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Nobody with an effective countermeasure is going to share it, or even let you know it exists. The days of open communication about privacy (lol) are long gone!
It’s not so much having a countermeasure but having countermeasures be built in to the system. Similar to a concept called gevulot in the book Quantum Thief.
There is another way...
Any good argument that anyone can think of for a scenario where smart eyewear will not be as ubiquitous as smart phones eventually? I understand the privacy argument, but that is not going to be enough. The ability to think or blink in a certain way and capture anything you see is too powerful a tool, alongside the augmented reality that is coming.
I mean, sure, there are plenty: regulation, battery life, ruggedness, the creep factor, the fact that this does not provide me with anything similar to the value of a smartphone. Not all of us spend our days walking down urban streets, having a desire to have the things around us augmented. My smart phone spends 98% of its life in my pocket because I don't want or need any application most of the time. I've tried ado…
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Assuming both commenters are honest, I'm going to listen to the person who works in QA in the industry. The parent just sounds like someone who loves a specific item and is a bit miffed they changed it. Lots of "cheap plastic lenses" and "cheap spring hinges" type complaints without much backup. Is carbon fiber cheap and rubbish because it isn't steel? Why does the parent think plastic means inferior? "Mine are 40 ye…
Are you seriously claiming that plastic lenses are higher quality and longer lasting than glass lenses? Plastic lenses scratch very easily; glass lenses don't. Also, I don't need to write a white paper or do a study to maintain that spring hinges are cheap compared to the barrel hinges. I've seen so many of the spring hinges break on glasses people had bought less than a year ago. They are demonstrably low quality.
What grade of scratch? What about cost to replace vs non-resistance? What about the average lifetime of glasses vs cost?
By cheap do you mean take less stress before fracture? How about actuations before failure?
See, you don't know. You're just ranting. Yes, you would need to you know ... at least cite some specifics and evidence beyond your own experience. That's how these things tend to work.
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Do you have a link to that?
They are talking about an art project from students at a dutch university and are misinformed. https://youtu.be/D1Thmz61sho
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Are you seriously claiming that plastic lenses are higher quality and longer lasting than glass lenses? Plastic lenses scratch very easily; glass lenses don't. Also, I don't need to write a white paper or do a study to maintain that spring hinges are cheap compared to the barrel hinges. I've seen so many of the spring hinges break on glasses people had bought less than a year ago. They are demonstrably low quality.
Do you mean crown glass? High index glass? Polycarbonate? What grade of scratch? What about cost to replace vs non-resistance? What about the average lifetime of glasses vs cost? By cheap do you mean take less stress before fracture? How about actuations before failure? See, you don't know. You're just ranting. Yes, you would need to you know ... at least cite some specifics and evidence beyond your own experience. T…
This is really not rocket surgery. We're talking about sunglasses. As I said above, I don't need to write a white paper or do an academic study to know this is true, it's based on my experiences wearing all these different types of sunglasses over decades and observing how they are constructed and how they respond to various types of normal wear to outright abuse.
I got a pair of the original Stories and they are my most favorite device released in the past decade except for the AirPods. Countless times I've wanted to capture something with my kids, or on a drive, or on a bike ride. I can just tap the button on my glasses and that's it. I'm not taken out of the moment at all. It's great. as for the other stuff, Bluetooth speaker included, I wish they would rip it all out.
Thanks for your review, Zuck :)
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>somewhat Its a universal human right, actually, to be able to record anything you can perceive in public ... without that right we cannot exercise political freedom or our rights as individuals for redress. >It's not reasonable to tell everyone who has an issue like this: "Well, don't go out into public then" Of course it is. They have equal rights - and equal opportunity, therefore, to express - or not express - th…
> Its a universal human right, actually, to be able to record anything you can perceive in public I completely disagree that this is (or should be considered) a universal human right at all.
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You should accept the fact that, while out and about in public, you have no expectation of privacy. In your own home - sure. Such is the price of freedom.
> Such is the price of freedom. No. This is an example of reducing the freedom of some in order to increase the liberties of others.
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>somewhat Its a universal human right, actually, to be able to record anything you can perceive in public ... without that right we cannot exercise political freedom or our rights as individuals for redress. >It's not reasonable to tell everyone who has an issue like this: "Well, don't go out into public then" Of course it is. They have equal rights - and equal opportunity, therefore, to express - or not express - th…
> Its a universal human right, actually, to be able to record anything you can perceive in public ... No. It's not. Here: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma... If you believe something is a right, and most other people don't, it's definitely not a universal right. What is an established universal human right is: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, h…
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>somewhat Its a universal human right, actually, to be able to record anything you can perceive in public ... without that right we cannot exercise political freedom or our rights as individuals for redress. >It's not reasonable to tell everyone who has an issue like this: "Well, don't go out into public then" Of course it is. They have equal rights - and equal opportunity, therefore, to express - or not express - th…
Political freedom is exercized at the ballot box, not in photos of my wife.