...a fanboi talking.

What use is a above-average brain if the person lacks the social skills to apply their intelligence? No, they are not single-handedly going to invent the cure for cancer.

On the other hand, the NFL star leads by example, unites us in support for our team and might very well have a much larger beneficial effect on society than the nerd in the back of the class room could hope to have.

Of course, this idea, that intelligence is not as important as some might want it to be, might be lost on a forum that ironically calls itself 'news for nerds, stuff that matters'.

Would be interesting to calculate how much Wikipedia will save because of the delayed purchase of storage, and the slightly less bandwidth use.

No, it just makes you a not so smart person if you think that. Government doesn't have to research accusations against high-profile people; society will do that for them, including trial and sentence.

How far away are we from gaining a critical mass of website who don't necessarily need flash anymore, with the arrival of HTML 5? How long before the scale tips?

Just imagine the kind of management this would attract, if employers face the choice between being abused and deportation.

Please, do tell us how the region of Detroit is going to attract money, thereby lifting the longterm level of wealth, when your plan is to just poor some money into it for a couple of year. Detroit got poor because they were no longer attracting money via the car industry. Tell us how your plan deals with the source of the problems, not the symptoms of their results.

Fallace of composition, look it up. Just because they are also glasses, does not mean they are only glasses.

He *chooses* to integrate a camera with his glasses. There's a number of things I can imagine integrating with my glasses that would make wearing them problematic where simple glasses would be just fine. And how about he wore them in the swimming pool changing rooms during your sister's daughter's birthday party...?

No freedom is unlimited, fortunately. Your freedom to wear glasses in a movie theater ends when you choose to integrate a camera.

What the fuck were you thinking going into a movie theater wearing your Google Glass in this time and age. I think you desperately hoped this would happen, probably tried a few other theaters that wouldn't bite first. And finally, you found one that did, giving you a nice story to cry about on all the digital forums. Congratulations, dude, you got your 15 minutes.

A qbit computer already matches conventional computers in speed? I'm impressed!

You absolutely have to follow that with "Is that going to be a problem here?"

non-constructive cynicism passes as insightful here?

How about, before posting, you scan your headlines/summaries for words like 'could', 'might, 'possibly', 'maybe', 'probably', and ask yourself whether you're posting news about stuff that matters or just speculations with some trigger keywords.