# Don't Be A Glasshole !!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 15, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214 "2014-04-15T23:06:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/21 "2014-04-16T16:09:41Z")
Pssst… see that group of people at the bus stop “checking Facebook” on their handhelds? How do you know any or all of them aren’t recording video or at least audio? At least the Glass device gives you some fair warning (although I personally find it dorky and useless, at least it’s honest about what it may be doing). ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/22 "2014-04-16T17:50:23Z")
I find these freakouts so odd. If you are out in public, people are seeing you. Security cameras are already recording you, like they have been for decades. And the general public having recording capabilities is a good thing. Now the police have to think twice before abusing their power, at least wait until they take you somewhere isolated before they beat the shit out of you for looking at them funny or being the wrong race. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/23 "2014-04-16T19:07:38Z")
> [@Macca26](#): > > _Someone may be masturbating to memories of you right now and you will never know!_ This is not true, it was last night. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/24 "2014-04-16T19:11:18Z")
I don’t understand why people think people use the camera function continuously on the glasses. As far as I know it’s a internet terminal and can be used for a number of things such as Google maps. If the people using the google glasses start to get assaulted, I would expect the video to be constantly uploading streaming then so they have something to turn into the police, can post pictures of that person to youtube or use the evidence to get that person some mental health help voluntary or not. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/25 "2014-04-16T22:16:33Z")
This kind of over-reaction puts at risk people who wear protective goggles for other reasons. Some nice old geezer with very light-sensitive eyes, because of his medications, is going to be targeted by our new neo-bullies. Or some kid at the Comic-Con in a “Cyclops” (X-Men) costume. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/26 "2014-04-17T09:28:48Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > I don’t understand why people think people use the camera function continuously on the glasses. A few years back, some mobsters were caught based on a bugged conversation. The bug was a hacked cell phone that was turned off at the time (or so it seemed to them, I guess). You make the connection – which might be that I seem to be deeply paranoid. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/27 "2014-04-17T11:51:09Z")
I’d better be careful when I have my GoPro on my ski or biking helmet then, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/28 "2014-04-17T12:16:21Z")
Google Glass is uniquely dorky-looking…will there really be a rash of assaults against people wearing any oversized glasses or goggles? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/29 "2014-04-17T16:31:01Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > That’s a weird damned attitude for a guy who makes a living staring through a camera. Tell me you’ve never shot a crowd or took a photograph of someone who didn’t know they were having their picture taken. > > While Google Glass is slight different in that it’s constantly on, I don’t see it as drastically different than the plethora of Go Pros, camera phones, and security cams that are currently running around me. I assume that if I’m doing something obnoxious or disgusting enough to inspire a Glass wearer to clip out a video and put it on YouTube, then everyone else within sight is going to be capturing the same thing on their Samsungs or iPhones. So unless you want to broaden your vendetta to everyone who’s carrying anything electronic with a lens, you probably should chill. Right, that ship has mostly sailed. Some people seem to think that the Google Glass is constantly recording video, from what I understand it isn’t. It has a limited battery, it can record video for something like an hour or two. So if someone chooses to take a video of you with their Google Glass, someone else could just as easily choose to do so with their Iphone. People might constantly have their Google Glasses on their face, but that doesn’t mean that they are on or doing anything, just like someone might have their Bluetooth device on their ear but it’s not doing anything, or their phone in their pocket or purse but that doesn’t mean it’s recording or doing anything. I am somewhat worried about widespread use of Google Glass or its descendants in the future, but not because of recording. What worries more is the distraction. I’m worried that people will drive will checking Facebook and crash their cars. Or even if I’m talking to someone, I don’t want them to also be checking Twitter while talking to me. Of course people can do that with their phones now, but it’s much more obvious. > [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Oh yeah, I almost forgot about this: one week, the local morning news outfitted some of the anchors and employees with Google Glass, and broadcast a “live” view from the Google Glass video camera as part of the news program (for example, an anchor wearing Google Glass would be recording the camera crew in front of them). The video quality was horrible, and the frame rate was so jerky that it almost made me sick to my stomach…and I’m not prone to motion sickness at all. > > I don’t think the OP needs to be worried just yet. You said the frame rate was jerky, how jerky was the actual video? Was it better or worse than a hand held camera? I don’t know how able people are to stand still and look straight at an event, and how watchable that footage would be. Hand held cameras can be shaky, but I would think video from glasses could be equally nausea inducing. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/30 "2014-04-17T16:42:24Z")
