Could be fishy, certainly sounds unlikely, but with all the interest
lately in government gone mad:
http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arrest-a-google-glass-user/
-- Owen
I believe that such an incident is possible, especially when you
consider there are thousands of theaters in this great country...
Meanwhile, it also sounds like the ravings of an "Open Carry" Gun Nut
who "innocently" swaggered into a Bank, Liquor Store or a Pharmacy and
took offense that *anyone* would think she was "packing with intent to use".
Sure, there will be early adopters and all the surprises that come with
colliding with the existing order.
This story is *mostly* about the way LEO and Trade Associations can take
themselves way too seriously and in particular feel free to err toward
false positives without any responsibility for the consequences.
Every time I see flashing lights in my rear-view, I have to remind
myself that the poor joker with the shiny boots, shiny badge, shiny gun
and shiny attitude knows that this might be his "lucky stop" where he
gets to apprehend public enemy #1 or get shot in the face trying...
So I *check my own attitude* and let him play "Yer in a Heap O' Trouble
Boi!" in his mirror shades. It seems like a "really bad idea"... that
all that swagger and bluff and attempted intimidation is likely to cause
*more* trouble rather than less. I'm sure it cuts down on the petty
"lip" they get from jerks and people who are just "having a bad day" but
I somehow doubt that it reduces the chance of getting shot in the
face. If anything, it seems like it *increases* the chances. On the
other hand, maybe this is the only way the job can be done... or the
only personality type willing to stick their face in a stranger's window
and bark at them when all they may have done was had the temerity to
drive with a broken tail light, drive 65 in a 55, or cut a light a
little short.
I think Google Glass is lame (as it stands) but it seems like an
interesting social phenomena... I think I've mentioned on this list
before, Pat Cadigan's "cyberpunkesque" Novel Synners, where such
technology is ubiquitous in a day-after-tomorrow scenario where there
are people who make their living as roughly "Live Action Stringers",
running their Glass-Like tech 24/7 and trying to *always* be at the
"right place at the right time*. I think she wrote this in the early
1990s and here we are nearly living it (albeit with cameras in smart
phones instead).
Carry on!
- Steve
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