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    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, I say good - ban them outright! Camera phones should have been banned more strictly and in more places, but now it's nearly impossible to get a phone without a camera. Now who knows how many photos you're in, tagged or not - maybe automatically and retroactively so. The ubiquitous cameras in phones have all but killed privacy. While there was some expectation that anywhere outside your home was public, and subject to scrutiny, now you can't even open your blinds without being caught on video. God forbid you should do something clumsy or foolish or you'll be immortalized on the internet for it. Want to unwind at a party? It had better be a party of one, or you may find yourself posted online while drunk and unaware. Want to say something off the record? What does that mean - everything is on-record now.

    So while I know it's a losing battle against fingernail sized spy cameras anyway, devices that are known to pack cameras where they're not needed should simply be disallowed in places like gyms... pools, theatres, public transportation, restaurants, and anywhere where there is not a legitimate use for them.
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    Banning video recorders from the gym is already ridiculous. If you don't want someone recording you walking around the locker room naked, then don't walk around the locker room naked. When I used to go to the gym, I'd take my clothes off in the shower and wrapped myself up in a towel on before I walked back to my locker. Then I'd hurry up change in my little area.

    If you walk around with your junk flopping around, you're just asking everyone to look at you.
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    Image of willyolio willyolio
    09/23/09

    @Chris: that kind of specious reasoning is like saying any woman who walks around with a short skirt is just asking to be raped, and therefore it is justified.

    also, i guess that means you're perfectly OK with having your picture taken during the time when you take your clothes off in the shower. because, hey, any time you're naked means you're giving everyone the A-OK to look at/record/post on the internet/laugh at your junk.
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    fuchikoma promoted this comment Edited by willyolio at 09/23/09 4:41 PM willyolio was starred willyolio was unstarred
    Image of €hЯ!§ needs more ♥'s €hЯ!§ needs more ♥'s
    09/23/09

    @willyolio: Like the other two that replied to your comment were saying, your analogies are way off. I said if you walk around naked, you're just asking everyone to look at you, but a short skirt is asking for rape? If anything it's also just asking for people to look at you.

    And no, because if I was in the shower and someone was recording me, they would have to stand on a stool and peak over the top, or have to open up the curtain, and that, with or without a video recorder, will get you kicked out of a gym anyway.

    If someone is recording people in the locker room, then they should get kicked out. But banning devices that can record videos is ridiculous in my opinion, and if you're so afraid someone will record and post your nads on the Internet, then try to cover up as much as possible. If you've ever been in a gym locker room, you know some people are fearless, and just walk around and hang out in there completely naked.
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    Image of willyolio willyolio
    09/23/09

    @Chris: many gyms, and most swimming pools i've been to don't have individual shower stalls. it's just a shower room.

    so, with that in mind, you'd be ok if they recorded you in that situation?

    also, the article already stated that they weren't banning the devices outright, but banning their use as recording devices.

    and @everyone else: not saying "no" is the same as saying "yes." uh, yeah, that'll hold up in court. GET THIS IN YOUR HEADS, GUYS: nobody's "asking for" anything until they actually ASK for it.
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    Image of €hЯ!§ needs more ♥'s €hЯ!§ needs more ♥'s
    09/23/09

    @willyolio: If you're comfortable with showering naked in a room full of other guys, how can you be so upset if one of those guys takes a pic of your genitals? If you don't want people to see you naked, don't go naked in public. Period.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    "obody wants their hairy junk posted onto the internet"

    Have you verified this statement with SteveDave?
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    Gee, I guess they'll also frown upon my extra large cowboy hat with glass in the center. What next? Banning of the shoe cams? Wait. What? They're already banned? Well this is nucking futs!
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    I have no shame. Bring on the nanos you sick assholes.
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    ... as if any dedicated pervert can't just buy a dedicated pinhole camera.
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    09/23/09

    @nutbastard: Ya this one is great. Oh were you talking to me
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    09/23/09


    @The Analrapist: Half Analyst Half Therapist:
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    OCEntertainment promoted this comment G.O.D. was starred G.O.D. was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/23/09

    @The Analrapist Half Analyst Half Therapist: You know, that might be a little more convincing if I wasn't looking at your pen wondering why it holds 4GB of ink.
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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    09/23/09

    @OCEntertainment: Dude, that's like uh.. like with PENCILS! Yeah like you have a No 2 pencil. Well eff that noise, cuz I've got a No 4 PEN! Double the numbers makes it better and stuff. So hop back on the treadmill but don't use that one, use the other one over there. You're blocking my view... of.. the water cooler.
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    Edited by N@tedog at 09/23/09 3:51 PM N@tedog was starred N@tedog was unstarred
    Image of BucksterMcgee BucksterMcgee
    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    Yeah, I used to work for Lifetime Fitness for several years.

    Great club, but where ever there are naked sweaty people, there will be those who spend extra time in the locker rooms either A) trying to show off their naked sweatiness, or B) trying to glimps (or stare) at others' sweaty nakedness.

