There's already a process to handle people trying to surreptitiously record you apparently, throw a bar rag at them, in the future I suppose people will use their jackets or put bags over the heads of others trying to record who are indirectly "assaulting" their perceived privacy.

Per the summary: ...what will it take for general acceptance to finally take hold?"

What will it take for acceptance to never take hold? It's just like bluetooth headsets, which were far more innocuous, but societal norms are set by the average, not the outliers. There are even laws mandating behavior match others. It goes back to tribal times, identifying "us" versus "them" and is core to our nature as humans.

If things better than Google Glass are made so innocuous it's imperceptible, then society won't accept it, but be ignorant of it. The wielder will still be acting in a socially unacceptable way. (And others will whisper behind their back to avoid them, due to the expectation of recording/streaming.)

If people are objecting to one's use of Glass, the obvious answer is to respond, "no problem, sure thing, want to check it out yourself?" The answer is not an aggressive, "I will tell my mommy and the police and harass you with it {insert previously unknown subjects name here}". People react to how you treat them, so if you treat them like crap, exploiting a power trip, they will respond accordingly. Treat them with respect and humility, and voilà.

Start pointing a gun around a bar and see how receptive the patrons are. Don't flaunt a threatening object (whether unloaded/not recording, or not) in an environment that's inappropriate for such.

No, this does not mean you have to conform to societal expectations, but if you don't, then don't expect to be treated as a member of society and stay in your basement! ;-)

Come on, we learned this in kindergarten people.

Hear, hear, video is a slower way of getting info, but let's you see/feel for yourself. TheDarkMod videos won't necessarily pop up searching for Thief, but I've been having a blast with it, a true remake of the original...and free!

Paint marker.

Lasts much longer than permanent marker, is weather proof too. On my time-lapse camera, I also applied clear tape over it (years ago) and it's as fresh as day one, despite seeing handling rock climbing, rain, UV sun, etc.

Depending on item size, I put "Reward, phone number" and if room, email.

It leads to humor on my cellphone, as the background image (flip phone) is typically girlfriend's cleavage or topless shot, with "reward if found" displayed across...

PS: In many states, if you can't find the proper owner, items shall be turned over to police, who store them for a year if they can't find the proper owner, to ultimately auction off if unclaimed by owner/finder. So for those who want to keep found stuff, there is a legal/ethical procedure for that.

Speaking of stealth games, Slashdot recently had an article on, The Dark Mod, which has totally sucked me in, as much to play, as create thieving missions (of which there are over 70 already, averaging a couple released monthly), which is kind of like a puzzle in itself, figuring out the best way to implement your desired game-play elements.

It's not so simple. I approached the FBI with a proposal to use the military's already proven laser guidance and tracking systems to detect and rapidly respond to these threats. They apparently filed it under "kook" and never responded. The FBI is not interested in actually solving these cases. They're interested in finding someone to make an example out of and hopes that'll provide enough deterrence.

It won't.

They should have synergized their market paradigms more to create a more linguistically diverse user experience. It's only gonna get worse though... once Beta consumes the site, all that'll be left is the outward appearance of a badly edited blog.with comments enabled.

Not at all. Traditions are long-standing things. If they're interrupted for awhile and then brought back, that's part of it's history, not to delineate to say "Oh, well, that was one tradition, and this is another". It's still the same tradition, it's just been resurrected.

Yeah, looks like the currency market is still in beta. /snark

It started in 776 BC. 776 + 2014 = 2790 ... Not so much of a stretch.

I suppose a 4000 year old tradition of having an open and international series of games to bring about peace and cultural tolerance/friendship might confuse some people into thinking that as a global event, the ability to view and participate in them would be something not controlled by a single group of greedy profit-oriented people who don't care to hear the clamours of said participants. Sorta like Slashdot beta....

No need. It's already approaching implosion... site traffic has been cut by a third.

Yup. falling like a rock.

I wonder if we'll have to use emergency generators and radio receivers to recover from Dicepocalypse...

This is an emergency public service announcement... a zombie infection has broken out and it eats the brains of those affected. So far, only about two dozen people, all middle and senior managers of content aggregation websites, have been infected. If you see one of these husks, contact authorities immediately and do not approach them... This is an emergency...

Anyone else notice that management's solution to the great slashdot uprising is to create dummy accounts and mass downmod everyone? Yeah. Like it just ended yesterday evening.

Slashdot Managers: Fuck you. You've lost another user. After this week, I'm done. Game over. Goodbye. Hope your Web 2.0 beta mcbullshit was worth it.