The events in Boston are far far from the same magnitude of the 9/11 attacks. They don't even compare.
The Boston bombs are like any Tuesday in Baghdad or Damascus, or in Northern Ireland back in the '80s.

I don't mean to be disrespectful to the victims of the bombings in Boston, or to those students in Cambridge, Mass. USA. who are terrified right now, but ...

Does this story really have a place on Slashdot?
You can read more about it on practically every major news site, and it is live on all news-oriented TV channels all over the world. It does not need to be on the tech sites too.

If you already are anxious, you don't need to be bombarded with more news that make you even more terrified. You need a place to relax, to help you concentrate on other matters.

It can't match 1:1 to the screen. There is no eye tracking, which would be required for proper eye-hand-screen coordination.
Sony managed to be first to patent a combo with eye tracking, however.

The biggest thing I have against single-sign-on is that I need different levels of security for different sites, and I want to keep the sites compartmentalised from each other.
For instance, I want high security for my email account and access it only from computers/devices that I have control over.
However, I have private playlists on Youtube that I may want to show to a friend, on a third guy's (two degrees of separation) computer. I don't want to have to be afraid of logging into Youtube on that machine because that computer would also get access to my email.

When I am on my trusted home computer, having different accounts for different things can get cumbersome with those sites that force single-sign-on on you!
Yes, while I could use the Incognito mode in Chromium to separate my logins -- it does only separate [i]two[/i] sites, and I would have to login each time I need a new window in incognito mode.
It would be much more convenient if I could have different "realms" or "personas", where I could browse each site in its own realm.

Yes, most movie players hide their controls in full screen mode.
Some full-screen movie players are weird in that they use some special video surface overlay for hardware accelerated video decoding -- which they will not draw any controls over.
This means that every time the controls pop up, the player scales the video down to make room for the controls, and vice versa: after a couple of seconds of no mouse movement when the player hides the control, the video is scaled up again to full screen. I find this very very annoying.

I agree. Look and feel patents should not have be granted in the first place.

I am sure that there are many more pieces of software that did the same thing, just not on a "phone".
Long before 2005, there were software installers that required you to scroll a license agreement to the bottom before it unlocked the button that allowed you to proceed with the install.
What kind of widget control do you use to scroll a document with? A type of slider of course.

Over here, slices of pressed, boiled horse meat have been marketed as "Hamburger meat" for decades. Not really foul play, but anyway ...

You wanted to see an epidemiological study for humans that shows a link between cell phone radiation and cancer.

Here you go:

Hardell L, Carlberg M, Hansson Mild K.
Pooled analysis of case-control studies on malignant brain tumours and the use of mobile and cordless phones including living and deceased subjects.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21331446

You mean ... you don't remap the Caps Lock key to Control? I thought everyone did that ... ;)

Movies in 16:9 aspect are also best seen on a screen that is 16:10 or higher. You would want the seek-bar to appear below the movie , not on top of the movie, covering it.

I agree. Easy access for replacing battery and drive from the outside using only an ordinary jeweler's screwdriver should be a lawful right. I would like to see the EU pass such a law.

It could have been in an email:
* State/gov authorities.
* Insurance company.
* Your doctor
* Digital copy of payslip
etc.

Do you not have access to your email via your phone?

How do you know that your Glass has not been hacked? Laptop webcams get hacked all the time.

Cancer can take many years before symptoms appear. An example is people in Ukraine and Belarus who were subjected to fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Diagnoses of thyroid cancer (for all age groups) peaked in 1996, ten years after, but people are still being diagnosed with it. ... and this was is ionizing radiation that mutated genes directly during a few days in 1986.

If there are health effects from cell phones, we will probably not see the diagnoses for twenty years. (However, by then the collapse of the world's eco-systems will be a more pressing issue....)