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Mask company makes custom coverings that look like your face:
With travel companies and countries around the world finally coming down on the side of mandatory facial coverings in public, many feel anxious that surgical masks eroding their individuality. Fortunately one artist turned-accidental-entrepreneur has come up with a solution to social hygiene that is as idiosyncratic as you are.
Unsurprisingly these custom 'Face ID Masks' began as a practical joke. With surgical masks printed to order from selfie photos, the company began taking orders on the website "Resting Risk Face.com" in June.
Using user submitted photos the company makes facial coverings that match your features and skin tone – with the pledge to make the wearer "more easily recognisable during viral pandemics."
The result is uncanny. Apparently the coverings are convincing enough to "unlock devices" using facial recognition.
For artist Danielle Baskin the project had started "just for fun".
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday July 19 2020, @09:01AM (32 children)
One of the features of the mask is that the CCTVs cannot identify you.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:08AM (4 children)
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/16/face-masks-facial-recognition-dhs-blueleaks/ [theintercept.com]
https://www.securitysales.com/news/mask-facial-recognition-pandemic/ [securitysales.com]
It could work for a while. Probably not forever.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Opportunist on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:14AM (3 children)
Hmm... then again, if I wore someone else's face...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @11:08AM (1 child)
To not confuse the facial recognition software that the un-named and un-marked, and un-authorized police that are not actually police but fucking Customs agent looking for booze that I have not paid tariff on.. . ..
So, if I have a face mask that looks like Donald Trump sucking the racist dick of Stephen Miller, will I get in trouble? Or will it just go through as being too realistic to be faked?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:17PM
Yes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:56PM
Like Hannibal Lector did?
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:10AM (3 children)
Most of us don't like in China so that's less of a problem than you'd think
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:15AM (2 children)
I'm not liking in US, may this be a problem?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Gaaark on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:27PM (1 child)
I'm licking pussy in Canada. This is NOT a problem.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:02PM
Many've been there. Do you know whose man-goo you are eating?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:11AM (18 children)
I'll order one with the orange clown's face.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:16AM (17 children)
I'd call that a pretty dangerous idea, one of the key reason the bozo doesn't get slapped constantly is the guys in suits that surround him. Unless you have some guys like that, I'd advise against doing that.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:28AM (15 children)
Even wearing a MAGA hat can get you assaulted by fascists. Dark times.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @11:12AM (14 children)
Wearing a MAGA hat means you should be assaulted by anti-fascists. You are asking for it! Pull a weapon, or deface a monument, and it will even go better for you. If you wear such a hat, you are announcing to all and sundry that you are responsible for 140,000 dead Americans. Think about that. Vietnam only killed 93,000. You need to be punched in the fact, at a minimum.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:42PM (11 children)
So you believe that the president is personally responsible for the death of people? Talk about magical-thinking, do you believe in other fairy tales to or that he somehow have magical powers that can cure you if he only wanted to?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Opportunist on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:51PM (2 children)
No. He's mostly the symptom but not the disease. The disease is people who have no clue and deep distrust in people who do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @06:31PM (1 child)
The lack of trust is not unwarranted - see all of human history
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Monday July 20 2020, @09:46PM
I'm curious, when did we place trust in a person who knew what they were doing and it was a mistake?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:34PM (6 children)
For doing the absolute opposite of what's needed to contain the infection? As a - supposedly - leader?
If he should not be held responsible for it, I don't know for what the fuck else should.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:48PM (3 children)
If only Queen Hillary would have been the ruler of the land COVID19 would have never happened then?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:19PM (2 children)
It wouldn't have been as bad, but given how irrationally angry she makes conservatives we would probably be seeing the same anti-mask nonsense. At least masks wouldn't have been stolen by the feds for Trump cronies to scalp, and funding for testing would have helped us contain the spread.
At a minimum thousands of lives would ha e been spared.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:06PM (1 child)
> At a minimum thousands of lives would ha e been spared.
For a week or so, only to be sent into nursing homes then put on ventilators by democrat governess.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @11:11PM
Ick, whatever whataboutism lets you sleep at night.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:30PM
What a stupid fucking slave. People in this country are responsible for their own health. Anyone trying to force medical tyranny on people need to be eliminated.
(Score: 5, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:15PM
He was quite clear, he does not take responsibility. [politico.com]
You know, just like the great leader he is.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday July 20 2020, @05:43AM
Well, I guess then in your view, if you hire a killer, then you are also not responsible for the resulting death, because after all, you didn't kill yourself, and the killer could just have refused to kill.
It's quite simple: If your actions cause people to die that would not have died if you had acted differently, then you are responsible for the death of those people.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:58PM (1 child)
142,000 and climbing at 700-900 per day. Will be at 150,000+ by the end of July.
All of that in about 6 months.
Actually it killed 58,209 Americans [wikipedia.org] and it done so over 20 years.
(Score: 4, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:23PM
Also the thick end of a million Vietnamese, but presumably they don't really count.
I wonder when their children are going to stop catching cancer from the agent orange?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:31AM
don't forget to vote... thank you [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:34PM
Another is entertainment value. For guys: 1970s porn mustache. For girls: Mileena [medium.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:00PM (2 children)
When I go outside now all I see is russian bots instead of humans. Putin's puppets are everywhere.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:29PM (1 child)
It's called Trump Derangement Disease. Mildly infectious but deadly for the brain of the infected.
The symptoms include persistent state of delusion, incapacity to think and resistance to/rejection of reality.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @04:15AM
No worse than FIBD (Fox induced brain damage) that we so often see these days.