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Michael Martin wrote: he was sporting a Goanna as a weapon.
So I'll bet he describes himself as a dragon-tamer, while he's drinking his piddling little, lady-sized "schooners" of watery beer.
(The trick with talking to Australians is that you know it's going to end up in a punch-up, so you might as well get it over with.)
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Just reading through an article on Amazon and mentions the rekognistion tool, and that some "civil right activists claim it could lead to wrongful arrests".
Its a tool. Yes, I understand if someone dumb and just relies on a tool 100%, that is on the human misusing the tool.
A human is still involved in the process.
It probably took a long time for CCTV black/white video recordings and camera to be tolerated. But it always sounds like person recognition tools are far worse.
My basic understanding: At a big stadium you can have police focused on more intensive tasks then tons scanning the crowd.
You still have a few scanning the crowd.
Face detect tool identifies someone of high interest.
Info is directed to nearest officer to approach.
Office now should handle the rest as if they spotted the person them self.
End.
If a wrongful arrest happens, that is the fault of the existing system in place.
If the computer made a lock or release decision, then I would be against it. That is NOT what it is being used for.
"oh, but their are cases where judges use machine-learning tools to make decisions". Again, that is a poor judge mis understanding how the tool should be used - weather that is lack of training or been trained in a missleading way by the sellers of the tool.
Now let me use this to better detect my cat to allow into the house. I still have a 10% fail that the neighbors cat is being allowed in. both tabbies and I think its something to do with the lighting 
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Have you seen the results of tests of the systems?
They make far too many mistakes -- mistakes which could result in your being locked up in a police cell for a day or two, until these processes that you appear to have so much trust in are completed in your favour.
... That's IF they are completed in your favour; otherwise you could end up being locked up a lot longer.
But I suppose that's OK, as long as it only happens to other people, eh?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: They make far too many mistakes
No, the person who does not use the brain is making the mistake. Never trust a computer.
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ZurdoDev wrote: No, the person who does not use the brain is making the mistake. Never trust a computer.
We know that, but the people using this software tend not to know that. And when they don't use their brains, they have immunity.
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ZurdoDev wrote: the person who does not use the brain
... Is the person who has been swamped with misinformation about how perfect a system is, by the corporations that make the product.
And bear in mind that we're talking about cops, not rocket surgeons.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: rocket surgeons.
What kind of surgeries are done on a rocket?
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You obviously haven't reached their level of education.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You obviously haven't reached their level of education.
Indeed. I am literate. 
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Mark_Wallace wrote: rocket surgeons.
I've been using that expression for years. Perhaps you noticed it at some point?
Or, a frightening option, indeed: at some level we think alike.
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I picked it up in the mid 80s (it was love at first sight), from someone on the alt.english.usage newsgroup, so it was knocking around at for least 20 years before I joined CP.
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Well before I started using it. (alt. newgroups - ye gad that's a memory). In real-life I somewhat often will deliberately garble expressions in that manner - oddly, few even notice.
Well, that's how it goes these days, and we find ourselves older but no wiser. One out of two, however, isn't bad.*
* And older is clearly the better choice considering the option.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I somewhat often will deliberately garble expressions in that manner - oddly, few even notice.
I do it a lot, but find that many people don't even notice the whooshing noise.
Pearls before swine, I tell you!
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This is weird. "pearls before swine" - I use that (sadly) all too often.
Here's the weird. Basically we argue and disagree on a considerable number of things, yet, we oddly have developed similar speech-games (when we play with our two-legged toys).
Should you be in the mood, the link in my by-line area, "Ravings en masse" contains any number of saying you might have already thought of and/or are welcome to use.
As a sample:
Quote: It is said "It takes all kinds of people to make a world."
There are some, however, that we can all do better without. - September 25 2018 11:11 AM
Note that some of the earlier contributions are less interesting.
Format: Others' quotes on the left, mine on the right, except the one on the left about equality - that one's mine. Feel free to skip the whole thing
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"Pearls before swine" is biblical, and, oh boy, do I know a lot about the Bible! (Several thousand per cent more than most of the rissoles I've encountered who claim moral superiority for being Christian without having a clue what being Christian means).
