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[Wij]

I quit 14 years ago, I'm sometimes still a smoker in dreams.

Was watching that BBC Serpent thing over the last few days and everyone was smoking all the time. Lovely.

 

[Embattle]

got love the fact that rewording the patent won't change what it is for - Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech

 

[Scouse]

got love the fact that rewording the patent won't change what it is for - Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech

Yep.

Yet:

'Let police fight crime with facial recognition' plea

You may be happy to let your phone recognise your face - but what about the police?

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Embattle]

Yep.

Yet:

'Let police fight crime with facial recognition' plea

You may be happy to let your phone recognise your face - but what about the police?

www.bbc.co.uk

Show me our actual camps.

 

[Scouse]

Show me our actual camps.

Absolutely - we're not China. But that tech isn't to be used in camps - it's to be used in wider china.

My link? - The police pushing for indescriminate total surveillance of our population (which is already the most surveilled population in the western world)?

The po-po did it (in limited fashion) just because they could and despite objections. It was then ruled unlawful (and resulted in the arrest of an innocent IIRC) - and they're now appealing against that because they love it. Plod wants to treat everyone as a crim, and rule you out if you check out - because that's easier than finding only criminals without treading on all of us.

So no. Not that far away from what the chineese are doing. In fact - I'd argue that our facial recognition tech is way more advanced already.

 

[DaGaffer]

So no. Not that far away from what the chineese are doing. In fact - I'd argue that our facial recognition tech is way more advanced already.

I bet it isn't. I remember listening to a speaker at a "big data" conference a couple of years ago and the guy (a proper sociopathic nerd) was positively creaming himself over Chinese AI and all the things the Chinese could do without pesky privacy laws getting in the way. It was terrifying listening to the tone of disappointment when he talked about the EU's restrictions (the conference was in Brussels). China has pretty much everyone's biometric data on file, criminal record or not, and any foreigner who enters China as well, no opt-ins or "rights to be forgotten" over there.

 

[Wij]

I bet it isn't. I remember listening to a speaker at a "big data" conference a couple of years ago and the guy (a proper sociopathic nerd) was positively creaming himself over Chinese AI and all the things the Chinese could do without pesky privacy laws getting in the way. It was terrifying listening to the tone of disappointment when he talked about the EU's restrictions (the conference was in Brussels). China has pretty much everyone's biometric data on file, criminal record or not, and any foreigner who enters China as well, no opt-ins or "rights to be forgotten" over there.

This indeed. I read some articles a few months back about some of the supercomputers China has dedicated to tracking every digital footprint and marrying it up with CCTV & AI facial recognition. Much of it would be illegal in the EU and our governments don't spend that kind of money on this. Google does but is limited by law in what it can do.

 

[Scouse]

I bet it isn't. I remember listening to a speaker at a "big data" conference a couple of years ago and the guy (a proper sociopathic nerd) was positively creaming himself over Chinese AI and all the things the Chinese could do without pesky privacy laws getting in the way. It was terrifying listening to the tone of disappointment when he talked about the EU's restrictions (the conference was in Brussels). China has pretty much everyone's biometric data on file, criminal record or not, and any foreigner who enters China as well, no opt-ins or "rights to be forgotten" over there.

I bet our actual tech is better in terms of recognition etc - but yeah the usage of it in China will be totally ubiquitous and that comes with it's own advantages (like you said, biometrics are all logged, no opt-outs etc).

It's a thin line we're treading here - someone'll knock the wall over eventually and next thing you know it'll be everywhere

 

[Overdriven]

I'm sure there's a joke here somewhere -- Samsung Bot Handy

Suppose I don't need a woman now.

 

[Job]

Welcome to your new amazon job, watching robots do it for you

View: https://streamable.com/c1alck

 

[Wij]

I'm sure there's a joke here somewhere -- Samsung Bot Handy

Suppose I don't need a woman now.

View: https://twitter.com/barneyfarmer/status/1197451530422693888/photo/1

 

[Scouse]

Welcome to your new amazon job, watching robots do it for you

If your job can be performed by a robot then great.

It's effectively the same argument that people use for immigration, apart from it's not immigrants. If the job can be done by a robot then it's this:
View: https://youtu.be/QVyRwWKCtKQ?t=117

 

[MYstIC G]

I bet our actual tech is better in terms of recognition

Highly doubtful

 

[Deebs]

And another one

 

[Moriath]

Was watching that BBC Serpent thing over the last few days and everyone was smoking all the time. Lovely.

