This used to be called line lock. For 1/4 milers it was a help to get the engine revved up to the torque band while heating the rubber on the tires to get better traction. When the green light comes on you release the brakes and go.
When I was a kid we got tickets for negligent driving if we squealed the tires. The cops will have fun with this.
Due to cops being more worried about simple revenue generation activities (i.e., enforcing unrealistically low speeding guidelines and snooping on stopped vehicles where driver is using their phone), all it's going to do is to annoy residents where the local bad boys like to street race (i.e., major road a few blocks away from my house).
Thanks Ford. Just like selling an exploit script to script kiddies - profiting off the misery of the many while catering to the few dumb idiots who are too unskilled or lazy to learn how to do it properly.
I think you should ask some blind people, not Slashdot people.
A friend is blind, and could certainly afford anything, but I'm 90% sure he has an Android phone. It's certainly not an iPhone, it's possible it's a less-smart-phone.
So you're recommending him to ask blind people and you haven't even confirmed what your friend is using. I hope he doesn't listen to your guess at an anecdote.
Last Wednesday, my life changed forever. I got an iPhone. I consider it the greatest thing to happen to the blind for a very long time, possibly ever. It offers unparalleled access to properly made applications, and changed my life in twenty-four hours. The iPhone only has one thing holding it back: iTunes. Nevertheless, I have fallen in love.
Yes, this is from 2010, however, I haven't heard how Android has turned the tables. It would be interesting if someone could actually compare the two current versions of the major OSs for blind users. I only seem to see Apple-specific forums for the blind on the internets.
That's actually no longer even close to true. Last I heard, they're making quite a tidy profit on iTunes content.
The percentage of profit that Apple makes on iTunes content is ridiculously small compared to their hardware. That's what matters. Anecdotally, I spend like.1% on iTunes what I do on Apple hardware, as do most of my friends. I knew a Mac developer back in the 90s who complained about Steve Jobs being out to kill the software market - to SJ it's just a feature of the hardware. Apple has this "software/content is just a feature of the hardware" in their DNA.
So what happens when both black holes collide and suck each other in?
As you read about black holes and event horizons you'll find that an external observer will never really see anything "hiting" the center of the black hole as time dilation forces the object to appear to go slower and slower as it descends the gravity well of the singularity.
In short, the heat-death of the universe will happen before we (assuming we live forever) ever find out what happens to this kind of singularity merger.
Is this true? What if the arrested individual raises a stink and files suit? The issue here is that cops can do blatantly stupid things (sometimes causing fatalities), paper over it with any one of a number of vague laws being violated (resisting arrest!) and catch no flack for their inept handling of issues.
If you were in there for a week, what did you eat and drink and how did that all work? I'd probably do something like that too for the right sum of money. Unfortunately the right sum of money for me would probably be orders of magnitude more than they'd be willing to pay...
I'm guessing upuv meant "what felt like about a week" - in the end it's clear he states it's an hour. I could imagine myself making the same hallucinations.
In the event that she actually tried to exercise an of these powers, you can be confident parliament would quickly find a way to bypass and take them away. It's a simple deal: She gets to keep her vast country-ruling powers, on condition she never uses them.
This is a sham of power. If something only exists because it will never be used, does it really exist at all in practice?
Let's face it, the Queen is purely symbolic and has no actual power.
To swiftboat almost any anything that Big Industry (in this case, Big Oil) considers a threat/nuisance. WTF do they think would have happened if an aging TEPCO reactor was in the same storm? I wouldn't like to be there and find out. How would a deepwater oil platform have fared?
I'm pretty much sick of what passes for "news" these days. It's all pretty much shameless puff pieces and hit jobs because that's what corporations pay for.
The great thing about stats and numbers is that you can basically use them to prove anything by changing how you measure them and how you define the buckets. Thus, they're a great way to justify any decision. An ambitious employee can thus use this to justify his career rise (and/or the rise of his boss) at the expense of the company, all while claiming to do this *for* the company and it's stockholders.
Given the rise of corporate raiders in the 80s, MBA droids allowed these clowns to justify strip mining companies, and essential thrived in an environment where the only goal was personal profit.
*so and so* is waiting for you to see her timeline! *person you barely know* recommends you add *someone else you barely know* as a friend. etc etc.
