Due to our own actions, the terrorists won yet another round...not a cry I'd championed previously.

The future, scratch that, the present is looking really bleak now that the average civilian can expect to be spied upon, searches and home invasions are being done without cause, due process is ignored, travel is restricted, "Homeland Security" are targeting civilians for desiring sexual contact with minors, and those declared enemies of the state are outright tortured, everything that was considered "evil" about the opposition when I was a child (be it the Third Reich or the Soviet Union) is currently taking place in the United States.

The only thing left is to disarm the populace to prevent revolt, and institute concentration or labor camps.

I never imagined I'd grow up to be embarrassed by my government and everything it stands for. Is fear next?

Reminded me of Second Life too (game aspects of), where you had many people clueless what to do without specific direction, a lack of cohesion of design, and some outright bad decision making that impacted others.

That's why I go pay for a cheap haircut from a cute girl instead of ebaying a Flowbie.

I would pay for a cute gal to come knock at my window every morning, but not so I can go to work. Where do I look for that in the yellow pages, knock-her-up did you say?

I don't have it personally (lack of compatible devices), but two gals I know both have had it tell them when it's time to head off for appointments; one flies a lot, and it's alerted her with the time to leave for flight #___ that it picked up from her email automatically.

However flying so much, she often changes flights last minute, and also doesn't bother getting to the airport that much ahead of time given pre-screening. She laughed one day having landed, turned on her phone and subsequently got an now erroneous alert for a later flight she'd previously switched from--then it was more Google Yesterday, than Google Now.

Decades ago my father liked to point out studies showed incarceration beyond a few years was meaningless, the first few years had all the impact, longer sentences provided no added deterrence.

So she's operating under a fallacy, longer sentences are not "more odious"--they are no different than short sentences to the recipient.

However the cost of lengthy incarceration IS significant to society, without added benefit. So ironically, if we could inflict seven years in seven months, there would be a cost savings. But how would you accelerate the learning process to turn someone with limited socially acceptable life skills into a contributing member of society?

Penal systems with the lowest rates of criminal recurrence don't just lock people away, but provide growth opportunities, which take time.

Takes longer to consume a page, since normally you don't read each and every word, you glance across a page picking up critical words to glean the meaning.

Running it on their webpage, I got bored waiting for it, meanwhile in less time previously, I'd digested the entire page.

That being said, I passed the link on to a dyslexic friend, we'll see how she feels, presuming she can successfully read my G+ post to her. ;-)

Normally I'd agree, except this specifies non-consensual, and there's a societal desire to not produce child porn for the consumption of anyone, child, teen, or adult.

A 16-year old agreeing to such is apparently legal per this law.

Similarly, if it were permissible for children to photograph any age, then adults would simply coerce children to do the dirty work.

Interestingly, leaves the determination of legality up to the subject, rather than the overt act: wear panties, no crime; go bare, gotcha'!

The circle you associate in perhaps? I know one person with an ipad, from back when tablets were new novelties and a family member purchased it for her (she's disabled, easier to use than sit at a computer, although ridiculously heavy compared to other tablets). Everyone else I know with a device has an Android. I haven't counted since, who cares? All the families have them for their kids. Plenty of individuals too. I get handed plenty of tablets to see pics or stuff through the course of living.

Want to see a lot of Kindles? Take a flight. People leave them at home unless they expect to spend a lot of time reading. The airports are loaded with them, and tablets for the illiterate move watchers.

Anecdotes.

Data.

Case in point.

Many of my choices covered above, but more important for me is AutoHotKey. Computers are supposed to do the work. (I've had key/mouse recording/scripting utilities back from my Amiga days, then old Macintosh at work, and so on, nothing beats being able to shortcut/automate any repetitive thing.)

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.