Yes, my thanks to you and the AC who caught that!

This scheme will work for one branch in Lesser Nowhere, Sechwan Province, with a finite and small set of pictures, and a small number of crooks. Once the number of faces increases, the probability of a false positive explodes, roughly as (N 2) (select every two out of N), where N is the size of the pools of pictures + the person being scanned.

The well-known example is the "birthday paradox", in which twenty-three people at a party increases the probability of two of them having the same birthday to fifty-fifty. That particular case was because the actual probability was multiplied by (25 2) = 25! / ((25-2)! * 2!) = 6900 comparisons being made, times 1/365 chances of a hit.

The German federal security service considered using one of my then employer's recognizers for airports to catch terrorists, but ended up facing the problem of accusing grandma of being part of the Bader-Meinhoff gang (;-)) No matter how accurate we were, a few more people in the pool would give us false positives. We'd need roughly an accuracy of 99.9 followed by roughly as many decimal places of 9s as there were powers of ten of people.

--dave

Studying crime in VR.... wasn't that something they were doing in the exposition of that film?

a little while after meeting you they kind of distance themselves, they get a weird kinda awe-inspired respect for you

If the tone of your post is any indication of what you are like in person, I believe that you may be entirely wrong, almost to the point of being polar opposite to reality, about their intentions about why they distance themselves... .

Trying to work in an open office is like trying to write music in a bus station.

total lifespan is still limited by other factorsLike what, exactly? If you can cure aging, then by extension, diseases that are induced by aging should also be eradicated. That just leaves dying by diseases where survivability is *not* significantly connected to how old someone is, death by accident, or else homicide.

In other words, some 70% of the reasons that people die will be eliminated. It is effectively immortality.

So why can't Android just use fucking Samba?!

No, it's not the same story. The story now is about what Sourceforge did after that (i.e., locking the GIMP-for-Windows developer out of his account -- despite the fact that he had not "abandoned" it as Sourceforge claimed -- and distributing the crapware-bundled installer anyway).

Stories about that have been getting submitted over and over again since at least yesterday. Dice (which owns both Sourceforge and Slashdot) is suppressing them.

The parent post should not be off-topic. We don't have a choice except to talk about this on unrelated threads, precisely because Dice is suppressing stories about it!

Many of the diseases that predominantly affect the older generations often arise not simply because of the passage of time, but as a consequence of the aging process itself... That is not to say that aging is necessarily the sole cause, but it is extremely obvious that declining health as one ages plays a very large factor. If certain medical treatments existed to genuinely halt or even reverse the effects of aging, then one's overall health would be expected to remain at otherwise "youthful" levels (in fact, if it did not, then the treatment doesn't actually do anything), and people would not tend to die from illnesses that are typically associated with declining healthy levels as one ages any more than people who have otherwise lived only to a relatively young age already do.

You don't seriously think the that rich and the elite wouldn't bend the rules for their own families do you?

Or do you really think that unwanted pregnancies only ever happen to the less wealthy?

While it may give grammar nazis fits, a slightly non-standard use of commas could eliminate the ambiguity in the original headline:

Billboard, Advertising Banned Products In Russia, Hides If It Recognizes Cops