In light of the recent leaks, there is a rising consensus that privacy protection should not be underestimated. If it is, then it is prone to put to use by a third party without taking any permission from the end-user, which is unethical. This is all the more important in the open-source world because many people use open-source products because of their ethical and 'open' paradigms. Proprietary code by their very nature bind us to their whims, but open-source is all about freedom. Even if your hypothesis is true, ie even if most users don't take privacy very seriously today, I bet it is pretty soon going to change.

I think that these HR tests basically ensure uniformity of candidates to a certain extent. But if all people in a workplace are of the same nature, if they wear the same clothes (some companies require that too), and if they think in the same manner, a lot of out-of-the-box thinkers would be left out. And it is a law of nature that the higher the variety, the better the yield. I believe that a lot of differently thinking people can generate great ideas by mutual interaction.

By the way, that's exactly why I left a corporate career at a bank: I was the only person in the entire floor to question the dress code, I was the only person in a 10.000 people center to commute by bike (among other things) and I got tired of being the ugly duck and having my ideas being completely rejected just because they were different.

It's sad that most of the people I meet today can only be described as 'careerists'. I hardly see any artists or people who really enjoy what they do. And you know what your environment can do to you: it can make you or break you. Having an unhappy person next to you is a cyclic and disturbing process. The negativity percolates to unimaginable proportions. Negativity is often more affecting than positivity. That is why it is so important to 'engineer' your surroundings with care.

I think that the newer Kinect 2.0 will be able to take care of all these more sophisticated gestures. When compared to the Leapmotion it has much better range and its accuracy will improve now too.

The newer Kinect 2.0 will be able to do almost perfect finger tracking. Infact sign language recognition apps have been written for even the older Kinect (XBox 360 version). Check out the SigmaNIL framework and FORTH libraries offered with OpenNI.

You wouldn't see this in an XBox game though - the XBox SDK doesn't support it.

I think that the SDK is way ahead of OpenNI. Soon the more enhanced features of the new Kinect will make their way into games too!

sorry, when writing about the kinect I assumed the new one. even though it's not available yet, it is more compareable to the leap than the old kinect, because of it's age :D

"In addition, safety emergency exits and pressurization will be added in key locations.." How could anyone predict what 'key' locations an emergency is going to happen at? And how would eviction happen, given the tube's low pressure?