Why are people so much more against google glass than the same features in other things? I was friends with my high school videographer, and he had a videocamera. He went everywhere with it for months. Into people's houses and such. Even into stores and such. Almost nobody complained.

But on Slashdot, "OMFG, something new, fear the tech, avoid the tech, hate the tech" Woo hoo, bring on the 1500s!

You don't hang around enough rude salesmen. They are always talking, too loudly, and in inappropriate places.

Nothing on the Internet is a thought. It's all speech. 100% of the Internet is an expression of a thought, not a thought itself. If the person at the computer didn't do something physical to express the thought (speech), then there'd be no Internet.

I tried that, it didn't work as you describe. Since your premise is wrong, do you think that will make you re-visit your conclusion? I thought not. There's an anti-technology religion on Slashdot. A strange Luddite anti-tech belief that technology is offensive, and that the people who use it cause that offense, and the conservative view that we should try to fit in, even if that means giving up something useful. I guess the conservativism runs deeper on slashdot than "geek" or "nerd". Early adopters are shunned and threatened even on Slashdot.

You missed the joke. Last I've read, IRS regulations are added at a rate greater than a human can read. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, even when the law is unknowable. So go read the the laws and let us know which one causes the problem. By the time you finish reading it, you'll be dead, and have violated many of them before you managed to read them (or interpreted them differently than some random judge)

I never played the "I'm older and wiser" card. I played the "you're dumb" card.

Like the place I worked where every time a "the network was down" complaint came in, we bet on the actual problem. About half the time, "the network was down" meant the printer was out of toner. And the printer has a phone number on it for the Office Manager who manages those devices, with directions on changing the toner. "The network is down"'s second most common cause was a lost/changed password. The closest error to the reported error is if someone managed to accidentally unplug something, like a video cable or Ethernet cable.

Where are you from? Your terminology is not American in style and content.

You say that, but you only attack the logic, not the math.

So, there were 1000 developers, paid $100,000 each. 40 new developers started within the last year, and 29 retired. If wages for the 971 remaining developers remained flat, then the new developers started at $22,500 per year.

Yes, I realize it isn't exactly realistic, but the math itself will balance without a single software developer taking a pay cut. Also, reality would likely have a larger turnover and more new guys, which would bring up the new guy pay. The point was that a 2% loss in pay doesn't necessarily mean that anyone saw an actual pay cut.

falling wages can also be a sign of growth. We hired 50% more software developers last year, of course, most of them were with less experience than our current ones, so they were paid less, but our current ones got fat raises as well.

The math works, and often these numbers are more a trend of waves of new hires, rather than any one particular person expecting a pay cut.

Yeah, I put in my notice one place, and was offered a "promotion" to supervisor. I politely declined the offer. A supervisor is salaried, and the workers make more than the supervisors from overtime and such. Neither job is desirable in a long term. If I'd stayed, I'd have been frustrated in a month, and still looking elsewhere. That, and I went up $10k/yr in the new job, much better than a pay cut.

Roadside bribery isn't a conspiracy. And there are many countries where the government employees are so underpaid that they get a sizeable portion of their take-home pay from abusing their position. In the US, we call them Congress.

Then a socket set with a straight socket. Another common tool mostly useless for plumbing.

Are you honestly saying that tools a regular person bought to, say, work on a car, would work for replacing a toilet or faucet?

Someone tell the police. I bet suddenly the government would be interested in defending our right to upgrade, if it helps block remote-wipe.

Ah yes, the traditional "you must not have all the information, or you'd agree with me" argument. It's proof your logic is flawed, not proof of my ignorance. You do realize that "back in the day" there were people encouraging others to use things like 198.6.1.3, the DNS server for the largest (by volume, not reach) and fastest growing (by $ per day spent on infrastructure) ISP on the planet, rather than local ones because local ones were much more prone to failure than link failure to 198.6.1.3, right? You speak as if cross-provider DNS is something you discovered for the first time yesterday. Others of us have used it for 20+ years. Your problem is that you just don't get it. Everything you talk about being "new" has been done before.

It's like virtualization. We had that in the '60s. It was called a "mainframe" then. Then we had PCs. Then we had "terminal servers" which was more virtualization. Then PCs/tablets again. Nothing is new. It's cyclic, and if you are dumb, you might think the next big thing is new, but if you aren't dumb, you recognize it as a re-marketing of something that's been done multiple times in different ways in the past 50 years.