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  • redxredx Dublin, CARegistered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't think i've ever seen a suction cup in real life

    every supermarket, drug store, hardware store, and housewares store in the US sells these

    SuctionCupHooks_l.jpg

    I don't think those are quite strong enough to pull the screen out of an iMac. Not sure, you could probably buy a few dozen, and run a machine of death rig with suction cups all over every inch of it.

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  • ArchArch Trust me, I'm a scientist Registered User regular
  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    i have never cared much about privacy i guess but i'm in the privileged position of not really having much danger posed by it. i don't work or live in a super conservative area or job.
  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    Gentlemen, we can make them look goofier. We can do better.
    There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    redx wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i don't think i've ever seen a suction cup in real life

    every supermarket, drug store, hardware store, and housewares store in the US sells these

    SuctionCupHooks_l.jpg

    I don't think those are quite strong enough to pull the screen out of an iMac. Not sure, you could probably buy a few dozen, and run a machine of death rig with suction cups all over every inch of it.

    if you need that much suction power, just ask Donkey Kong
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • LudiousLudious Registered User regular
    I have a dent puller suction cup that could pull the makeup off a drag queen
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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    I'll be honest, I think that tumblr is dumb.

    Most people look dumb when someone takes a picture of them, and especially when they take pictures of themselves. The google glasses (or wait, it's singular? google glass? whatever) have almost nothing to do with the people looking stupid in those photographs, they're bad pictures regardless.

    Frankly I don't think the device itself looks that bad.

    It looks like an accessory out of a mad for TV scifi movie. You could play it up for retro fashion like fingerless gloves or something but at the end of the day, it looks stupid. And it implies that you need a screen in front of your face 24/7. It's like walking around with a feedbag on. No matter how enjoyable or convenient, it implies a certain lack of self control.

    Really? I dunno, I guess I don't get the last part. Does anybody doubt that this is the future? Or rather, doesn't everybody want the equivalent of google glass but without the stupid looking accessory? Why does wearing it now imply a lack of self control, when presumably everybody is going to want it if/when it becomes contact lenses, i.e. less noticeable?

    People will notice that you seem to be in your own world. They'll be unsettled by the idea of these people possibly taking video. I don't think everybody will want it. I don't want it and I love technology.

    It really serves no purpose at all. Everything it does, other devices do better already. There is no reason at all to have a constant web-connected visual overlay every waking moment.

    I can see it being an excellent device in a commercial or industrial setting, a personal HUD displaying real-time information for manufacturing jobs, stock levels etc, but just walking around with it in your everyday life is completely excessive.

    Pushing video feeds to security staff.

    Telling you people's names during social gatherings.

    Walking directions.

    Eyewitness accounts.

    Identifying part numbers by barcode scanning things you look at!!! Man, that will be fucking sweet. Just look at shit in a store and the Amazon price pops up in the air beside it.

    your wife walks out of the shower

    google image search matches her with porn pictures you never knew she took

    Uncomfortable!

    More likely to be sprayed in the face with a shower head if I wore it into the bathroom though.

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  • kedinikkedinik Registered User regular
    Bluetooth headsets are weird because from certain angles the wearer seems to be talking to himself.
  • evilbobevilbob Registered User regular
    I have a suction thing for removing solder. It's pretty cool.
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    More likely to be sprayed in the face with a shower head if I wore it into the bathroom though.

    this didn't make sense to me at first

    until i realized that walking straight from the shower to the bedroom au natural is not something everybody does

    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • syndalissyndalis Aballah Can Tah Advancing the Human ConditionRegistered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    I'll be honest, I think that tumblr is dumb.

    Most people look dumb when someone takes a picture of them, and especially when they take pictures of themselves. The google glasses (or wait, it's singular? google glass? whatever) have almost nothing to do with the people looking stupid in those photographs, they're bad pictures regardless.

    Frankly I don't think the device itself looks that bad.

    It looks like an accessory out of a mad for TV scifi movie. You could play it up for retro fashion like fingerless gloves or something but at the end of the day, it looks stupid. And it implies that you need a screen in front of your face 24/7. It's like walking around with a feedbag on. No matter how enjoyable or convenient, it implies a certain lack of self control.

    Really? I dunno, I guess I don't get the last part. Does anybody doubt that this is the future? Or rather, doesn't everybody want the equivalent of google glass but without the stupid looking accessory? Why does wearing it now imply a lack of self control, when presumably everybody is going to want it if/when it becomes contact lenses, i.e. less noticeable?

    People will notice that you seem to be in your own world. They'll be unsettled by the idea of these people possibly taking video. I don't think everybody will want it. I don't want it and I love technology.

    It really serves no purpose at all. Everything it does, other devices do better already. There is no reason at all to have a constant web-connected visual overlay every waking moment.

