If you're referring to x-ray radiation given off by CRT TV's, I'd bet that most people here haven't watched TV on a CRT in a number of years. I haven't owned a CRT TV for 6 years - and it's been about 10 years since I've had a CRT monitor.

I do, sometimes. Though I'm sure why that's relevant?

It's not a magnet, it's an electromagnet, which just makes it a large and sensitive piece of equipment rather than a big magnet.

When I saw the headline and summary, I thought they were going to have to take special precautions to stay away from metals and other materials that could be affected by the huge magnet.

The FSA is a stupid joke of a health care policy - how can anyone accurately predict their out of pocket medical expenses for the following year? Fixed expenses like medicines can be predicted, but I just paid for expensive dental work mostly out of pocket with no way to deduct it because I didn't have the forsight to predict that a dental condition would exhaust my meager Dental Insurance annnual cap.

Rather than an FSA where I have to lock up money in a bank account, I'd like to see medical expenses be fully deductible without having to reach the 7.5% AGI limit. Why should Jane get to deduct her $1200 of predictable $100/month medications, but John can't deduct his $2000 of unexpected dental work? John probably needs the deduction more since his was an unplanned expense.

If grownups could be counted on to make grown-up decisions, that would work out well, especially at an individual level, if you don't go to the doctor for routine visits, eventually you'll go when someone catastrophic happens, but that was your choice. However, when dealing with public health policy, everyone wins if everyone gets routine care to prevent small problems from being big and expensive problems. (and also to keep individual problems from spreading, so the guy that has tuberculosis is less likely to just go to work "with a cold" and spread it to his coworkers and the public).

I think you're just trolling, but if anyone is reading this and thinks just swapping out the breaker or fuse is a good idea, remember that it's the size of the wire that determines the safe current limit of the circuit, not the size of the breaker. In the USA,NEC specifies: 14 gauge wire = 15 amp, 12 gauge wire = 20 amp, 10 gauge wire = 30 amp. (but these are maximum values that may need to be derated in some conditions, like multiple conductors in conduit, especially long circuit runs, etc)

I think outgassing or other effect is much more likely than RF energy from the router preventing seeds from germinating. It's not neccessarily the plastics that are outgassing -- Maybe cheap electrolytic capacitors or other components are venting.

The difference between publishing the words to a book and showing a game is that everyone buys a book to read the words, but few (?) people buy a game just to watch someone else play it. Otherwise, game makers wouldn't have to actually create games, they could just sell pre-canned videos of what game play would look like if they actually produced the game.

It's a good thing there's no way to use stolen credentials to do searches anonymously!

The control would have to be a router that's powered on but not transmitting to account for the possibility of outgassing or some other effect from the router (magnetic field from the power supply? Flashing Light from the router disrupting the plant's growing cycle?). Maybe replacing the antennas with terminators to eliminate (mostly) transmissions while leaving the transmitter active would be a better control.

That's why it's important to bring these issues up now - before they become integrated into humans. Maybe an indicator (maybe visual, or maybe an RF beacon) to indicate recording?

Cloud storage is already growing up, Amazon Glacier will store 3.5GB of video for 3.5 cents/month

That's what people used to think about their online accounts "No one's going to care about my online shopping account". Yet new data breaches seem to be a daily occurance.

The plumber's friend robbing me has always been a risk. Having a data breach that releases a data about everything valuable in my home (as well as opening new social engineering attacks where the attacker knows in intimate detail the layout and contents of your home) is the new risk that ubiquitous video recording can lead to.

"I'm sorry sir, I can't take these off, these are my prescription eye glasses, but don't worry I'm not going to record anything... *wink* We can send another guy out next Wednesday that doesn't wear glasses, but you'll still need to pay me the $75 service visit fee..."

Storage densities have historically increased and prices decreases over time... What's impossible today becomes much easier and cheaper 5 - 10 years from now. 18 hours/day of 5000kbit video streamed for a year is "only" 10TB - less than $500 worth of SATA disk space. Amazon Glacier can store that much data for $100/month.

I think few people are concerned with Google Glass *today* when only a few thousand people have them, but are more concerned with when prices come down and they are much more prevalent.

I think Google intends the camera to be an integral part of the Google Glass experience, or they'd just drop the camera which gets rid of the most controversial part of the device (distraction while driving is still a concern, but most people seem more concerned with its ability to surreptitiously take photos/video).

The current generation of GG may be battery and power constrained, but future versions likely will not be. Once you have the ability to record everything and archive indefinitely, why wouldn't you just record everything just in case you want to refer to it later? Especially as image recognition and searching gets better, so it's easy to refer to something that's been recorded. The plumber might get a call from the homeowner a year after his last visit about their kitchen sink and the plumber can run a query like "Google: Show me the kitchen sink from the home on 1920 Sycamore St". And anyone who has access to the plumber's account could run a query like "Google: Show me all paintings from all houses visited in the past 6 months, ordered by estimated value"