Since I.S Does Not Have a Politics or News Thread... :

[Evil Ericson]

I came across this artical earlier today...

(The Metro)

A Canadian security surveillance company is part of a project to develop technology to watch moviegoers as they watch a movie.

Using a combination of 2D and 3D imagining, the technology would be able to measure emotions, groupings and movement to "revolutionize market research" at movie theaters.

"This tool will feed powerful marketing data (to) film directors, cinema advertisers and cinemas about what audiences enjoy and what adverts capture the most attention," Dr. Abrul Faroog, of the Machine Vision Laboratory at the University of the West of England in Bristol, said in a release from UWE.

"This will do what has been done manually for years in cinemas," Jessica Engler marketing manager of Arolia, told the Star. "It's the technology aspect that scares" people.

The lab has partnered with Aralia Sustems of West Sussex, England, to build the new software. Aralia in turn is in partnership with Pikaia Systems of Ottawa, which holds several pending infrared illumination patents.

The Idea

• The new technology would use 2D cameras to detect emotion and 3D cameras to measure movement.
  
  
• The three-year project is part of Aralia's strategy to "create new markets in the entertainments industries," said CEO Glym Wright.
  
  
• Aralia previously focused on intelligence, surveillance and video analytics.

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My Response:

This could really help the advertising industry, create new jobs and save more money in the long run than it will cost to implement. Infrared cameras are already utilized in certain cinemas to detect bootleggers using cameras to capture film illegally.


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Also, it will make our future movie-going experiences more enjoyable. Movies are already expensive to attend! At least we would not leave the future theater disappointed.
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[Magnus]

Hmm...Could they monitor your emotions over a computer screen as well?

[pebble]

them watching me watch a movie? *hides under bed*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIwlmEN08E8

[Evil Ericson]

Hmm...Could they monitor your emotions over a computer screen as well?

MUST you ALWAYS hint at some conspiracy or another, Magnus ?

[Windlift]

@Evil Ericson @ Magnus when i was a child my father came home and he did bring us those tape recorders and teach us how to record ghosts

well he did come home one day and say oh honey...were getting a t.v. ... dont ask....he said they could watch us from there with no problem and the idea has come now to those computer online cameras ya know..cam's and such

we were always being watched.

You think conspiracy go look up ideas and they are there under corporations like odin/ new science / Sunfire these are operated by huge govt funds and watch those govt funds where they go and its right there listed its not hidden what we do...it just takes someone who can read and know technology to look for 'it' LOL welcome to the jungle..

i lived in it ...its real as those mission impossible movies and its awsome!! Best rush in the world besides sex

[Magnus]

What a bunch of weirdos. Why would they want to peep on all of us.

[Evil Ericson]

What a bunch of weirdos. Why would they want to peep on all of us.

HOW exactly are they 'weirdos' ? The purpose explicitly for this new technology is to modernize a type of market research that has previously been done manually. Furthermore... as I had mentioned, the technology is already in use in some movie theaters to catch criminal bootlegging of movie content via camera.

If you know anything about a certain website shut down by a division of The United States Government for supplying links in breach of The Intellectual Copyright Act, you know what I refer to by 'criminal bootlegging of movie content via camera'. (The website has since become a forum for moviegoers and those interested in watching movies they have acquired legally)

[Indigo Dog]

Machines that can read emotions..... that's going to put a lot of Indigos out of a job! LOL!

Now if they can only invent computers and other technology that wont fry when an Indigo is pissed....yeah, that would be great.

There had been a primitive technology that reads human emotions with amazing precision available for centuries. It is called a dog.

I honestly think that when Big Brother begins watching all the Indigos and Crystal kids it will be moved by how loving, enlightened and kind we all are. They may also discover our buying habits will be towards organic foods, art supplies and a fatal weakness for video games.

[Evil Ericson]

Machines that can read emotions..... that's going to put a lot of Indigos out of a job! LOL!

Now if they can only invent computers and other technology that wont fry when an Indigo is pissed....yeah, that would be great.

There had been a primitive technology that reads human emotions with amazing precision available for centuries. It is called a dog.

I honestly think that when Big Brother begins watching all the Indigos and Crystal kids it will be moved by how loving, enlightened and kind we all are. They may also discover our buying habits will be towards organic foods, art supplies and a fatal weakness for video games.

