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Hey Bob, Nobody will look for our new spy cam in an oversize eyeball. And if McDermott eventually figures it out, he obviously should have known he was being watched. It's genius ! ! ! We should run the CIA, Bill

More info on how computer vision helps facial recognition technology work, and on how "adversarial imagery" can be used to try to defeat it: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/16/dressing-for-the-surveillance-age?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Turns out that it's the rest of us who are more likely to be dead: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-it-pays-to-be-grumpy-and-bad-tempered?utm_source=pocket-newtab Who knew?

On the early history of government UFO investigations (also explains why we call them flying saucers and not flying pancakes): https://www.wired.com/story/how-ufo-sightings-became-an-american-obsession/?utm_source=pocket-newtab And here's a reprint of the 6/19 "Wired Guide to Aliens" - - my apologies if previously posted - - I had not seen it before. https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-aliens/

I need to throw out some old song lyrics to have "space" in my head for the concepts in this article - - one of the authors is an experimental physics professor who conducts research on the Large Hadron Collider: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-is-space?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I have no life, so I need an update on the Small Town office dilemma.

This article from 2017 just found me (so my apologies if it was previously posted a few years ago): https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-new-theory-on-why-we-haven-t-found-aliens-yet?utm_source=pocket-newtab If we haven't been able to find alien civilizations because they're all sleeping while waiting for the universe to get colder, shouldn't we be able to hear them snore?

I have used Gate 1 Travel twice for week-long guided bus tours in Europe within the last 5 years (one was Croatia/Slovenia but included a couple days in Venice), with good results both times. Other family members have used them for two other bus tours elsewhere, also with good results. https://www.gate1travel.com/europe?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkeTVwv6w5wIVBRitBh0smwGgEAAYASABEgLZ0PD_BwE

From https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/persian-cats-9242012/ Persian Cats How Iranian air crews, cut off from U.S. technical support, used the F-14 against Iraqi attackers. By Tom Cooper Air & Space Magazine | Subscribe September 2006 FIVE YEARS BEFORE THE 1979 Islamic Revolution transformed Iran, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a pilot who had earned his wings in 1946 flying a British Tiger Moth, arranged for Iran to purchase 80 Grumman F-14A Tomcats and 633 Hughes AIM-54 Phoenix missiles for $2 billion. (The Iranian deal is credited with saving the F-14 program, which Congress had stopped funding, and by some with saving the Grumman Corporation from bankruptcy.) Iran became the only country besides the United States to fly the big fighter.

Not directly responsive to 4merper4mer's point #2 above, but perhaps related: https://gizmodo.com/which-religion-is-friendliest-to-the-idea-of-aliens-1841241730?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I realize this isn't everybody's cup of tea, but if anybody is interested in the history of how facial recognition technology evolved in its early years, there's some good stuff in this recently published Wired article: https://www.wired.com/story/secret-history-facial-recognition/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Who did you buy it from? http://osxdaily.com/2017/11/10/can-use-iphone-x-without-face-id/

Any updates on this?

The iphone recognizes its owner's face after the owner allows it to do that. The company mentioned in the article created an app that analyzes a stranger's face and allegedly compares it to over a billion images scraped from all over the internet and identifies the stranger, whether the stranger likes it or not. Both use facial recognition technology, but the Clearview app potentially has a much greater impact on your privacy. Just my opinion, but I think it's sad that so few people care about privacy these days. As the Stanford law professor said in the article - - "Absent a very strong federal privacy law, we're all screwed."

From https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab "But without public scrutiny, more than 600 law enforcement agencies have started using Clearview in the past year, according to the company, which declined to provide a list. The computer code underlying its app, analyzed by The New York Times, includes programming language to pair it with augmented-reality glasses; users would potentially be able to identify every person they saw. The tool could identify activists at a protest or an attractive stranger on the subway, revealing not just their names but where they lived, what they did and whom they knew." * * * * * * * * * * * * * “It’s creepy what they’re doing, but there will be many more of these companies. There is no monopoly on math,” said Al Gidari, a privacy professor at Stanford Law School. “Absent a very strong federal privacy law, we’re all screwed.”