Seems like this patent is just getting Google into the game so Facebook doesn't sue their asses off that is, unless they plan on using it to sue Facebook.
The document notes that social networking and instant messaging tools can rapidly disseminate information and mobilize society; the government doesn't think those are good things
This is what I love about China. They're completely up front about who they are. In the US everything needs to be carefully cloaked in terms of protection from terrorists.
Oh, come now. There're many reasons you can give, the American public is very receptive to not only "terrorist prevention" but also "religious freedom" [1], not to mention "right to bear arms" - "stand your ground" is a great example of using this freedom effectively to justify many actions [2].
And don't forget "about the children" - it's very easy to promote your agenda in the name of children, especially if they're not yet born. The personhood movement hasn't yet been successful yet [3] - but give them time!
For more information on how to properly promote your agenda using well-known channels, please contact your preferred top-tier lobbying organization, scientology office, or the GOP (Democrats suck at this, but are getting better - best to go with the leaders in the field for now).
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I tried that but you need a valid authentication ID and session ID plus all those X-Device attributes otherwise it returns an error from the JBoss app server.
Perhaps the authID and sessionID can be spoofed or copied, or more likely, it's generated on the client side. Crap-flooding, unfortunately, might be labeled as an attack. So would attempting a bobby tables SQL injection. Repeatedly.
If Musk wasn't so keen on trying to use intellectual dishonesty and general ignorance to his advantage, he wouldn't have said anything, since there's a very strong chance that no other single 2014 model of automobile is seeing 15% of their production line burning up once they hit the roads.
And speaking of intellectual dishonesty when complaining about other's abuse of statistics, it's best not to commit abuse on your own part.
...someone starts a bounty on the site for "Kuwabatake Sanjuro"?
Yaz
He's not a government official. Neat self-exclusion. Also by not offering hits against corporate officers (way more interesting), he prevents a large amount of extrajudicial consequence from hitting him (governments are ostensibly bound by laws, corporations can operate in low-law zones). Perhaps, he figures, focus on proving an MVP [1], and then expand to more profitable markets once he has a reasonable amount of success?
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."[
Whether government openness happens because of a leaker, or it happens because of fear of leakers, or because it believes it's the right thing to do...the more open the government is about its activities, the better.
You think they're actually going to tell the whole truth? Or even a meaningfully valid part? It may be openness, but if it is just an attempt to expose a small thing to hide a bigger ugly truth (or crime), then it's deceptive nonetheless.
I await the openness. I don't have a strong expectation it will be worthwhile.
This is an agency that is rooted in deception. Why do you think Snowden's uncomfortable facts are going to change their nature?
Which is always a management failure. Test. Test methodically. Test thoroughly. Test past production. Test past release.
You forget management's mantra: cut costs at all opportunities. Testing costs time and money, which management is loathe to spend. There numerous examples of well-tested well designed products whose companies are no longer, and on the flip side, of companies pushing shoddy products today that are making billions/quarter.
I don't blame management one bit - customers obviously want shiny and cheap over safe and durable.
Here in Missouri, if you're in the car, and the the keys are in the car (not necessarily the ignition), then legally speaking you are driving. Hence the reason drunks who climb in the backseat to take a nap still get nailed for DWI.
Can I state that this law sucks? I'd rather have a drunk sleeping in the car than on the road driving. How many drunks decide to go the extra mile just so they can get home rather than sleep it off in the back seat? I wonder how many lives it has cost.
First you need to check that box in security as you saw.
Then at the lock screen sweep from left (all the way left) to right. You'll get to a blank screen with a plus sign on it. Click the plus sign and you can add a widget.Now if you want that to be the default widget instead of one you have to sweep to get to, then you have to sweep back to the main lock screen, click and hold it and drag it to the "remove" item at the top.
The setup/install is screwed, you do have to go through setup at least partially twice due to that update.
The PDF renderer is bizarre and on top of that it interacts with the terrible download UI in bad ways. Frequently my phone will finish the pdf download in the notifications, then show nothing at all, then like 30 seconds later it'll bring a PDF reader to the front (my Nexus 4 did it too). And if you want to view the PDF again later, you have to click the link again, watch it download (not sure it's downloading or just verifying an existing download) before it can be viewed again.
I love how the notifications work compared to the iPhone though. And the keyboard is about 10x better than the iPhone one, using the iPhone one now is like torture to me.