But I'm ridiculously precise with words, and intentionally phrase things to have multiple meanings, whereas most people can only do that unintentionally. Quotes, sayings, and old saws are grist for that kind of mill.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: But I'm ridiculously precise with words
You find yourself in good company![^]
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Well, why did you think I have "wall" in my name?
To keep undesirable, murderous illnesses from spreading from the US to Mexico, obviously.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: people don't even notice the whooshing noise.
Or they are too polite to correct you.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Or they are too polite to correct you.
With yet another example of fixing whut wasn't broke?
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Same.
The other one I like to use is "cross all the i's and dot all the t's".
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yacCarsten wrote: cross all the i's and dot all the t's".
I usually say that the other way round, so that the sort-of punchline is at the end.
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There is nothing wrong with it. This has been going on for hundreds of years only long ago it was a poster on the sheriff's wall of those that were wanted.
It's hilarious how all of the sudden in the last few years "privacy" became such a big deal. No one wants anyone to know anything about them yet they post everything about themselves on the internet and they carry a tracking device in their pocket.
I heard the other day someone complaining about people being able to google them and find their address. And yet this was someone who is old enough to have been around when everyone's address was delivered door to door for free for everyone to see.
I have the Nextdoor app, basically facebook for neighborhoods, and all the time people are posting "Someone took a picture of my house. What should I do!!?"
Technology amplifies people's craziness.
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One of the problems as I see it is that said surveillance data (as it exists in its many forms) is kept and can be cross-referenced with other data, which can then reveal patterns that weren't observable before and that are frankly of nobody's business. Once you're merely aware of that, you might start changing your behavior, even if just subconsciously. Have you ever intentionally avoided using certain trigger words in a chat session or an email exchange, because you know the content is looked at by some algorithm trying to raise some red flags? Why should you alter your behavior, if you're a law-abiding citizen, if you claim to live in a free society?
To say nothing about this same data leaking and becoming available to people who have no justification in seeing it.
I was reading earlier this week (I forget where) about some NSA surveillance program that cost them $100M, but had only lead to a single investigation. Not a conviction, but a single investigation that was eventually dropped.
ZurdoDev wrote: It's hilarious how all of the sudden in the last few years "privacy" became such a big deal. No one wants anyone to know anything about them yet they post everything about themselves on the internet and they carry a tracking device in their pocket.
There's a distinction to be made. For most, no, it has not become such a big deal. Despite what people say, they're not serious about it; if they choose to post everything about themselves and carry tracking devices everywhere they go, then they clearly don't care. This is still, essentially, opt-in; they can't claim to not have a choice. People survived just fine before Facebook and before smart phones made their appearance. I don't do either. Personally it's the things I have no control over I object to. And you have to object to something, even if just in principle, or if you just keep thinking nothing's a big deal, then you're already on a very slippery slope and you may some day realize that things evolved so gradually you didn't see where it was all headed until you find yourself living in a 1984 scenario.
I'm no activist by any stretch and I have no time to go off on a crusade. But I still make conscious choices where I can (as you said - sharing crap on social media and carrying phones--that's a good place to start).
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dandy72 wrote: Personally it's the things I have no control over I object to.
Which is most everything in life.
dandy72 wrote: you find yourself living in a 1984 scenario.
Technology won't get us there. Bad politicians and idiotic voters will do that.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Technology won't get us there. Bad politicians and idiotic voters will do that.
But you can't deny technology is the enabler. You don't get the sort of mass surveillance we're facing today without it. I wouldn't have worried too much about having a profile being built around me back in the 1800s. Or even the 1950s, when people were ratting out their commie neighbors.
But I agree, politicians (and those who vote them in) who allow it to happen on their watch need to take some blame--a lot of it. But they have little incentive to change anything, considering governments benefit from said surveillance. For one thing, it's great to help them determine who will keep them in power...
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