What it was like in the 70s and 80s

 

[Moriath]

And another one

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Cant believe people think there is an raf
Luton let alone anything else lol

 

[Embattle]

Well fuck me there is something else in Luton other than a football team.

 

[Gwadien]

And another one

View attachment 43585

I hope they gave them a strafe for good measure!

 

[Moriath]

Well fuck me there is something else in Luton other than a football team.

The airport and vauxhall. Apart from that its pretty much a dump. Used to like going to the shopping centre in the 80s

 

[Bodhi]

And another one

View attachment 43585

Pretty sure that's a parody account.

 

[Raven]

Pretty sure that's a parody account.

Yes, that's kind of the point.

 

[Lamp]

Bought a Terry's Chocolate Orange. Not had one in years.
Each piece is a lot thinner than they used to be

 

[Aoami]

Bought a Terry's Chocolate Orange. Not had one in years.
Each piece is a lot thinner than they used to be

maybe you're just getting fatter?

 

[Raven]

I don't know much about crypto but isn't that a massive risk if it is stored on a drive? What if you have a fire? What if the PC is stolen? What if the hard drive fails completely?

 

[Embattle]

Bought a Terry's Chocolate Orange. Not had one in years.
Each piece is a lot thinner than they used to be

Quite nice however...even after the shrinkflation.

 

[Lamp]

maybe you're just getting fatter?

Yes, quite right
I'm on diet
A chocolate orange is one of your five-a-day

 

[Embattle]

Yes, quite right
I'm on diet
A chocolate orange is one of your five-a-day

It has real oranges in it according to the packaging.

 

[Moriath]

I don't know much about crypto but isn't that a massive risk if it is stored on a drive? What if you have a fire? What if the PC is stolen? What if the hard drive fails completely?

Currency ? Yeah easy to lose. I got a trezor hardware wallet and even then i should store the 24 or so recovery words separately.

 

[Scouse]

I don't know much about crypto but isn't that a massive risk if it is stored on a drive? What if you have a fire? What if the PC is stolen? What if the hard drive fails completely?

You should have a backup of your keys

I've got 1.2btc on a wallet on my drive. I've printed out the key somewhere tho.

Somewhere



Remember - Bitcoin's original remit was a non-governmental, non-banking controlled medium of exchange that wasn't sucseptible to currency manipulation or fraudulent transactions. The idea was to empower the public to take control of their wealth and their assets and remove that from government and corporate interference. In effect to digitally take us back to a digital barter system in many ways - you agree an exchange of goods and or services between you and BTC would be the clearly logged transaction (open ledger for the whole world to read (unlike banks right now, who facilitate money laundering and criminality on a massive scale)).

Part of that is taking control of your cryptography. The problem I agree is that it takes technical savvy to do that. I'm of the opinion that crypto exchanges are the new banks. But they need to be much *much* more secure and much easier to deal with.

The bent money men will never let BTC become what it could be - an unabuseable medium of exchange where middlemen don't get their cut - but it is becoming an asset class.

 

[Bodhi]

You should have a backup of your keys

I've got 1.2btc on a wallet on my drive. I've printed out the key somewhere tho.

Somewhere



Remember - Bitcoin's original remit was a non-governmental, non-banking controlled medium of exchange that wasn't sucseptible to currency manipulation or fraudulent transactions. The idea was to empower the public to take control of their wealth and their assets and remove that from government and corporate interference. In effect to digitally take us back to a digital barter system in many ways - you agree an exchange of goods and or services between you and BTC would be the clearly logged transaction (open ledger for the whole world to read (unlike banks right now, who facilitate money laundering and criminality on a massive scale)).

Part of that is taking control of your cryptography. The problem I agree is that it takes technical savvy to do that. I'm of the opinion that crypto exchanges are the new banks. But they need to be much *much* more secure and much easier to deal with.

The bent money men will never let BTC become what it could be - an unabuseable medium of exchange where middlemen don't get their cut - but it is becoming an asset class.

Yeah on that:

View: https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1349399620166819840?s=20


Lagarde complaining about funny business is like Al Capone complaining about tax dodging, but hey it's 2021, and self awareness is no longer a thing.