It kills me that there is virtually no help for anything. Try asking the phone questions like "what are those icons up at the top of the screen" (the notifications). You can do so either with the excellent voice search or by typing it, either way it won't give you any answer, it just searches the web. And even if a result comes back from the web, the result isn't keyed to the OS you are running. Back when I was running ICS on my Nexus 4 I would search and get "help" answers that only applied to Gingerbread.
Speaking of notifications, I watched two ladies use their Samsung Galaxies last week, both had notifications lined up all across the top of their screen. They didn't know what a notification was, how to view/answer it or how to make them go away. Really sad.
I do like the Nexus 5 though, better than the Nexus 4 I had before it. And it's a heck of a value. But it still has a ways to go to catch up to the iPhone in usability in many ways.
Now, if I could just get Apple to see what the Nexus 5 does right and copy that. The price. The screen. The keyboard. The ability to use bluetooth (non-4.0) devices without an Apple auth chip installed. The ability to use other mail clients as if they were built-in.
I did finally get the lock-screen widget setup - man that was impossible to find. I felt like I just discovered a konami code here. I've figured out most of the other stuff (notification results, downloads). Text selection is a PITA in Android compared to iOS (maybe arrow keys will help) - how am I supposed to replace a word (i.e., when the auto-guess fails) other than to backspace heavily?
The phone itself is quite nice - It's definitely a great deal compared to an HTC One, but the plastic is still taking some getting used to, when coming from metal and glass.
There is a quicker, easier and more power efficient way of checking the weather. Not only that, this one weird trick does not require you to pull your smartphone ( sorry, I meant iPhone, dont h8 me) out of your pocket!
Look out the window.
Nice snark, but I need to know what the temperature range is for the day so I can appropriately dress my school-bound kid. Getting this wrong can result in a sick kid, or one that's sweaty and annoyed when she comes back home. Where I live it can be 45deg and cloudy in the morning (most day start off cloudy) , but 75+ and sunny by noontime (yes, even in November).
His problem is with the ability to communicate across long distances quickly. He doesn't like the idea that anyone could take a picture *and then send it everywhere* in the blink of an eye. An interesting concern, but let's make sure that we're addressing the proper problem first.
This is clearly a privacy concern, and it's a biggie. If Glass existed without the video/audio recording features, for me at least, it'd be a very compelling product - I would love a heads up display with GPS. Google aimed too far with Glass - society isnt' ready for it yet - with the backing of Android, and their search product, they could have made it useful and cool without making it a massive privacy concern - and then added those features in a subsequent release.
The problem with Google Glass is not the hardware itself, it is the privacy implications of using the device, which sends everything to an untrusted third party. It would be different if they offered the option of never communicating with their network, but they don't offer that as an option. So, essentially anyone who has an agreement with google (NSA, FBI, other governments, other companies, etc) will get copies of your location, pictures coming off the camera, video, microphone data, etc. Those issues alone are the reasons why I would never actually use one. Until Google is serious about separating the umbilical cord from devices like this from talking to their servers, it remains a serious problem about ever using it for anything long term. It's bad enough you might be already using an Android or iPhone device which does almost the same thing, minus the video and audio stream.
The always-on (or potentially so) aspect of Glass is very off-putting to me. I don't want to deal with Glass-users, because I don't know if they're live-streaming to youtube. I wouldn't wear one because I don't want to put others in the same uncomfortable position.
The fact that there's no clear indicator that it's recording video/audio is a huge social faux pas, and will likely lead to conflicts that shouldn't have taken place.
Except your plan does not jibe with their business model.
Their business model for search shouldn't be the overriding principle for all other product areas. That's what caused Microsoft to stumble over the past 13 years... Ballmer's insistence of "Windows everywhere" was simply ludicrous - people still don't want Windows on their phone for example, despite 10+ years of Microsoft trying to make it work.
If Google were smart they'd let the product and market establish the business model that's appropriate (in a Google way). If you're planning on selling cars, I'd bet you that selling a cheap/free car but insanely expensive fuel/chargers (to make up for it) would be a market failure.
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The patent is a near-exact description of how paypal works.
Minus the ridiculous fees no doubt.
Are you kidding me? Banks:Fees::Zombies:Brains
This used to be called line lock. For 1/4 milers it was a help to get the engine revved up to the torque band while heating the rubber on the tires to get better traction. When the green light comes on you release the brakes and go.
