case, it's not the parent as much as society in general that perceives abnormally low activity, such as sitting at a desk for six hours without becoming destructive, as "normal".
How can you have any pudding, if you don't eat your meat.
Blood is nutricious
And promiscuous sex can be fun. But that doesn't mean it can't spread diseases transmitted through blood. Nor does it mean that the holy text of two billion Christians doesn't forbid it: "[Continue] to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things." (Acts 15:29, NIV)
More to the point - what kind of fucking loser is buying puddings from a vending machine? I was going to say "I can't believe there's a market for such a thing" - but sadly, I do believe it.
DON'T buy it, if you want real chocolate pudding buy the kiddie marketed stuff. because it's just air fluffed normal pudding so you pay more for less.
The next phrase is
Step back, ARMED RESPONSE!
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The vending machines will ultimately dispense medical marijuana.
Don't worry; as added protection, they will be sold in child-proof containers, preventing kids and already-heavily-stoned adults from opening them...
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That means that anyone's free not to sell to you, as long as they don't discriminate based on legally established criteria.
"If you're not passionate about your operating system, you're married to the wrong one."
The Nanny State doesn't have bounds and will strive to control as much as possible, right down to how many squares you use to wipe your ass.
It would be more useful to measure the BMI of the customer and block oinkers from buying.
If you want to follow the bible there is a load of things you shouldn't eat including things like seafood and pork.
Until Acts 10. There's a difference: the prohibition on blood is reiterated in the Greek Scriptures, but the Mosaic prohibition on pork is abolished.
Teenagers desperate to get drunk have had workarounds for this problem for decades. Need a Jello fix but you're too young? Find the nearest homeless person and offer them five bucks to stand in front of the machine at the right moment, and voila!
They just don't want kids who likely wont be spending money on them to get them. I think it's pretty retarded personally, but it's not like they're actually carding kids to buy pudding.
Until you are sued by Snooki, then the gig is over
Table-ized A.I.
Stop acting like a child. So you don't get the respect the wearers of big-boy pants do; why do you think that is? Have you considered that Person B had always been a whiney li'l twit what had it coming?
No, you just walk in on an abstraction and assume you know what's going on, but I've know Persons A, B, C and E for three years and D and G for two. I just met Persons F and H last week and won't comment on them, but lemme tell you, A has always been a 'hole and B whines about crap like this all of the time. Person E used to go out with Person A, but didn't appreciate being talked down to and Person B seems unaware that sex is a thing that happens.
I don't want to tell you about the frakked up deal between Persons D and G, but Person C told me that D and G used to think they were related, and now that they know they're not...well, it's still weird. I don't normally listen to Person C, but ever since I got a bleedin' ear-full from Person B about Person A, I'd rather keep all Person socializing to a minimum, but Person C just barges in from time to time when escaping this line of BS.
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They forgot to stress that there Kiosks are about giving away free samples... Children would definitely abuse it and since their parents won't be buying them expensive pudding... nothing for them. They probably also keep a biometric record of your face so adults can't abuse it either.
It doesn't seem like anyone read the article. They are giving the pudding away. It isn't being sold. They are free to give away their pudding to the target demo. Just like gillette is free to give away razors to people turning 18.
Why does the giveaway being done by a vending machine change anything? It is no different than paying someone to hand out samples in a mall or something. No one says they have to give it away to everyone, and unless the machine is programmed to proactively disciminate against age or disability I think you would have a hard time arguing it discriminates just because it isn't 100% accurate. If they programmed it in good faith to serve what they thought would encompass their entire demographic, then where is the room for lawsuits?
In fact, even if they said 'We are going to give our pudding away to all white adults, unless they have a disabity that makes them appear to be childlike in some ways.' There is no discrimination there, just poor taste. They aren't obligated to give anything to anyone, period. This isn't like being denied a job, or access to public transit.
I mean, this discussion is just absolutely ridiculous. Slashdot, you are a crazymaker, need to RTFA, and stop assuming anything and everything will result in a lawsuit.
I am literally shaking my head in disbelief at how stupid this conversation is, and how quickly it devolved into the mess it is now.
I can get pudding from a vending machine holy shit I love the future.
"Please become a legal adult. You have 20 second to comply."
"You now have 15 seconds to comply."
"You are in direct violation of Dessert Code 1.13, Section 9. You have 5 seconds to comply."
"I am now authorized to use physical force."
(machine-gun fire)
If a child manages to get pudding he or she shouldn't have, that issue is a matter between their parents and the child. One suggested move? Don't give the child the money.
Fuck.
Was that blood or just myoglobin, as AC pointed out?
Shouldn't also deny pudding to fat people? How will the machine identify diabetics, compulsory tattoos?