April 13, 2010: Hiding Faces

[newtimer]

Looks like Gene Simmons and his gang were onto something decades before their time.

[Diaphone Jim]

Thanks, guys. The Wikipedia pages on Haar and Daubechies wavelets are especially edifying.

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by newtimer

Digital cameras can 'see' infrared light but the Gestapo agents do not. (If you look at your TV's remote controller through your camcorder, you'll see the infrared LED light up each time you push a button.)
Solution: smear random patterns on your face with an infrared paint. The recognition software won't be able to lock on to you and the cops will only see some vaseline-like smudges if they get close.
Problem: Who sells infrared paint?

I don't think there is an "infra red" paint as such. There may be some pigments that absorb IR light and others that reflect it, but I doubt they are transparent. The infra red light you see from your remote is light that has had all the visible portion of the spectrum either filtered out or is from a diode that doesn't generate light in the visible range of the spectrum.

This is an interesting idea though. When I worked in a large commercial darkroom we had night vision goggles (essentially an IR camera) and everyone looked the same. Black or white we all glowed.

[Nirvana]

Originally Posted by Coign

Why aren't we?

It is my own damn business if I would like to walk down a street in front of a bank without having Big Brother watching my every move.

I don't want, need, or should have a babysitter looking over my shoulder every time I want to leave the house.

I like they have security cameras at banks. I don't want them watching me go pee or try on clothes.

[glatt]

How about walking down the sidewalk?

I don't care so much about cameras on private property, like inside stores. I don't like being filmed while walking down the sidewalk. There's a camera at least every block here.

Maybe I should bring my camera to work tomorrow and take a picture of every camera pointed at me along my commute. At least the ones I can see. It would take a while. I'd have to walk slow and really look around so I wouldn't miss any. They are so small now.

[classicman]

You gotta admit, that is a very different area than where most of us live/work.

[glatt]

It's not any different in this regard than any US city downtown area. I'm not walking past any secure government installations where these cameras are.

[TheMercenary]

Maybe you could just put a red square around your face.

[Sundae]

We've had this discussion before.
Somewhere.
I don't remember where.

Hang on, let me rewind and see what was being filmed over my shoulder at the time....

Seriously, I only remember because Bruce called me out on an inconsistency. He was right to, and it made me think more about being on CCTV. In the end I still concluded that it's really nothing to worry about.

Look! I'm waving at you all now!
(And Shawnee is humming in the shower)

[monster]

It'd be just my luck that the day I decided I was fed up with being watched by big brother and donned the asymmetrical face paint, my doppelganger would ice that bitch I've been complaining about....

[SPUCK]

Those paint jobs didn't help Valeria when that snake came shooting into her.
She was hot.









Sandahl Bergman