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Posted by timothy on Sunday June 29, 2008 @02:11PM from the porn-magazine-photos-doubly-so dept.

gregor-e writes "Japan has scheduled a full-scale rollout of visual age-verification on cigarette vending machines. Unfortunately for them, a Sankei Sports news reporter has determined that this system can be fooled by holding up a magazine photo of an adult."

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And in related news (Score:5, Funny)

by davidwr ( 791652 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @02:27PM (#23992141) Homepage Journal

Japanese vending machines are now configured to dispense pictures of cigarettes.

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Re:In Korea only old people (Score:5, Funny)

by gEvil (beta) ( 945888 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @02:31PM (#23992177)

Hey now! I use magazine photos and I'm neither old nor Korean! Oh wait, what were we talking about?

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Jailbait detector? (Score:5, Funny)

by TibbonZero ( 571809 ) writes: <Tibbon@@@gmail...com> on Sunday June 29, 2008 @02:40PM (#23992277) Homepage Journal

So this machine can determine 17 from 18 accurately? That would be a good iPhone app!

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Re:Cracking at its best (Score:5, Funny)

by FooAtWFU ( 699187 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @02:40PM (#23992279) Homepage

Goodbye old-people photos, hello old-people masks?

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Re:Yes it would, and yes they do... (Score:5, Funny)

by imipak ( 254310 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @02:44PM (#23992303) Journal

And who in their right mind is going to click a link to "pinktentacle.com"?! Some of us read Slashdot from work you know...

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Re:Yes it would, and yes they do... (Score:2, Funny)

by denzacar ( 181829 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @02:51PM (#23992375) Journal

Oh... so you have balls to fool around and waste time while on the clock, but not enough to risk a potentially NSFW link? Which is not marked NSFW.
Oh... and last time I checked... At the moment its Sunday in the most of the world.
You posting from future or something?

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Re:Impressive (Score:5, Funny)

by MrMr ( 219533 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @02:52PM (#23992387)

Can you just imagine what Japan would be like if marijuana were legal there
Slightly more like here?

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Re:Impressive (Score:5, Funny)

by dj_tla ( 1048764 ) * writes: <tbekolayNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Sunday June 29, 2008 @02:58PM (#23992447) Homepage Journal

Can you just imagine what Japan would be like if marijuana were legal there?
Awesome

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Re:Yes it would, and yes they do... (Score:3, Funny)

by Ethanol-fueled ( 1125189 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @03:01PM (#23992465) Homepage Journal

You're right, in the real world people work M-F 7-4.

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Re:Complex systems, simple workaround (Score:5, Funny)

by ColdWetDog ( 752185 ) * writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @03:01PM (#23992467) Homepage

We don't sell alcohol, guns, or porno from vending machines, so why cigarettes?
You gotta start somewhere.

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Re:Yes it would, and yes they do... (Score:5, Funny)

by im_thatoneguy ( 819432 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @03:10PM (#23992541)

In the real world, people don't just work M-F 9-5.
If they're making you work weekends the least they could do is let you look at a little pinktentacle.com

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What about being too old? (Score:4, Funny)

by LM741N ( 258038 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @03:21PM (#23992605)

Wait, a McCain picture might give error messages indicating you are TOO old to buy cigarettes.

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Leisure Suit Larry Age Verification Fail (Score:5, Funny)

by mrpull ( 112590 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @03:33PM (#23992713)

This story immediately reminded me of the 12 year old me guessing my way through the quiz before playing Leisure Suit Larry.

Who the hell is Spiro Agnew? LSL taught me.

Also, why didn't I find out Alt-X would skip that quiz until nearly 20 years later?

mr.

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Re:not a big surprise (Score:5, Funny)

by santiam ( 1279644 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @03:53PM (#23992845)

I had to carry around a fake beard just to buy cigs.
--
I quit sigs.

You should quit cigs too.

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Re:Yes it would, and yes they do... (Score:2, Funny)

by robertjw ( 728654 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @03:54PM (#23992857) Homepage

M-F 10-2 with a 2 hour lunch.

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Re:Humans can't even do it properly... (Score:3, Funny)

by Oktober Sunset ( 838224 ) writes: <sdpage103NO@SPAMyahoo.co.uk> on Sunday June 29, 2008 @04:56PM (#23993309)

My neice was able to get service in a bar once at age 14, and it could easily be seen why.
Huge jugs?

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Re:Cracking at its best (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @05:08PM (#23993383)

Say, why is Guy Fawkes buying so many cigarettes?

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Re:Cracking at its best (Score:3, Funny)

by nospam007 ( 722110 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @06:05PM (#23993781)

If they smoke enough, no need for old people masks.

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Re:In Korea only old people (Score:5, Funny)

by spazdor ( 902907 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @06:54PM (#23994081)

In Soviet Russia, of course, magazine photos use young people.
No no, you're thinking of Japan.

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Easy Fix! (Score:5, Funny)

by MWoody ( 222806 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @07:32PM (#23994325)

The solution is obvious: make it illegal to sell magazines with pictures of adults to minors.

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Re:Jailbait detector? (Score:3, Funny)

by dbIII ( 701233 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @08:27PM (#23994707)

It's not that hard for the machine. Smoke enough and you look 20 years older.

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Re:Impressive (Score:2, Funny)

by Ninth Marion ( 1310141 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @10:28PM (#23995739)

I just thought of a whole new use for those 'tube' hotels.

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Re:Age-controlled vending machines have a place (Score:5, Funny)

by greyhueofdoubt ( 1159527 ) writes: on Sunday June 29, 2008 @11:02PM (#23996017) Homepage Journal

>>...stay away from computers to prevent blindness...
Wait, computers make you go blind? I thought the only thing that made you blind was masterb... OOOHHHHH I get it.

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