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Chan790

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34. Samaritan is here.

Sun Sep 28, 2014, 10:19 AM

Sep 2014

The only difference is that there is a human mind in the process.

Watch a show like PofI and a show like Legends on TNT; none of what is being done by Maggie (Tina Majorino) on Legends is beyond current capabilities. Add in the wide-scope and after-the-fact approvals granted in this "national security state" by the FISA Court and you basically already have an operational surveillance Panopticon.

The only difference between the use of this system in concert with a human operator performing data-manipulation and Samaritan is the human operator. That's not a flaw of the system, it's an intentional feature...human operator means capability to employ human assets on-ground in real time.

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Facial mapping. Chan790 Sep 2014 #33

And the problem is? Recursion Sep 2014 #37

It's only situationally okay. Chan790 Sep 2014 #45

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I see reddread Sep 2014 #38

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You don't. Chan790 Sep 2014 #36

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