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Billboard Advertising Banned Products In Russia Hides If It Recognizes Cops

Posted by samzenpus on from the next-slide dept.

m.alessandrini writes: In response to a ban of food imported from the European Union, an Italian grocery in Russia hired an ad agency to create a billboard with a camera and facial recognition software, that's able to change to a different ad when it recognizes the uniform of Russian cops. Gizmodo reports: "With the aid of a camera and facial recognition software, the technology was slightly tweaked to instead recognize the official symbols and logos on the uniforms worn by Russian police. And as they approached the billboard featuring the advertisement for Don Giulio Salumeria’s imported Italian goods, it would automatically change to an ad for a Matryoshka doll shop instead."

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  1. In Russia half of people are nonuniformed snitches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    > it recognizes the uniform of Russian cops

    Russia is full of FSB (ex-KGB) agents who are NOT wearing uniforms, because Russia is a secret police state, that is.

    Many ordinary people become FSB informants voluntarily, just to gain fiscal or health benefits or help their dumb kids enter univ. They spy on neighbours and the neighbours spy on them, sending each other to siberian forced re-education camps, because the russian pysche is a slavic (slave-ish) psyche. They were never free and they are born to be oppressed and suffer. It's in their genes that russians need a dictator who mass-murders them and imposes unspeakable misery on them, so they can sincerely idolize him with all their hearts' content.

    This is a never-ending vicious cycle that will only cease when russians are no more or they abandon the orthodox faith and join unity with the Bishop of Rome.

    Actually, Vladimir Putin's grandfather was the personal cook of Isaac Blank, nome d' guerre Vladimir Lenin, the tsar-killing founder of the USSR, inventor of the "military-communism" misery. After said Lenin went to hell from syphillis, Putin's granddad then cooked for the heir, one infamous Josif Vissarionovich Judasfili, nome d' guerre Stalin Koba, the worst genocidor of all times who disappearated over 25 million in the Gulags.

    But fear not, as long as vodka floods, russians don't care about spilling their and others' blood for the dictator.