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underage at the vape shop
May 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747
Im impressed that china has a facial recognition system powerful enough to track all the civilians somewhat accurately. Not to be racist but theres only so much variation in peoples faces, and they have a billion faces and a fucktonne of footage to sort through

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HerStuddMuffin
Aug 10, 2014

YOSPOS
If you track several indicators at once it gets much easier. Face + SIM card, for instance. Even better if they have some sort of ID they need to scan periodically like in a mass transit system. Face alone is kinda poo poo, even without a pool of one billion.

underage at the vape shop
May 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747

HerStuddMuffin posted:

If you track several indicators at once it gets much easier. Face + SIM card, for instance. Even better if they have some sort of ID they need to scan periodically like in a mass transit system. Face alone is kinda poo poo, even without a pool of one billion.

Yeah im genuinely impressed they have a facial recognition software they trust enough to use like that

Tupperwarez
Apr 4, 2004

"phphphphphphpht"? this is what you're going with?

you sure?

HerStuddMuffin posted:

Face alone is kinda poo poo
New thread title, folks.

Lupin
Feb 21, 2007

underage at the vape shop posted:

Yeah im genuinely impressed they have a facial recognition software they trust enough to use like that

The most *China* use of China's facial recognition technology has to be its use in public toilets to deter toilet paper theft. You get like 9 sheets and then you're banned from getting more for a certain amount of time.

No why, no square to spare.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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underage at the vape shop posted:

Yeah im genuinely impressed they have a facial recognition software they trust enough to use like that

lol if you think they care how accurate their facial recognition stuff is

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Lupin posted:

The most *China* use of China's facial recognition technology has to be its use in public toilets to deter toilet paper theft. You get like 9 sheets and then you're banned from getting more for a certain amount of time.

No why, no square to spare.

More like a good source of faces for the algorithm to learn from

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

Fojar38 posted:

lol if you think they care how accurate their facial recognition stuff is

the only way to perform facial recognition is by the amount of versailles apartments and black audi's they have

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

underage at the vape shop posted:

Yeah im genuinely impressed they have a facial recognition software they trust enough to use like that

Trust, heh. "The system works 100% perfect, everyone we killed in this raid was a terrorist."

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
*Glues fake beards to the corpses for the press photo op*

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


SerCypher posted:

The aforementioned versailles apartment.


This is every mainlander apartment who gets a few bucks to rub together.

Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all

Grand Fromage posted:

This is every mainlander apartment who gets a few bucks to rub together.

For the older generation of Taiwan as well.

ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es
it's the same as all suddenly wealthy hicks all over the world. The "queen of versailles" mentioned above is kind of an example, but a better one is people who win the lottery and blow it all on velvet elvises or something. or those people who robbed that armored car and got caught because they bought gold trans ams with cash.
Hicks is hicks.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
I think I remember that last one.

They wanted to buy poo poo like cheetah skin cars seats for their gold car and a new house with a slide between floors.

I mean, that one's pretty cool actually, but they made the classic mistake of asking their bank how much money they could deposit without them having to report it to the government.

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Go to Harbin

It is all 1900s Russia trying to keep up with Imperial Europe by painting everything with gold leaf and painted ceilings and plaster mouldings and ceiling roses.

Russia used to be the tuhao of Europe. China loves to talk about it being their turn? Well it's currently their turn to be tacky.

After the 1970s desolation, 1980s UK was much the same as 1950s US. It's a developmental thing. And gently caress, things I could say about the Irish Irish compared to American Irish in the latter half of the 20th Century... The joke about the loud uncultured ignorant and unwilling-to-be-open US tourist now applies to PRC tourists. Just wait until enough people have travelled. Hopefully it'll move along.

simplefish fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Dec 14, 2017

Bajaj
Sep 13, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

quote:

Ex-Homophobes of Reddit, what made you change your views?

