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Google bans Glass from its own shareholder meeting

ercoerco Posts: 20,256
edited 2013-06-09 15:42 in General Discussion
I guess Google just wants to invade other people's privacy.


http://news.yahoo.com/google-bans-glass-own-shareholder-meeting-193542140.html

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-06-09 00:52
    What would you do if you found the guy next to you in a public bathroom wearing a pair (is pair the right term?) of Google Glass?
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-06-09 01:27
    Why I'd kick his Glass, naturally.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-06-09 01:49
    Back in the late nineties I pulled out a camera in a bar in Helsinki to grab a snap of a friend of mine. Good grief I thought I was going to die. There were a good number of people around seriously, almost violently, objecting to having any pictures taken in there.

    Some years before that it was suggested to me, in a way that I could not refuse, that I put my camera out of sight whilst walking through one area of the Glastonbury festival site. Certain traders would rather not appear in any snaps.

    Now, either times have changed dramatically, which I doubt, or there are going to be Google Glass users getting a severe battering on occasion.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-06-09 04:55
    Sounds like some of the taverns on the coast of Oregon in mid-winter... Occasionally, the bartender would answer the phone and say that a Federal Marshall was on his way to town and nearly the whole tavern would get up and go home for the day.

    I suspect that these days, this is the reason for over-crowded jails.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-06-09 05:23
    Odd that. In a small village north of Oxford in England the pub used to close like clockwork at 11pm as the law demanded. Except once a month when the guys from the Oxford Drug Squad would turn up for a few beers. Then the curtains were drawn and it would be business until 3 in the morning. After that they would drive home!

    I imagine they would not be keen on any Google Glass being around either.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-06-09 07:26
    The best defense against Google Glass might just be an Australian beer fridge:

    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/fridge-fault-causes-telstra-mobile-network-blackouts/story-fni0fit3-1226655474358


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  • TtailspinTtailspin Posts: 1,326
    edited 2013-06-09 07:42
    The only difference between the Guards and the Inmates... The Guards go home at night... :coffee:


    -Tommy
  • bill190bill190 Posts: 769
    edited 2013-06-09 08:00
    I wonder if that was just a clever publicity stunt?

    The best way to draw attention to something is to ban it.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-06-09 08:13
    Ha, yep, that worked really well for Malcom McClaren and the Sex Pistols when their record "God Save The Queen" was banned from the air by the BBC. Announcing the banning your own product carries that to new levels.

    I propose that the Propeller chip be banned in schools as it is too weird and subversive and might damage young minds. Don't you think?
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-06-09 08:48
    Heater. wrote: »
    I propose that the Propeller chip be banned in schools as it is too weird and subversive and might damage young minds. Don't you think?

    +1.

    Just don't program the Prop in that Briar patch, Bre'r Heater!
  • bill190bill190 Posts: 769
    edited 2013-06-09 09:06
    Heater. wrote: »
    ...Announcing the banning your own product carries that to new levels...

    Howard Hughes once spent millions making a movie called the Outlaw which focused on the well endowed Jane Russell's upper body parts. He then instigated the banning of his own movie.

    From the following link...

    ["Hughes had all his managers call ministers, women's clubs and housewives telling them about the 'lewd picture' Hughes was about to release starring Jane Russell. The public responded by protesting and trying to have the film banned, which turned into just the publicity Hughes needed to create demand for the film and get it released. The resulting controversy generated enough interest to get The Outlaw into the theaters for one week in 1943, when it was pulled due to violations of the Production Code. It was finally released widely on 23 April 1946, when United Artists premiered the film in San Francisco, when it became a box office hit."]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-06-09 09:41
    Loopy Byteloose wrote: »
    What would you do if you found the guy next to you in a public bathroom wearing a pair (is pair the right term?) of Google Glass?

    Ask him to get dressed, the wierdo.
  • FranklinFranklin Posts: 4,747
    edited 2013-06-09 10:40
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/steve-mann-attacked-paris-mcdonalds-digital-eye-glass-photos_n_1680263.html
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-06-09 15:42
    I suppose it's no different than the NRA not allowing people to carry guns into their annual meetings.
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