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- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -14/+243In soviet russia, billboard look at you.
- sprintmarathon, on 06/01/2008, -3/+131I wish I had adblock plus for real life :|
- SubjectiveC, on 06/01/2008, -0/+91Whoa, I'm beginning to think Minority Report was intended as a documentary made in the past about a future event. Creepy.
- nirosive, on 06/01/2008, -13/+74Feel that?
That's your privacy saying goodbye to you. - TheSassyEskimo, on 05/31/2008, -9/+57Billboard that analyze your age/gender to target messages. It's awesome/freaky at the same time.
- RfClassic, on 06/01/2008, -3/+34Is this how the plan to find Osama?
- chrissku, on 06/01/2008, -2/+33I also heard that many of the bees are dying because of all the video equipment the CIA strapped onto their backs.
- Xephyr, on 06/01/2008, -7/+37Perfect.
- RCRN, on 06/01/2008, -4/+31why not put a chip in every ones brain and get this over with, move onto bigger and better stuff
- lolinyerface, on 06/01/2008, -0/+25< Billboard935 > A/S/L?
- thcobbs, on 06/01/2008, -0/+20Until you're a 20-something straight male that seems to always get adds for pamprin because you happened to be standing next to and checking out a hot chick for a while.
- vfreak2, on 06/01/2008, -0/+19Smile everybody! (And don't forget to give them the finger while you're at it.)
- MattBot5000, on 06/01/2008, -6/+24first good one i've seen in a while. thank you, sir.
- roeboedog, on 06/01/2008, -0/+16And everyone thinks that the camera in the grocery store is for theft only. I was surprised ten years ago while working with GE, they buy the films/data from cams on all their products to see how long you stand there to look at light bulbs. LIGHT BULBS. So the Grocery store is making a ton of money on selling the data from your CLUB card and the raw footage of you shopping product.
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -3/+18Just wait for one of these to come into my neighborhood and I will personally go and re-wire them...
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -8/+22We dont want to be recorded and analyzed, idiot.
- RomanThommassen, on 06/01/2008, -1/+15Big Brother ***IS*** Watching YOU.
- dillhole, on 06/01/2008, -0/+14Not only find him, but find out his eating habits, whether he's interested in a fixed rate mortgage, what price range car he's after.....
- darny, on 06/01/2008, -4/+18"Behind the technology are small start-ups that say they are not storing actual images of the passers-by, so privacy should not be a concern."
Wait...why would privacy be a concern? There are already tons and tons of cameras out in public that are doing just that...photographing you while you are out in public (perfectly legal). Let them store whatever they want. If it's OK for the government and taxi cabs, it should be OK for advertisers too. Don't let the govs have all the fun. - phintch, on 06/01/2008, -0/+13This is such a minor privacy issue in the larger scheme of things... With companies like Experian, Equifax, etc. etc. our personal privacy has been compromised for years.
- georgemason01, on 06/01/2008, -0/+13***** is what it is.
- desuexmachina, on 06/01/2008, -1/+13I think that there should be more filming and data capture. The more there is the harder it's going to be to find my signal through the noise.
Things like Facebook show that lots of people don't even care about privacy. - AmazingAndrex, on 06/01/2008, -0/+12"I loved Big Brother."
- krnldmp, on 06/01/2008, -0/+11The best thing to do would be rip out the camera and mount it on an extension arm that gives it a fine view of nothing but the ***** billboard.
- dood, on 06/01/2008, -0/+10We'd still need squads that could go around deleting information from caches and replacing newspapers, magazines, and books whenever a fact is to be changed. That's becoming less practical as we have more and more information and books.
- asonedoes, on 06/01/2008, -2/+12it's not really that awesome at all, is it?
- lamiaconfitor, on 06/01/2008, -2/+12on a related note... I guess I have to stop masterbating in front of Victoria's Secret billboards
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -1/+11I wish i had a rocket launcher with enough refills for all those pathetic billboards
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -2/+11i don't recall anyone ever actually stopping to look at a billboard, most if they looked at it at all just glanced at it as they're walking, seems a poor idea to me to be honest
- darkzeroman, on 06/01/2008, -2/+11*insert obligatory 1984 quote and connect it to reality*
- inspecality, on 06/01/2008, -6/+15It's going to be difficult to moon billboards, but I think I can do it.
