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And yet, I can easily hook up a camera and video the TV and hook directly into the sound pickups, and voila - a copy is made without circumventing anything. Depending upon hardware, it may actually be a reasonably good copy. And if I wish to go one step further, I can hook into the screen's display and record the raw video directly too, resulting in a perfect copy.

Not easy to do. HDMI's 'HDCP' scheme requires that hardware frustrate attempts to defeat the content protection requirements. Can never be bullet-proof, of course, but it'd be a hurdle.

Point a good camera at a good TV under good lighting in a controlled environment. HDCP defeated. You lose a bit of 'fidelity' during the digital analog digital conversion, but its a one time loss. Future copies of the copy won't lose anything further, and only one person has to do it once. That's not much of an obstacle.

How exactly does repeating the first method that Gr8Apes suggested make viable the second method that Gr8Apes suggested?

When we can trust the Chinese to not use lead in children's toys I think we should take a look at this gallium thing.

And if I wish to go one step further, I can hook into the screen's display and record the raw video directly too, resulting in a perfect copy.

Not easy to do. HDMI's 'HDCP' scheme requires that hardware frustrate attempts to defeat the content protection requirements. Can never be bullet-proof, of course, but it'd be a hurdle.

I just recently got a Nexus 5 to replace my aging Nokia N9 and was amazed by the near complete lack of simple tools that don't want access to your data in return. For the N9, there were a ton of useful free open source tools provided by the community over at maemo.org. That community was great. Every time I thought that there was something that was missing or new capability I wanted, I'd look there and find an app that already exists or a group of people in the process of building it.

The contrast between that experience and the excessive commercialism of Android was startling. After looking around for a while I did find this Simple LED Widget that is just what it says and doesn't require any unnecessary permissions, but I had to sift through dozens of apps like the one in the TFA.

Is there anything even close to maemo.org for Android? I've heard some good things about F-Droid, but I haven't looked into it enough yet to know if it's the best option.

heck Yahoo and Bing still don't use SSL for search

Out of curiosity I just went and tried it. Not only do they not use SSL by default, but you can't use SSL at all for searches on either site. Yahoo will serve the home page via HTTPS, but trying to search from it gives you first a big error message from your browser due to a certificate name mismatch, and if you click through that you get a 403. If you try to go to http://www.bing.com/ you get a blank page.

I didn't try either site while logged in, so it's possible that you can do secure searches if you have an account.

My understanding with Google was that it was always SSL for all logged-in searches, but that logged-out users could still use via HTTP. At some point that appears to have changed, because signed in or signed out, regardless of browser, any attempt to go to google.com via HTTP gets redirected to HTTPS. If you construct a query like http://www.google.com/search?q=foo you can force Google to receive your query terms over HTTP, but it still immediately redirects to HTTPS rather than returning any data. I suppose if you used a browser that indicated it could not handle HTTPS, Google would probably allow you to do searches over HTTP.

I very much enjoyed living in the Reagan years America.

Did you know that the average annual growth in GDP under Reagan was less than it was under Jimmy Carter?

Real GDP growth (meaning factoring in inflation) shows higher growth under Reagan than Carter.

Anything with Chrome gets a "half truth" from me. Chrome is based on WebKit, and as such had a lot of stuff that was copied from Apple. I would say collaborated on, but Google put an end to that, so I'll use the word copied, even though it was a legally allowed copy.

V8 is Google's original contribution to WebKit, yes, but it was very similar to WebKit's JavaScript engine (which leapfrogged V8 within public release in months, so V8 didn't really even bring anything unique to the table), and if you'll notice from the V8 license...

https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/browse/trunk/LICENSE

"Strongtalk assembler, the basis of the files assembler-arm-inl.h,
        assembler-arm.cc, assembler-arm.h, assembler-ia32-inl.h,
        assembler-ia32.cc, assembler-ia32.h, assembler-x64-inl.h,
        assembler-x64.cc, assembler-x64.h, assembler-mips-inl.h,
        assembler-mips.cc, assembler-mips.h, assembler.cc and assembler.h.
        This code is copyrighted by Sun Microsystems Inc. and released
        under a 3-clause BSD license."

They didn't even write the assembler, it's Suns.

So their contribution to V8 was to bring a lot of things together, but it wouldn't have been possible with, again, outside companies and acquisitions.

