Except the face recognition is on the top of the list of things that the human brain is capable of. Its power to recognize facial patterns and discern minute differences is unparalleled in any other computational device we know of. And so by copying it, we learn how it's done, so that we know more about our brains and about the world in general, and can take that knowledge and better apply to it other questions.
Researchers will keep on researching the world, and you can go on being paranoid and sending angry letters to your politicians. It's not scientists' job to make sure their tech isn't abused after they've learned about it, it's just their job to learn more about the universe. Einstein hated what his atomic research was used for, but he didn't stop, nor should he have.
@acidhax C#? Really? Blech. Just a Java knock-off, with the basic elements arbitrarily renamed.
Not that Objective-C is better, but, let's just discount any language that's proprietary, yeah? I still can't believe the government's handing out patents for *language*.
I wouldn't mind it if they sold that USB key by itself. As far as caps on a USB drive go, that one seems like it might actually stay on. And 16GB is nothing to sneeze at.
Some would argue that the mad neuroscientists are, in fact, constantly learning. It would seem even that this is the root of your problem with them, not the opposite?
No, American government, you are not allowed to randomly perform lie detector tests on innocent citizens. Especially not innocent citizens of other countries traveling through yours. This is what humans on this planet call "illegal." A synonym could be "privacy infringement," or possibly just "stupid."
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Except the face recognition is on the top of the list of things that the human brain is capable of. Its power to recognize facial patterns and discern minute differences is unparalleled in any other computational device we know of. And so by copying it, we learn how it's done, so that we know more about our brains and about the world in general, and can take that knowledge and better apply to it other questions.
Researchers will keep on researching the world, and you can go on being paranoid and sending angry letters to your politicians. It's not scientists' job to make sure their tech isn't abused after they've learned about it, it's just their job to learn more about the universe. Einstein hated what his atomic research was used for, but he didn't stop, nor should he have.