I don't know about anyone else, but Dexter's lab made me love science.

They make it seem that everybody is an expert at recognizing facial expressions but in reality, unless you have specialised training or r a natural, regular people cannot distinguish body language and facial expressions very well. If they could, Liars and scam artist wouldnt exist. This technology can be used for other reasons. I feel like it can be used in the field of lie detection. The technology seems advanced enough to pick up key indicators in the face to see if the emotions expressed are the same as the emotions spoken. Combine this with a voice stress analizer and you got a lie dector better than a pollygraph.

Robert Lazar, is the man! His site is a great place for finding cool science stuff.

DDOS attacks are nothing new and are actually quite basic. It can be difficult to defend against a ddos attack (a regular dos is easy though). However, there are quite a few thing they can do that can prevent the entire city from shutting down (redundant systems, filtering malformed packets and ones sent from non-public ip's...etc). In my opinion their cities security is just lacking.

... why isnt Kodak all over this software, not to downplay but in addition to having real world applications the combination of this human emotion interpretation software with say Project Aiko's B.R.A.I.N.S. software we start to take strides toward real visual sensory input and interpretation in computing and autonomous functionality, as for the aforementioned camera company which has the face capture tech in its EasyShare it is the next big gimmick, a camera that can tell you how your friends were feeling when the picture was taken. As for why this would be a good idea or at least a venture worthy of pursuit for the emotional recognition software developers, the gimmick increases demand and awareness by commercializing the end result into a profitable toy that would significantly boost funding for the research they desire.