I don't have much sympathy for Google in the patents arms race. Google was aware what the rules of the game were, they were aware Apple had patented the wazoo out of the iPhone ("And BOY have we patented it!" - Steve Jobs, iPhone Introduction), and yet they copied anyway. You can complain about the rules, but Google can't say they were ignorant about the rules, and boy, these patents were unexpected. They very directly released something in conflict of patents, that's on them. I don't have much sympathy for companies that go out of their way to incur legal wraith and then complain they get sued. There is no "not playing the patent game." That's like playing soccer but saying you're "not playing the no hands on the ball game." It is what is it. Ignorance isn't a legal defense, nor is it a sound corporate strategy.

11 - Technically, we're collecting data on which cell tower the phones are connected to, not geographical coordinates per se. We just convert to location after the fact.

"Phone A12345 is currently near tower B98765" isn't technically location data. Not until you join that up with the table that tells you cell tower B98765 is at 55.728N 42.729W

For reference sake: cell tower B98765 is at 55.728N 42.729W. Protect your privacy by avoiding this place.

Heard of google?

Or you could just take a 1st year course on macro-economics.

You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!

Well, you save approximately 8750 seconds (approximately 2.5 hours) over 500 miles if you are going 95 mph instead of 65 mph.

So, I guess I really *do* need to pass that guy. Thanks for prompting me to do the math!

We only have the driver's word that he been drawing power from the outlet for a bare twenty minutes.

In North America and Japan using a standard household outlet (120-volt, 15 amp breaker, 12 amp maximum allowable draw, 1.4 kW) and the 7.5-meter (25 ft) cable included by Nissan, the Leaf will regain approximately 5 miles of range per hour. This type of charging is ideal for the commuter that can plug into standard outlets at home and at work during the typical 21 hours a day that the typical North American car is parked. It is also useful for emergency charging from any ubiquitous 120-volt outlet just about anywhere in North America.

Nissan Leaf: Recharging

The Chamblee Middle School [Google Maps] has limited public parking

It puzzles me how anyone not on staff could have found an accessible outlet within cord length.

I think it is within bounds for the officer to ask whether as staff or guest of the school you have permission to draw down 12 amps from an unmarked and unsecured 15 amp line --- which may be in use elsewhere.

Theft of services is a crime.

But the greater crime may be to assume that any random electrical outlet you come across can safely charge your car.

Switching between tasks really, really fast.

Of course, it's not me you're arguing with, it's the scientific community:

https://www.google.com/search?q=can+humans+multitask

Take it up with them if the fact that what you call multitasking isn't really multitasking, because they're the ones making the claim. I'm just parroting it.

Define "true multitasking"./p>

Consciously focusing on more than one task simultaneously. It's harder than you think; in fact, according to scientific consensus, it's physically impossible for humans to do.

Horse shit.
Show me a scientific definition of multitasking that jives with your own, then show me a "scientific consensus" that shows humans can't do that shit.

Take your pick:

https://www.google.com/search?q=can+humans+multitask

People who trot out "scientific consensus" instead of actual fucking science are clowns who should be ignored.

Have you never taken a phone call while having sex? Eaten while watching TV? Played a shitty game on your phone while squeezing out a turd? Watched TV and replied to an email? Driven while talking to a passenger? Looked at things and also heard things? If you can't fucking multi task at all, you're a retard, plain and simple.

You keep using that term, but I don't think it means what you think it means.

Also, if you think being an unholy, childish asshole about it just because someone on the internet disagrees with you somehow helps you gain credibility, or makes you seem like the 'smart guy' in this discussion, you're dead wrong, fella. Insults are the bastion of the ignorant.

This part is what they are trying to replace. Look at the lines and lines of people. Look at the massive dormitories with suicide nets. Those are the people they are trying to replace.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.autodesk.autocadws

> Claiming that the party or Ron Paul are huge on drugs is yet another fabricated argument from you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org
88,200 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+drug
38,000 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+taxes
1,910 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+crime
2,820 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+healthcare
1,800 results

43% of the Libertarian Party web site talks about drugs. 2% about taxes, 2% about healthcare.
So we can see the libertarian party talks about drugs 20 times as much as they talk about taxes or healthcare. It's al about the constitution, you say? 89 hits mention the fifth amendment, 2,550 the first amendment. The Libertarian party site talks about drugs hundreds to thousands of times more often than they talk about the constitutional freedoms that are being fought for.

It seems that what is "fabricated" is your idea of the party. In fact, the party spends 43% of it's web site on drugs.

