Well, you can't blame them since they're working for McDonald's (and are therefor somewhat retarded).
Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
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Re: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
> People don't want cameras pointed at them all the time. As he explains in the article, the camera does not (when functioning properly) store anything permanently. His photos were only possible when the computer stopped overwriting the buffered images. I don't think that's an invasion of privacy. Not being familiar with the device, they might not have known that, but that's hardly justification to assault someone. A…
Not one person being "scanned" would know what the rig is for. It is the responsibility of the wearer to communicate this and ask permission when entering private spaces. A museum or a public place is a different story. If museum security has an issue then you either leave or take it off. Even in public there's the concept of decorum. Let's say you have a teenage daughter who is also attractive and some guy stars to…
> It is the responsibility of the wearer to communicate this and ask permission when entering private spaces.
At some point, I feel the need to be pedantic: any healthy human does have a universal recording device: the eye and the brain. But we're all kinda used to it. My guess is, the real reason the "security" guys were pissed off was primal fear of the unknown. They saw a Borg coming in, then they found a likely rationale for messing with him.
Try walking past a security guard in a clown suit, and see what happens. I bet he will find any reason to mess with you but the fact you are wearing a clown suit.
As for the actual privacy problem, wait for the day we'll have recording devices plugged right to the optic nerve.
Re: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
So if we swap around a few of the particulars -- say, make the guy with the camera black, relocate the scene to the deep South, and then make the three perpetrators good old boys -- a fairly plausible hypothesis would rush to mind, even if it is outside the experience of the typical white American at the typical McDonalds. Mafia fronts certainly exist in the world, but they are probably greatly outnumbered by petty p…
Just so we are all on the same page, the males look of distinct North-African extraction - Algerian, Moroccan, Egyptian or Libyan.
Do they? How can you tell with their face obscured?
Re: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just so we are all on the same page, the males look of distinct North-African extraction - Algerian, Moroccan, Egyptian or Libyan.
Just so we're all on the same - very ignorant - page, are you talking race in 2012? Come on, todays French are a big mix of whatever. This mix is what is French.
That is just pure left-wing bullshit. If the integration has failed, it has failed. Don't try and smooth over stuff with the current year as an argument, it's just silly!
If you tried walk up the street (or even out of your apartment) away from your little tight and secure neighbourship and started looking around how people are segregated into the suburbs, creating alienation, poverty and criminality, you'd really not spew out that kind of one-liner hypocrite B.S.
Re: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
#305No one at an ordinary McDonald's would even notice such a device. Ergo this was not an ordinary McDonald's, but one with security people looking for cameras. Why would a McDonald's have security people looking for cameras? Possibly because it was a mafia front. If you wanted to launder money, a fast food restaurant in a popular location would be a good place to do it. The way the employees behaved is consistent with…
Is this the real PG throwing around conspiracy theories? Wow. I'm French and have been living in Paris my whole life. In France you're not allowed to take pictures or movies of people without their consent. If you try to take pictures of strangers in the subway you will be heckled and possibly assaulted, and the police will do nothing to stop it. I'm not defending my country here -- I'm a photographer and resent this…
The same exact thing happens in Italy and Spain that I know. I believe the breeding ground is similar.
Also the employee-client relationship is radically different to what people in the US, Canada or UK are used to. Generally people are polite, but in case of any sort of conflict employees are protected and the client is assumed to be wrong and told to fuck off. As opposed to "the client always being right". There must be a middle ground somewhere.
Re: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, the more people wonder whether French of Moroccan extraction really are French or Moroccan, the less French they are. I'm French, of no extraction. Please stop. French of Moroccan extraction are French. Regarding the riots, that's also not relevant to the discussion but because you ask, those riots where the results of 40 years of bad policies, social rejection and latent racism.
Although I agree with you on principle, most Moroccans in Europe identify as Moroccan first and French/Dutch/Belgian second. Also, since they are not "allowed" to disavow their Moroccan nationality, virtually all Moroccans remain Moroccan, even in later generations.
It's not their identity but their nationality that is seen as an issue by the op.
Identity in social science is a complex matter and trying to attack it with "most" is at best inaccurate. Please read the article on identity negotiation which will shed light to the picture.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_negotiation
PS: I'm not RTFM-ing you, it's just a topic that I'm not qualified to address myself, even though I know it's complex.
Re: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
#307Anybody else notice that this is blocked as "spammy" on Facebook?
Getting the same thing here. I did find an acknowledgement from Facebook regarding blocking imgur.com 8 hours ago (http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/wo8ej/facebook_h...), but blocking EyeTap seems suspicious.
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#308guys, did they blocked the link on facebook ? http://www.lize.it/up/blockedOnFb.png
Re: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
#309No one at an ordinary McDonald's would even notice such a device. Ergo this was not an ordinary McDonald's, but one with security people looking for cameras. Why would a McDonald's have security people looking for cameras? Possibly because it was a mafia front. If you wanted to launder money, a fast food restaurant in a popular location would be a good place to do it. The way the employees behaved is consistent with…
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Re: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
#310Anybody else notice that this is blocked as "spammy" on Facebook?
Getting the same thing here. I did find an acknowledgement from Facebook regarding blocking imgur.com 8 hours ago ( http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/wo8ej/facebook_h... ), but blocking EyeTap seems suspicious.
same thing here