[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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