First, on most such publicized images, people react with (depending on the scope) a couple to thousands of identifications. Most of which are false, mostly because most people identify different persons. I am certain that the Oklahoman woman wasn't the only one who "identified" the guy on the surveilance photo as somebody she knew - so most didn't call the police (OTOH I can almost hear a officer say "No, M'am, I'm certain he's not the Lindbergh-Baby";-).
Second, the photo wasn't published as the photo of a criminal. A caption under the photo read, "The man in this image was not identified as wanted." (from the original article).
It was published (probably violating the rights of Mr. Milliron, BIANAL) inside a public demo image of the face-recognition-system. The fact that the woman falsely identified him as her ex has nothing to do with the FRS.
Third, images of suspects are usualy published to identify them, their identification is often not known. You are also asuming that the police will not check the positive identification from the FRS. And the guy on the phot was not the womans ex-husband who was infact wanted, but somebody else entirely. So in this case, like in many others, a human falsely identified a person as a wanted criminal.
In almost all criminal investigations several people are questioned - often in front of their colleagues, friends, employer or family - because some lead identifies them as a possible suspect. And these leads are often some "identification" by witnesses. You may think that's bad, but it's a fact, and it has nothing to do with the face recognition system.
In contrast, a poor quality photograph distributed nationally has a higher error rate. It is unfair to magnify an innocent person's chance of being misidentified and subjected to humiliation in front of their colleagues and friends.
So you ar against publishing photos of wanted criminals and sketches of suspects, because others are likely to be falsely identified as them?
Well, since the mother doesn't know where he is, because he moved without telling her, she can't sue him. And if she found him, he just could move again.
Apart from that, why do you think he has to pay child support in the first place? Because a court decided he had to. So why bother another court?
Following that logic, all speed checks are illegal, as are beggage checks, road blocks and showing of photos of previous offenders to witnesses to identify criminals.
The article mentions that (unlike what the title suggests) this tennis game was basically a hardwired analog computer, which would make Spacewar the first arcade / video game program.
Ignoring that there are a lot of judges that have less than half a brain - judges don't make the laws, politicians do. Laws like "Pi = 3", for example - which also would make a banning of Pi redundant;-)
While were at it, what will the politicians and the religious right say when they hear that no "natural" number is "normal"?
If someone finds a cure for cancer with the help of the HeLa cells, and if one of Lacks got cancer (maybe because the cancer Mrs. Lacks had is hereditary) - would they be able to afford the treatment?
According to this article in German:
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/9196/1.ht ml, the DoD seems to think that secret material they themselves accidently published is still confidential, and can't legaly be republished.
At least on the user side a couple of simple filter does the same job. Calculating the checksum, sending it to the server (immagine thousands of people doing so), having it checked against other messages (the first ones to report will fall through, because there is no comparable message there yet), then getting a reply like "1363 users got the same message." Too bad it was something from a mailing list.
On the server side this may be more practical, but I don't want my mail server to delete any mail I get, just because others got the same.
Well, since the petri dishes where "covered, connected to a radiation detector by a tube through which any released gases would travel", how would the ozon created in "circadian rhythm" get in there? Or am I just misinterpreting "covered"?
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Second, the photo wasn't published as the photo of a criminal. A caption under the photo read, "The man in this image was not identified as wanted." (from the original article). It was published (probably violating the rights of Mr. Milliron, BIANAL) inside a public demo image of the face-recognition-system. The fact that the woman falsely identified him as her ex has nothing to do with the FRS.
Third, images of suspects are usualy published to identify them, their identification is often not known. You are also asuming that the police will not check the positive identification from the FRS. And the guy on the phot was not the womans ex-husband who was infact wanted, but somebody else entirely. So in this case, like in many others, a human falsely identified a person as a wanted criminal.
In almost all criminal investigations several people are questioned - often in front of their colleagues, friends, employer or family - because some lead identifies them as a possible suspect. And these leads are often some "identification" by witnesses. You may think that's bad, but it's a fact, and it has nothing to do with the face recognition system.
You better get used to it, because you have been watched by surveilance cameras for a long time.
Yes, they do.
Ahh, but you are assuming that it would have (wrongly) identified him. What happened to "innocent until proven guilty", doesn't that go for software?
Apart from that, why do you think he has to pay child support in the first place? Because a court decided he had to. So why bother another court?
Following that logic, all speed checks are illegal, as are beggage checks, road blocks and showing of photos of previous offenders to witnesses to identify criminals.
How are MS practices and Dimitri in Jail even remotely related to science?
But for some reason mainstream people are not embarassed to watch bad mainstream programms like Baywatch, Viper, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazard ...
The article mentions that (unlike what the title suggests) this tennis game was basically a hardwired analog computer, which would make Spacewar the first arcade / video game program.
Translation: We Americans not only make fun of foreigners, we also make fun of people from other parts of the US.
What do you think will happen to your beloved 8-Ball?
While were at it, what will the politicians and the religious right say when they hear that no "natural" number is "normal"?
If someone finds a cure for cancer with the help of the HeLa cells, and if one of Lacks got cancer (maybe because the cancer Mrs. Lacks had is hereditary) - would they be able to afford the treatment?
There is also an hidden article on Slashdot about the case: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/30/1558227.shtm l.
Did you read about his latest project, "The Ultimate Water Bomb"? He closes the page with "I'm just crazy -- not stupid ;-)"
One thing a system like this will filter out is something encrypted with Spam Mimic. (Source: The Register)
What you are describing is basically a "Teergrube" (german for tar pit). Read here about them: http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/teergrub e.en.html
I guess you didn't read this Register article http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20052.html. I'm too lazy to condense it for you ;-)
Well, Mr "Don't Spam JeffSketch's hotmail address", if you don't know?
On the server side this may be more practical, but I don't want my mail server to delete any mail I get, just because others got the same.
Well, since the petri dishes where "covered, connected to a radiation detector by a tube through which any released gases would travel", how would the ozon created in "circadian rhythm" get in there? Or am I just misinterpreting "covered"?