People who don't work M-F 9-5, as you put it, but instead work more... "liberally distributed" hours... have balls, authorization and right to click the links they want to click.
Don't blame your bosses on not reading TFA. Whats that anyway? Slashdot equivalent of your dog eating your homework?
As part of the age-verification system, most of Japan's 570,000 cigarette vending machines are being outfitted with RFID readers that check the purchaser's Taspo age-verification card. Smokers without a Taspo card can now either buy their cigarettes in person over the counter or use one of 4,000 special machines equipped with face-recognition systems (these machines do not require Taspo cards). More face-recognition machines are on the way, according to vending machine manufacturer Fujitaka, who developed the face-recognition hardware.
They have over half a million cigarette vending machines. They equip 4000 with a face recognition thingie.
Sounds more like a field test to me. Expect the tech and the math coming out of this to be used in the next generation of face recognition systems. And what better way to test it than to use thousands of teenage addicts - with lots of spare time and very little care for rules and "conventional way of thinking".
And such valuable input they give...
When the reporter went to check out the new age-verifying machines after they were introduced in the Osaka area in June, he soon discovered that the machines equipped with face-recognition cameras would let him buy cigarettes when he held up a 15-centimeter (6-in) wide magazine photo of a man who looked to be in his 50s.
The reporter also went to Kobe, where different face recognition hardware is being used. There, he bought cigarettes using an 8-centimeter (3-in) wide magazine photo of a female celebrity in her 30s. He also reportedly tried to use a 3-centimeter (1-in) wide photo, but the machines rejected it
So... Once the second generation of face recognition thingies comes out (probably requiring movement of the target), they already know that the 1 inch mobile screens won't fool it.
They are Japanese. You really think THEY didn't come up with that technical idea by now?
TFA:
As part of the age-verification system, most of Japan's 570,000 cigarette vending machines are being outfitted with RFID readers that check the purchaser's Taspo age-verification card. Smokers without a Taspo card can now either buy their cigarettes in person over the counter or use one of 4,000 special machines equipped with face-recognition systems (these machines do not require Taspo cards). More face-recognition machines are on the way, according to vending machine manufacturer Fujitaka, who developed the face-recognition hardware.
They are Japanese. You really think THEY didn't come up with that technical idea by now?
TFA:
As part of the age-verification system, most of Japan's 570,000 cigarette vending machines are being outfitted with RFID readers that check the purchaser's Taspo age-verification card. Smokers without a Taspo card can now either buy their cigarettes in person over the counter or use one of 4,000 special machines equipped with face-recognition systems (these machines do not require Taspo cards). More face-recognition machines are on the way, according to vending machine manufacturer Fujitaka, who developed the face-recognition hardware.
Jackson Pollock's true art form was not painting, but rather convincing people that he was an artist.
That is what separates Pollocks from Van Goghs of this world. That, and the number of ears present and size of the bank account at the time of death.
Every single work of art is an exercise in vainness. If you like the painting or sculpture or a song you should feel the same about the original as you do about a very good copy - as long as you can't tell the difference without close examination. All beyond that is just vanity. Yes, Mona Lisa is rare - but so are thousands of paintings and drawings on deviantart.
...and look into the past to see what they are referring to... I see... I see... letters forming... . I see a word... . It says... O..o.. OBAMA!!! . . . I can use this same technique to determine if the works of art are genuine.
I am fine with being treated like a criminal under those conditions.
I'm not.
If I about to pay the full price for something and then not own it - FUCK THAT! If I'm about to become the owner of nothing and still end up paying for stuff - I'd rather have communism.
At least that way we will all be able to afford the same car, clothes, food and etc. And when we don't - it will be appointed to us by the government when it decides that we need it.
I bought a McDonald's hamburger once... Does that mean that I am guilty for killing at least one tree and at least one cow?
I've also ordered a Pepsi (or was that Coke?) with it. How many people gave their lives in the cold war so that we in the eastern parts of Europe could have the benefits of capitalism and american sodas? Am I guilty for their deaths too?
At least pay attention when picking articles... BBC:
"The general picture that evolution has speeded up in the last 10,000 years as we change from, to put it bluntly, being animals to being humans is clearly true," he explained. "To suggest it is happening at this instant, I would suggest, is probably wrong."
In addition, Tishkoff's team determined the date range when the mutation likely occurred: 3,000 to 7,000 years ago, which matches up well with the archaeological record that places pastoralization coming to East Africa about 5,000 years ago. The European trait dates back about 9,000 years.
Notice that all mutations date at about either before, or at the latest, at the time of the most ancient civilizations forming. Also, try not to take my comments to literally - I often use metaphors.
I could also speculate that by our modern societies putting more worth on technical & scientific expertise, we could have a selection pressure that selects for smarter people, which would be evolution as well.