I do not play video games much anymore. It is not that I dislike them, it is that I just do not have the time with all of my responsibilities. As for the issue with 'frying' technology, ABSOLUTELY! However, I do not have much of an issue with that anymore as I learned how to handle the higher wave lengths and block them from effecting electronics and affecting humans. I disliked the nasty little glances people would give me when I had no control over what they saw and thought and the constant computer and clock issues.

[evergreen]

Sounds interesting. I know the cinemas have been worried about being put out of business because of the new technology at home for watching movies.

[Magnus]

Uncle Sam is a peeping Tom. That is weird.

[sean keyes]

only thing i know about news is it stands for North East West South,
i love news when its on about informing like what evil sayd some new gadget, but not the
were all going to die, life is terrible .the government has taking yet another house of some poor man who could not keep up his payments as the government with the builder put house prices up through the roof, gained a shit load of money from it,told the bamks to lend reguardless if they could pay back or not, and now are taking the dream home off the man and his family,

thank god i dont follow news as it would bug the fuck out of me thinking about it, anyway now for the weather lol
storms are heading in to destroy the people that can afford to pay for their mortgages just encase any one escapes the misery

[Evil Ericson]

the government has taking yet another house of some poor man who could not keep up his payments as the government with the builder put house prices up through the roof, gained a shit load of money from it,told the bamks to lend reguardless if they could pay back or not, and now are taking the dream home off the man and his family,

If you cannot pay your debts, (or BUY more than you can afford) you DESERVE to lose your house and MORE!

[sean keyes]

Ahh there's no need to be like that, I'm taking it you don't have a mortgage ?

[sean keyes]

give me yur opinion on this, this is a true story of friends of mine,
hw worked as a salesman selling cars, she worked in a post bank
earing between them 75,000 euro per year, they bought a house off the plans, meaning the houses were not built yet,at the cheapest you can but them in other words,
house costing 280,000 not the dearest house in the year 2007 arverage price for Ireland at that time,
one year later he loses his job as sales crash with the recession, she is pregnant at the time, 7 months later she gets laid off one month before they have their child,

at the time they bought a home that was 280,000 the next door was sold a year ago for 230,000 they are tryoing to pay for a mortgage that in the begining was over priced, neither could forsee that they would lose their jobs, let alone the two of them,

whats your opinion on this evil ?

[Magnus]

If you cannot pay your debts, (or BUY more than you can afford) you DESERVE to lose your house and MORE!

It's not such a black and white issue. Mortgage payments and school debts leave most Americans with little money left to spend. The inflation of housing was set up to make people slave to debts. The credit system was designed to make the middle class dependent upon creditors.

Marketing strategies were used to make people desire goods back in the 1920's. They even went so far as to use subliminal messages to get people to buy things on credit. I once had a creditor call me trying to get me to apply for a card. I told him I didn't have a job. He said that was okay and continued to try to convince me to get the card because as he said, "You need to establish credit to get a car or house." That is true. If you don't have credit, you can't afford the basic necessities in this culture.

"We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it". — Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932


http://www.pbs.org/kcet/andrewjackso...rstatement.pdf

Most of the difficulties our Government now encounters and most of the dangers which impend over our Union have sprung from an abandonment of the legitimate objects of Government by our national legislation, and the adoption of such principles as are embodied in this act. Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits, but have besought us to make them richer by act of Congress.

By attempting to gratify their desires we have in the results of
our legislation arrayed section against section, interest against interest, and man against
man, in a fearful commotion which threatens to shake the foundations of our Union. If
we can not at once, in justice to interests vested under improvident legislation, make our Government what it ought to be, we can at least take a stand against all new grants of
monopolies and exclusive privileges, against any prostitution of our Government to the
advancement of the few at the expense of the many, and in favor of compromise and
gradual reform in our code of laws and system of political economy. -Andrew Jackson

[Evil Ericson]

You are a very bad man, Magnus. I actually support The Federal Reserve.

[fred aus indo]

if this technology goes... there will be many interesting reactions videos... both funny and weird... and it will go viral on those video websties such as youtube and dailymotion

but then again... who likes their privacy to be disturbed