That is a sensationalistic quote. There is a huge gap between being identified as "Joe Klovance" and "middle aged white male". All they are trying to do is classify the face not identify it.
Yeah, because I'm sure they're totally not considering tracking individual faces when the technology is available.
Why, I'm sure the very idea has never even thought about the vaguest possibility of crossing their mind.
I think I'm going to start wearing a Burqa when I'm visiting England. I'll fit in better, and won't need to worry about being tracked everywhere.
The X server isn't Linux. And mine hasn't crashed in at least a year.
When I ran Windows on my laptop before I upgraded it to Linux, the video driver crashed more than that. The only good news was that it didn't take down all the applications.
I don't even know anybody who games on Windows any more. You gotta deal with incompatible drivers, malware, constant stream of patches, this game needs that version of the driver to fix all the bugs, meh...
Indeed. That's why I mostly play games on Linux through Wine.
It's ridiculous to expect Amazon to keep track of minor variations in sales tax rules for all of them.
Oh, Amazon can easily do it. It's their smaller competitors who can't afford to do so and will go out of business, which is why big Internet companies have started saying 'hey, let's make everyone pay sales tax on internet sales, that's a great idea.'
The left whine and whine about the evils of Big Business, then do everything in their power to make them bigger.
An SR-72 would be able to see the interceptor missile coming and turn out of the way, and the interceptor missile cannot go Mach 6 to follow.
In a bad Hollywood movie.
If I remember correctly, an SR-71 took a couple of hundred miles to turn ninety degrees at full speed. An SR-72 would require four times the distance to turn at the same g. Being unmanned, it might allow a higher acceleration, but I'm pretty sure the SR-71 was limited by the airframe, not the pilots.
If the NASA project is funded based on hitting this launch window, then there will be no money to pay the hundred or so people for two, eight, or fifty years in order to make the next launch window. Project aborts and everyone goes home.
Has that ever actually happened?
While it doesn't have a specific launch window to hit, JWST is years late and billions over budget (seven years and four times its original budget, according to Wikipedia) and no-one's been able to cancel it yet.
Additionally, they don't confuse the issues by adding taxes after you have elected to buy something, the price you see on the box is the price you pay.
That is 'confusing the issue', because people don't realize how much tax they're paying on everything they buy.
LEO is a lot faster than the crusing speed of a 757. The doppler shift involved is almost completely negligible.
Assuming the plane is moving directly away from you (maximal doppler shift) at 858km/h (typical cruise speed), with a wave speed of 'c' - you have a doppler shift of +/- 3.974975 kHz.
That's hardly what I'd call 'completely negligible'. I don't know about cell phones, but the radio telephones I work with are allocated something like 7.5kHz each, so with a doppler shift of 4kHz you'd be stomping on the next channel alongside.
You seriously think there's any politician in Congress who doesn't have some skeleton that could cost them an election once it's worked through the Mass Media Stupidication Filter?
Why should a codec be free? Or when you say "in a perfect world" do you really mean "I want it, therefore its wrong if I dont have it" ?
Why should someone who writes the software to implement a codec algorithm not be able to give their work away for free, just because someone claims to 'own' the algorithm because law pixies say they do?
Sounds like another open source project with inappropriate funding.
They have much more important things to do. Like crippling the 'Save As' window so it can now only 'Save As' GIMP format, and you have to 'Export' to save a JPEG.
The great thing about the original Windows 95 is that it doesn't support USB, so you don't have to worry about people plugging infected USB sticks into your PC.
Your bosses probably figured out that, when there are tens or hundreds of millions of XP machines in businesses around the world exposed to newly found security holes, the bad press will force Microsoft to keep supporting them or offer cheap upgrades to Windows 7.
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You either need to pass laws concerning it now, or in 5 years (or less) what you say isn't happening will be common place and it will be too late.
If you intended to pass laws, you needed to pass them ten years ago. It's too late now.
The future is PK Dick style 'scramble suits', and other technological means of blocking surveillance.
That is a sensationalistic quote. There is a huge gap between being identified as "Joe Klovance" and "middle aged white male". All they are trying to do is classify the face not identify it.
Yeah, because I'm sure they're totally not considering tracking individual faces when the technology is available.
Why, I'm sure the very idea has never even thought about the vaguest possibility of crossing their mind.
I think I'm going to start wearing a Burqa when I'm visiting England. I'll fit in better, and won't need to worry about being tracked everywhere.
The X server isn't Linux. And mine hasn't crashed in at least a year.
When I ran Windows on my laptop before I upgraded it to Linux, the video driver crashed more than that. The only good news was that it didn't take down all the applications.
You are Steve Ballmer, and I claim my five pounds.
