anyone else feel like they can't shake off the feeling that society is going into the gutter?

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everyone has become too docile to protect the things they enjoy, and have instead opted to slowly convert themselves to whatever the corporate world wants. People are actually voluntarily giving up personal liberties slowly in exchange for a convenient lifestyle

Silly goy, havn't you heard that being spied on is the latest hip trend?

Microsoft has filed for a Kinect-related patent, and it’s a doozy of an application. The abstract describes a camera-based system that would monitor the number of viewers in a room and check to see if the number of occupants exceeded a certain threshold set by the content provider. If there are too many warm bodies present, the device owner would be prompted to purchase a license for a greater number of viewers.

No, really. It’s that blunt. From the abstract: “The users consuming the content on a display device are monitored so that if the number of user-views licensed is exceeded, remedial action may be taken.”

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/139706-microsoft


Microsoft is evidently working to introduce a special ad program that will revolutionize the TV advertising arena. Through its Kinect motion sensor technology, the new ad program can recognize the audience preferences and broadcast the right ads to them. The program called the NUads, or Natural User-interface Ads will let advertisers watch the audience and find their responses towards ads through their expressions and actions thanks to Kinect sensor.

http://www.gizmowatch.com/microsofts...-feedback.html


Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has filed a patent application for targeting ads to viewers based on information collected from infrared cameras and microphones that would be able to detect conversations, people, objects and even animals that are near a TV.

If the detection system determines that a couple is arguing, a service provider would be able to send an ad for marriage counseling to a TV or mobile device in the room. If the couple utters words that indicate they are cuddling, they would receive ads for “a romantic getaway vacation, a commercial for a contraceptive, a commercial for flowers,” or commercials for romantic movies, Verizon states in the patent application.

For years, technology executives have discussed the possibility of using devices such as Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Xbox 360 Kinect cameras to target advertising and programming to viewers, taking advantage of the ability to determine whether an adult or child is viewing a program. But Verizon is looking at taking targeted advertising to a new level with its patent application, which is titled “Methods and Systems for Presenting an Advertisement Associated with an Ambient Action of a User.”

Similar to the way Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) targets ads to Gmail users based on the content of their emails, Verizon proposes scanning conversations of viewers that are within a “detection zone” near their TV, including telephone conversations.

“If detection facility detects one or more words spoken by a user (e.g., while talking to another user within the same room or on the telephone), advertising facility may utilize the one or more words spoken by the user to search for and/or select an advertisement associated with the one or more words,” Verizon states in the patent application.

http://www.fiercecable.com/story/ver...ugh/2012-11-30

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Silly goy, havn't you heard that being spied on is the latest hip trend?

Microsoft has filed for a Kinect-related patent, and it’s a doozy of an application. The abstract describes a camera-based system that would monitor the number of viewers in a room and check to see if the number of occupants exceeded a certain threshold set by the content provider. If there are too many warm bodies present, the device owner would be prompted to purchase a license for a greater number of viewers.

No, really. It’s that blunt. From the abstract: “The users consuming the content on a display device are monitored so that if the number of user-views licensed is exceeded, remedial action may be taken.”

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/139706-microsoft


Microsoft is evidently working to introduce a special ad program that will revolutionize the TV advertising arena. Through its Kinect motion sensor technology, the new ad program can recognize the audience preferences and broadcast the right ads to them. The program called the NUads, or Natural User-interface Ads will let advertisers watch the audience and find their responses towards ads through their expressions and actions thanks to Kinect sensor.

http://www.gizmowatch.com/microsofts...-feedback.html


Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has filed a patent application for targeting ads to viewers based on information collected from infrared cameras and microphones that would be able to detect conversations, people, objects and even animals that are near a TV.

If the detection system determines that a couple is arguing, a service provider would be able to send an ad for marriage counseling to a TV or mobile device in the room. If the couple utters words that indicate they are cuddling, they would receive ads for “a romantic getaway vacation, a commercial for a contraceptive, a commercial for flowers,” or commercials for romantic movies, Verizon states in the patent application.

For years, technology executives have discussed the possibility of using devices such as Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Xbox 360 Kinect cameras to target advertising and programming to viewers, taking advantage of the ability to determine whether an adult or child is viewing a program. But Verizon is looking at taking targeted advertising to a new level with its patent application, which is titled “Methods and Systems for Presenting an Advertisement Associated with an Ambient Action of a User.”

Similar to the way Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) targets ads to Gmail users based on the content of their emails, Verizon proposes scanning conversations of viewers that are within a “detection zone” near their TV, including telephone conversations.

“If detection facility detects one or more words spoken by a user (e.g., while talking to another user within the same room or on the telephone), advertising facility may utilize the one or more words spoken by the user to search for and/or select an advertisement associated with the one or more words,” Verizon states in the patent application.

http://www.fiercecable.com/story/ver...ugh/2012-11-30

and we can't really call it an invasion of privacy, because they'll just buy out the courts to redefine what constitutes an "invasion of privacy"