> Claiming that the party or Ron Paul are huge on drugs is yet another fabricated argument from you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org
88,200 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+drug
38,000 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+taxes
1,910 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+crime
2,820 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+healthcare
1,800 results

43% of the Libertarian Party web site talks about drugs. 2% about taxes, 2% about healthcare.
So we can see the libertarian party talks about drugs 20 times as much as they talk about taxes or healthcare. It's al about the constitution, you say? 89 hits mention the fifth amendment, 2,550 the first amendment. The Libertarian party site talks about drugs hundreds to thousands of times more often than they talk about the constitutional freedoms that are being fought for.

It seems that what is "fabricated" is your idea of the party. In fact, the party spends 43% of it's web site on drugs.

> Claiming that the party or Ron Paul are huge on drugs is yet another fabricated argument from you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org
88,200 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+drug
38,000 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+taxes
1,910 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+crime
2,820 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+healthcare
1,800 results

43% of the Libertarian Party web site talks about drugs. 2% about taxes, 2% about healthcare.
So we can see the libertarian party talks about drugs 20 times as much as they talk about taxes or healthcare. It's al about the constitution, you say? 89 hits mention the fifth amendment, 2,550 the first amendment. The Libertarian party site talks about drugs hundreds to thousands of times more often than they talk about the constitutional freedoms that are being fought for.

It seems that what is "fabricated" is your idea of the party. In fact, the party spends 43% of it's web site on drugs.

> Claiming that the party or Ron Paul are huge on drugs is yet another fabricated argument from you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org
88,200 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+drug
38,000 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+taxes
1,910 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+crime
2,820 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+healthcare
1,800 results

43% of the Libertarian Party web site talks about drugs. 2% about taxes, 2% about healthcare.
So we can see the libertarian party talks about drugs 20 times as much as they talk about taxes or healthcare. It's al about the constitution, you say? 89 hits mention the fifth amendment, 2,550 the first amendment. The Libertarian party site talks about drugs hundreds to thousands of times more often than they talk about the constitutional freedoms that are being fought for.

It seems that what is "fabricated" is your idea of the party. In fact, the party spends 43% of it's web site on drugs.

> Claiming that the party or Ron Paul are huge on drugs is yet another fabricated argument from you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org
88,200 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+drug
38,000 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+taxes
1,910 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+crime
2,820 results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lp.org+healthcare
1,800 results

43% of the Libertarian Party web site talks about drugs. 2% about taxes, 2% about healthcare.
So we can see the libertarian party talks about drugs 20 times as much as they talk about taxes or healthcare. It's al about the constitution, you say? 89 hits mention the fifth amendment, 2,550 the first amendment. The Libertarian party site talks about drugs hundreds to thousands of times more often than they talk about the constitutional freedoms that are being fought for.

It seems that what is "fabricated" is your idea of the party. In fact, the party spends 43% of it's web site on drugs.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

The Wall Street Journal
Forbes
National Review
The Economist
Slate
The Atlantic
the New York Times
The Washington Post
Reuters
CNN
Fox News
Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.

Censoring someone else is never valid. (which is what a DDoS is trying to do)

A DDoS is a virtual sit in.
http://www.google.com/search?q=sit+in+civil+rights&tbm=isch

I suppose you would have been in favor of imprisoning and fining people who sat on the Whites Only stools at lunch counters in the 60s. That makes you a fucking asshole.

Ok so I fail at researching... when I searched for type-c connector the first ones that appeared were actually type-b http://www.google.com/shopping/suppliers/search?source=cunit&group=Connectors+and+Terminals+L4&gclid=CKf_r7HhlrsCFfBAMgod5BEAjg&q=usb+connector&oq=USB+Type-C+connector

Feel free to rate my post into the basement for stupidity...

http://www.google.com/patents/US20110133542

While interesting, and some things might seem novel to the casual uninterested reader, I can see nothing truly novel - as in would not be thought of in a few days by an engineer skilled in the field facing the same problems.
Aspects of this patent I've got prototype code somewhere (if I haven't thrown out the disk) around optimising fuel use of a hybrid car.

Porsche, in recent models, have actually been charging more money for "weight reduction" which includes replacing the metal door latch handle with a nylon loop to pull on. For weight savings.

Is it stupid? Absolutely. But they are actually charging people more money for less features, and they are paying it and happy about it.

Either color-code the cables and bind them very nicely together, or color-code some pipes/conduit and run the cables through those.

Make it look like Google's data centers. Wires or pipes.

Either color-code the cables and bind them very nicely together, or color-code some pipes/conduit and run the cables through those.

Make it look like Google's data centers. Wires or pipes.

Allow me to rephrase:

After a project that I was biased against [1] failed, my bias was confirmed and I knew that my preferred solution would be much better.

I have a half-baked plan already, so surely the real thing can't be much more difficult.

