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Political Affiliation Can Be Differentiated By Appearance 262

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @02:06PM from the if-it-looks-like-a-liberal-and-quacks-like-a-liberal dept.

quaith writes "It's not the way they dress, but the appearance of their face. A study published in PLoS One by Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady of Tufts University used closely cropped greyscale photos of people's faces, standardized for size. Undergrads were asked to categorize each person as either a Democrat or Republican. In the first study, students were able to differentiate Republican from Democrat senate candidates. In the second, students were able to differentiate the political affiliation of other college students. Accuracy in both studies was about 60% — not perfect, but way better than chance."

Comment Digital Rights Management Framework and (Score 1, Interesting) 543

by andholio on Wednesday January 18, 2006 @01:53PM (#14501377) Attached to: Ask Microsoft's Security VP

Microsoft is embarking on an ambitious DRM framework intiative that will hopefully tie a vast number of services, computing activities, and data into a seemless trust environment. Users can share Office documents through email and encrypt and tie those directly to their recipients to prevent forwarding and enable greater control over content. Where do you see this framework becoming pervasive as a part of Microsoft's enterprise security deployments? In other words, will organizations deploy the DRM-enabled Office Services, Windows Live, then have user machines tied into DRM through Vista? Does this solidify Microsoft's commitment to the Trusted Computing Environment and establish a common trust architecture?

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