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One interesting thing I've read is that eyebrows may be more important for face recognition (by humans) than the appearance of the eyes themselves. (I suspect this has more to do with the shape of the brow bone than the eyebrow hair.) See this example: http://i.imgur.com/ADXtF.png The research was done by Pawan Sinha at MIT.
There's never been a better time to be a creepy stalker. Back in the beginning when Facebook wasn't stalker friendly I remember wanting to have auto tagging based on facial recognition. Now... now I'm afraid that I'll get tagged by other people in facebook (even though I'm not part of it anymore) and facebook will of course make money by selling all the facial patterns to third parties. The applications of facial rec…
If you're really concerned, the solution is simple. Don't tell your friends the same name that you tell the government. If a bunch of people tag you as "John Smith" on Facebook, and "Bill Smitthers" is the person that is behind on his back taxes, face recognition with data bought from Facebook is not going to find you.
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If you're really concerned, the solution is simple. Don't tell your friends the same name that you tell the government. If a bunch of people tag you as "John Smith" on Facebook, and "Bill Smitthers" is the person that is behind on his back taxes, face recognition with data bought from Facebook is not going to find you.
When you register at school, you're required to use your real name. It will always come up, one way or another.
BTW - In the US, there's no law mandating a unique "real name".
Maybe she was just trying to avoid being recognized :)
Reminds me of Pris from Blade Runner: http://bit.ly/aiM8xZ Maybe she was just trying to avoid being recognized :)
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When you register at school, you're required to use your real name. It will always come up, one way or another.
So? BTW - In the US, there's no law mandating a unique "real name".
One interesting thing I've read is that eyebrows may be more important for face recognition (by humans) than the appearance of the eyes themselves. (I suspect this has more to do with the shape of the brow bone than the eyebrow hair.) See this example: http://i.imgur.com/ADXtF.png The research was done by Pawan Sinha at MIT.
"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows." - Frank Zappa
I wonder where all those artists get their knowledge about computers from. Whoever thinks that computer can only give you answers, and only do what they are told to---has never debugged.
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"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows." - Frank Zappa
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso I wonder where all those artists get their knowledge about computers from. Whoever thinks that computer can only give you answers, and only do what they are told to---has never debugged.
He later composed his album 'Jazz from Hell' just for the Synclavier, no human musicians. Presumably he could potter about a bit.
I was just responding to the 'computer' and 'eyebrow' theme above, in a way that I don't now understand myself.
Or, to avoid detection by cameras entirely, lemon juice: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosogno... "But I wore the juice!"
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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso I wonder where all those artists get their knowledge about computers from. Whoever thinks that computer can only give you answers, and only do what they are told to---has never debugged.
I would guess Zappa was being obtuse on purpose. He later composed his album 'Jazz from Hell' just for the Synclavier, no human musicians. Presumably he could potter about a bit. I was just responding to the 'computer' and 'eyebrow' theme above, in a way that I don't now understand myself.
I checked the biography of Zappa (OK, really just the Wikipedia page about him) before I wrote. It mentioned electronic stuff.
That's why I had to resort to a Picasso quote as a strawmen to make sure there's at least some validity to my complained.
