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Rich26189 writes:
"In a somewhat pre-emptive move Google is lobbying against state legislation that would ban drivers from using Google Glass while driving. I, for one, would like to see such legislation passed. There is enough distracted driving due to hand-held cell phones and Google Glass would just be just one more task for the brain to cope with.
This from Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/25/us-googl e-glass-lobbying-idUSBREA1O0P920140225"
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Lobbying Against Having Google Glass Banned While Driving
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Sunday March 02 2014, @02:17AM
Distraction is just becoming ridiculous now.
The few times I venture out into public to eat the only thing I see is entire generations plastered to little screens. I swear, it's like watching Wall-E with people that are just not as fat.
In how many different places are these people afraid to face silence, or interacting with other people? Especially, their friends.
I wholly support legislation to not just ban Google Glass from operation while driving, but also the right to ban it from restaurants, etc.
People may want to live life bonded to some device and social networking, but it's certainly not safe enough to drive like that.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 3, Funny) by frojack on Sunday March 02 2014, @02:27AM
Prepare to be assimilated.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by chewbacon on Sunday March 02 2014, @03:55PM
Be patient. Have a large pan pizza. We'll catch up as far as being fat goes.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Cyberdyne on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:59PM
> Distraction is just becoming ridiculous now.
So is regulation.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:12PM
Well I'm going to strongly disagree with you there.
If we had more regulation the greedy bankers and Wall Street could have never created this Great Depression.
I'm sure you will respond back with the inviolable ideology of Capitalism and Free-Markets, both of which are illusory though and never existed.
There is no level playing field, and no corporation would ever seek to be fair. Greedy sociopaths that comprise the toxic corporate culture of today will do everything up to crushing puppies and setting kittens on fire, if it means gaining more wealth and power. All of it cloaked in the ideology that promotes the Share Holder as being above all else, and if it services the Share Holder, it must be right, correct, moral, and full of tasty freedom.
Without strong regulations, and more preferably, strict super-max prison sentences for the execs, they will continue to act in the most unfair ways possible to gain whatever advantages they can.
To state otherwise is to engage in wishful thinking and willful ignorance of the facts evident in the last 20 years in this failing country.
No, I've been convinced beyond all doubt. Regulations are fully required, and we desperately need more of them to prevent the wholesale theft that was performed on us in the last 7 years, and is in fact, still going strong.
Never has this country been so weak in every respect. All of it, ALL of it, could have been avoided with better regulations.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1) by HiThere on Monday March 03 2014, @01:09AM
Well...I'd like restaurants to ban people talking on cell phones, but I doubt that Google Glass is going to annoy me anymore than that. But wearing it while driving strikes me as dangerous...and not only to the driver.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday March 03 2014, @02:23AM
I don't want Google Glass operational in restaurants due to surreptitious surveillance capabilities. It has nothing to do with the operation itself, even though I'm not a big fan of people's obsession with them.
Taking a picture is one thing, taking a picture of your stupid food is another, and doing either and putting it in a private photo album is no concern of mine.
Taking a picture, or video, of yourself or others and putting it in an album in the "cloud" where it's actively being processed in a multitude of Big Data systems is very much my concern.
Google Glass makes that so easy, and most importantly, is deniable. Unless there is very very strong legislation and firmware protections that show a bright visible indication of recording, I don't want Google Glass near me.
That's not hyperbole or tin-foil either. Pretty much everyone here will know about Big Data. We just disagree to the extent we are being abused, not that it's happening.
I'm vehemently opposed based on my privacy views, but also because I don't want to go to the Olive Garden and then have the blaring idiot-box telling me about Prego's new roasted garlic sauce for only $3.99 at Albertson's, America's preferred grocery store at the gas station.
We should be opposed to Google Glass because of the mass violations of privacy, those being reasonable levels we expect in public and semi-public levels of privacy.
If you want to snap a picture with your cell phone by my guest. It doesn't affect my privacy all that much. Use Google Glass and I'm reasonably assured you just jumped up and shouted it to the world at 4000 decibels.
So I would tell those people to shut the fuck up. Respectfully. It's a nice restaurant.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.