When I was a kid we got tickets for negligent driving if we squealed the tires. The cops will have fun with this.
Due to cops being more worried about simple revenue generation activities (i.e., enforcing unrealistically low speeding guidelines and snooping on stopped vehicles where driver is using their phone), all it's going to do is to annoy residents where the local bad boys like to street race (i.e., major road a few blocks away from my house).
Thanks Ford. Just like selling an exploit script to script kiddies - profiting off the misery of the many while catering to the few dumb idiots who are too unskilled or lazy to learn how to do it properly.
I think you should ask some blind people, not Slashdot people.
A friend is blind, and could certainly afford anything, but I'm 90% sure he has an Android phone. It's certainly not an iPhone, it's possible it's a less-smart-phone.
So you're recommending him to ask blind people and you haven't even confirmed what your friend is using. I hope he doesn't listen to your guess at an anecdote.
So lets take your core advice - here is a review from an actual blind person (and linux geek) getting an iPhone. Excerpt:
Yes, this is from 2010, however, I haven't heard how Android has turned the tables. It would be interesting if someone could actually compare the two current versions of the major OSs for blind users. I only seem to see Apple-specific forums for the blind on the internets.
That's actually no longer even close to true. Last I heard, they're making quite a tidy profit on iTunes content.
The percentage of profit that Apple makes on iTunes content is ridiculously small compared to their hardware. That's what matters. Anecdotally, I spend like .1% on iTunes what I do on Apple hardware, as do most of my friends. I knew a Mac developer back in the 90s who complained about Steve Jobs being out to kill the software market - to SJ it's just a feature of the hardware. Apple has this "software/content is just a feature of the hardware" in their DNA.
So what happens when both black holes collide and suck each other in?
As you read about black holes and event horizons you'll find that an external observer will never really see anything "hiting" the center of the black hole as time dilation forces the object to appear to go slower and slower as it descends the gravity well of the singularity.
In short, the heat-death of the universe will happen before we (assuming we live forever) ever find out what happens to this kind of singularity merger.
He has virtually zero risk in such an arrest.
Is this true? What if the arrested individual raises a stink and files suit? The issue here is that cops can do blatantly stupid things (sometimes causing fatalities), paper over it with any one of a number of vague laws being violated (resisting arrest!) and catch no flack for their inept handling of issues.
If you were in there for a week, what did you eat and drink and how did that all work? I'd probably do something like that too for the right sum of money. Unfortunately the right sum of money for me would probably be orders of magnitude more than they'd be willing to pay...
I'm guessing upuv meant "what felt like about a week" - in the end it's clear he states it's an hour. I could imagine myself making the same hallucinations.
In the event that she actually tried to exercise an of these powers, you can be confident parliament would quickly find a way to bypass and take them away. It's a simple deal: She gets to keep her vast country-ruling powers, on condition she never uses them.
This is a sham of power. If something only exists because it will never be used, does it really exist at all in practice?
Let's face it, the Queen is purely symbolic and has no actual power.
link: http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/no-more-free-sun-arizona-if-solar-power-fee-approved.html
AZ is, however, a conservative stronghold.
To swiftboat almost any anything that Big Industry (in this case, Big Oil) considers a threat/nuisance. WTF do they think would have happened if an aging TEPCO reactor was in the same storm? I wouldn't like to be there and find out. How would a deepwater oil platform have fared?
I'm pretty much sick of what passes for "news" these days. It's all pretty much shameless puff pieces and hit jobs because that's what corporations pay for.
The great thing about stats and numbers is that you can basically use them to prove anything by changing how you measure them and how you define the buckets. Thus, they're a great way to justify any decision. An ambitious employee can thus use this to justify his career rise (and/or the rise of his boss) at the expense of the company, all while claiming to do this *for* the company and it's stockholders.
Given the rise of corporate raiders in the 80s, MBA droids allowed these clowns to justify strip mining companies, and essential thrived in an environment where the only goal was personal profit.
*so and so* is waiting for you to see her timeline!
*person you barely know* recommends you add *someone else you barely know* as a friend.
etc etc.
