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Thirty-Five Arguments Against Google Glass

Thirty-Five Arguments Against Google Glass
Google Glass is a snazzy set of specs that will part the Red Sea if you tap it from the right angle. It aims to fuse smartphones and computers into a hands-free user experience more pleasurable than sex, religion, and world domination combined. Glass is not yet on the market, but the news of its existence cut a hew through Mountain View with the strident fife of an unpaid piper wooing unsuspecting kids into a dark cave. It inspired Google co-founder Sergey Brin to publicly announce that he felt less male with the thick tools that came before. Brin was good enough to describe his new instrument to the Wall Street Journal last September: They are, uh, a new form of computing, uh, that’s designed to really free you. The glasses are not now available to the general public, but Google informed The Verge a few weeks ago that the specs would cost “less than $1,500″ when hitting the stores, which is believed to be sometime next year. Here are thirty-five arguments against Google Glass:

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I, for One, Welcome Our Google Glass-Wearing Cyborg Overlords You may have noticed the Google Glass backlash is well underway. Once we were thrilled by the promise of the eye-level connected screen and camera technology; once we poked satirical fun at it. But no more. Now, it seems, we've reached the stage of being threatened by it. One dive bar in Seattle banned customers from wearing Glass; given that no consumers and few developers have their hands on the tech yet, and Google HQ is 700 miles to the south, this was a little like your local doctor's office banning human cloning. An online campaign called "Stop the Cyborgs" is offering Google Glass ban signs for free download, as well as stickers and T-shirts. All in all, it's an uncomfortable time to proclaim what Eddie Izzard dubbed "technojoy" about the prospect of a whole new category of gadget. Heaven forbid that here, in the 2010s, jetpack-less and flying car-free, we might actually gain an item of personal gear that looks the teensiest bit futuristic. But fear not, fellow cyborg-lovers.

#opManning In media mythology, the years from the mid-1960s to the mid-’70s were the classical age, a heroic time of moral clarity. Mainstream journalism marinated in adversarialism. Little Southern newspapers infuriated their own readers by staring down segregation. True, that retelling is a bit of myth-spinning; the media never were quite that gutsy. And over the past decade or so, it’s as if that classical formula of defiance and struggle has been turned upside down. Even Watergate is upended, with Bob Woodward, one of the two Washington Post reporters who exposed the scandal, now the target of scathing revisionism because of a trivial dustup with a thin-skinned White House. And looming above those breathtaking role reversals is the media’s disgraceful abandonment of the boldest news source of his generation, Pvt. The ferocity of the Obama administration’s attack on Manning and on Wikileaks, the online anti-secrecy organization that brokered his leaks to the media, has been withering. Like this:

Life through a lens: Will Google Glass turn us all into drones? Google Glass was demonstrated at SXSW this week, prompting much debate about whether the tech giant's latest gadget will change how we see the world. But more than that, what effect will real-time, heads-up data have on our consciousness over time? Ed Castillo, head of planning at TBWA\Chiat\Day in New York, goes through the looking-glass... The demonstration of Google Glass at SXSWi has aroused – or at least has coincided with – Twitter activity from technologists and ad types (Twechs and Twads?) about everything from hyper-practical concerns to thoughtful accounts of how this innovation might change the shape of public life. Even a cursory look at the digital echo emanating from Monday’s demo reveals the disruptive promise of this innovation. What follows is a surface contemplation of just a few of the issues that Google Glass use will raise, building toward a subtler, longer-time-horizon issue that I’ve not yet seen addressed by the Twechs and Twads… A blurring of bodies and bits

