Saw my best friend again. Hadn't seen him since last year, before he left for Buenos Aires (and came back). That made my day. And later, I went out with another of my friends who recently turned 25 and treated him to a good round in a video arcade and went bowling. We had a ton of fun, though we're not too great at bowling.
I hope I can go out more often in this fashion: Just plain hanging out, with no other intentions.
STANTON — The United States is fighting terrorism — one snow cone at a time.
Montcalm County recently received a $900 Arctic Blast Sno-Cone machine.
The West Michigan Shoreline Regional Development Commission (WMSRDC) is a federal- and state-designated agency responsible for managing and administrating the homeland security program in Montcalm County and 12 other counties.
The WMSRDC recently purchased and transferred homeland security equipment to these counties — including 13 snow cone machines at a total cost of $11,700.
Adopt a bunny! The black rabbit was supposedly "male", but somebody got that wrong. The baby bunnies (did I mention they are adorable?) will be weaned by the end of February.
While interesting, it's not difficult to construct classifiers to ignore such techniques.
True, but it's unlikely that vendors of facial recognition systems would devote the time to adding those features unless a large enough percent of the population was using them to not have such tactics already make a person look suspicious. And I like the idea of so many people walking around looking like they just fell out of Liquid Sky or Alladin Sane.
Not really since face recognition by definition uses classification techniques. In fact, coupled with some machine learning functions, it'd be rather trivial to implement a learning system to detect and compensate for anti-CV measures.
The problem with the demonstrated techniques is that they seem inherently conspicuous. Even if you fool the computer, these seem to stick out quite a bit at, say, an airport.
The problem with the demonstrated techniques is that they seem inherently conspicuous. Even if you fool the computer, these seem to stick out quite a bit at, say, an airport.
They do seem to be violating one of their own recommendations:
4. Remain inconspicuous For camouflage to function, it must not be perceived as a mask or disguise.
But I think their work is best seen in the light of their thesis statement:
primary objective of thwarting face detection under the guise of high-fashion aesthetics
They don't seem as interested in (for example) thwarting airport security as they are in preventing automated face-tagging in Facebook and Picasa (though of course if the former were their higher priority, they might not want to state that).
For the second time already in 2012, I find myself thinking of a lyric from The Waitresses' song Jimmy Tomorrow: "It's what happens when your choices are narrowed to fashion or violence."
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I hope I can go out more often in this fashion: Just plain hanging out, with no other intentions.
Montcalm County recently received a $900 Arctic Blast Sno-Cone machine.
The West Michigan Shoreline Regional Development Commission (WMSRDC) is a federal- and state-designated agency responsible for managing and administrating the homeland security program in Montcalm County and 12 other counties.
The WMSRDC recently purchased and transferred homeland security equipment to these counties — including 13 snow cone machines at a total cost of $11,700.
http://thedailynews.cc/2011/12/03/montcalm-county-gets-homeland-security-snow-cone-machine/
The flavors all correspond to the old colored-status-alert system. "I'll have the terrified tangerine, please!"
Black church now owns KKK property
I will PAY someone to make this game.
Anyone in NYC want a baby bunny?
For the second time already in 2012, I find myself thinking of a lyric from The Waitresses' song Jimmy Tomorrow: "It's what happens when your choices are narrowed to fashion or violence."
KISS would have been the obvious joke.