I'm from Brazil and if this law pass I will with I were in China.
The worst part is what I saw on the local news: they want us not only to provide our ID data, but also PROVIDE A XEROX COPY OF OUR ID CARDS to the sites we wish to have access to! After they approve our data, we will be able to access them.
Politicians don't have the slighest idea of how technology works...
Iraq, is the site of the daily ritual iraqi massacre in which marines drive crowds of people into narrow alleys and shoot them with a rifle. You should see it. It is quite a sight. The land turns red with blood, and the air is filled with the extraordinary sounds of screaming iraqis (they literally seem to scream).
Am I the only one getting crazy here or the only one NOT getting crazy? As a good slashdotter I didn't read the article (well, now I read and it's pretty short, by the way), but I found reference to Youtube or Google nowhere! Are we using the same internet?
Hey, lucky!! Here in Brazil you have to pay for a long distance call to get some "help" from Microsoft... and don't expect this call to last less than 10 minutes (excluding the long musak minutes...). And the long distance calls here can cost up to US$0.85 per minute, depending on where you calling from and to.
Depending on what the standard procedure would be, you could get away with your half gram of coke much more easily with the face recognition. Probably the face recognition equipment would beep and show the cop your face and a pic of who it thinks you are. The cop would be looking to both pics in the same screen, if they aren't the same people, he would probably spot it in the blink of an eye. Instead, if he relies only on his memory, he could make a "honest mistake".
People rely more and more on technology. I can't even remember my wife's cellphone number, since I always call her from my own cellphone and I it's on its memory. And it's like this for more things than I can number.
I believe the face recognition should be a tool for the law inforcement, not a substitute for it.
Their Dear Leader isn't a megamaniacal egotist of a tyranical, genocidal dictator who enslaves his populace to the single goal of military production and his own oppulence [...]
I know you are being sarcastic, but I really believe most north koreans think pretty much like that.
You should leave home more often and talk to non-slashdotters. It's very dangerous to say "no one thinks like that" in a planet with about 6.5 billion people.
(Anyway, why am I replying to a flame-bait message from an AC? I mean, the dude doen't even show his real face when bashing people!)
It seems like you and the next AC that replied me need to travel more. I've heard this speech from several people and some even worse... I've heard things that would make most slashdotters weep like babies. If you didn't have the bad luck of getting dragged to a conversation where things like that pops up, congratulations. I wasn't that lucky.
And the "remember kids" is my way to put some humour in sad stories.
Anyway, next time you are going to bash someone, use your own account. AC may be anonymous, but above everything, it's a COWARD.
If that's the first reaction people have, firefox has a pretty good chance.
"But IE7 is written by Bill Gates and he is the smartest person in the whole world! He must be smart, because he founded a software company and is very rich! Why should I install a fox in my computer? Foxes are bad, they eat the poultry..."
Remember kids, slashdotters are a minority, not everybody thinks like us. But I'd be much more pleased if you were right, although.
Dude, who had 500MB drives in 1986?
Hmmm... aliens? Well, who has 1020 petabytes drives today?
BTW, in 1986 if someone came up to you and told you that there would be hard drives in 20 years that are 750GB and were faster than your current system memory what would you have said to them?
I'd say "to the time machine, Robin!"
20 years ago you would ask the same thing about 500 MB hard disks. And don't forget the article (or at least the sumary, as a good slashdotter I don't RTFA) says about the file system capacity, not the real capacity of hard disks. Petabytes hard disks are something for the future, not for now.
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You are welcome.
But, what about Egypt?
What has happened to The Nile? I thought the egiptians had been using it as source of fresh water for something around 5,000 years by now...
I'm from Brazil and if this law pass I will with I were in China.
The worst part is what I saw on the local news: they want us not only to provide our ID data, but also PROVIDE A XEROX COPY OF OUR ID CARDS to the sites we wish to have access to! After they approve our data, we will be able to access them.
Politicians don't have the slighest idea of how technology works...
Sounds like fun, I want to try that too!!!
Iraq, is the site of the daily ritual iraqi massacre in which marines drive crowds of people into narrow alleys and shoot them with a rifle. You should see it. It is quite a sight. The land turns red with blood, and the air is filled with the extraordinary sounds of screaming iraqis (they literally seem to scream).