Not me but my partner's father. He is a Chinese immigrant and relatively conservative who did not react well to his son (my partner) coming out as gay. He partially came to terms with it but when I came into the picture he was convinced I was a white devil only with his son for the money, who is a pharmacist. Two years later his wife died and he moved in with us (I know.) he latched onto me emotionally because his son is emotionally distant and we now get along famously and him and my grandpa are best friends now. They go ice fishing. He also loves my cooking aside from constantly reminding me white people eat too much butter. Lol.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Just a guess, but "and then his wife died."

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party

underage at the vape shop posted:

Yeah im genuinely impressed they have a facial recognition software they trust enough to use like that

Apple can't even do it right

quote:

A woman in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing has been offered a second refund after faulty facial recognition software on two iPhone X handsets allowed her colleague to unlock them.

Yan said the first time it happened, she called the Apple hotline, but the staff would not believe her. Shen then went with her colleague to the nearest Apple store, where her colleague used facial recognition on the phone to demonstrate the issue to staff, according to the report.

The store said the camera might be faulty and gave Yan a refund. But the new iPhone X that she bought also had the same problem, prompting the shop to offer another refund, the report said. No details were given about whether the woman decided to purchase a third iPhone X.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
apple's touch ID is still fooled by a piece of loving scotch tape pulling up your fingerprint all these years later. if you think any of their bio-ID bullshit is more secure than just typing in a drat pin you're kidding yourself.

large scale facial ID is ironically more helpful than the nonsense face ID that apple has since, as muffin said, you don't need nor expect a deterministic id. if you narrow it down to a couple hundred potential hits from tens of thousands, that's very valuable to Big Brother.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:
Can't you fool facial ID by printing out a photo from someone's Facebook profile?

e: apparently not, it uses infrared dot technology to see 3D images. Some sort of magic anyway.

Outrail fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Dec 14, 2017

Cry Havoc
May 10, 2004

This cyberpunk cartoon avatar is pretty dang ol' good, I tell you what.
that’s why you need to take their face


off

jizzy sillage
Aug 13, 2006

nickmeister posted:

I want more details about the lovely kung fu school. The only kung fu school I've seen in China was on "Huang's World" Vice TV show, and it seemed to strictly cater to foreigners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn0eN-a34pQ

This is the school. It was run for foreigners. All the advertising looked great, and it was cheaper for me to stay there for a month than it was to live at home in NZ for a month. I was on the way home from Vietnam so I figured why the gently caress not. They also advertised extracurricular stuff like language, calligraphy, meditation.

None of the extracurricular stuff happened - the only available class was Mandarin, classes were only run if there were enough students signed up for them, and nobody I spoke to wanted to do anything but training during the week and getting absolutely shitfaced on weekends.

Punishments for drugs and alchohol were lax until a breaking point was hit, then everyone in the school got punished for the actions of one or two. Draconian but not unexpected, but I did kind of wish the other foreigners there weren't such irredeemable cunts about it all.

Kung Fu training was "Here's a kick. Do the kick for a bit. Okay now do strength training. Okay now go for a run.". I didn't expect more than that really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGoGyKMQ4cE

This is the old headmaster getting a beatdown. While I was there I also saw one of the women get backhanded hard across the face for mystery reasons, and two of the masters beating the snot out of each other for mystery reasons.

Anyway it was like $800USD for the month (no refunds) and I stayed for three days.

angel opportunity
Sep 7, 2004

Total Eclipse of the Heart
https://twitter.com/Zhang_xu_1995/status/940931059042136065

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

hhahahahahahahaha

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party

Splode posted:

The hot new kid's toy in china, a miniature crossbow that shoots toothpicks.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-23/chinas-toothpick-crossbow-nightmare/8647770?WT

What an insanely bad idea!

In another China crossbow update, handheld ones fitted with tranquilizer darts containing suxamethonium are being used to hunt pet dogs for meat:



Another gang in Anhui operated for a few years and killed 2700 dogs before being caught.

