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IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology:
IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. Krishna addressed the letter to Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Reps. Karen Bass (D-CA), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).
"IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any [facial recognition] technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values and Principles of Trust and Transparency," Krishna said in the letter. "We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agencies."
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Tuesday June 09 2020, @07:11PM (13 children)
It's one things to see commies raising mobs, gates forcing worldwide vaccines marked 666, worldwide pollution, 2000 year religions being chaffeurs of a new world order and the ever looming nuclear threats, but, when IBM behaves like the good guy, you JUST KNOW the apocalypse is near.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @09:11PM (5 children)
They're just embarassed about last time they helped the fascists and they can see the Trumping on the Wall. Hmph, well, on the parts of the wall that actually got built that is.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Bot on Tuesday June 09 2020, @10:30PM (4 children)
>They're just embarassed about last time they helped the fascists
Not a smart move from the nazis, using the enemy to count your crimes against humanity, was it? Not to mention the energy expenditure of burning corpses (they had a lil world war with russia and the allies, nothing to worry about, so let's turn some jew waterbags to ashes... hmmm)
Meanwhile, the rest of the world performed genocides with mass graves. Bonus points for most kills per bullet to the Yugos who tied up prisoners, shoot one and threw the lot in natural holes called foibe. Only because us Italos invaded them a bit. Barbarians want to have the exclusive on invasions).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @11:28PM (1 child)
"jew waterbags to ashes"
Probably preferable to a life getting raped by Italian pedophiles.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:00AM
Wew lads who wrote your history books?
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 10 2020, @06:55AM (1 child)
Would it surprise you to learn that human body's combustion is exothermic [astm.org]? (17kJ/g extra energy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:03AM
Yet you don't get paid to be cremated? Hmm
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday June 09 2020, @09:37PM (4 children)
Even Microsoft tries to behave like the good guy now.
Not that I believe it.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday June 09 2020, @10:33PM (3 children)
Must be the Embrace part.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @11:21PM (1 child)
Don't worry, MS may be evil but at least their embrace isn't as bad as the priests.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:05AM
I thought priests were experienced, you should give em a bad review.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday June 10 2020, @02:23PM
The Embrace part is actually not so much to be feared. It is merely the warning to beware of the Extend part.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday June 10 2020, @12:19AM (1 child)
Are you off your meds again or what? Jesus fuck, "vaccines marked 666?"
We. Have. Been. Over. This. Before. "Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the Beast, for it is the number of a man, and the number is sixhundred-threescore-and-six." Neron Qaisar in Gematria. Revelation was speaking of events that took place over 1900 years ago. It does not apply to the current time period.
Stop twisting the plain meaning of the text with your bizarre eisegesis. The book itself states that "..whoever addeth aught to it, the plagues of this book shall be added to him." Unless you have a serious hankering for some man-sized scorpions you'd better cut that shit out PDQ...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday June 10 2020, @08:17AM
I guess you don't read replies, which makes this one redundant.
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