Alright - troll it is.

Seriously? Stalking? Grow up, kid. You link to your website in your profile. Its the web. I know it must be confusing to millennials like yourself that never lived in a society where there was privacy. BTW, cool steampunk speakers and homemade guitar amp.

I can't draw all the lines for you. If you can't figure out why that link was applicable, I got nothing for you. I didn't see this thread past reply two as a "conversation". I replied in a manner to test troll potential. From my standpoint I was confirmed in that hypothesis. Nothing wrong with trolling occasionally. But if you seriously consider this a conversation, I'll play along some more...

To start - make a point and clarify it if the person you are responding to doesn't seem to understand what you are really trying to say. Real conversations happen a lot easier when you lose the hard-on for rebuttal and try to actually listen to what is being said. I clarified my point into a succinct "I think they are ugly and would like something that looks nicer." You clarified your point into line-by-line spasms and a refusal to acknowledge that your original "point" could be read as antagonistic.

So, you want to try again? Or is it enough for you to high five your bros and proclaim troll victory?

Pot...meet kettle?

I seriously didn't. Did I miss some golden nugget of truth?

I bet they never let you get the last word in either ;)

Holy crap. Did you seriously go line by line rebuttal?

You went full retard. Never go full retard.

I would argue that your point was tangential from the start. You took my point of wanting a less intrusive, more natural looking piece of kit straight to "ZOMG Think of the poor childrens! Perverts armed with google glass! News at eleven!". My follow on suggestions/desciptions were meant to be in the same absurd, vacuous realm. I simply was trying to state that I would prefer it to not be horribly ugly and obviously intrusive to everyone around the people wearing these.

You didn't really suggest that Google glass has "nefarious uses". Your suggested the reason that someone (me, in this case) might want a less intrusive device was to clandestinely film children at the playground. You then went on to say "well, I'm only half joking since I can't know for sure that you aren't a pervert".

If you were only addressing a concern that Google glass can have bad uses, then all I can reply is that, sure, you are absolutely right. You just have to ask yourself is it worth being constantly paranoid about? I guess you have to decide whether Google is the Devil incarnate, sent to enslave us all with their very ugly eyewear, or whether they are simply a tech company trying to hit the next big thing before Apple does. I am not losing sleep over Google glass, at least not from the privacy concerns.

So, are you suggesting that playground perverts are being stymied today by a lack of suitable surreptitious videography gear? Or that even in its current form factor that it is acceptable to walk up to people whom you deem "pervy" and demand they leave a public place because of their google glass?

I could have said something like "I would like to not advertise an expensive wearable computer on my face to the unwashed masses on the subway train, since it would only lead to me being robbed". The fact that her face wear drew knowledgeable attention should be indicator enough. Other reasons to have it surreptitious? How about witness to a crime, intentional or otherwise?

If you are really a parent concerned with your child's privacy at the playground, I would suggest things that are actually under your control, like not letting them play where the hoodlum teenagers broke the vodka bottle by the jungle gym, or keeping them from putting foreign objects in their mouths. That is time well spent.

It would help if they could design that into a form factor that isn't blatantly a pair of google glasses. I would want my wearable tech to be as inconspicuous and non-intrusive as possible, both to my experience and the public around me.

I have a big 4k monitor and an "older" 21 or so inch that I turn in portrait. That combination works best for me, as I can have API info open on the vertical while I code in the main screen. I can tell you, however, that it isn't just the real estate, its how insanely crisp the monitor is. Fonts are gorgeous from 8 point to absurdly huge. My monitor is routinely borrowed on "impress the client" presentation days for the hands on.

Arrrrr!!! At least the google glass protects you from splash damage...

With a name like Capt.DrumkenBum .... pot, meet kettle?

Don't they have an open-air experiment going on already? Just take a day trip to Fukushima.

http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/09/telco-to-town-were-suing-you-because-we-care/

and even from slashdot:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/09/12/2326251/telco-sues-municipality-for-laying-their-own-fiber

They don't really need to assume that we are morons. We prove this every day, unfortunately:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/30/edward-snowden-poll_n_4175089.html

Kind, sensible people every day stand idle while sociopaths lie blatantly to their faces, because they want to believe so badly that these agencies behave like they do.

Same setup (new hire and entry level software engineer) basically. I only get to see my team in person every Tuesday and Thursday. We have email, jabber and phone for the other days. I think the same rules apply as any IRC channel - don't be afraid to own your ignorance, but make sure you have done a modicum of research before posting to your devel team listserv or pestering your coworkers with jabber texts in the middle of code-freeze or code-bash. Take it at face value and make incremental steps and get feedback.