Posted on 11/14/2005 1:34:48 PM PST by RicocheT
Irish smut-busting outfit PixAlert has develeoped technology which it claims "completely prevents pornographic images being displayed and viewed on computer screens" by somehow blocking "illegal or inappropriate images as they are rendered".
This impressive feat is achieved through "high-speed image analysis software" which can apparently detect "images actually being displayed on any screen and originating from any computer source".
Hmmmmm. We're not quite sure how PixAlert distinguishes between Edouard Manet's Olympia, for example, and a XXXX snap of a recumbent cheerleader pleasuring herself with a pom-pom, but here's how the company describes it:
PixAlert Monitor resides on the desktop and when a suspect image is blurred and subsequently viewed, a record is created in an audit log and an immediate alert can be sent to the administrator console. The administrator can view an encrypted copy of the image, along with the source machine and user name, date-time and the program used to view it.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
In order to recover the missing information from the distorted image, you need a low pass optical filter. Conveniently, you are born with an optical low pass filter. Just squint at the picture.
Kill Joys.
I didnt say that outloud did I?
Doesn'r this defeat the purpose of the Internet?
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