    I can see it being an excellent device in a commercial or industrial setting, a personal HUD displaying real-time information for manufacturing jobs, stock levels etc, but just walking around with it in your everyday life is completely excessive.

    Pushing video feeds to security staff.

    I would love not having to fumble with my phone when an incoming text happens to know what is being said.

    I would also love a GPS overlay when driving, or walking around in unfamiliar areas, without having to glance at another screen.

    Or be able to see who is calling me, and reach into my pocket and mute the ringer without having to pull the phone out or answer it.

    Or have a recipe I am working on in my field of view, complete with timers, while working in the kitchen.

    There are elegant daily applications. But the device is anything but elegant yet.
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  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i have what i feel is a reasonable question

    WHO HAS SUCTION CUPS JUST LYING AROUND?

    .. I've got one. It's meant for installing light-bulbs.

    A likely story.

    The mystery of who's been breaking into well-guarded safes in local highrises is solved.
    SammyF wrote: »
    I worked for a hotel chain one year that had questions like these.

    They should have only had one question: I like to steal money from the register when I think no one is looking and flee the state. SD D N A SA.

    Alt post: for the question about whether you experience many mood changes during the day, circle all the bubbles and erase them again multiple times.

    It really is fucking absurd.

    It's a psychological profile. I bet it's Unicru, too.

    I know what it is.

    I'm offended that there are twelve fucking pages of it.

    I just wanna sell people donuts for four months between now and grad school bro, let me sell your god damn donuts that's it I'm burning down your fucking store.
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  • LeitnerLeitner Registered User regular
    Custodian helmets are distinguished and imposing Mortious.

    They are the symbol of policing by consent.
  • KageraKagera Registered User regular
    I am not interesting enough to worry about loss of privacy so bring on the future.
    _J_ wrote:
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  • MortiousMortious Move to New Zealand Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Leitner wrote: »
    Custodian helmets are distinguished and imposing Mortious.

    They are the symbol of policing by consent.

    But it has a flashing light on top!
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    More likely to be sprayed in the face with a shower head if I wore it into the bathroom though.

    this didn't make sense to me at first

    until i realized that walking straight from the shower to the bedroom au natural is not something everybody does

    Kids too old for casual nudity in my house. That ship sailed many years ago.
    Successful Kickstarter get! Drop by Bare Mettle Entertainment if you'd like to see what we're making.
  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    I'll be honest, I think that tumblr is dumb.

    Most people look dumb when someone takes a picture of them, and especially when they take pictures of themselves. The google glasses (or wait, it's singular? google glass? whatever) have almost nothing to do with the people looking stupid in those photographs, they're bad pictures regardless.

    Frankly I don't think the device itself looks that bad.

    It looks like an accessory out of a mad for TV scifi movie. You could play it up for retro fashion like fingerless gloves or something but at the end of the day, it looks stupid. And it implies that you need a screen in front of your face 24/7. It's like walking around with a feedbag on. No matter how enjoyable or convenient, it implies a certain lack of self control.

    Really? I dunno, I guess I don't get the last part. Does anybody doubt that this is the future? Or rather, doesn't everybody want the equivalent of google glass but without the stupid looking accessory? Why does wearing it now imply a lack of self control, when presumably everybody is going to want it if/when it becomes contact lenses, i.e. less noticeable?

    People will notice that you seem to be in your own world. They'll be unsettled by the idea of these people possibly taking video. I don't think everybody will want it. I don't want it and I love technology.

    It really serves no purpose at all. Everything it does, other devices do better already. There is no reason at all to have a constant web-connected visual overlay every waking moment.

    I can see it being an excellent device in a commercial or industrial setting, a personal HUD displaying real-time information for manufacturing jobs, stock levels etc, but just walking around with it in your everyday life is completely excessive.

    Pushing video feeds to security staff.

    I would love not having to fumble with my phone when an incoming text happens to know what is being said.

    I would also love a GPS overlay when driving, or walking around in unfamiliar areas, without having to glance at another screen.

    Or be able to see who is calling me, and reach into my pocket and mute the ringer without having to pull the phone out or answer it.

    Or have a recipe I am working on in my field of view, complete with timers, while working in the kitchen.

    There are elegant daily applications. But the device is anything but elegant yet.

    So I can see what e-mails I'm ignoring without getting my phone out. Neat for museum tours maybe.
    There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
  • syndalissyndalis Aballah Can Tah Advancing the Human ConditionRegistered User regular
    As for iMac suction cups, go to a car parts store.

    There are suction cups designed to pull a windshield off, and they are cheap. Get two.

    http://www.kammcs.com/img/aaa2.png
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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    I know what it is.

    I'm offended that there are twelve fucking pages of it.

