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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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Ok, now that I've read TFA, there's no booze in the pudding. This is what it says:
"It's probably a good measure to prevent unmonitored children from taking more than their fair share of pudding cups"
FWIW, I know quite a few adults, probably myself included, who can be worse than children when it comes to taking more than their fair share...
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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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.
Put a scale in front of it. :)
Anyone over 100 Kilo will not be served
Privacy is terrorism.
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 unlike Diebold's voting machines, the worst thing that can happen from abuse is that the wrong people get free pudding...
HAHA, I just pictured a granola bar wrapping itself back up when you try to pass the second half to a friend!
More likely thinking of the adults having to deal with the sugar frenzy, not to mention the throwing up. And I wonder whether allergies and liability also plays a part.
Sugar-hyperactivity is a MYTH. Surprising, I know; but before you react, have a think about it for a while. The same is said to apply to E-numbers. Although some people are allergic to it, hyperactivity is very unusual.
Also, I don't understand the logic of this company, they destroyed Cadbury's in the UK after closing one of their large factories here. Now they want to restrict who can buy their products. If children are out alone, surely they can buy this product elsewhere? I can't imagine any shopkeep refusing a sale because it's a chocolate cake that was "designed for adults".
"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.
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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.
It's a gateway dessert.
Anyone who thinks that food does not affect your body and mind is clearly delusional. But likewise is everyone who thinks in monocausalities and simple, 2-step causality chains.
Hyperactivity is real, though exaggerated like most things in the thiiink ooof theee chiiiiiiiiiiiiiildren area. And changes in diet do have effects, though I'm not sure anyone knows for sure just what the causes are and what changes are required and which ones don't really do anything.
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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
On the other hand noses keep growing throughout life.
Because you can't untell a lie.
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.
Ever seen a steak before it's cooked? Plenty of blood in there, I would say.
Sugar-hyperactivity is a MYTH.
Sorry, but all the studies and assertions in the world don't explain away a real, easily-reproduced phenomenon. Give kids a pile of sugary snacks, and half an hour later they turn into hyperactive demons; then a few hours later, they crash and turn into miserable, whiny little brats.
[citation needed] -- and that really should be an end to it. Ya wanna clue? Kids party hard and then invariably collapse into Need-A-Nap syndrome. Sugar's got nil to do with it.
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So - tell me, what do you eat that CANNOT spread diseases? And, you might be interested to know that my devout Catholic grandparents, along with their sizeable clan of relatives, ate that blood pudding at almost every holiday.
I guess my mother's ethnic background rubbed off on me, because I only remember tasting blood pudding a couple of times. Seems that she brainwashed me into turning my nose up at it by the time I reached school age.
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Wowie you are a retard. Test it on myself? No problem. No change after eating a bunch of sugar. Have you seen that 60% of the population that's obese? According to you, they wouldn't be obese. They wouldn't have been able to sit down after drinking their 2L bottle of Coke and would have burned off their excess calories. Children act crazy all of the time. They don't need sugar to do so. Sugar never affected my mood when I was a child and it doesn't now.
Maybe you need to hang out with some children to see how they normally act, without sugar. Well, maybe not, it might not be a good idea to have you near children at all.
If you want to follow the bible there is a load of things you shouldn't eat including things like seafood and pork. Of course that made sense ages ago when there was no refrigeration and the ability to cook things wasn't as good. Most meats *still* have some blood in them anyway. It's not like they can drain 100% of the blood.
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.
It would be more useful to measure the BMI of the customer and block oinkers from buying.
Read the article. They aren't restricting who can buy their products. They are only restricting who can get *free samples.* No shopkeep or store will refuse to sell these pudding cakes to children, but the company can certainly refuse to give *free samples* to children (who are not their target market).
Oh.
Well, if it's all just a symbolic structure, then I guess the beliefs themselves don't really matter much, huh? You could swap in Earth Mama for God, and Shiva for Jesus, and the algebra would still work the same.
This is probably a discussion better continued with your Pastor, Rabbi, or High Priestess (or similar personage, depending on your faith). You could print these posts out and bring them to Sunday School. That would probably generate an interesting discussion about the differences between beliefs and symbols.
Continuing this on Slashdot would be foolishness.
Will
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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