[geeks] Google Images Facial Recognition!

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Fri Jun 1 16:34:38 CDT 2007


On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Meanwhile, Congress is deathly afraid, hasn't even figured out there
> IS a difference between "strange" and "dangerous", and wastes its
> "security" dollar harassing women armed with hand cream (OH
> NOES!!!1!), Muslims who pray in Furriner (imagine the odds of THAT!),
> and physical security experts practicing with lock picks and test
> locks.

The worst part of my recent trip to California, in that regard, was the
trip home.  Just after I'd moved through the "security" line, I saw a
wheelchair-bound man in his 80s or 90s wearing a 2nd Infantry Division
WWII badge and an olive drab cover with all sorts of pins attached.

...being hand-searched from top-to-bottom by TSA.

Did I mention that flight was Memorial Day morning?

-- 
Jonathan Patschke ) "If we keep our pride, though paradise is lost, we
Elgin, TX        (   will pay the price, but we cannot count the cost."
USA               )                             --Neil Peart, "Bravado"



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