    I just wanna sell people donuts for four months between now and grad school bro, let me sell your god damn donuts that's it I'm burning down your fucking store.

    They're just making sure you won't put your dick in a donut.
    matt has a problem on
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  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    More likely to be sprayed in the face with a shower head if I wore it into the bathroom though.

    this didn't make sense to me at first

    until i realized that walking straight from the shower to the bedroom au natural is not something everybody does

    Kids too old for casual nudity in my house. That ship sailed many years ago.

    sure, if you say so
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • LudiousLudious Registered User regular
    Kagera wrote: »
    I am not interesting enough to worry about loss of privacy so bring on the future.



    First they came for Mitnick
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a hacker.

    Then they came for the Torrents,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Pirate.

    Then they came for Anonymous,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a 4channer.

    Then they came for me,
    and there was no one left to speak for me.
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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    I know what it is.

    I'm offended that there are twelve fucking pages of it.

    I just wanna sell people donuts for four months between now and grad school bro, let me sell your god damn donuts that's it I'm burning down your fucking store.

    They're just making sure you won't put your dick in a donut.

    Come on. Like any bakery in the world has ever hired a male employee who hasn't wondered that at least once.
    There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
  • TavTav Registered User regular
    why do all y'all want guis and augmentations for driving?

    look at the fucking road

    the last thing people need is something flashing a centimeter from their retina when they're supposed to be driving
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    More likely to be sprayed in the face with a shower head if I wore it into the bathroom though.

    this didn't make sense to me at first

    until i realized that walking straight from the shower to the bedroom au natural is not something everybody does

    Kids too old for casual nudity in my house. That ship sailed many years ago.

    sure, if you say so

    I am certain that neither my daughter nor the police would appreciate it if she came home to discover I had elected to rock out with my cock out.
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  • redxredx Dublin, CARegistered User regular
    edited May 2013
    syndalis wrote: »
    There are elegant daily applications. But the device is anything but elegant yet.

    So what? I can work on the daily applications stuff now and wait for pretty hardware.

    I soooo fucking want google glass.

    like 4/10: fuck it good enough, would hack.
    redx on
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  • MimMim Registered User regular
    Corehealer wrote: »
    Mim wrote: »
    Elldren wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    what i want is a webcam shot of everyone who thinks google glass looks stupid including the clothes they're wearing

    *steeples fingers*

    fuck no

    Like I wear clothes at home

    As soon as my period ends, it's naked time all over this house while I clean.

    I prefer boxer briefs and a comfy shirt usually, but yeah.

    I might go with this as I don't know when my dad will be back from Chicago. I do not need a nasty surprise while I'm streaking in my own house.
  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot Registered User regular
    Mim wrote: »
    oh my god, there's going to be a sims 4.

    i'm going to die.

    NO

  • MimMim Registered User regular
    Oh god, someone just called the house speaking in spanish and I said "No habla ingles"

    and he was like "QUE"
  • KageraKagera Registered User regular
    Google glass is the future

    Phones are the past.
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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    Woo, the kickstarter I backed is completed. I should be getting my pen in June.
    There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
  • MrMisterMrMister 7 cards in hand Registered User regular
    i'm hungry and tired and grumpy

    not doin annnny work
    Valuing scholarship above all else, the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower reward those who sacrifice power for knowledge.
  • syndalissyndalis Aballah Can Tah Advancing the Human ConditionRegistered User regular
    redx wrote: »
    syndalis wrote: »
    There are elegant daily applications. But the device is anything but elegant yet.

    So what? I can work on the daily applications stuff now and wait for pretty hardware.

    I soooo fucking want google glass.

    like 4/10: fuck it good enough, will hack.

    And Move forward, brave pioneer.

    We need people like you so that when the eventual 1080p/lasts for days/disappears into the frame/better OS version rolls around, there are already lots of neat things to do on it.
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  • LudiousLudious Registered User regular
    Quoting snow crash

    how Pedestrian
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  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    hmm

    I just got caught out by a double varname = 1/3 = 0 because 1 is Int bug

    this stuff seems like it should be more noticeable in an IDE
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong and a cast of thousands Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    i have never cared much about privacy i guess but i'm in the privileged position of not really having much danger posed by it. i don't work or live in a super conservative area or job.

    Kid with lazy eye picks nose on bus. 23,043,345 views.
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  • ArchArch Trust me, I'm a scientist Registered User regular
    I want google glasses so I can do one thing

    And that is take a series of photos and add captions that go thusly

    PANEL ONE: Someone is wearing google glasses

    PANEL TWO: That person gets a call

    PANEL THREE: They take the glasses off and answer them like a traditional hand-held phone
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    I also have better things to do than yell at my own face to take a picture.
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