It was an obviously low frame rate combined with constant head motion. It didn’t impress me at all…I’ve gotten much better video from just a little point-and-shoot camera. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/31 "2014-04-17T18:30:05Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > It was an obviously low frame rate combined with constant head motion. It didn’t impress me at all…I’ve gotten much better video from just a little point-and-shoot camera. That makes sense. I was guessing the head motion would hurt most videos. Even if you were trying to shoot something stationary, like using your Google Glasses to pirate a movie at a movie theater, you’d probably fidget and move around some and mess up the video. For anything else the head motion would be much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/32 "2014-04-17T18:56:08Z")
Here’s a video from a glass wearer. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx-spe-82w4) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/33 "2014-04-17T20:04:48Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Google Glass is uniquely dorky-looking…will there really be a rash of assaults against people wearing any oversized glasses or goggles? There probably won’t be any rash of assaults at all. Most people aren’t that stupid. Also, computerized glasses and goggles will change design styles, quickly and often. Look how quickly laptop computers came onto the scene, or smart phones, or tablets. Look how very small cameras can be made anyway. If I wanted to get surreptitious video of a scene, I could use a lapel camera, and most people would never be able to spot it. As **Sam Lowry** says, the ship has already sailed. Singling out goggle wearers is as dumb as singling out Android smart-phone users while ignoring I-Phones. > [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > . . . What worries more is the distraction. I’m worried that people will drive will checking Facebook and crash their cars. Or even if I’m talking to someone, I don’t want them to also be checking Twitter while talking to me. Of course people can do that with their phones now, but it’s much more obvious. . . . Definitely agree. It ups the ante from the existing threats and social poor etiquette we now experience with smart phones. It’s more distracting to drivers, and more likely to come between people in the course of ordinary conversation. My local Post Office has a posted rule: you can’t be on your phone while you’re doing business with a counter clerk. Hang up, or go back to the end of the line. With a hand-held phone, it’s easy to see who’s flouting the rule. With goggles, not so easy. But assault and battery as a form of reproach? Gosh, how tepid! Let’s espouse a Second Amendment solution! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/34 "2014-04-17T21:16:32Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Here’s a video from a glass wearer. > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx-spe-82w4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx-spe-82w4) Oh, from Sarah Slocum. Now there’s a wanna-be. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/35 "2014-04-18T00:18:08Z")
Of course, google is now exploring putting their glass tech [into contact lenses](http://www.cnet.com/news/after-google-glass-google-developing-contact-lens-camera/). The downside to that being … _Shut up and take my money!_ ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/36 "2014-04-18T16:35:41Z")
> [@For You](#): > > Of course, google is now exploring putting their glass tech [into contact lenses](http://www.cnet.com/news/after-google-glass-google-developing-contact-lens-camera/). The downside to that being … > > _Shut up and take my money!_ Didn’t Torchwood have something exactly like that? The difference being that it was science fiction, of course. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/37 "2014-04-18T17:25:57Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Don’t be a Glasshole or if you must be one, then embrace the barrage of verbal abuse that you’ve invited to be rained down upon yourself. He’s not using Google Glass, but [this guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RqXg6-06a4)has certainly learned to embrace it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/38 "2014-04-18T17:37:51Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > He’s not using Google Glass, but [this guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RqXg6-06a4)has certainly learned to embrace it. I find it surprisingly easy to acknowledge that he has a legal right to do that, while at the same time hoping that one of the people he films beats him comatose for doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/39 "2014-04-20T06:27:08Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I find it surprisingly easy to acknowledge that he has a legal right to do that, while at the same time hoping that one of the people he films beats him comatose for doing it. What a Dick. This does not appear to be a healthy endeavor. If someone does beat him comatose, I wonder if they’ll have the good sense to … take the camera 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214/40 "2014-04-21T02:34:26Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Here’s a video from a glass wearer. > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx-spe-82w4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx-spe-82w4) The only jerky thing about that video was the nitwit wearing the Glass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-be-a-glasshole/686214.md?page=1)