I don't even know anybody who games on Windows any more. You gotta deal with incompatible drivers, malware, constant stream of patches, this game needs that version of the driver to fix all the bugs, meh...
Indeed. That's why I mostly play games on Linux through Wine.
Killing hundred million people was not a part of ideologies. You should learn to distinguish between interfaces and implementations.
How do you plan to elminate private property without murdering the millions who want to keep theirs?
Communism can only be imposed by force and mass murder, because it's so completely incompatible with human nature.
It's ridiculous to expect Amazon to keep track of minor variations in sales tax rules for all of them.
Oh, Amazon can easily do it. It's their smaller competitors who can't afford to do so and will go out of business, which is why big Internet companies have started saying 'hey, let's make everyone pay sales tax on internet sales, that's a great idea.'
The left whine and whine about the evils of Big Business, then do everything in their power to make them bigger.
How about jailing the people who actually abuse the tools to violate other people's rights, instead of trying to outlaw them?
Hard to jail them when they work for the government.
An SR-72 would be able to see the interceptor missile coming and turn out of the way, and the interceptor missile cannot go Mach 6 to follow.
In a bad Hollywood movie.
If I remember correctly, an SR-71 took a couple of hundred miles to turn ninety degrees at full speed. An SR-72 would require four times the distance to turn at the same g. Being unmanned, it might allow a higher acceleration, but I'm pretty sure the SR-71 was limited by the airframe, not the pilots.
I wouldn't expect Ford to know how to assemble an engine.
Uh, Henry Ford built the engine for his first car on his kitchen table.
I wouldn't expect Oppenheimer to know how to operate a centrifuge.
You think Oppenheimer couldn't figure out how to run a centrifuge?
If the NASA project is funded based on hitting this launch window, then there will be no money to pay the hundred or so people for two, eight, or fifty years in order to make the next launch window. Project aborts and everyone goes home.
Has that ever actually happened?
While it doesn't have a specific launch window to hit, JWST is years late and billions over budget (seven years and four times its original budget, according to Wikipedia) and no-one's been able to cancel it yet.
Sales tax is an extremely regressive tax. It is not a good idea.
Except the poor (OK, and the enormously rich) receive most of the tax dollars back from the government, so it's only fair that they pay for it.
Additionally, they don't confuse the issues by adding taxes after you have elected to buy something, the price you see on the box is the price you pay.
That is 'confusing the issue', because people don't realize how much tax they're paying on everything they buy.
Hopefully PC games will be 'allowed' to improve when the next generation of console becomes standard.
Except the next generation of consoles are basically low to mid-range gaming PCs.
LEO is a lot faster than the crusing speed of a 757. The doppler shift involved is almost completely negligible.
Assuming the plane is moving directly away from you (maximal doppler shift) at 858km/h (typical cruise speed), with a wave speed of 'c' - you have a doppler shift of +/- 3.974975 kHz.
That's hardly what I'd call 'completely negligible'. I don't know about cell phones, but the radio telephones I work with are allocated something like 7.5kHz each, so with a doppler shift of 4kHz you'd be stomping on the next channel alongside.
You seriously think there's any politician in Congress who doesn't have some skeleton that could cost them an election once it's worked through the Mass Media Stupidication Filter?
...that maybe they're not seeing it because it's just not there?
Just a suggestion.
Is there some reason the NSA is still around?
Yes. They have a file on everyone in Congress.
Why should a codec be free? Or when you say "in a perfect world" do you really mean "I want it, therefore its wrong if I dont have it" ?
Why should someone who writes the software to implement a codec algorithm not be able to give their work away for free, just because someone claims to 'own' the algorithm because law pixies say they do?
Sounds like another open source project with inappropriate funding.
They have much more important things to do. Like crippling the 'Save As' window so it can now only 'Save As' GIMP format, and you have to 'Export' to save a JPEG.
By resorting to the warranty's options, Apple's operational cost rises, and the user still doesn't have wi-fi on their phone.
If I'd spent the best part of $1,000 on a phone and the wi-fi stopped wroking, the last thing I'd care about is the manufacturer's operational costs.
Perhaps if enough people send their phones back, they might not release an operating system that breaks peoples' phones next time.
The great thing about the original Windows 95 is that it doesn't support USB, so you don't have to worry about people plugging infected USB sticks into your PC.
Troll rating: 1/10.
Try to be less obvious in future.
What software company is still actively supporting products from 2003?
Which part of 'Windows XP was still being sold on new PCs until two or three years ago' is proving so hard to understand?
Your bosses probably figured out that, when there are tens or hundreds of millions of XP machines in businesses around the world exposed to newly found security holes, the bad press will force Microsoft to keep supporting them or offer cheap upgrades to Windows 7.