Now I see evidence that contradicts my bias, so I'm completely surprised.

[1]: Why is a project I know little about using a database I know little about?

One of MarkLogic's strong points is that it uses that "example schema from a private insurance firm" as its starting point, keeping records arranged in the proper hierarchies for use in the healthcare industry. Yes, you could reproduce the constraints using another database, but why go to the extra work? Oh, right, there's that consistency point... but a quick search shows that MarkLogic is claiming ACID support.

So for a project in the healthcare sector is using a healthcare-oriented database. This doesn't seem to be a bad idea. The questionable part is how there are fewer MarkLogic experts than Oracle gurus, but that's not really a showstopper.

The bubble is extraordinarily pervasive and it is VERY difficult to break out of without a geographic change(Proxy/VPN).

Try your search with the following URLs and see what you get:
www.google.com
www.google.co.uk
www.bing.com
www.duckduckgo.com

I never log in to Google, always clear cookies and cache and generally try to avoid being tracked. I know that it's pointless because they still use geolocation, IP address, and browser signatures to track me. But I still try to avoid the bubble. Searching for BP gives me company/stock/investment information only! On all of the above search engines. But, searching BP from my hippie sister-in-law's house(on my own device) gives me a first page full of oil spill links.

It's REALLY startling when I travel overseas. Working remotely, I try searching for my "usual stuff", that's always right there at the top of the page. But, at the Caribbean resort, all I get is links to Philippine and Malay centric stuff and not at all what I'm looking for. It has been literally impossible for me to Google certain things that I normally do back home, even with very explicit search terms including location. It's been very annoying sometimes, but it drives home that I'm inside a bubble. It is not at all unlike being inside the Matrix and unable to wake up. You're not even aware that you're inside the bubble/Matrix.

It is exceedingly unlikely that the results don't overlap after the first few, but if you can produce a copy of the two sets of results, I will forward them to someone on the Google Search team for debugging.

People hugely overestimate the effect of personalization -- it is a ranking tweak not a complete change to the search engine. It does not make economic sense to have personalized whole-web indexes.

Btw, if you don't like personalization ever, it is pretty easy to turn off:
    https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/54048?hl=en
Just remove web history and uncheck private results.

Use a media sharing service that does not care about DMCA notices. May I suggest several alternatives.

It already happened.

> https://www.google.com/#q=IRS+Founded

I assure you, the IRS did not exist prior to 1953

We need a search engine that only searches DMCA takedown requests.

Google is halfway there, publishing every(?) takedown request they get.

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/

Nothing really stops you from changing the firmware on Google Glass to a custom one, with all of Google's spyware ripped out.

Not to bring anybody down... but seriously... we intentionally left the device unlocked so you guys could hack it and do crazy fun shit with it. --- Stephen Lau, Google X Lab

There's source code available for the kernel as required by the GPL as well as for other essential components, so custom firmware is definitely possible for it. Someone out there will probably eventually wind up selling medical editions of Google Glass with custom firmware with HIPAA compliance baked in and apps to interface with common medical information systems, although such a thing will likely be far more expensive than the consumer edition. Someone further down commented that it would cost $19,000, and well, I imagine they're not far off the mark, and perhaps even underestimating it. Certification is an expensive business.

I frankly don't get why there is so much hate on Google Glass. Indeed, the use that is being pushed for it as a consumer device is very creepy from a privacy standpoint, but you don't have to use it as Google intended. As William Gibson famously said, the street finds its own uses for things, and Google hasn't done anything to hinder that, in fact they are actively encouraging it.

Actually they do since most criminals are just looking for an easy target and are about as dumb as a brick (otherwise they would have real jobs). The U-Haul and self storage place I worked at had a life size cardboard cutout of the Maytag Repair Man up in the second floor windows of the place so it always looked like there was a security guard in there. The windows were facing the road and customers commented that it was nice that we had a security guard. I imagine that it fooled most stupid criminals as well.

FTFA:

Mr. Rotenberg . . . acknowledged, however, that K5’s looks were benign enough. “It doesn’t look like Arnold Schwarzenegger,” he said. “Unless he was rolled over and pressed into a ball.”

No, it looks like the Aperture Science defense turrets. Not very comforting, actually.

Yes, ZIM is the best format for this, easy to use on Android too. Full-text search.

And everyone's phone should have Wikivoyage, whole world travel guide in ~1GB (ZIM or HTML files).

Yes, ZIM is the best format for this, easy to use on Android too. Full-text search.

And everyone's phone should have Wikivoyage, whole world travel guide in ~1GB (ZIM or HTML files).