Quite the opposite. First of all modern society does not put more worth on "technical & scientific expertise". Turn on your TV and flip through the channels. Count commercials for things that make you younger, stronger, better looking, better smelling etc. Count any and all technical and/or scientific news or information. Or even simpler... Compare the salary and benefits of a average scientist or techie to that of a average athlete or actor/singer/model. Are we clear about the values that our society values?
Second... Tech is designed in such a way to be first and foremost EASY TO USE and MARKETABLE. In other words - it is designed to be used by a fuckin' idiot. I've seen complete morons who can't grasp the concept of a e-mail or attachment to the said e-mail, SMS-ing and MMS-ing people from their mobile's address book. They just hit a wall when it comes to e-mail via computer. Same fuckin' thing - only not dumb enough.
Just as everything else, we are making tech easier to use by us. We don't adapt ourselves to it. Remember installing a piece of hardware in early '90s? Compared to now? Or mechanical locks on cars? Remember rotary phones? Or even first cellphones?
You need generations for a mutation that might solve the problem society faces to "fly or fail". We don't adapt. We create several technologies to go fix the problem or go around it during a single generation. We have been killing each other with blades and sharp pointy things for thousands of years now. Did we develop natural armor or thicker skin? No. We skinned animals and made armor out of their skin. We dug up metal and crafted armor out of it. We have created genetically modified goats that lactate spider silk so that we could use it to make even better armor.
We don't have time to wait for 2-3 or 20 generations to pass so we adapt to a disease. We invent cures.
Evolution is fine and all... its just we can't wait any more and we happen to have a better tool at hand.
There are plenty people out there who like that shiny-flashy braindead excuse for information. So much, that CNN, NBC and like are flashing up and dumbing down to keep up. See Outfoxed.
1. They are already dead. Or "undead" if you prefer. They are just "mobile". 2. They stop being mobile when they encounter me and my shotgun and crowbar.
the human-species will be endangering its ability to adapt.
We have stopped adapting a long time ago. Somewhere around the time we invented fire, hunting, farming... Since then we adapt everything AROUND US to ourselves.
And for fuck's sake... stop talking about "immortality". What are you people expecting? To become immortal supermen, unhurtable by bullets or anything else - in your lifetime? Get real. At best, we are talking about 5-10 years more here.
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People who don't work M-F 9-5, as you put it, but instead work more... "liberally distributed" hours... have balls, authorization and right to click the links they want to click.
Don't blame your bosses on not reading TFA.
Whats that anyway? Slashdot equivalent of your dog eating your homework?
From TFA:
As part of the age-verification system, most of Japan's 570,000 cigarette vending machines are being outfitted with RFID readers that check the purchaser's Taspo age-verification card. Smokers without a Taspo card can now either buy their cigarettes in person over the counter or use one of 4,000 special machines equipped with face-recognition systems (these machines do not require Taspo cards). More face-recognition machines are on the way, according to vending machine manufacturer Fujitaka, who developed the face-recognition hardware.
They have over half a million cigarette vending machines.
They equip 4000 with a face recognition thingie.
Sounds more like a field test to me.
Expect the tech and the math coming out of this to be used in the next generation of face recognition systems.
And what better way to test it than to use thousands of teenage addicts - with lots of spare time and very little care for rules and "conventional way of thinking".
And such valuable input they give...
When the reporter went to check out the new age-verifying machines after they were introduced in the Osaka area in June, he soon discovered that the machines equipped with face-recognition cameras would let him buy cigarettes when he held up a 15-centimeter (6-in) wide magazine photo of a man who looked to be in his 50s.
The reporter also went to Kobe, where different face recognition hardware is being used. There, he bought cigarettes using an 8-centimeter (3-in) wide magazine photo of a female celebrity in her 30s. He also reportedly tried to use a 3-centimeter (1-in) wide photo, but the machines rejected it
So... Once the second generation of face recognition thingies comes out (probably requiring movement of the target), they already know that the 1 inch mobile screens won't fool it.
Oh... so you have balls to fool around and waste time while on the clock, but not enough to risk a potentially NSFW link? Which is not marked NSFW.
Oh... and last time I checked... At the moment its Sunday in the most of the world.
You posting from future or something?
Let me quote myself:
They are Japanese.
You really think THEY didn't come up with that technical idea by now?
TFA:
Cause without mice - where would Disney be today?
No, I don't mean the freezer... I was thinking more along metaphorical lines.
Sounds more like porn to me.
Jackson Pollock's true art form was not painting, but rather convincing people that he was an artist.
That is what separates Pollocks from Van Goghs of this world.
That, and the number of ears present and size of the bank account at the time of death.
Every single work of art is an exercise in vainness.
If you like the painting or sculpture or a song you should feel the same about the original as you do about a very good copy - as long as you can't tell the difference without close examination.
All beyond that is just vanity.
Yes, Mona Lisa is rare - but so are thousands of paintings and drawings on deviantart.
...and look into the past to see what they are referring to...
I see... I see... letters forming...
.
I see a word...
.
It says... O..o.. OBAMA!!!
