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  Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-26 20:50 +0000
    Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-28 08:31 +0100
      Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-28 10:07 +0200
        Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-28 09:33 +0100
          Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-28 12:08 +0200
      Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-28 15:45 +0000
        Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-02-28 19:55 +0000
    Re: Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-28 12:49 -0600

#1005 — Google Glasses record person stealing them in a bar

From the "Strange Days are here" department:
Title: Stolen from tech writer, Google Glass dutifully records the suspect
Author: Barry Levine
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:12:31 -0500
Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/LE_VRVvKfRo/
Podcast Download URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~5/X2jMjV3WpHE/molotovs.png

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Caption: Molotov's bar
Source: Google+

A woman wearing a Google Glass walks into a bar. Then the punchline for this
setup evaporated when someone stole her Glass — which recorded her alleged
assailants.

Tech writer Sarah Slocom was in the punk rock bar Molotov’s[2] in San
Francisco’s famed Haight-Ashbury district on Friday night. As she was
demonstrating Glass to some bar compatriots, she was confronted by two women,
after which a man took the $1,500 accessory from her face. As she reported on
Facebook[3]:

“OMG so you’ll never believe this but… I got verbally and physically asaulted
[sic] and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of
some wanker Google Glass haters, then some *bleeeeeeeeeep* tore them off my
face and ran out with them then and when I ran out after him his *bleeeeeeep*
friends stole my purse, cellphone walet [sic] and everything..”

According to witnesses, she got her Glass back, but not her purse, wallet, or
phone. On Facebook, Slocum said she had “started recording them to protect
myself,” taking footage of the alleged thief. She has filed a report with the
police, and fortunately has not reported any injuries.

San Francisco’s KPIX5 TV reported[4] that, at first, several people watching
her demonstration were friendly, but others became agitated by the
possibility of being recorded. The station said a man insulted her, another
man accompanying her issued some fisticuffs at the insulter, the small crowd
started jeering, and Slocum was recording.

One bar patron, Brian Lester, told the station that some people were “just
rather insulted that someone thinks it’s OK to record them the entire time
they’re in public.” Another bystander, Brian, described Molotov’s as “not
really Google Glass country.”

Some San Francisco-watchers have pegged this incident as indicative of the
growing tensions between tech workers and the working class in the city.

Regardless, Google may want to add several dos and don’ts to its growing list[5]
of recommended and to-be-avoided Glass behaviors:

* Until the price drops from its current $1,500 price tag, do not demo
Glass in a bar called Molotov’s. Similarly, skip cars while you’re
driving them[6] and movie theaters[7].
* If you are a would-be thief and/or assailant, do notice that you might
want to select something/someone that is not recording you. (Reference:
Strange Days[8].)
* Do watch the expected Law and Order episode where a Glass-wearing
participant tests our understanding of how crime and punishment is
supposed to work.

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#1066

On 2014-02-26, RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> wrote:
> Title: Stolen from tech writer, Google Glass dutifully records the suspect
> Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/LE_VRVvKfRo/
> Podcast Download URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~5/X2jMjV3WpHE/molotovs.png
>
> Caption: Molotov's bar
> Source: Google+
>
> A woman wearing a Google Glass walks into a bar. 

And here the story would probably end for me. Very likely I'd ask the
landlord to ban Google Glass immediately or hand me my bill so
I can look for another bar.

I don't like people running around with concealed cameras. I also
don't like people in bars recording openly with their smartphones, but
at least in that case I see if they are recording or not, and usually
that's only short sequences.

Talking to glassholes puts me under tension. When talking to normal
people, a wrong word can usually be cancled out by an apology. A rouge
joke that may fit for that particular mood wil be seen only in that
particular mood. On the record, everything will definitely be taken
out of context, because the mood is never part of the
recording. Therefore, the only thing I'd have to say to a Google
Glass user is "Please remove your glass." and "Good bye."

I'm not going to say "she asked for it", because there is no
justification to rob anything of anyone. But my sympathies are
reserved for less ignorant people.

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#1071

"q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk>:

> And here the story would probably end for me. Very likely I'd ask the
> landlord to ban Google Glass immediately or hand me my bill so I can
> look for another bar.

What will you do when they launch Google Contact Lens?