Seems like this patent is just getting Google into the game so Facebook doesn't sue their asses off that is, unless they plan on using it to sue Facebook.
tfs:
The document notes that social networking and instant messaging tools can rapidly disseminate information and mobilize society; the government doesn't think those are good things
This is what I love about China. They're completely up front about who they are. In the US everything needs to be carefully cloaked in terms of protection from terrorists.
Oh, come now. There're many reasons you can give, the American public is very receptive to not only "terrorist prevention" but also "religious freedom" [1], not to mention "right to bear arms" - "stand your ground" is a great example of using this freedom effectively to justify many actions [2].
And don't forget "about the children" - it's very easy to promote your agenda in the name of children, especially if they're not yet born. The personhood movement hasn't yet been successful yet [3] - but give them time!
For more information on how to properly promote your agenda using well-known channels, please contact your preferred top-tier lobbying organization, scientology office, or the GOP (Democrats suck at this, but are getting better - best to go with the leaders in the field for now).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law
[3] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Personhood_laws
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I tried that but you need a valid authentication ID and session ID plus all those X-Device attributes otherwise it returns an error from the JBoss app server.
Perhaps the authID and sessionID can be spoofed or copied, or more likely, it's generated on the client side. Crap-flooding, unfortunately, might be labeled as an attack. So would attempting a bobby tables SQL injection. Repeatedly.
No one should ever do that. I certainly wouldn't.
[1] http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4462333&cid=45463733
If Musk wasn't so keen on trying to use intellectual dishonesty and general ignorance to his advantage, he wouldn't have said anything, since there's a very strong chance that no other single 2014 model of automobile is seeing 15% of their production line burning up once they hit the roads.
And speaking of intellectual dishonesty when complaining about other's abuse of statistics, it's best not to commit abuse on your own part.
...someone starts a bounty on the site for "Kuwabatake Sanjuro"?
Yaz
He's not a government official. Neat self-exclusion. Also by not offering hits against corporate officers (way more interesting), he prevents a large amount of extrajudicial consequence from hitting him (governments are ostensibly bound by laws, corporations can operate in low-law zones). Perhaps, he figures, focus on proving an MVP [1], and then expand to more profitable markets once he has a reasonable amount of success?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
apparently, from a Simpsons episode in 1997:
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."[
Simpsons is prophetic once again.
Whether government openness happens because of a leaker, or it happens because of fear of leakers, or because it believes it's the right thing to do...the more open the government is about its activities, the better.
You think they're actually going to tell the whole truth? Or even a meaningfully valid part? It may be openness, but if it is just an attempt to expose a small thing to hide a bigger ugly truth (or crime), then it's deceptive nonetheless.
I await the openness. I don't have a strong expectation it will be worthwhile.
This is an agency that is rooted in deception. Why do you think Snowden's uncomfortable facts are going to change their nature?
And, by your examples, they neglect testing.
Which is always a management failure. Test. Test methodically. Test thoroughly. Test past production. Test past release.
You forget management's mantra: cut costs at all opportunities. Testing costs time and money, which management is loathe to spend. There numerous examples of well-tested well designed products whose companies are no longer, and on the flip side, of companies pushing shoddy products today that are making billions/quarter.
I don't blame management one bit - customers obviously want shiny and cheap over safe and durable.
Depends on the state/municipality.
Here in Missouri, if you're in the car, and the the keys are in the car (not necessarily the ignition), then legally speaking you are driving. Hence the reason drunks who climb in the backseat to take a nap still get nailed for DWI.
Can I state that this law sucks? I'd rather have a drunk sleeping in the car than on the road driving. How many drunks decide to go the extra mile just so they can get home rather than sleep it off in the back seat? I wonder how many lives it has cost.
First you need to check that box in security as you saw.
Then at the lock screen sweep from left (all the way left) to right. You'll get to a blank screen with a plus sign on it. Click the plus sign and you can add a widget.Now if you want that to be the default widget instead of one you have to sweep to get to, then you have to sweep back to the main lock screen, click and hold it and drag it to the "remove" item at the top.
The setup/install is screwed, you do have to go through setup at least partially twice due to that update.
The PDF renderer is bizarre and on top of that it interacts with the terrible download UI in bad ways. Frequently my phone will finish the pdf download in the notifications, then show nothing at all, then like 30 seconds later it'll bring a PDF reader to the front (my Nexus 4 did it too). And if you want to view the PDF again later, you have to click the link again, watch it download (not sure it's downloading or just verifying an existing download) before it can be viewed again.