    And regardless if you're homosexual or not, I doubt many people find old men blowdrying their balls for all to see, as something that is appealing.
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    09/23/09

    @BucksterMcgee: It's bizarre how the older someone is the nakeder they tend to be in the locker room. I swear old people just walk around nude all day in there.
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    09/23/09

    @Xeno: Agreed. I have a bad story involving this. *grimace*
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/23/09

    @Identity less than three: I do not want to hear any stories involving Grimace and nudity.
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    Image of jpitsch jpitsch
    09/23/09

    @OCEntertainment:

    Guys need to stop walking around naked and especially shaving in front of the mirror with no clothes on. C'mon what WTF is wrong with people.
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    09/24/09

    @OCEntertainment: I did not want to experience said story. *shudders*
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    I proposed the theory that the reason the Touch didn't have a camera was that it was their highest price model, and it would mean that people that couldn't use cameras in certain places they wanted to use a PMP in would have to opt for the Touch. I was laughed at.
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    Image of LoganAdams LoganAdams
    09/23/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: Kudos for the original analysis. I didn't see anyone else think of that.
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    GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard promoted this comment LoganAdams was starred LoganAdams was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    09/23/09

    @LoganAdams: From 9/10/2009:
    (12:18:40 PM) gitemstevedave: I had a theory on the lack of a cam on the ipod touch.
    (12:19:27 PM) gitemstevedave: Many places don't allow devices with cameras, so why not make the most expensive model NOT have a camera, so people int hose situations will be forced to buy it.
    (12:23:07 PM) Gizmodo Editor: you should drinking kerosene
    (12:23:11 PM) Gizmodo Editor: stop
    (12:23:11 PM) Gizmodo Editor: even
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    Image of singlecoilpickup singlecoilpickup
    09/23/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: Oh come on, stop taking it so seriously! "Stop drinking kerosene" is solid advice no matter which way you slice it.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    09/23/09

    @singlecoilpickup: But it will make me like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee! [gizmodo.com]
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/23/09


    @GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: Err, wrong flammable chemical there, GitEm. Gasoline makes you Optimus. Kerosene makes you Harry.
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    Image of singlecoilpickup singlecoilpickup
    09/23/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: Correct, if Optimus and Bumblebee transform down to a hurricane lamp in my shed to strike fear into the heart of moths everywhere.
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    Image of Jestermeister Jestermeister
    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    "What?? I'm just changing songs!! Yeah, it takes me a few minutes to find the right one!"
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    09/23/09

    @Jestermeister: I think a better answer would be to say "There's a reason that I'm on the BACK row of machines and that hot girl is in front of me.....now move so I can watch her better."
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    09/23/09

    @SQLGuru: ...and record her for later?
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    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    If I'm a guy, why the hell would I want to use this in the locker room?
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    Image of tugger82 tugger82
    09/23/09

    @ripfire: Yes, because only heterosexual males work out.
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    09/23/09

    @tugger82: Pft. Even if I was gay, most of the guys at the gym I go to are fat/hairy/both; not my type.
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    Image of debbyherbenick debbyherbenick
    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    Good thing for some men that these types of devices don't work well in the steam room. I'll leave it at that.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    09/23/09

    In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
    This has always been the reason I go to smaller gyms. I like a lot of people who lift weight like to record myself so I can watch my form and make sure I am lifting properly.

    A smaller gym people know this and have no issues with it. Chain gyms? forget it.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/23/09

    @Jim Topoleski: I like a lot of people who lift weight like to record myself so I can watch my form and make sure I am lifting properly.

    that's retarded. Unless you're a competitive weightlifter. In which case, go get yourself a proper training area.
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    09/23/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Not retarded. It's good for people who are lifting heavy and need proper form to prevent injury. I was a D1 athlete and continue to lift casually recording my workouts this very same way once a year to see if I've advanced or retarded (HOMONYM POWER!) any movement patterns. Come on man. You're smarter than that narrow minded comment.
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    Edited by N@tedog at 09/23/09 3:13 PM N@tedog was starred N@tedog was unstarred
    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    09/23/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Um not at all. Even if you are a casual lifter doing it for the fitness benefits (like I do), the LAST thing you want to do is lift improperly.

    And some of us just dont always have a "trainer" to watch us, nor does that always even help since doing it, and seeing you do it can open your eyes.

    What is retarded is quite honestly, your comment.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/23/09

    @Jim Topoleski: That's ridiculous. I lift weights too, and it's the simplest thing in the world to have proper form. Absolutely the simplest thing. If you have bad form, you can tell exactly where and exactly why because those muscles will feel it.

    It's completely ludicrous to need to videotape your own body for such a simple movement. You aren't doing the high jump, or boxing. You're doing a curl. This is also the reason that every gym in existence has mirrors. So you can watch your own body just to make sure.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    09/23/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: "You're doing a curl."

    And right there, you in one statement proved you have no idea what N@tedog and I are talking about.

    If you think "lifting" is doing a curl, then you need to read up on what a full-body lift is.

    I have never done a curl in 5 years. I do regularly do sets of clean and jerks. I would never videotape myself doing a curl. But you bet your ass I am videotaping myself to check my clean form.
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    Edited by Jim Topoleski at 09/23/09 5:38 PM Jim Topoleski was starred Jim Topoleski was unstarred
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