There are already glasses with cameras built in, and the google version is at least as recognizable as those are.
The only new thing those bring is the display, and voice commands as far as I can tell.
If you're worried about being recorded in your home, the only real option you have is to tell your guests not to.
This is pretty much the current situation, so google glass changes nothing.

I have no idea why, but for a minute I thought I the title said:
how the syrian electronic army hacked Tor.
And the comments and summary made no sense what so ever.
I guess Tor is a kind of onion as well.

New Coke suffered mostly from a marketing problem and a complete failure by Coca Cola to understand complaints of their customers.
Just like Windows 8.

I believe you can still hit F2 or whatever equivalent.
It just doesn't show the screen saying which button to press.

You can't really create spreadsheets on an iPad.
But who are the people trying to do this?
Looking at my friends and family with iPads, this just isn't the use case.
None of them is trying to do office work on an iPad.
They use it for games, checking email and browsing the internet.
I haven't seen a single person at work trying to do his work on an iPad (or a windows tablet for that matter).

I just don't check work email when at home.
You want to reach me after work?
They have my phone number.
If they really want me to check email they can give me a phone or whatever.

I was never really tech support for my parents, other than when I still lived at home.
And back then I was the one using the PC most of the time, so I didn't care anyway.
After I moved out I got a couple of calls asking if they could do this or that, and I'd basically say yes, no, here's a link.
My dad got a mac after a while, and now they figure stuff out for themselves as far as I know.
I don't even go on their computers when I'm at their house anymore.
Only real tech support issue was when they lost a bunch of pictures, to which my answer was make backups so it doesn't happen again.

The nice thing about text books is that the information is all in one place.
If you rely only on the internet, you are responsible for finding all the information and compiling it into a cohesive whole for yourself.

Actually, depending on the specific problem GPU can still be significantly faster than FPGAs mostly because of the large number of processing units.
The FPGAs are far more power efficient though.

Now count how many people actually have internet access and use google.

You're right. It's so new that we've had entire conferences and journals dedicated to reconfigurable computing for more than a decade now.
Never mind all the companies that released actual commercial hardware that uses these techniques.
Optimizing the CPU for code is something that is still being worked on, but even that has been going on for years.

A light bulb is just a glowing piece of metal in a ball of glass.

The problem with that is that I don't think consumers care whether or not the same OS can run on all their devices,
unless it can give you some real advantages such as moving running tasks from your phone to the desktop or something similar.
Having a single code base running on all devices is great. For the developers.

no,
it's 541.07K

This had me laughing so hard.