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Re: AI Portraits

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Post by cameronbrown »

dr_zoidberg wrote: post #33
stronglikedan wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but it's not like myriad cameras are recording their face and storing it for posterity whenever they leave the house! /s

Depends on where you live. Where I live, I know for a fact they have less than 1TB of storage for 1000 cameras, and law enforcement usually fights the city to get images of incidents, because they don't live over a day due to storage shortage.

While I think this is great for generally alleviating the creepiness of surveillance while keeping the benefits, why do they have such little storage? I'd have thought storing it would be the easy part compared to maintaining the whole systems.

Re: AI Portraits

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Post by ben_w »

o-__-o wrote: post #37
dr_zoidberg wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends on where you live. Where I live, I know for a fact they have less than 1TB of storage for 1000 cameras, and law enforcement usually fights the city to get images of incidents, because they don't live over a day due to storage shortage.

Let me tell you a story from about 10 years ago. I was working for the DOJ and was invited to one of their secure datacenter (I was cleared). As we are walking through hallways, we sometimes had to cross through rooms of racks of servers to get to other server rooms. As we walked through past these racks of servers, I noticed they all said EMC on the cages. My coworker points out each room we walk through is housing…

I can simultaneously believe both you and dr_zoidberg, just as I can believe the homophobic totalitarian dictatorships of the Soviet Union were simultaneous with the 60s summer of love and Denmark decriminalising all pornography. They did say it “depends on where you live”.

Re: AI Portraits

#45

Post by cpfohl »

cameronbrown wrote: post #40
probst wrote: post #8

In case you want to sign-up and cannot get the client side validation to accept your password: they apply email validation to the passwords. You'll have to make up a password that's also a valid email address. In other words, something like: aBqwdHkjh@oqwIrd.com

Wow. Did they copy the same test for both fields twice too? Or more likely: do they have tests at all.

Lots of places don't have tests at all. This is not uncommon. (Or even all that problematic if other processes and capabilities are in place).

Re: AI Portraits

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Post by cameronbrown »

cpfohl wrote: post #45
cameronbrown wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. Did they copy the same test for both fields twice too? Or more likely: do they have tests at all.

Lots of places don't have tests at all. This is not uncommon. (Or even all that problematic if other processes and capabilities are in place).

I mean, not being able to sign up is fairly problematic.
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