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Comment Re: Good luck... (Score 1) 774

While I donâ(TM)t disagree with your sentiment, I suspect the challenge will be to allow completely free speech while also allowing people to be ignored when they have nothing useful to contribute. Without some level of filtering it will be filled with hate and provocation to the point of being useless.
Not every thought deserves the highest soapbox.

Comment No one overlooked this (Score 2) 123

Hybrids really shine when they are compared against gasoline engines that do not run full duty. I donâ(TM)t think they compare so well against either diesel or full duty situations. That is, a battery bank isnâ(TM)t going to help much when the truck is spending itâ(TM)s life already at full throttle.

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Chinese Police Test Gait-Recognition Technology That Identifies People Based on How They Walk (scmp.com) 93

You can tell a lot of things from the way someone walks. Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Watrix says its softwares can identify a person from 50 meters away -- even if they have covered their face or have their back to a camera -- making it more than a match for Sherlock Holmes. From a report: Known as gait recognition, the technology works by analyzing thousands of metrics about a person's walk, from body contour to the angle of arm movement to whether a person has a toe-in or toe-out gait, to then build a database. "With facial recognition people need to look into a camera -- cooperation is not needed for them to be recognized [by our technology]," said Huang Yongzhen, co-founder and chief executive of Watrix, in an interview in Beijing. Features like this have given Watrix an edge in catching runaway criminals, who tend to avoid surveillance, said Huang. Police on the streets of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, have already run trials of gait recognition technology, said Huang, and the company officially launched its 2.0 version last week, which supports analysis of real-time camera feeds at a mega-city level.

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