> The man, who authorities identified only by his surname, Yu, is accused of having stolen around $17,000 worth of potatoes in 2015. That's a lot of potatoes to move!
maybe a dozen of really expensive potatoes?
Thanks to facial recognition, a third person is arrested following a pop concert
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#2210 years from now frontpage HN: "Thanks to cameras placed in every room of every Chinese house, 10,000 people have been saved from otherwise being abused, kidnapped, raped or trafficked this month alone!"
Yay!
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#23Masks and temporary/permanent face altering techniques will explode as this technology takes hold. I think about it like ad-blocking, something that may work itself into the mainstream despite it's questionable ethics.
> Masks and temporary/permanent face altering techniques will explode as this technology takes hold Along with a corresponding explosion in legislation to prevent you from covering your face in public. It already exists in France (popularly known as the 'Burqa Ban', but I think it covers other face coverings). I'm especially curious to see how this will go down in the UK, which is increasingly authoritarian while oft…
It's already illegal in many states in the US. Possibly at the local level as well.
Here's the relevant law for Virginia.
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter9/secti...
It's a class 6 felony, which in VA means you'll be looking at "a term of imprisonment of not less than one year nor more than five years, or in the discretion of the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, confinement in jail for not more than 12 months and a fine of not more than $2,500, either or both".
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#25Direct access to the text only version: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=613692526
Thanks to GDPR, I can now acess a page with what I want to read way faster than before!
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#26Direct access to the text only version: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=613692526 Thanks to GDPR, I can now acess a page with what I want to read way faster than before!
While I appreciate them being the first site I've seen that's actually trying to be GDPR compliant (not just giving me a "yes I accept tracking" and "no I don't want to see the content" choice), it's a bit annoying that their "decline and visit plain text site" link goes to the homepage, rather than the article.
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#27Masks and temporary/permanent face altering techniques will explode as this technology takes hold. I think about it like ad-blocking, something that may work itself into the mainstream despite it's questionable ethics.
> Masks and temporary/permanent face altering techniques will explode as this technology takes hold Along with a corresponding explosion in legislation to prevent you from covering your face in public. It already exists in France (popularly known as the 'Burqa Ban', but I think it covers other face coverings). I'm especially curious to see how this will go down in the UK, which is increasingly authoritarian while oft…
You're allowed to cover your face in France, just not in such a way that it signals religious affiliation. The point of the French law is to prevent anyone from being able to identify, through observation in a public place, what a stranger's religion is (under the theory that you can't commit hate crimes if you can't identify your outgroup; and that a generation that grew up not seeing any hate crimes committed—even if there were people who wanted to commit them, but just found it impractical—might grow up to be less hateful.)
(Anyone who wonders why France is unique in having such a law should remember that France changed hands between Protestant and Catholic monarchs roughly two dozen times, and each time there was a mini-crusade, with citizens of the religion-in-power urged to "coerce" citizens of the religion-out-of-power to converting with whatever means necessary. That died down enough that there was never a law made to stop it at the time, but France saw the potential for such cyclical violence to begin again when it joined the EU and began getting increasing levels of immigration from non-Christian cultures, and so figured that such a law was long past due.)
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#28> "Cameras are set in China at 2.8 meters above the ground. That means they won't be able to capture human faces. That's a rule. I'm confused.
I think they mean surveillance cameras run at an angle that makes automated facial recognition impossible.
Today’s state of the art facial recogition systems work with close to +/- 90 degrees of head pan and tilt. It’s really quite impressive.
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#29Direct access to the text only version: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=613692526 Thanks to GDPR, I can now acess a page with what I want to read way faster than before!
I'm still a bit ignorant on all things GDPR, which part of it says they must provide a plaintext site?
I'm wondering if I will start seeing more of these in the future.
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#30Direct access to the text only version: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=613692526 Thanks to GDPR, I can now acess a page with what I want to read way faster than before!
I'm still a bit ignorant on all things GDPR, which part of it says they must provide a plaintext site? I'm wondering if I will start seeing more of these in the future.
I'm just guessing, but GDPR does require that if a person says "no" to tracking (or rather, if they do not explicitly opt-in), that the service cannot be degraded. So I'm wondering if NPR is just serving completely script-less, ad-less text to provide the same thing to this audience?