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  1. Re:Foil it with a T-shirt? on Tesco To Use Face Detection Technology For In-Store Advertising · · Score: 1

    Already available.

    http://www.processlibrary.com/en/blog/fool-facebook-with-your-t-shirt/

    Designed to fool Facebook auto-tagging.

  2. Re:Shell gas stations, usa, ca. 2008 on Tesco To Use Face Detection Technology For In-Store Advertising · · Score: 2

    Tracking systems* already ignore everyone wearing a fedora.

    *and women

  3. Re:sensationalism on Tesco To Use Face Detection Technology For In-Store Advertising · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because I'm sure they're totally not considering tracking individual faces when the technology is available.

    What do you mean when?

    Casinos already track 86'd players and whales.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=casino+facial+recognition+systems

  4. Re:sensationalism on Tesco To Use Face Detection Technology For In-Store Advertising · · Score: 1

    Every major casino is already recognizing their banned patrons and their whales automatically and has been for 5+ years.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=casino+facial+recognition+systems

  5. Re:anything can be broken, so nothing is useful on Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures · · Score: 1

    It's never "highly criminal" to play blackjack.

    The most casinos can do is ask you to leave and not come back; then press charges against you if you either (a) don't leave, or (b) return when you've been asked not to.

    This is the same right pretty much any business owner has if they ask you to leave and not come back.

  6. Re:Bottom of the barrel on Autonomous Dump Trucks Are Coming To Canada's Oil Sands · · Score: 1

    TWO tons.

    Fine.

    7%.

    I'm still happy.

  7. Re:Bottom of the barrel on Autonomous Dump Trucks Are Coming To Canada's Oil Sands · · Score: 1

    Uh, what?!?

    One barrel of crude oil has a weight of 138.8 kilograms or 306 pounds, assuming we use a kiloton of sand to produce it, I'm still not concerned.

    14%? I'll take it.

  8. Re:Public Service Annoucemnt on Autonomous Dump Trucks Are Coming To Canada's Oil Sands · · Score: 1

    Most people who drive vehicles for a living weren't trained to begin with...

  9. Re:Its a shame. on Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign · · Score: 1

    The hottest part of the day runs around 4pm in the summer here, and the mid-afternoon temperatures can last well into the evenings.

    http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KPHX/2013/7/1/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA

    Overnight lows near 100 aren't uncommon.

  10. Re:yeah, thanks on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 2

    We're Mountain STANDARD. Daylight Savings is mostly for the birds. Half of the year, we're (functionally) on Pacific time.

  11. Re:Google wallet on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    The devices have different secure element trust chips, something this new update should resolve with HCE.

  12. Re:Its a shame. on Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign · · Score: 1

    I believe their major beef with RESIDENTIAL SOLAR it is that they're buying non-peak solar from home installations, and then providing peak grid to them -- which means they need to continue to engineer for peak, and don't get much in return from non-peak solar, except they probably get to burn a little less coal/gas during the day.

  13. Re:Its a shame. on Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign · · Score: 1

    We don't have a NIMBY problem with nuclear. We've got one of the biggest plans in the country right outside town and we love it.

  14. Re:Its a shame. on Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign · · Score: 2

    Solana, the newly opened solar/salt power plant here in Arizona, will produce 5% of our power and takes up NOWHERE near 5% of our available land.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solana_Generating_Station
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Arizona

  15. Re:Its a shame. on Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign · · Score: 2

    You'd think - but that's not true.

    Electricity usage peaks in the early evening when people get home and crank down their air conditioners, right around the time when solar stops being effective.

  16. Re:Seriously? on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    Clearly this virus has infected the system and re-written power management subsystems to utilize the CMOS battery to provide enough juice, ...

    CLEARLY the article mentioned it was a laptop machine, with a laptop battery in it...

  17. Re:Or EMI on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    ...that's just Slashdot's lack of Unicode support talking. You just can't see the umlauts.

  18. Re:Count me out this round on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 2

    In our last round of phone negotiations, we took a "free" set of phones for the whole family, and they billed us $20 "extra" a month. Of course, we didn't want to pay $20 extra a month to get a bunch of "free" junk phones we didn't want -- so they agreed to drop our plan by $20/month forever as long as we did the two years of $20 paying for the phones.

    Two years passed. We're now paying $20/mo less than we used to. Considering we've got four "unlimited" phones for about $160/mo, we're content. We could probably manage better, but not so much over the hassle of changing.

    The salesperson has the flexibility to offer discounts to people, provided they keep making their phone sale quota.

    Everyone won that day. [Where everyone is defined as "me."]

  19. This fails the simplest of tests... on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    This assumes two airgapped computers, both with compromised BIOS capable of sending and receiving ultrasonic messages from hardware and the ability to infect USB drives.

    Therefore, it would be trivial to infect a new machine, and compare BIOS before and after.

    It would be further trivial to not only test with and without speakers, but with speaker with a bandpass filter applied.

  20. Re:Or EMI on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 3, Funny

    SO you could tell who people voted for when one candidate had an umlat.

    >implying everyone in Europe doesn't have an umlaut in their name.

  21. Re:Google wallet on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 2

    I too am concerned here.

    My one regret about buying the HTC One Google Play edition was the lack of Google Wallet support - which I didn't realize until it was too late.

    Android 4.4 devices that support NFC will include Tap & Pay for easy payments using HCE.

    It'd be nice if that quote were inclusive of the HTC One; and it might be...

    With HCE, any app on an Android device can emulate an NFC smart card, letting users tap to initiate transactions with an app of their choice — no provisioned secure element (SE) in the device is needed

    Here's hoping!

  22. Blogspot :( on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1

    I'm probably a borderline Google apologist, but FFS, Google, stop posting "real" information on Blogspot - where dozes of workplace content filtering software block access to out of the box.

    Someone have a mirror that isn't on a site filled with emo blogs and porn sites?

  23. Re:It's a Big Universe on Kepler-78b: The Earth-Like Planet That Shouldn't Exist · · Score: 1

    Uh, yeah, that's what I was saying...

    In all seriousness, I understand what's being said, but still. ...fuck man, that's cool.

  24. Re:Zero accidents ever on FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights · · Score: 2

    ... thousands of phones are turned on every single day in airplanes for the entire duration of the flight (both intentionally and not) and there has not been a single accident ever as a result.

    It's true. I was part of the unpaid, secret pilot program for this for many, many years.

  25. Re:Video games can never be art. on Does Software Need a Siskel and Ebert? · · Score: 1

    Everything manmade is art.

    ...like radial tires.