Marko

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#1073

On 2014-02-28, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk>:
> What will you do when they launch Google Contact Lens?

Weep :-)

There is no sense to give up already because there might be a time the
battle is seriously lost. Maybe there are other inventions by then,
like a zapper (you know the manual how to build an RFID zapper? With
some wire to build a simple inductor, a capacitor and battery?), for
Google Contacts to fry them remotely. 

Seriously, I think we are still a couple of decades away from
undetectable camera contact lenses. The main problem would probably be
the power supply. Battery development never kept up with
miniaturization in other electronic areas.

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#1080

"q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk>:

> Seriously, I think we are still a couple of decades away from
> undetectable camera contact lenses.

Your *eye* is a camera, isn't it? You just need to tap the optic nerve.
Granted, it might be technically simpler just install Google Eye in the
socket.

> The main problem would probably be the power supply. Battery
> development never kept up with miniaturization in other electronic
> areas.

Why consider fuel cells, when every cell in your body has perfectly
functioning mitochondria?


Marko

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#1102

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:31:57 +0100
"q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 2014-02-26, RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> wrote:
> > Title: Stolen from tech writer, Google Glass dutifully records the suspect
> > Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/LE_VRVvKfRo/
> > Podcast Download URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~5/X2jMjV3WpHE/molotovs.png
> >
> > Caption: Molotov's bar
> > Source: Google+

I would be stressed out by talking to some dude recording me, too.
It's creepy.  Two things.  

One: she's now classifying herself as a
victim of "hate crime," for what that's worth - a stretch of the
original definition, perhaps, but maybe valid.  

Two - can't remember what you would look for on Youtube to find it, but
there's some awesome videos made by a Canadian (I think?) student who
just walks into classrooms with a video recorder running and starts
filming people.  Everyone gets upset with him and he usually gets
politely but forcefully ejected from the classrooms by angry
professors.  That's the point after all - people don't like having
their privacy violated by people who feel they are entitled to record
other people without their permission.

Unlike that awesome movie 'Strange Days' (I just re-watched it this
weekend after someone on Comp.misc reminding me of the name), I'd bet
there's a lot of Google Glass video out there that ends with an image
of a swinging fist.  Soon it will be a baseball bat ...

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#1108

On 2014-02-28, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:31:57 +0100
> "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-02-26, RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> > Title: Stolen from tech writer, Google Glass dutifully records the suspect

many years ago I had a friend who was a bit daft. Still is.
He sent for me to do something for him, he proposed the job, I declined,
then he showed me his newest gadget, a small voice recorder. I sweated 
inwardly, thanking Godot that I had refused his offer, which was 
semi-legal. I am not, or was then, sure of the legal basis of
recording a conversation with any of those recorded not being aware of it.

Some time later, he was being given a lift home, and in gratitude, told 
the driver about his recorder, so the driver asked to see it, and tossed 
it into the canal at the next bridge.
 
Couple of weeks ago,there was a picture of him in a tabloid, thieves 
had tried to break into hs house, and he had chased them away with
his gun. (To my knowledge, the `thieves' were former associates of his
trying to get paid). Yes, there was his picture, wearing Google Glasses.
So what are they handy for?.. Well, you can spot nutcases, when they 
wear them



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#1107

Some of you may know about Dr. Steve Mann (U Toronto), who has been
developing and using technology like Google Glass since the 1980s. He's
actually been declared physically dependent upon it by a physician, as a
result of physiological adaptation to long-term continous use. Anyway,
he's had a couple of incidents because of his wearable devices. The two
cases that I can remember are:

The 2002 St John's Airport Incident
"http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/at-airport-gate-a-cyborg-unplugged.html"

The 2012 Paris McDonald's incident
"http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/07/18/toronto_cyborg_steve_mann_says_he_was_assaulted_in_paris_mcdonalds.html"

I don't see this situation getting better any time soon. At the same
time, I believe that this kind of technology is only going to become
more common ... and maybe it seems like science fiction right now, but
I can definitely imagine a world in which nearly everyone is recording
everything they see, almost all the time (note to self: turn off record
and broadcast functions in washroom). Eventually, the only way out for
people that don't want to be recorded will be to wear scramble suits
("A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick) whenever they're out in public.

Regards,
Bill


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