Einsteins of the surveillance world
October 20, 2011 11:00 PM   Subscribe

Most surveillance systems have functional IQs below 100, merely the median for average human IQ. Only two or three companies can operate in the space above 110, the company claims. iOmniscient has genius-level products, however.
posted by twoleftfeet (14 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This article reads like a press release; if there's something there, we need something with way more substance. -- taz



 
That is really "median for average" (sic).
posted by twoleftfeet at 11:02 PM on October 20, 2011


So in addition to Gold, does Fox News also own stock in iOmniscient?
posted by midmarch snowman at 11:05 PM on October 20, 2011 [2 favorites]


Cutting edge journalism at its finest.
posted by Dr Dracator at 11:06 PM on October 20, 2011


The computer is a genius. The computer is your friend. The computer is crazy. The computer wants to make you happy. This will make you crazy.
posted by Grimgrin at 11:07 PM on October 20, 2011 [2 favorites]


what the flying fuck
posted by kmz at 11:08 PM on October 20, 2011


I wonder if iOmniscient can build a GUI interface in Visual Basic to trace an IP?
posted by kmz at 11:11 PM on October 20, 2011


What? What is happening here? Is this a joke?

Say this is satire. Please.
posted by His thoughts were red thoughts at 11:12 PM on October 20, 2011


I haven't been keeping up with the news, but did I miss the singularity or something?
posted by the jam at 11:12 PM on October 20, 2011


Well I am always super comforted to know that behind dozens of hidden, unblinking glass eyes there lurks a superhuman intelligence. That shit makes me want to go shopping right now.

Also, this is one of those stories that the company pays the news organization to post directly, yeah?
posted by furiousthought at 11:14 PM on October 20, 2011


this is dumb
posted by TwelveTwo at 11:15 PM on October 20, 2011


By using their logic, if I were to buy a 7-string electric guitar, my guitar would have an IQ of 128!
posted by chimaera at 11:15 PM on October 20, 2011


Murdoch Blocked
posted by dongolier at 11:18 PM on October 20, 2011


Given the relative IQs, they should have got the surveillance system to write about Fox news journalists press release processors.*

* (though bizarrely her byline says she's a ballet dancer turned defence specialist, so maybe I'm doing her a disservice and she's phoning it in for the cash like the rest of us)
posted by Abiezer at 11:23 PM on October 20, 2011


THIS SECTION IS A PAID ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT
posted by Philosopher Dirtbike at 11:24 PM on October 20, 2011


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