How Secure Is My Password? How people might misuse Google Glass A video has been posted online that echoes concerns about the introduction of Google Glass, the web giant’s augmented reality spectacles. Advertisement How we moderate Digital Encryption and Digital Signatures with GPG | Ubuntu DC LoCo Team For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept of digital signature and encryption, I hope this tutorial will provide some insight. It is designed to convey the concepts and plays a bit fast and loose with the specifics. (Follow the links for more details than you probably want.) This doesn't cover the specific commands needed to use GPG or PGP . The resources listed at the end of this document will get you into that. DO follow the link to the Keysigning Steps near the bottom of this page, once you have a feel for this material. As people become more concerned about the security of e-mail, efforts have been made to improve privacy and guarantee authenticity of various digital media. A popular encryption system created by Phil Zimmermann is known as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) . These encryption programs use an encryption technique known as public key cryptography . Symmetric keys are not considered very secure by today's standards. Fingerprints and Signatures Well... not exactly.

Augmented Reality: Google Glass contractual restrictions | Beyond The Beyond *Well well, this is gonna get interesting. “Google is barring anyone deemed worthy of a pair of its $1,500 Google Glass computer eyewear from selling or even loaning out the highly coveted gadget. “The company’s terms of service on the limited-edition wearable computer specifically states, “you may not resell, loan, transfer, or give your device to any other person. “Welcome to the New World, one in which companies are retaining control of their products even after consumers purchase them. “It was bound to happen. ” “If it takes off like iPhones did, this is going to be part of people’s everyday activity, and now we are starting down this path that is going to be completely controlled,” said Corynne McSherry, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s intellectual property coordinator….”

Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) Mini Howto (English): Concepts Next Previous Contents 1. Concepts 1.1 Public Key Encryption Classic methods for encryption only use one key for encryption. The use of so-called Public Keys can solve this problem. Crucial in this concept is that the secret key remains a secret and should not be given away or become available to anyone else but the owner of this key. 1.2 Digital Signatures In order to prove that a message was really sent by the alleged sender the concept of Digital Signatures was invented. A digital signature is made through a combination of the secret key and the text. 1.3 Web of trust A weak point of the Public key algorithms is the spreading of the public keys. The PGP solution (and because of that automatically the GnuPG solution) exists in signing codes. 1.4 Boundaries to security If you have data that you would like to remain confidential, there is more to it than just determining which encoding algorithm to use.

Diary of a Google Glass enthusiast Awesome! My Google Glass arrived today. Or is it Google Glasses? Who cares. Now I’m certain to be cool. Marie from Accounts will HAVE to notice me. I can’t stop the annoying flashing blue icon in my cornea. Running late for work though. It’s a bit weird walking down the street with these things, but I guess I’ll get used to it. I’ll switch it off for the time being. OK, I think I’ve got the hang of it now. I’ve suddenly noticed a lot of really angry looking people wearing t-shirts that say things like “Record me and I’ll punch you in the head”, I take to the streets. I’ve suddenly noticed a lot of really angry looking people wearing t-shirts that say things like “Record me and I’ll punch you in the head”, but it’s easy enough to turn the other way. Coming out of the coffee shop I trip over face down onto the sidewalk. Found out that these things are also really good for scaring old people. Alright, this is getting annoying. I can’t believe how awesome the face recognition app is.

The Enemies of Internet - Special Edition : Surveillance Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy? If you haven't heard about the excitement around Google Glass – the head-mounted glasses that can shoot video, take pictures, and broadcast what you're seeing to the world – then here's an idea of the interest in them. Last week, someone claiming to be testing Glass for Google auctioned their $1,500 (£995) device on eBay. Bidding had reached $16,000 before eBay stopped it on the basis that the person couldn't prove they had the glasses. (They weren't due to get them until last Friday.) Google Glass is the most hotly anticipated new arrival in "wearable computing" – which experts predict will become pervasive. In the past 50 years we have moved from "mainframe" computers that needed their own rooms to ones that fit in a pocket; any smartphone nowadays has as much raw computing power as a top-of-the-line laptop from 10 years ago. The next stage is computers that fit on to your body, and Google's idea is that you need only speak to operate it. Still, you might think, where's the harm?

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