Last year, Ticketmaster and LiveNation invested in a former military facial recognition company, with the hope that the technology could be used to both strengthen and speed up event entry

Because of course

So the Juggalo 's were right?

Man, this timeline is insane

Well so this is almost 3 decades old, but still…

What?

Why? The abstract doesn’t really explain the why, why would you want to do that?

I could make a joke about one having better boobs but…

Look, it’s porn. People want porn. If they use open source software, there is a very good chance that they’re using it to get porn.

Given the chance to pay 50 dollars for bewbs, or 50 dollar for some obscure feature… That’s an easy choice for many. There are few nerds out there like me that would choose different

On the bright side: most open source developers are still doing it for the love, even if we need the paid ones

From the looks of it, you were many things, except successful

Causes gonorrhea? IS gonorrhea, no?

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Get a FLIR capable camera and scan for heat sources

Ulefone Armor are relatively cheap phones with that capability, and they’re fun too

Very nice

Also very scary as this is just the next step after what Boston dynamics has already shown. You can bet your ass that military leaders are jerking off over these things

Granted, their battery life will still be Abysmal but that too is being resolved over time.

I’m not afraid of self aware terminators. I’m afraid of sad dictators with tiny penis syndrome getting access to shit like this in, say, a decade from now.

Was it because of some Israeli bullshit group?

It was because of some Israeli bullshit group.

Leaded gasoline

I hate it so much that these dystopian devices are all advertised as a positive thing and, worst of all, that there are millions of dumbasses going “well that sounds like a great idea!”

So a % of a % of a % of their profits

That will most surely teach these criminals.

CAN. WE. PLEASE. START. JAILING. CRIMINALS. THAT. BREAK. THE. LAW.

I’m #6

Will this make it in Kubuntu 26.04? That’d be awesome!

Wine Is Not an Emulator

As well as verifying ages, ScanTek boasts “collect marketing information from IDs and drivers licences, which business owners can use to target specific demographics with promotions”

And here we have the real reason why they want the scanning

Added security to keep the random asshole out, sure, but the marketing is the point. Fuck that shit, if rather not go out to a bar than this

Really missing the point

I won’t defend the US, it’s a shit hole. The point is that the Chinese government has a long list of crimes as well yet here nobody wants to talk about that because reasons. I’m guessing there are a few paid actors here or something because how else can you ignore basic facts?

Brainwashing by the US is evil, but from China? Aaaaalll fine

Of course! Because we all know that China is perfect and humble and they never make mistakes, they’ve never once committed any crimes, they’d never ever do anything bad and they most definitely have the right to just take pand where and when they want and if you disagree, they’d definitely not disappear you…

It’s so funny to see you hate so much on the US, and rightfully so, yet just lap up all the Chinese propaganda as if it’s soup.

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