Stop the planet, I want to fucking get off this ride.
A student at the University of Waterloo in Canada asked that in a post showing a vending machine error message that revealed a facial recognition app had failed. Student publication mathNEWS found that the machine’s maker, Invenda, advertises that it gathers “estimated ages and genders of every...
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“Why do the stupid M&M machines have facial recognition?”
A student at the University of Waterloo in Canada asked that in a
post showing a vending machine error message that revealed a facial recognition app had failed.
It does make you wonder how the coin operated machines of 40-50 years ago ever worked.
It makes me wonder why they replaced systems that obviously did work, with Microsoft Windows based systems, that very obviously do not.
Everywhere you look today, you will find systems that should be incredibly robust and difficult to break, that instead of working are busy displaying Windows error dialog boxes - often to no valuable purpose whatsoever.
For the last fortnight, the display screen in the canteen at work has been defaced by a dialog saying that a windows component had some issue, and may or may not have recovered. Underneath the box, you can see that the data being displayed is correct, and if the box wasn't obscuring it, it could serve its intended purpose. But the box demands that someone hit the "OK" button to dismiss it - and there is no input device attached, because the screen is purely intended as a read-only display; It's a very large and expensive monitor, with a cheap thin-client box hidden behind it, to which no keyboard or mouse is connected.
It is supposed to just work. And it should. But it's MS, so it doesn't.
