http://www.techoftomorrow.com/2013/mobile/google-glass-banned-by-food-chain-giant-mcdonalds/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57474346-71/google-style-glasses-led-to-attack-in-mcdonalds-professor-says/
My real question here is why the fuck anybody goes to McDonalds when they're on the Champs-Elysees.
Because it's about the most commercial cesspool in Paris, that street. I haven't been in...shit, 8 years or so, but I'd be willing to bet it is one long strip of McDonalds, Starbucks, Costa, Subway, probably an Apple store, some high end designers. It basically looks like any high street in any major American or European city.
Another illusion shattered. :lol:
The first link 503'd on me.
Why the fuck would these people attack some guy wearing glasses?
HAR! So these fucking retards attacked a visually-handicapped guy for wearing glasses that allow him to see?
Next I assume they'll be pitching people out of wheelchairs.
I hope they get prosecuted for aggravated battery, or whatever the equivalent charge is in France.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/14/google-glass-ban-privacy-concerns_n_2856385.html
QuoteDavid Meinert wasn't expecting his Facebook post to draw the attention of the international media.
After all, he'd only spent about 20 seconds thinking about the post, which said that Google Glass, the much-hyped augmented reality spectacles scheduled to be released later this year, wouldn't be permitted in his Seattle bar and diner, The 5 Point Cafe.
But the March 5 message, which noted the diner would be "the first Seattle business to ban in advance Google Glasses" and that "ass kickings will be encouraged for violators," received quite a bit of attention.
This is awesome. It's the obvious extension of the politics and societal norms since 1980.
I hope that fucker never complains about police beating people when they realize they're being taped. Because this is the EXACT SAME SHIT...Except that you're probably NOT being taped.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 02, 2013, 04:31:49 PM
The first link 503'd on me.
Why the fuck would these people attack some guy wearing glasses?
Not sure.
A lot of appallingly stupid shit seems to happen at McDonalds.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/apr/28/baltimore-trans-attack-mcdonalds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam#Mount_Washington.2C_Kentucky.2C_incident
First link isn't working for me anymore either, Dok.
It was a news blurb with a pic of a McDonald's door with a "No Google Glass Allowed" decal.
To be fair, it wasn't google glass. It was the guy's own prototype wearable computer, and bits of it are embedded in his head:
(http://www.interaction-design.org/images/authors/steve_mann.jpg)
Quote from: Polyethyline Glycol on August 05, 2013, 09:56:08 PM
To be fair, it wasn't google glass. It was the guy's own prototype wearable computer, and bits of it are embedded in his head:
(http://www.interaction-design.org/images/authors/steve_mann.jpg)
Yeah, pretty sure I called attention to that, Enki.
I don't see any post of yours that mentions wires embedded into his scalp in the thread.
(I also don't see any post mentioning the fact that he shat himself because of it, of course, or that the TSA did the same thing to him a few years ago.)
Quote from: Polyethyline Glycol on August 05, 2013, 10:56:41 PM
I don't see any post of yours that mentions wires embedded into his scalp in the thread.
(I also don't see any post mentioning the fact that he shat himself because of it, of course, or that the TSA did the same thing to him a few years ago.)
Yeah, quoted the article, asshole. The bit about the doctor's note?
UNNNNNNNNNNNG.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 10:46:09 PM
Quote from: Polyethyline Glycol on August 05, 2013, 09:56:08 PM
To be fair, it wasn't google glass. It was the guy's own prototype wearable computer, and bits of it are embedded in his head:
(http://www.interaction-design.org/images/authors/steve_mann.jpg)
Yeah, pretty sure I called attention to that, Enki.
It IS right in the article... I guess maybe Enki thinks that nobody else here can read?
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on August 05, 2013, 11:00:47 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 10:46:09 PM
Quote from: Polyethyline Glycol on August 05, 2013, 09:56:08 PM
To be fair, it wasn't google glass. It was the guy's own prototype wearable computer, and bits of it are embedded in his head:
(http://www.interaction-design.org/images/authors/steve_mann.jpg)
Yeah, pretty sure I called attention to that, Enki.
It IS right in the article... I guess maybe Enki thinks that nobody else here can read?
That picture is going to fuck with my sleep for weeks.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 11:01:30 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on August 05, 2013, 11:00:47 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 10:46:09 PM
Quote from: Polyethyline Glycol on August 05, 2013, 09:56:08 PM
To be fair, it wasn't google glass. It was the guy's own prototype wearable computer, and bits of it are embedded in his head:
(http://www.interaction-design.org/images/authors/steve_mann.jpg)
Yeah, pretty sure I called attention to that, Enki.