"OMG it's Ben Affleck!" - inactive, on 06/01/2008, -6/+14But the car next to you is already analyzing you. I'm looking at your double chin and your bald cranium, and I'm laughing. I'm seeing you picking your nose. My eyes are stripping your wife naked, and mentally having sex with her, in the butt. And to think you were worried about stupid billboard cams?
- b1narymess1ah, on 06/01/2008, -3/+11i can't believe they hope to change ads to what they think that the demographic viewing it at the time would like to see. although i don't think that would actually work (as per theotherone135's post). i think putting any kind of psychology behind advertising should be illegal. especially in children's products. "let's make 'em buy this ***** without really knowing why they want it." all advertising should be standardized black on white times new roman print with a single color picture of the product. commercials should follow the same suit and they should not be allowed to say anything other than the specs of the product. no music, no subliminal imagery, no flashy ***** to catch your eye. advertising that you can actually ignore. if only....
- BossKey, on 06/01/2008, -0/+8No, it's actually becoming more practical as all information becomes digital. At some point a government will simply "update" the digital archives with the "correct" version of past events. Unless you can pull out your paper issue or local backup of a particular web site to show everyone that the information has been changed.
They won't need "squads" either, just a few guys with their fingers on the switches and can perform these historical revisions in bulk. - D4rkDrago0n, on 06/01/2008, -1/+9"everything we do it completely anonymous"
Unless you have a passport of course, because then they can just search for the passport with the same picture as the one the got of you staring at the billboard. - vfreak2, on 06/01/2008, -0/+8YAY CAPITALISATION AT ITS FINEST !!!!!!
- cmapes2, on 06/01/2008, -12/+19lol, ***** YES!
- tadhgisaledgend, on 06/01/2008, -6/+13I dub thee Sir LOLalot.
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -6/+13This is retarded, i wish industries would stop trying to *analyze* people and believe our behaviours can be figured out
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -0/+7I stared for 46 minutes at your comment.
- AncientDude, on 06/01/2008, -0/+7Sounds like Minority Report's retinal scans. Spooky...
- Minutemanjones, on 06/01/2008, -2/+8*****
- andydumi, on 06/01/2008, -0/+6I think you watch the types of people frequenting that area, and then cater to their demographic. So you would have ads changing depending on time of day (different people walk by at differetn times).
- whatever01, on 06/01/2008, -0/+6Not to sound paranoid, but what is the retention policy of the raw data? Is it a policy, or is it a hardware limitation? How soon will it be before the data is tapped into by court order? It doesn't bother me, much, the way it is intended - each advertisements data analyzed discretely, but it would easily be stretched to something less savory.
It's rather different than counting the number of car on the road using a pneumatic strip, or even spotters on overpasses counting passengers per car. The data here could be recorded for later use, and that data could be analyzed more carefully. - psion01, on 06/01/2008, -3/+9You're right; marketing is such a waste. Just put everything out in plain, brown cardboard boxes with the contents scribed in a standard font.
Which font do you think would be best?
Should we put a picture of the product so those who can't read know what's in the box? - Laminarcissus, on 06/01/2008, -0/+6Being an actual advertising creative director myself, if I didn't decide that this was the end of civilization as we know it I would probably want to us algorithms to pull apart live group dynamics, and target creative that way. So if there were one woman in a crowd of men at a bus stop, for example, the billboard might say:
"Gentlemen, you each glanced at that woman an average of 4.5 times each, while she only looked for the bus."
"Do better than a bus: Axe Body Spray."
etc. - CaptainHarlock, on 06/01/2008, -0/+6They should stop trying to analyze people and put out a better product instead.
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -0/+65 seconds
Age 26+-
Sex M - inactive, on 06/01/2008, -2/+7Prepare to die by a poisoned blade traitor.
- skav, on 06/01/2008, -0/+5If you don't think there's a difference between an unregulated worldwide database of machine-indexable images which could be used to track your location at all times and a guy with a camera standing by the road then I salute you. You're going to love the future.
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