There's been a few reported human fatalities from them as well

quote:

Case 1: A 46-year-old man was trying to stop a thief from abducting a dog when he was shot with a dart launched from a gun like emitter. He was hit on the inside of the right nipple and called for help while running but fell down suddenly about 10 m away. He was found dead when the emergency physicians arrived about 20 min later.

Case 2: A 63-year-old male was shot by a dart on the right elbow while quarreling with others. He ran away and collapsed; emergency physicians arrived 5 min later and declared him dead.

Case 3: A 28-year-old man found a masked peeper near his car while being intimate with his girlfriend at night. He complained of being shot by a dart like weapon in the back when he left the car to talk to the man. He went back to the car immediately and told his girlfriend that he had been shot and drove to the hospital. He stopped suddenly and collapsed on the steering wheel after driving several hundreds meters. The victim died 15 min later when he was taken to the hospital.

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

big time bisexual posted:

In another China crossbow update, handheld ones fitted with tranquilizer darts containing suxamethonium are being used to hunt pet dogs for meat:



Another gang in Anhui operated for a few years and killed 2700 dogs before being caught.

There's been a few reported human fatalities from them as well

wtf

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
If Henan is the Florida of China, then Anhui is the ?

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


West Virginia?

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.
In terms of crazy poo poo happening there, I'm leaning toward Alabama...maybe Arizona, Alaska, or Michigan.

edit: No, wait; Alaska and Hawaii have somehow gotta be the Tibet and Xinjiang. Hmm... Hawaii's the Tibet for sure.

VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Dec 15, 2017

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:
:thunk:

Shooting a street dog with a poisoned dart and then eating the poisoned tainted dog meat seems like might be a terrible idea but i just can't put my finger on why.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Outrail posted:

:thunk:

Shooting a street dog with a poisoned dart and then eating the poisoned tainted dog meat seems like might be a terrible idea but i just can't put my finger on why.

Shooting a PET dog with a poisoned dart and then SELLING the poisoned tainted dog meat for someone else to eat seems like a great idea.

Jack2142
Jul 17, 2014

Shitposting in Seattle

On the bright side... at least they aren't hunting endangered animals for boner pills?

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

VideoTapir posted:

Shooting a PET dog with a poisoned dart and then SELLING the poisoned tainted dog meat for someone else to eat seems like a great idea.

Selling your own dog has a lower profit margin. Duh.

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Outrail posted:

Selling your own dog has a lower profit margin. Duh.

Some people let their dogs run around loose, especially away from built-up areas. You see a dog with a collar that isn't all skinny and mangy, that's a dog that isn't eating dead rats and moldy potatoes. That's money on the hoof.

I suppose a stray is, too; just less of it.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

VideoTapir posted:

Some people let their dogs run around loose, especially away from built-up areas. You see a dog with a collar that isn't all skinny and mangy, that's a dog that isn't eating dead rats and moldy potatoes. That's money on the hoof.

I suppose a stray is, too; just less of it.

I've got some bad news if you think those hooved 'dogs' you're shooting are dogs.

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


Gansu is Desert West Virginia.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Outrail posted:

:thunk:

Shooting a street dog with a poisoned dart and then eating the poisoned tainted dog meat seems like might be a terrible idea but i just can't put my finger on why.

Plenty of poisons don’t persist, especially when heated (cooked).

Suxamethonium chloride in particularly is rapidly metabolised and has been called “the perfect poison”

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Platystemon posted:

Plenty of poisons don’t persist, especially when heated (cooked).

Suxamethonium chloride in particularly is rapidly metabolised and has been called “the perfect poison”

Can't metabolize poo poo if you're dead.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

VideoTapir posted:

Can't metabolize poo poo if you're dead.

But you can metabolise it while you’re dying.

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Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012
Every province of china has more people than california so weird poo poo is happening constantly, everywhere.

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