"Period" Why is it that people with the most off the wall and idiotic opinions seem to think that if they conclude by saying "period," the rest of the world is required to agree with them?

Microbes are living organisms. The "organic matter" found on the comet and on Mars was not a living organism. If you know a scientist who believes current evolution theory, ask him or her how the jump was made from organic matter (i.e., chemicals containing carbon), to an organism capable of reproducing itself. In other words, just exactly how did even complex organic chemicals make the jump from being just chemicals to being life capable of reproducing. It's a rather large hole in our "knowledge."

Tell her you think Rex Ryan is the best head coach the Bills ever had, even though he had a foot fetish, and then complement her on her shoes (or toes if it was summer and you could see them, but that seems unlikely in January). But if she then comes back in January with open-toed shoes, you've got a bigger problem.

Pretty interesting 2020 Scientific American article on the general topic of - - If the universe is as old as we believe, and aliens exist, how come we ain't found any of 'em here on earth? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alone-in-a-crowded-milky-way/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

The Pegulas spent millions on Trent bleepin' Murphy and they can't get me a headset that reaches my left ear? WTF?

Well, if there really is a UFO somewhere on the ocean floor, maybe ocean mining will dredge it up. Found this article pretty interesting - - it's about the history, status and likely future of deep ocean exploration and mining: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/20000-feet-under-the-sea/603040/?utm_source=pocket-newtab "Building a vehicle to function at 36,000 feet, under 2 million pounds of pressure per square foot, is a task of interstellar-type engineering. It’s a good deal more rigorous than, say, bolting together a rover to skitter across Mars. Picture the schematic of an iPhone case that can be smashed with a sledgehammer more or less constantly, from every angle at once, without a trace of damage, and you’re in the ballpark—or just consider the fact that more people have walked on the moon than have reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth."

I just read that Tom Brady failed to make the Pro Bowl for the first time in many years , and noticed that his passing stats in recent games have been average at best. Give the guy his do, he's performed at an exceptionally high level through-out his career up til now. Made me think that when the Bills give him a whuppin' on Saturday, and if the Pats don't do well in the play-offs, he's got to at least think about hangin' up his cleats for good. My brother Darryl has issues, but sometimes he has a savant's insight. So he says to me tonight - - "If I was Tom Brady, I'd be thinking about how to cement my legacy as the great ass QB of all time. Best way to go about it would be to do what some of the other really great athletes have done in other sports - - become associated with a disease." At first blush, that didn't sound very savant-like, but then my other brother Darryl explained. "Think about it. None of us were ever really big baseball fans, but even we know that Lou Gehrig was one of the greatest baseball players of all time, even though he retired (and passed away) many years ago. Why? Because he is strongly linked with what has become forever known as Lou Gehrig's disease." He went on - - "And he's not the only great athlete who ensured his legacy by being associated with a terrible disease. You, me and Darryl may not know much about baseball, but we're big basketball fans. Magic Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest point guard of all time. Why? Well OK, he played center in an NBA Finals game 7 and scored a bunch of points to lead the Lakers to a championship, but does anybody remember how many points he scored that day? Nope. What they remember is that when he later announced his retirement, he proudly stepped up to a microphone and stated his intention to become a spokesman for the AIDs virus." We've got a lot of smart people in the Two Bills Drive community, so I'd like your input (no medical degree required). What disease should Brady try to become associated with, so that it can eventually become known as "Tom Brady's disease?" Sadly, Magic Johnson has already staked out the low ground for AIDs, but surely there must be some disease that Tom Brady can claim for posterior. Which disease, and why?

I point you to this website. If you're really interested in truth, you'll read it and actually think about what it means: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nassim_Haramein Believe whatever you want, but if you're seeking converts to join you in whatever your beliefs happen to be, maybe you should present both sides of the story and let people draw their own conclusions. Be well.