Maybe you should stand up to those teachers?

I've dealt with similar things from school, although not as bad. No mandatory Facebook, but a school-website that shows all homework with a login and school email addresses (which can only be read via webmail, so no instant pinging all the time). Occasionally I did see emails from teachers coming in over the weekend (because I'm copied in via personal email when they want to be sure it is read in time), but I politely and firmly respond to them saying I will not allow my kids to do homework that's not given in advance. Both times I got an apology mail back that it was only a reminder and the kids should have already known about it. Then why the heck do you send such an email on Saturday night or Sunday?

I still do block access after bed time. In the form of leaving all electronics in the living room when you leave to go to bed. Certainly won't change that, even less so for silly school teachers who thing it's okay to give homework that wasn't in the schedule before 4pm. Just because the technology exists, doesn't mean it should be allowed to be abused.

That answers that then :-)
(could still be that women don't like filling out anonymous surveys, but I agree that's not very likely)

I occasionally edit Wikipedia when I read something that's wrong, or if the grammar is off.
I don't recall telling them I'm female. Maybe there are more women who do that?

Reddit too. Male dominated? Very possible. But how do they know? I'm a redditor, female, and unless I tell them, everybody keeps assuming I'm male.
On Reddit, we call that "male until proven female".

Yes, I did. Wonder if they were aware themselves?

Forgot essential Firefox plugins:
Developer Toolbar
Firebug
Ghostery

For work:
TextPad - all coding
WildEdit - mass search and replace on files in folders with regex
WinMergeU - diff everything
EclipsePalette - colour picker (a very old version that doesn't need installing, just a simple 144kB exe)
PhotoShop 7 (yes, that old - still functional and really fast on modern computers)

Other:
Desktop Sidebar - for the Quick Launch panel. (not yet tried if it works in Windows 8, worked on XP, works on 7)
VLC
Pidgin
MalwareBytes
LibreOffice / OpenOffice

ehm. I do.
The sole reason that I did not buy a Surface when it came out last year, is that I could not buy one anywhere in any shop. I live in one of the biggest cities in the Netherlands, and the only way for me to get my hands on a surface, would be to order it online. All I wanted, was a shop with a Surface on display so I could touch it before buying it. I was ready to shill out the money for it.

In December, I still could not find a Surface anywhere, and then a Galaxy TAB was on sale for 2/3 of the price, and I bought that one.
Fine tablet, and good for the purpose (testing the websites I build), but it's Google.
I still want a Surface, and may well buy one before the end of the year.

Why do Americans always assume their Constitution is everything?
For one, most of the world is not the US, and the US Constitution is still a US thing, not applicable to the rest of the world.
Second, there are more laws that just the Consitution, and there is certainly a right to privacy. Even in the US.

Incidentally, look at this map, and see the countries with "endemic surveillance". I remember times when Americans were anti-communist and the KGB were the bad guys.
(also I find it sad that there's only one place on the whole map that has a little bit of green in it)

I wouldn't object, but I would try to stay out of the frame, and not look at the family, and not say anything, and certainly not say 'congratulations' or anything.

You see, if someone is holding a camera, pointing it at the little boy or girl's happy face as they blow out the candles, I can say "hurray" with the rest of the restaurant, and clap my hands, and I know only the sound will be in the video. It's a private moment, shared in public, but the subject of the video is, and remains, the little kid.
With GG, the moment I say something, the user will look up to see where the sound comes from, and voila, I'm in the center of his focus.

It's not that the person wants to upload my face to the internet, it's that the glasses are on his face, and film everything he looks at.
That's huge and uncomfortable difference between GG and a regular camera.

You're not alone in that.

We don't all live in San Francisco where nobody ever thinks negatively of any other person based on that person's beliefs, customs, or sexual preferences or quirks.

There are so many examples where GG is bad without necessarily being creepy.
Not every gay person is ready to come out of the closet to his friends / family before they (publicly, but in a city where they don't know anyone) kiss their boy-/girlfriend. Not everyone buying HIV drugs wants their church pastor to know they need that stuff. Heck, not even everybody wants YouTube to show the world what brand of condoms they're buying.

And yes, LGBT stuff is a good example of something not everybody is comfortable with sharing with the world. It's not that it's bad, it's that not everybody agrees on that and not everybody is ready to go public with it. And in some countries (as I said, we're not all in SF) it's actually dangerous to go public with stuff like that.

Public surveillance cameras showing their content online is not a good thing, but at least those cameras are not 1 meter away from your face, and also have a lot less image quality than what GG will have.

Glass reveals it, yes. But it doesn't remove it. And that's the problem with using GG.
Or at least one of the problems. Even if nobody ever was prejudiced about anything, then it's still ignoring my right to privacy.

That would work, if that light was non-breakable. But my guess is that a very simple break in a tiny connection is enough to not have the blinking light anymore.
Still, even with the blinking light: total stranger starts recording you. What do you do? Ignore, behave your best, so that if it is uploaded to YouTube you won't look a fool? Or do you address the total stranger and ask him to stop recording, only so you'll be in a YouTube video called "people who don't like my glasses"?

"essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration and [of course] terrorism."

Am I the only one to read "tourism" there? I'm just too innocent for this world...

In the Netherlands they tricked us by renaming the SoFi (social / fiscal) number to BSN (citizen service number). Now they can do anything they want with the number, as it's not the original number they wrote those laws for. (It is though of course, they just think we're stupid.)

And then what? If the popup is fake (which it is because the bank does not use popups at all, but let's just forget this for argument's sake), it means that the passkey I gave in already had effect, and this means that it cannot be reused. For every single thing I need to do, I need a new passkey. And every new passkey is sent to my mobile phone by the bank. When there is no confirmation to be given for a transaction, no passkey is sent to the phone.