.
.
.
I can use this same technique to determine if the works of art are genuine.
Too bad it doesn't use "soul technique" like Thomas Hoving.
Math and forensics is all fine if you want to convince the unwashed masses of general public and for TV, but if it lacks "soul" - it ain't real.
Are you an art critic?
You sure sound like one.
You know... a stuck-up snob.
I am fine with being treated like a criminal under those conditions.
I'm not.
If I about to pay the full price for something and then not own it - FUCK THAT!
If I'm about to become the owner of nothing and still end up paying for stuff - I'd rather have communism.
At least that way we will all be able to afford the same car, clothes, food and etc.
And when we don't - it will be appointed to us by the government when it decides that we need it.
Forgers will just switch to doing more Jackson Pollock.
No one can tell the fakes from the real thing anyway.
I bought a McDonald's hamburger once...
Does that mean that I am guilty for killing at least one tree and at least one cow?
I've also ordered a Pepsi (or was that Coke?) with it.
How many people gave their lives in the cold war so that we in the eastern parts of Europe could have the benefits of capitalism and american sodas?
Am I guilty for their deaths too?
MOD PARENT UP!!!
I've already got infra-red vision, zoom vision and data input, on a high bandwidth optical link.
You do? You then must be a robot from the future.
No, I don't know where John and Sarah Connor are.
At least pay attention when picking articles...
BBC:
"The general picture that evolution has speeded up in the last 10,000 years as we change from, to put it bluntly, being animals to being humans is clearly true," he explained. "To suggest it is happening at this instant, I would suggest, is probably wrong."
In addition, Tishkoff's team determined the date range when the mutation likely occurred: 3,000 to 7,000 years ago, which matches up well with the archaeological record that places pastoralization coming to East Africa about 5,000 years ago. The European trait dates back about 9,000 years.
Notice that all mutations date at about either before, or at the latest, at the time of the most ancient civilizations forming.
Also, try not to take my comments to literally - I often use metaphors.
I could also speculate that by our modern societies putting more worth on technical & scientific expertise, we could have a selection pressure that selects for smarter people, which would be evolution as well.
Quite the opposite.
First of all modern society does not put more worth on "technical & scientific expertise".
Turn on your TV and flip through the channels. Count commercials for things that make you younger, stronger, better looking, better smelling etc.
Count any and all technical and/or scientific news or information.
Or even simpler... Compare the salary and benefits of a average scientist or techie to that of a average athlete or actor/singer/model.
Are we clear about the values that our society values?
Second... Tech is designed in such a way to be first and foremost EASY TO USE and MARKETABLE.
In other words - it is designed to be used by a fuckin' idiot.
I've seen complete morons who can't grasp the concept of a e-mail or attachment to the said e-mail, SMS-ing and MMS-ing people from their mobile's address book.
They just hit a wall when it comes to e-mail via computer.
Same fuckin' thing - only not dumb enough.
Just as everything else, we are making tech easier to use by us. We don't adapt ourselves to it.
Remember installing a piece of hardware in early '90s? Compared to now? Or mechanical locks on cars?
Remember rotary phones? Or even first cellphones?
You need generations for a mutation that might solve the problem society faces to "fly or fail".
We don't adapt. We create several technologies to go fix the problem or go around it during a single generation.
We have been killing each other with blades and sharp pointy things for thousands of years now.
Did we develop natural armor or thicker skin?
No.
We skinned animals and made armor out of their skin. We dug up metal and crafted armor out of it.
We have created genetically modified goats that lactate spider silk so that we could use it to make even better armor.
We don't have time to wait for 2-3 or 20 generations to pass so we adapt to a disease. We invent cures.
Evolution is fine and all... its just we can't wait any more and we happen to have a better tool at hand.
Thank you!
Although, you did beat me to the reference by about half an hour...
That will teach me to read more than one thread at a time. XD
You keep using that word... I don't think it means what you think it means.
Most people are dumber than me?
And?
I've been aware of that since first grade.
What are you bellowing about?
You are wrong on the no one likes part.
There are plenty people out there who like that shiny-flashy braindead excuse for information.
So much, that CNN, NBC and like are flashing up and dumbing down to keep up.
See Outfoxed.
We should like totally change that cross thingie into a T.
Zombies don't live forever.
1. They are already dead. Or "undead" if you prefer. They are just "mobile".
2. They stop being mobile when they encounter me and my shotgun and crowbar.
Oh.. and...
3. ???
4. Profit.
the human-species will be endangering its ability to adapt.
We have stopped adapting a long time ago.
Somewhere around the time we invented fire, hunting, farming...
Since then we adapt everything AROUND US to ourselves.
And for fuck's sake... stop talking about "immortality".
What are you people expecting? To become immortal supermen, unhurtable by bullets or anything else - in your lifetime?
Get real.
At best, we are talking about 5-10 years more here.
Its what comes AFTER the life.
But bullets can still be a part of death.