Simple solution, don't attack people just becasue they are doing something they have the right to be doing.

"How well do you think that would be tolerated, especially if it was not directed at an immediate group of friends and short lived? "
happens every day all over the place. Just with Cell phones. Many of which you can't tell are recording.
"Would you be surprised if someone got up and knocked the camera out of their hand? Verbally berated them? Pushed them?"
Yes I would. Most people are civilized enough to go to the manager/bar tender and ask them to have the person turn off the camera or that they are leaving.

I knows several people with Google Glass.
None of them are hipsters, or jerks.

"Secondly, you forgot to explain why I should give a shit about..."
Clearly you do, becasue you are posting. You do know that with websites like slashdot the point is to have a conversation? Not that you have to.

Based on your post, the only reason I can think you owuld post is because you want attention. So here is a cookie and a pat on your head. Good job.
You can pick up your 'My mom says I'm important so give me a participation award' award on your way out.

Cheers.

"...but you'll never in our lifetime get people "comfortable" with some creepy asshole filming them out in public. "
are you young? I can see many technologies in use today that would be seen as 'creepy' and never going to be accepted in the 70's.

People will get used to it, because people can get use to anything.

"Glass may be the straw that triggers the backlash."
I disagree. Let me explain why.

Casino's. I was in Vegas last month, and people in casinos where takign pictures and no one cared. WIth their phones with DLS, and all over the place.
A few decades ago when I worked in Casinos, you would have been asked to leave. After I noticed it I started looking for the tradition no camera signs, and I could find any.

If Casinos finally caved, then pretty much everyone is going to cave. The moments placed advertise no cameras, is the moment 90% of their patrons leave.

This issue is that some pretentious jerks looking for an excuse to hate. I would not be surprised if they never sad anything to people using their phones to take pictures. Phones, by the way, can be less obvious they are being used for cameras then Google Glass.

Why would you think she is lying? You can tell when it's recording. You may be a lying Sack of Shit, but don't project that onto others.

more to do with assholes looking for an excuse to harass someone, and possible a scam specifically to steal her purse,

Lets not attribute to society as a whole premises based on violate actions some some assholes who clearly need therapy.

Actually, he could have protected himself with, "B*TCH! Get out of my house!" If she isn't on the lease, then she is staying as a guest.

completely wrong. People who live there have rights to.

Really, you're an idiot.

Whose rights trump? The rights of the person who want law enforcment there, or the rights of the person who doesn't want law enforcement there?

it's a glut if only 4 were needed.

"The company you are ordering from will screw you on obvious errors every chance they get."
no likely. But you keep to your delusions.

" On the rare occasions when they do not, it's called "breach of fiduciary responsibility" and is actionable. "
Stop using term you clearly do not understand.

"You can't hide secrets from the future with math."

Yes, it's the clerks fault.
You're an asshole. You could simply say "No".
Of course I haven't been asked for any of the info in over a decades.

". I refuse to participate in data mining myself and they should be ashamed of themselves for asking."
dear lord, they might get information to make there store better fit your needs! oh lordy lordy!

Datamining, sheesh, so what?

No. its better the 15 years ago. Nothing compared to 25 years ago.

The one near my house as a bunch of arduino boards, as well as electronic components.