It IS right in the article... I guess maybe Enki thinks that nobody else here can read?
That picture is going to fuck with my sleep for weeks.
Yeah it's pretty AWESOME.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on August 05, 2013, 11:08:50 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 11:01:30 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on August 05, 2013, 11:00:47 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 10:46:09 PM
Quote from: Polyethyline Glycol on August 05, 2013, 09:56:08 PM
To be fair, it wasn't google glass. It was the guy's own prototype wearable computer, and bits of it are embedded in his head:
(http://www.interaction-design.org/images/authors/steve_mann.jpg)
Yeah, pretty sure I called attention to that, Enki.
It IS right in the article... I guess maybe Enki thinks that nobody else here can read?
That picture is going to fuck with my sleep for weeks.
Yeah it's pretty AWESOME.
It gives me the screaming jimjams. Seriously. DO NOT WANT.
It's completely visceral, too. I have NO IDEA why it bothers me.
The implants look like cornrowed hair.
NEVER SLEEPING AGAIN.
Quote from: stelz on August 02, 2013, 04:44:54 PMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam#Mount_Washington.2C_Kentucky.2C_incident
WHAT?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 11:34:52 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on August 05, 2013, 11:08:50 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 11:01:30 PM
That picture is going to fuck with my sleep for weeks.
Yeah it's pretty AWESOME.
It gives me the screaming jimjams. Seriously. DO NOT WANT.
It's completely visceral, too. I have NO IDEA why it bothers me.
The implants look like cornrowed hair.
NEVER SLEEPING AGAIN.
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE
\
(http://www.interaction-design.org/images/authors/steve_mann.jpg)
Quote from: Pæs on August 06, 2013, 12:34:09 AM
Quote from: stelz on August 02, 2013, 04:44:54 PMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam#Mount_Washington.2C_Kentucky.2C_incident
WHAT?
Hahaha, yeah, it's a little hard to believe. We got to listen to the call and watch excerpts from the tape in my psychology class.
Quote from: Pæs on August 06, 2013, 12:34:09 AM
Quote from: stelz on August 02, 2013, 04:44:54 PMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam#Mount_Washington.2C_Kentucky.2C_incident
WHAT?
Ah, yeah I remember hearing about that one. You'd think that after a certain point they would have known the call was bullshit.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on August 06, 2013, 01:32:15 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 11:34:52 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on August 05, 2013, 11:08:50 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 11:01:30 PM
That picture is going to fuck with my sleep for weeks.
Yeah it's pretty AWESOME.
It gives me the screaming jimjams. Seriously. DO NOT WANT.
It's completely visceral, too. I have NO IDEA why it bothers me.
The implants look like cornrowed hair.
NEVER SLEEPING AGAIN.
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE
\
(http://www.interaction-design.org/images/authors/steve_mann.jpg)
GOING BACK TO 1979 NOW.
Who the fuck hears about Stanley Milgram and thinks "lol I could troll people into sexually assaulting one another".
This is the most incredible part:
QuoteOn April 9, 2004, a call was made to a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Washington, Kentucky. According to assistant manager Donna Summers, the caller identified himself as a policeman, "officer Scott", and gave a vague description of a slightly-built young white woman with dark hair suspected of theft. Summers believed this described Louise Ogborn, a female employee on duty. After the caller demanded that the employee be searched at the store because no officers were available at the moment to handle such a minor matter, the employee was brought into an office and ordered to remove her clothes, which Summers placed in a plastic bag and took to her car at the caller's instruction. Another assistant manager, Kim Dockery,[1] was present during this time, believing she was there as a witness to the search. After an hour Dockery left and Summers told the caller that she was also required at the counter. The caller then told her to bring in someone she trusted to assist.[2]
Summers called her fiancé, Walter Nix, who arrived and took over from Summers. Told that a policeman was on the phone, Nix followed the caller's directions for the next two hours. He removed the apron the employee had covered herself with and ordered her to dance and perform jumping jacks. Nix then ordered the employee to insert her fingers into her vagina and expose her genital cavity to him as part of the search. He also ordered her to sit on his lap and kiss him, and when she refused he spanked her until she promised to comply. The caller also spoke to the employee, demanding that she do as she was told or face worse punishment. Recalling this period of time, the employee said that "I was scared for my life".
After the employee had been in the office for two and a half hours, she was ordered to perform oral sex on Nix.
