Censorship like this, as with all censorship, is culturally subjective. Obviously the Saudi Arabians have a different view of what is a socially acceptable amount of "skintone" for women than the frequenter of the beaches in the south of France does. Sure, maybe this software has a varying threshold of what skintones it will aloow throught the filter, but the bottom line is that many times the line between acceptable and not acceptable is so small that an algorithm would have a hard time (read: impossible) differenciating the two with any amount of accuracy.
OT: does this mean no more webcast Victoria's Secret shows?
---------- "From a programmers point of view, a user is just a peripheral, that types when you issue a 'read' command" - Peter Williams
my opinion: of course pespi can't give him a military aircraft, but i think pespi should be required to pay this man the $23M (cost of harrier acording to CNN) as a statement to say that they will honour the promises this company makes. Also it would be a modest punishment for the marketing department of pepsi (who seem to lack a little in their math skills and more) in this day and age of darwinism we like to call capitalism
Slashdot Mirror
.. has some good information
or is this just a for servers?
... yeah, but the USA has the MPAA... the masters of hypocritical censorship
...that the judges didn't choose the Fox Networks "scientific correspondents"
...will they use nuclear fuel?
Censorship like this, as with all censorship, is culturally subjective. Obviously the Saudi Arabians have a different view of what is a socially acceptable amount of "skintone" for women than the frequenter of the beaches in the south of France does. Sure, maybe this software has a varying threshold of what skintones it will aloow throught the filter, but the bottom line is that many times the line between acceptable and not acceptable is so small that an algorithm would have a hard time (read: impossible) differenciating the two with any amount of accuracy.
OT: does this mean no more webcast Victoria's Secret shows?
----------
"From a programmers point of view, a user
is just a peripheral, that types when you
issue a 'read' command" - Peter Williams
my opinion: of course pespi can't give him a military aircraft, but i think pespi should be required to pay this man the $23M (cost of harrier acording to CNN) as a statement to say that they will honour the promises this company makes. Also it would be a modest punishment for the marketing department of pepsi (who seem to lack a little in their math skills and more) in this day and age of darwinism we like to call capitalism