[geeks] Google Images Facial Recognition!

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>Date: 2007/06/01 Fri PM 04:34:38 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Google Images Facial Recognition!

>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?

What, are you suggesting we should profile passengers? That is completely unacceptable (to those that don't fly commercial ;^)!

Lionel