Summers returned to the office periodically, and during these visits the employee was instructed by the caller to cover herself up with the apron. Becoming uneasy with the situation, Nix was then permitted by the caller to leave, on the condition that Summers had to find someone to replace him. After Nix left, he called a friend and told him "I have done something terribly bad".[2]
With Nix leaving, and short on available staff due to the dinnertime rush, someone was needed to replace Nix. In the lobby, Summers spotted Thomas Simms, the store maintenance man who had stopped at the restaurant for dessert. She instructed him to enter the office and watch the employee. Simms refused to go along with the caller's demands. At this point, Summers became suspicious
!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote...and decided to call the store manager, whom the caller had claimed to have on another phone line. Speaking with her boss, Summers then discovered that the store manager had been napping and had not spoken to any police officers, and that the call had been a hoax. The caller quickly hung up. An employee dialled *69 before another call could ring in, to get the telephone number of the caller's phone. Summers, now hysterical, began apologizing and released the employee (by then shivering and wrapped in an emergency blanket) after 3½ hours of false arrest and then called the real police, who arrested Nix for sexual assault and began an investigation to find the caller.
The entire incident was captured on a surveillance camera in the office. Summers watched the tape later that night, and according to her attorney, called off the engagement.
Sigh.
I remember that.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 06, 2013, 01:35:06 AM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on August 06, 2013, 01:32:15 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 11:34:52 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on August 05, 2013, 11:08:50 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 05, 2013, 11:01:30 PM
That picture is going to fuck with my sleep for weeks.
Yeah it's pretty AWESOME.
It gives me the screaming jimjams. Seriously. DO NOT WANT.
It's completely visceral, too. I have NO IDEA why it bothers me.
The implants look like cornrowed hair.
NEVER SLEEPING AGAIN.
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE
\
(http://www.interaction-design.org/images/authors/steve_mann.jpg)
GOING BACK TO 1979 NOW.
I think part of it is the smile and the wideness of the one good eye.
Quote from: Pæs on August 06, 2013, 01:36:07 AM
Who the fuck hears about Stanley Milgram and thinks "lol I could troll people into sexually assaulting one another".
Second thing that popped into my head :oops:
(http://i.cdn.turner.com/asfix/repository/8a25c3920ef15683010ef214f9770177/thumbnail_10220.jpg)
Everybody who hasn't chosen sides in the upcoming human vs robot war will be the first up against the wall
I'm choosing robot. Put the trodes in my brain.
Quote from: Carlos Danger on August 02, 2013, 03:31:19 PM
Because it's about the most commercial cesspool in Paris, that street. I haven't been in...shit, 8 years or so, but I'd be willing to bet it is one long strip of McDonalds, Starbucks, Costa, Subway, probably an Apple store, some high end designers. It basically looks like any high street in any major American or European city.
I was there a couple of years ago and can confirm this is still the case.
No big loss really, I've still not seen all the shit I want to in Paris.
Quote from: Cramulus on August 07, 2013, 07:41:09 PM
(http://i.cdn.turner.com/asfix/repository/8a25c3920ef15683010ef214f9770177/thumbnail_10220.jpg)
Everybody who hasn't chosen sides in the upcoming human vs robot war will be the first up against the wall
I'm choosing robot. Put the trodes in my brain.
This is why the cyborgs win. While most of the world goes OR, Cyborgia goes AND. Glorious hybrid times ensue. Then horrific hybrid times when the meat dies and the metal keeps moving.
All hail our computerized automatron overlords!
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 07, 2013, 09:06:35 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on August 07, 2013, 07:41:09 PM
(http://i.cdn.turner.com/asfix/repository/8a25c3920ef15683010ef214f9770177/thumbnail_10220.jpg)
Everybody who hasn't chosen sides in the upcoming human vs robot war will be the first up against the wall
I'm choosing robot. Put the trodes in my brain.
This is why the cyborgs win. While most of the world goes OR, Cyborgia goes AND. Glorious hybrid times ensue. Then horrific hybrid times when the meat dies and the metal keeps moving.
Make this into a zombie flick.
Quote from: Pæs on August 07, 2013, 11:29:14 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 07, 2013, 09:06:35 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on August 07, 2013, 07:41:09 PM
(http://i.cdn.turner.com/asfix/repository/8a25c3920ef15683010ef214f9770177/thumbnail_10220.jpg)
Everybody who hasn't chosen sides in the upcoming human vs robot war will be the first up against the wall
I'm choosing robot. Put the trodes in my brain.
This is why the cyborgs win. While most of the world goes OR, Cyborgia goes AND. Glorious hybrid times ensue. Then horrific hybrid times when the meat dies and the metal keeps moving.
Make this into a zombie flick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)