This reminds me of bluetooth earpieces when they first came out. It was creepy seeing people walking around talking to themselves. You got quiet when people wearing them walked by because they might be on a call and the person on the other end of the line might hear you in the background. Douchebagy types were early adapters because it looked "cool" or was sufficiently expensive to reflect their economic status. It took time for people to learn the social do's and don'ts of this new technology. Now, most people that I know only use them when driving. You don't often see people randomly walking around talking into the air now. I think there will be a transitional period where Glass users may be perceived as obnoxious, but eventually a socially acceptable equilibrium will be established.

Also, to clarify, spinning it as a "fake" benefits on side of the argument while spinning it as "evidence" of cohabitation benefits another.

Could be, but that is going with the assumption that the foot prints exist in a single "mud", if you will, and not multiple sediments separated in time. I think the point being made was that whether or not it is fake doesn't actually improve the argument that humans and dinosaurs walked side by side. It is essentially null information that is being spun to promote one view over another.

30 years ago a microprocessor _was_ a computer. Nearly every add-on card and peripheral - even keyboards and mice have microprocessors in them now. One of my best tech antiques is a KIM-1 computer (KIM stood for Keyboard Input and Monitor - these were the system's distinguishing features). It was shipped with the entire machine's circuit diagram which fits very readable on a 24"x36" print out. I'm fairly certain that the circuit diagram for my Logitech mouse is more complex!

...that the /. community finds broadband and health insurance equally important?

Perhaps, many of us being IT folks, the broadband (ability to work remotely?) pays for the other luxuries and necessities.

...its like waterboarding but tastier.

This is probably a good idea... Before drawing attention to yourself make sure you understand this situation as well as you think you do.

My university uses palm scanners to identify students to allow them access to the campus gym. To my understanding, instead of using an actual image, it generates a unique ID based on sample points within the palm image and then discards the original. From that point forward it just compares the generated ID. I guess, it can technically store an image, but the system would likely need to be modified (cracked) to function in a way the manufacturer did not intend.

If you have doubts about the storage, usage, or security of your information, you have the right to question the system. A good question to ask yourself is "what could someone do with this information if it were abused or compromised?" This may help put such situations into perspective.

I too am allergic to flour, but recently I had to travel to Europe (specifically Greece and then Italy) for a conference and decided to try some local foods and just suffer through the reaction. Oddly enough, I found that I react much, much differently to the flour there than to the flour in the US. I could actually eat pizza, bread, and cake without little to no reaction. A whole day of wheaty-goodness in Europe seemed to afford me the same level of reaction as when I would eat a couple bites of a cookie back home. I am uncertain why this was the case though. I suspect it's either a different variety of wheat or it's processed differently. With that said, I totally voted for Europe as it was the first pizza I've had that didn't make me want to curl up and die after eating it. I've gotta look up some of the pizza places mentioned in this thread though!