What about that? Ok, go ahead, mod me troll.
Am I the only one getting crazy here or the only one NOT getting crazy? As a good slashdotter I didn't read the article (well, now I read and it's pretty short, by the way), but I found reference to Youtube or Google nowhere! Are we using the same internet?
Or has GOOGLE crossed the evil line?
Hmmm... Google? Did I miss something?
It's kind of like the seat belt thing. I don't have to wear it (if I'm stupid enough) but no one else gets hurts in the process.
It's in moments like this I wish there was a "-1 Bad Analogy" mod point.
What would you have me change?
Don't do that! Windows could detect it as a "significant change" and make you buy a new license...
you just have to call their 800 number
Hey, lucky!! Here in Brazil you have to pay for a long distance call to get some "help" from Microsoft... and don't expect this call to last less than 10 minutes (excluding the long musak minutes...). And the long distance calls here can cost up to US$0.85 per minute, depending on where you calling from and to.
True, but I meant to be funny. I have no idea where this Insightful mod point came from!
... you can hand it to them with a grim smile on your face!
Depending on what the standard procedure would be, you could get away with your half gram of coke much more easily with the face recognition. Probably the face recognition equipment would beep and show the cop your face and a pic of who it thinks you are. The cop would be looking to both pics in the same screen, if they aren't the same people, he would probably spot it in the blink of an eye. Instead, if he relies only on his memory, he could make a "honest mistake".
People rely more and more on technology. I can't even remember my wife's cellphone number, since I always call her from my own cellphone and I it's on its memory. And it's like this for more things than I can number.
I believe the face recognition should be a tool for the law inforcement, not a substitute for it.
Their Dear Leader isn't a megamaniacal egotist of a tyranical, genocidal dictator who enslaves his populace to the single goal of military production and his own oppulence [...]
I know you are being sarcastic, but I really believe most north koreans think pretty much like that.
for the last 8 years and I'm still not addicted!
You should leave home more often and talk to non-slashdotters. It's very dangerous to say "no one thinks like that" in a planet with about 6.5 billion people.
(Anyway, why am I replying to a flame-bait message from an AC? I mean, the dude doen't even show his real face when bashing people!)
It seems like you and the next AC that replied me need to travel more. I've heard this speech from several people and some even worse... I've heard things that would make most slashdotters weep like babies. If you didn't have the bad luck of getting dragged to a conversation where things like that pops up, congratulations. I wasn't that lucky.
And the "remember kids" is my way to put some humour in sad stories.
Anyway, next time you are going to bash someone, use your own account. AC may be anonymous, but above everything, it's a COWARD .
If that's the first reaction people have, firefox has a pretty good chance.
"But IE7 is written by Bill Gates and he is the smartest person in the whole world! He must be smart, because he founded a software company and is very rich! Why should I install a fox in my computer? Foxes are bad, they eat the poultry..."
Remember kids, slashdotters are a minority, not everybody thinks like us. But I'd be much more pleased if you were right, although.
Just one Solar panel? What if it breaks?
I don't know... let me google a possible solution...
Damn, google.com is down!! What has possibly happened?
Microsoft sure got greedy in the last 20 years...
I was a little luckier... In my college days we had 320x200 gif porn. And we were happy! Now get out of my lawn!
Dude, who had 500MB drives in 1986?
Hmmm... aliens? Well, who has 1020 petabytes drives today?
BTW, in 1986 if someone came up to you and told you that there would be hard drives in 20 years that are 750GB and were faster than your current system memory what would you have said to them?
I'd say "to the time machine, Robin!"
Who needs ext4? I'm perfectly satisfied with my 640k, and so should you!
Have you heard of porn? Yeah, I didn't think so...
Will we back all this data up?
20 years ago you would ask the same thing about 500 MB hard disks. And don't forget the article (or at least the sumary, as a good slashdotter I don't RTFA) says about the file system capacity, not the real capacity of hard disks. Petabytes hard disks are something for the future, not for now.
>> 1020 petabytes
My porn collection will now be complete.
Liar... there is no such thing as a complete porn collection!
"The other day they released an updated version of AnyDVD which effortlessly bypasses Protect DVD-Video."
Nice try. I'll give you a cookie.
Too bad we will have to throw 39 extra dollars to be able to do something we've done for free until now.