this is such crap... all color values should default to black unless its a foreign object on or in the body. it is NOT rocket science...
Wattenburg is semi-retired and works as a consultant to Livermore and several major government contractors. Familiar with the federal bureaucracy, he said he doubts the TSA will take the simplest course of action."They are so far down the road in buying all the equipment that they're too embarrassed to reverse course," he said. "Their very sophisticated equipment can be made to do this."
Stop acting stupidly and review people's history.
My first thought was to "Captcha" the images.
meaningless. They can already change the settings to not show the body and still show all foreign objects.
They don’t want to.
Dr. Wattenburg has a radio show on KGO 810 in San Francisco Sat and Sun from 10 PM to 1 AM. Doesn’t put up with fools, half-wits or Eco-nuts.
Therein lies the problem.
It's going to take a tremendous amount of work on the part of their successor agency to dispel that impression.
this is such crap... all color values should default to black unless its a foreign object on or in the body. it is NOT rocket science...
This sort of Automated Threat Identification has been around for quite a while.
I’ve seen examples done in Matlab and C++.
The problem is that a computer program can only do what it’s told, no replacement for human intuition.
A machine has not caught a terrorist yet.
Bottom line: They are irradiating people without informed consent.
Visual inspection at the skin level (even is in a fun house manner) is an unreasonable search, as are the “enhanced” gate-rape grope fests.
I believe that TSA has adopted an alternative approach and is upgrading software so that the body image is replaced by an avatar, a cartoon figure. All of the other images remain unchanged. Sounds to me like a superior solution to the distortion idea.
You mean like late-night Walmart shoppers?
This is nonsense. The images are still stored...AND NOT IN THE DISTORTED FORM, YOU CAN BET YOUR BACKSCATTERED ASS.
“”They are so far down the road in buying all the equipment that they’re too embarrassed to reverse course,” he said. “Their very sophisticated equipment can be made to do this.””
It doesn’t have anything to do with embarrassment, or security. The idea that one has to get on a plane to kill lots of people, or that fondeling people will uncover bombs in a safe manner is absurd. They aren’t just stuck on stupid, but dead set on authoritarianism for the sake of it.
Or even pot bellied pigs. They can detect far more than a gropey TSA employee, or a scanner manned by a minimally trained federalized baboon, even if the dangerous item is stuffed where the sun doesn't shine. And the presence of divine swine might be a good way to make a potential terrorist break cover as he or she would have a difficult time hiding their expressions of revulsion or even fear.
Oh, wait...
Muslim TSA workers would object because both animals are "unclean" and they would not submit to learning to manage these animated detection devices, even if the animals took a liking to them.
CAIR would object because dogs are exceptionally good at profiling people.
And of course the most important lobby of all, liberal terrorist defense attorneys and their clientel, would object because their clients might suffer the loss of their hoped for 72 virgin privileges in the afterlife if their crotch bombs were detected by an unclean beast before they were able to get aboard an aircraft.
If Soros was invested in dog turd & pig manure futures would the Obama admin give dogs and hogs a try?
The TSA screener can be replaced with a program that could analyse the return data and just output “clear” or “anomaly” on a computer screen. An image would just be painted if there was an anomaly. There are millions of ways to fix this with software but they don’t want to.
There is no need to bend to their sense of decency any more than a King need bend to the protestations of a serf.
Let’s quit beating around the bush. Create a special lane where all muslims are screened. Leave everyone else alone and things will be just fine. We are wasting resources groping nuns and little kids.
The Israelis are working hard at developing a new airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners at the airports.
It’s a booth you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you. They see this as a win-win for everyone, with none of the whining about racial profiling. It also would eliminate the costs of long and expensive trials. Justice would be swift. Case closed!
You’re in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter, 2 announcements come over the PA system: 1 - “Attention standby passengers — we now have a seat available on flight number ____, and # 2 - “Clean up needed at security check point 7”.
Distorted, yeah right, My tush is big enough it doesn’t extra help in the form of a Mercator projection!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection