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Comment Re: Really? (Score 0) 183

Incredible how easy it is to do banking on an island eleventeen square miles with a population smaller than the daily visitors to Magic Kingdom in Orlando! Ok you got me, I exaggerated, but only slightly, Magic Kingdom capacity is 100,000, Icelandâ(TM)s population is ca. 350k, so roughly 1000x smaller than the US. Disney Worldâ(TM)s capacity of 320,000 is closer. Note that itâ(TM)s easy to pay for stuff in Disney with everyone issued Magic Bands linked to a credit card. Disney also tracks everyone with RFID in the bands, so itâ(TM)s a form of universal ID. So I guess Iceland is run like an amusement park? Some fun facts, if Iceland was a state it would be 38th by land area, and by population a little bigger than Buffalo (go Bills!) Itâ(TM)s funny how things work well with such a small homogeneous population. I bet validating transactions with âoepinky promisesâ would probably work too.

Comment Re:UK police false positives on facial recognition (Score 2) 86

Thanks, that is very interesting. But something smells fishy.

1. 1 false positive from "over 641,533 faces" seems too good to be true. Very few systems of any kind are that good, and facial recognition? I don't buy it. And that's an oddly specific number to be "over". It does not pass the smell test.

2. "Shows no bias" is similarly too good to be true and doesn't pass the smell test. Didn't Apple have some problem in the last year or two with trying to spiff up faces, where black skin didn't work as well? "No bias" is not credible.

3. "Zero unlawful arrests" is weasel words. Just because an arrest has conformed to various legal standards, such as having a warrant, being cautioned, not beaten up, etc, does not make it a proper arrest. Lots of people are acquitted at trial after having been lawfully arrested.

4. The rate has not changed. Well, yes, it must have, if this is the false positive rate, since it presumably once upon a time had 0 false positives and now has 1, and the denominator has been increasing all this time unless the first 641,533 faces were all recognized in the first day.

5. The only credible answer. There may well be no national false positive rate.

But it's an interesting response. Thanks.

Comment Re:Yeah what you want is irrelevant (Score 1) 86

I don't know what she's been doing. But from the fact that it took 40 years to track her down, and that only because a non-cop found her, I'd say the evidence is strong I know what she *hasn't* been doing -- terrorism, or training terrorists.

Seriously, if she's been living for 40 years training terrorists who haven't done anything to draw attention to themselves or her, she's either been running a false flag terrorist school with the government's connivance, or she hasn't been running a terrorism school.

If society wants to punish her for what she did 40 years ago, fine. But stop pretending the police took a dangerous terrorist off the streets.

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