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DeltaV
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Facial-recognition intel from inside your home

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Intel's mysterious TV device sparks industry chatter
Buzz is building over Intel's secretive TV set-top box due out later this year, which the chipmaker claims will provide live and other content via the Internet, is easy to use, and boasts face-recognition technology so it can tell whose watching it and recommend programs they like.
Berlin 1941:
Jawohl, mein Fuhrer! I do see the benefits of such an automated facial-recognition technology in every citizen's home... But, the technological and sociological advances needed to implement this have not occurred yet!

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Just put a sticky over the camera, all the R & D they put in becomes a complete waste.
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Facial recognition progress report
Images currently used for facial recognition are typically taken in visible light. Research is showing that infrared and near-infrared images can also be effective; other data types, such as terahertz, are also being tested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_radiation
Terahertz radiation can pass through clothing, paper, cardboard, wood, masonry, plastic and ceramics.
Then there is Fourier Optics, where the imager might look like a part of the device case, a pushbutton, a label, etc.

But seriously, the "sociological advances" part of the plan aims to get people to not even think about covering the imager.
That would be anti-social(ist).

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OMG! 1984 creeepy.... Progressives, rejoice!
Counting the days to commercial fusion. It is not that long now.

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mvanwink5 wrote:OMG! 1984 creeepy.... Progressives, rejoice!
Progressives of all flavors - We know what you are smoking. Be patient - a SWAT team will arrive shortly to fix your problem.
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The camera that looks like a computer screen --
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1306/1306.3946.pdf
Furthermore, the same architecture can be used for acquiring
multimodal signals such as infrared, Terahertz [5] and
millimeter wave images [6]. This architecture has application
in surveillance [7].
Ref [7] --
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.1942v1.pdf

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If it's that bad you could pull the plug when not in use, if that's not enough open the case and pull the backup battery, still not enough, don't buy it in the first place. When it doesn't sell business will get the message.
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How will you know it's "that bad"?

Muwahhahhhaahhaa...

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There are people who take apart all kinds of devices and identify the components used. Then there are people involved in the design and manufacturing process who may be willing to leak such details.

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Then there are people involved in the design and manufacturing process who may be willing to leak such details.
The leakers will be dealt with. Muwahhhahhahhhhaahaaaa...
There are people who take apart all kinds of devices and identify the components used.
Have them identify which of these two identically-labeled 3,000,000,000+ transistor devices have the added "features", then get back to me in a few billion man-hours.

Device A:
Image

Device B:
Image

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Teahive wrote:There are people who take apart all kinds of devices and identify the components used.


I'm a fan.


http://hackedgadgets.com/
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This would also fit in Skynet is coming.
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DeltaV wrote:
Then there are people involved in the design and manufacturing process who may be willing to leak such details.
The leakers will be dealt with. Muwahhhahhahhhhaahaaaa...
There are people who take apart all kinds of devices and identify the components used.
Have them identify which of these two identically-labeled 3,000,000,000+ transistor devices have the added "features", then get back to me in a few billion man-hours.

Device A:
Image

Device B:
Image


Ha! That's a dirty trick! The img data points to the same file.

Device A: "http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/u ... e-Shot.jpg"
Device B: "http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/u ... e-Shot.jpg"


You'll NEVER find a difference between the two!

Almost made me waste a few Billion man hours.
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Dang. It's in all of them now.

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