I love how the notifications work compared to the iPhone though. And the keyboard is about 10x better than the iPhone one, using the iPhone one now is like torture to me.
It kills me that there is virtually no help for anything. Try asking the phone questions like "what are those icons up at the top of the screen" (the notifications). You can do so either with the excellent voice search or by typing it, either way it won't give you any answer, it just searches the web. And even if a result comes back from the web, the result isn't keyed to the OS you are running. Back when I was running ICS on my Nexus 4 I would search and get "help" answers that only applied to Gingerbread.
Speaking of notifications, I watched two ladies use their Samsung Galaxies last week, both had notifications lined up all across the top of their screen. They didn't know what a notification was, how to view/answer it or how to make them go away. Really sad.
I do like the Nexus 5 though, better than the Nexus 4 I had before it. And it's a heck of a value. But it still has a ways to go to catch up to the iPhone in usability in many ways.
Now, if I could just get Apple to see what the Nexus 5 does right and copy that. The price. The screen. The keyboard. The ability to use bluetooth (non-4.0) devices without an Apple auth chip installed. The ability to use other mail clients as if they were built-in.
I did finally get the lock-screen widget setup - man that was impossible to find. I felt like I just discovered a konami code here. I've figured out most of the other stuff (notification results, downloads). Text selection is a PITA in Android compared to iOS (maybe arrow keys will help) - how am I supposed to replace a word (i.e., when the auto-guess fails) other than to backspace heavily?
The phone itself is quite nice - It's definitely a great deal compared to an HTC One, but the plastic is still taking some getting used to, when coming from metal and glass.
There is a quicker, easier and more power efficient way of checking the weather. Not only that, this one weird trick does not require you to pull your smartphone ( sorry, I meant iPhone, dont h8 me) out of your pocket!
Look out the window.
Nice snark, but I need to know what the temperature range is for the day so I can appropriately dress my school-bound kid. Getting this wrong can result in a sick kid, or one that's sweaty and annoyed when she comes back home. Where I live it can be 45deg and cloudy in the morning (most day start off cloudy) , but 75+ and sunny by noontime (yes, even in November).
His problem is with the ability to communicate across long distances quickly. He doesn't like the idea that anyone could take a picture *and then send it everywhere* in the blink of an eye. An interesting concern, but let's make sure that we're addressing the proper problem first.
This is clearly a privacy concern, and it's a biggie. If Glass existed without the video/audio recording features, for me at least, it'd be a very compelling product - I would love a heads up display with GPS. Google aimed too far with Glass - society isnt' ready for it yet - with the backing of Android, and their search product, they could have made it useful and cool without making it a massive privacy concern - and then added those features in a subsequent release.
The problem with Google Glass is not the hardware itself, it is the privacy implications of using the device, which sends everything to an untrusted third party. It would be different if they offered the option of never communicating with their network, but they don't offer that as an option. So, essentially anyone who has an agreement with google (NSA, FBI, other governments, other companies, etc) will get copies of your location, pictures coming off the camera, video, microphone data, etc. Those issues alone are the reasons why I would never actually use one. Until Google is serious about separating the umbilical cord from devices like this from talking to their servers, it remains a serious problem about ever using it for anything long term. It's bad enough you might be already using an Android or iPhone device which does almost the same thing, minus the video and audio stream.
The always-on (or potentially so) aspect of Glass is very off-putting to me. I don't want to deal with Glass-users, because I don't know if they're live-streaming to youtube. I wouldn't wear one because I don't want to put others in the same uncomfortable position.
The fact that there's no clear indicator that it's recording video/audio is a huge social faux pas, and will likely lead to conflicts that shouldn't have taken place.
Except your plan does not jibe with their business model.
Their business model for search shouldn't be the overriding principle for all other product areas. That's what caused Microsoft to stumble over the past 13 years... Ballmer's insistence of "Windows everywhere" was simply ludicrous - people still don't want Windows on their phone for example, despite 10+ years of Microsoft trying to make it work.
If Google were smart they'd let the product and market establish the business model that's appropriate (in a Google way). If you're planning on selling cars, I'd bet you that selling a cheap/free car but insanely expensive fuel/chargers (to make up for it) would be a market failure.