Google glass now in UK(play.google.com) |
Google glass now in UK(play.google.com) |
Just interested to know if this is still the same $1.5k explorer dev kit that was in the US, or a consumer priced version.
Edit: a friend in the UK says its £1,000 - so still the crappy priced dev kit.
You're the glasshole. Live and let live.
(and no, I am not trying to equate the two)
And the irony about "live and let live" is that Glass is recording other people. Nobody cares about what people do to themselves.
Just because the act of wearing the recording device is in plain-sight doesn't make it anymore acceptable to people who find it objectionable.
If the question is "who should I hate more, people that I know could be recording me or people that could be recording me without me knowing", the answer is neither. In public, always assume you're being watched, always assume you're being recorded. In the US and the UK, you have no expectation of privacy in public places. I could be holding the world's largest and most obvious camera recording you walking down the street and you couldn't legally do anything about it. Just because that camera is pointing at you doesn't mean it's recording, either.
So why is Glass so different? The answer: because the real Glassholes want something to bitch about, and it's easy to hate on people who are different from you.
That's just rude. Whatever happened to common decency? I would never walk up to someone and ask if I could try out their new iPhone or drive their interesting car.
Case in point: Remember that Seattle restaurant that famously argued (via Facebook) with a diner it ejected for wearing Glass? That same restaurant had numerous photos of random customers posted to its Facebook page, many of which were taken without the subjects' knowledge, let alone permission.
Holding your cellphone at a 90° angle while facing people, especially for longer periods of time, will not make you any friends either.
If anybody actually wanted to record people without their knowledge, Glass would be a terrible tool to choose, and many times more expensive than the alternatives, too. It's just not worth being that worried about.
I get that I might never know if or when I'm being monitored by some device, but that in no way justifies explicitly recording someone without their permission.
So the idea that people wearing Glass are assholes is a ridiculous notion because there are already numerous ways to record someone without explicit approval, you already have the right to record anyone in a public place even without explicit permission, and it's already possible (and already happens) with existing smartphones. So if you're getting mad at Glass wearers for something that people are already doing, you're the asshole. The only difference between Glass and other technology is that Glass is newer and less common. That's it.
You're also repeatedly missing the argument I've already made twice in this thread with your second paragraph,
I'm not missing the argument. You're just not making an argument worth refuting. "Oh no, someone has a device capable of recording me" so fucking what? Welcome to 1975, you can buy recording devices at a dollar store. No one looks twice when there's a CCTV camera or a smartphone out in public.
You hate Glass because it's unusual, not because it's capable of recording you.
