[Noisebridge-discuss] Google Glass at the space?

Norman Bradley pryankster at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 21:15:24 UTC 2014


Dean, you really need to look at what you posed!

You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are NOT entitled to your own facts.

Norman

On 4/15/2014 11:30 AM, Dean Mao wrote:
> I was just trying to make the parallel that NB's paranoia of Google 
> Glass is no different than typical American paranoia of terrorists 
> based on skin color.  If we can see a video camera in the device, it 
> must be bad right?    The people who secretly record others would not 
> be using such a visible and obvious camera.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Lupita Berries 
> <garyberries at gmail.com <mailto:garyberries at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     whoa. what did i just read
>
>
>     On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Dean Mao
>     <dean.mao at hackerdojo.com <mailto:dean.mao at hackerdojo.com>> wrote:
>
>         Yeah, I think most of the stigma against the google glass is a
>         similar stigma against the google busses.  Wearing a Google
>         glass flags you as a bourgeoisie.  It's strange to discuss it
>         here at NB where there's probably a higher percentage of
>         high-wage tech people here than most places, if you subtract
>         the homeless who sleep at NB.
>
>         It's weird to be paranoid about the glass since it has an
>         obvious video camera on it.  It's like how many americans are
>         paranoid about brown-skinned people because they are a similar
>         race as many terrorists in the middle east.  They must be
>         terrorists if they have brown skin right?  I feel especially
>         sorry toward the Sikhs who wear a turban and probably look the
>         most like a terrorist even though there hasn't been any Sikhs
>         who have committed terrorism.
>
>
>
>         On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Adrian Chadd
>         <adrian.chadd at gmail.com <mailto:adrian.chadd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             On 15 April 2014 10:14, Dean Mao <dean.mao at hackerdojo.com
>             <mailto:dean.mao at hackerdojo.com>> wrote:
>             > So I've used the Glass before, and it's not something
>             that is constantly
>             > recording.  If people wanted to record other people
>             secretly, there are so
>             > many other gadgets out there that will do it too.  It
>             feels weird to ban one
>             > specific gadget on the basis of a capability that is not
>             used very often.
>             > If NB was actually worried about people recording each
>             other, they should
>             > ban smartphones since the video cam on phones are used
>             more often than any
>             > other gadget in existence.
>
>             And not just that:
>
>             http://www.banggood.com/SC-Leather-Belt-Camera-Watch-Video-HD-PC-Webcam-Function-Support-32GB-TF-Card-p-921690.html
>
>             There's quite a few recording watches that you can buy.
>
>             Healthy paranoia is healthy. But this focus on Glass reeks of
>             something else. It's an obvious social status indicator
>             and it almost
>             "feels" like you're being watched. (Heh, get it? I said
>             watch. Like a
>             time-keeping device.Blah, whatever. You get the idea.) It
>             has a lot of
>             stigma against it and it's very public.
>
>
>
>             -a
>
>
>
>
>         -- 
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