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https://nest.com/camera/meet-nest-cam-iq/
Nest plans to bring a new camera to their lineup with 4k resolution and facial recognition. It appears the facial recognition actually takes place on Nest/Google Servers rather than on the camera. It seems like that feature could be extended to the existing camera lineup, but perhaps the higher resolution is required to make this effective.
Also included is a better WiFi antenna system in the camera to compensate for the fact that these cams are often placed at the edge of your WiFi envelope. MiMo moving out of the routers into the clients.
So how creepy can this get? Will Nest start federating the facial recognition from all its subscribers so you have names of people you don't even know as the arrive at your doorstep for the first time?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Friday June 02 2017, @06:25AM (1 child)
I usually invite them in for a chat about God and Science. They usually accept.
We go on, sometimes for hours, chatting about God, Physics, you know, the same kind of stuff I pontificate here on sometimes.
I invite them to explain what they believe, and where did they get their data from, while I do the same.
We usually start off on the premise that God was here before the Universe, God made the Universe and everything in it, and everything He made bears witness to His creation.
That gets 'em going.
What they did not want to hear is how I interpret John 1:1 ... "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God". I ask them if the laws of physics that govern the Universe as we know it pre-date the creation. Now, are these laws themselves more of God than anything else? Now how should we interpret it if these laws bear witness to something completely different than what their religion states? Which one is wrong? All of you know where this is going....
Hell, I am retired, and bored, and enjoy some company once in a while.
They never come back.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @07:04PM
Yes, a friend used to do something similar, he saved all the literature from one set of proselytizers and then did his best to foist that set of beliefs on the next (different) sect that showed up at his door. I haven't got that kind of time or patience...but maybe some day in the future...