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Was watching that BBC Serpent thing over the last few days and everyone was smoking all the time. Lovely.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.I quit 14 years ago, I'm sometimes still a smoker in dreams.
Yep.got love the fact that rewording the patent won't change what it is for - Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech
Show me our actual camps.Yep.
Yet:
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'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
Absolutely - we're not China. But that tech isn't to be used in camps - it's to be used in wider china.Show me our actual camps.
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.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.
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.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).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.
If your job can be performed by a robot then great.Welcome to your new amazon job, watching robots do it for you
Highly doubtfulI bet our actual tech is better in terms of recognition
What it was like in the 70s and 80sWas watching that BBC Serpent thing over the last few days and everyone was smoking all the time. Lovely.
Cant believe people think there is an raf
I hope they gave them a strafe for good measure!
The airport and vauxhall. Apart from that its pretty much a dump. Used to like going to the shopping centre in the 80sWell fuck me there is something else in Luton other than a football team.
Pretty sure that's a parody account.
Yes, that's kind of the point.Pretty sure that's a parody account.
maybe you're just getting fatter?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.Bought a Terry's Chocolate Orange. Not had one in years.
Each piece is a lot thinner than they used to be
Yes, quite rightmaybe you're just getting fatter?
It has real oranges in it according to the packaging.Yes, quite right
I'm on diet
A chocolate orange is one of your five-a-day
Currency ? Yeah easy to lose. I got a trezor hardware wallet and even then i should store the 24 or so recovery words separately.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 keysI 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?
Yeah on that: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.