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04-13-2010, 12:01 AM | #1 | |
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April 13, 2010: Hiding Faces
Big Brother is everywhere.
With modern technology, he can have machines watch you with the unblinking eye, 24/7. But unlike humans, the machine has to identify where your face is, in order to compare it to data base. Adam Harvey's Blog shows this test of the machine's ability to find faces that are painted. Quote:
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04-13-2010, 12:09 AM | #2 |
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If I was going to get a tattoo, I think it would be a facial tattoo.
.....which is to say, I won't be getting a tattoo.
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04-13-2010, 08:34 AM | #3 |
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How about a facial that's not permanent?
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04-13-2010, 08:44 AM | #4 |
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If you smear some grease paint on your face, cops are going deem you suspicious, and ask to see identification.
Also this is a technology race and would only work for a little while. If it catches on and becomes a problem, then big brother will just use laser scanning or radar or sonar or something like that to take a picture of the shape of your head. |
04-13-2010, 09:06 AM | #5 |
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Not if there's a big festival/party going on or you are wearing a football jersey and have something like #2 on.
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04-13-2010, 09:33 AM | #6 | |
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Solution: smear random patterns on your face with an infrared paint. The recognition software won't be able to lock on to you and the cops will only see some vaseline-like smudges if they get close. Problem: Who sells infrared paint? |
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04-13-2010, 09:39 AM | #7 |
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Excellent point.
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04-13-2010, 10:23 AM | #8 |
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Why are "we' hiding from cops?
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04-13-2010, 10:53 AM | #9 |
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Why aren't we?
It is my own damn business if I would like to walk down a street in front of a bank without having Big Brother watching my every move. I don't want, need, or should have a babysitter looking over my shoulder every time I want to leave the house.
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04-13-2010, 02:30 PM | #10 |
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OK, some help here. The article glibly tosses out "the Haar deconstruction."
Google turns up 178,000 hits plain and 150 or so in quotations. All of the latter seem to refer to, guess what? This study on faces. What seems to be lacking is any discussion about WTF is "Haar deconstruction." Anybody have a clue? |
04-13-2010, 02:32 PM | #11 |
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Haardy-haar.
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04-14-2010, 12:08 AM | #13 |
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If you go to the link ,and click on the Adam Harvey (AH) symbol in the upper right, it will take you to his home page. Scroll down for posts on Haar.
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04-14-2010, 06:10 AM | #14 |
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So, Goth chicks will be invisible to big brother?
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04-14-2010, 06:14 AM | #15 |
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Only if they're asymmetrical, it appears.
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