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And the person who broke the "news" wasn't even trying to pretend it was true.

http://twitter.com/#!/RoyOsherove/status/71334987152101376
@RoyOsherove here's a more official video of announcement of VB6 going open source from #msteched http://bit.ly/79qHlZ

Secret of Mana is available on iOS for $8.99. Link goes to iTunes web page.

#slashdot: A $25 PC On a USB Stick - The new danger in air travel comes with a $25 fee /.0 oh no "PC On a USB Stick" http://bit.ly/iqij2R (PS: /.0 stands for -)

These robots help each other when got stuck. You can program robot do anything you want. We too are such robots and help each other when its ultimately good for us.

These robots for example help each other when got stuck. So nothing to see there.

Just in! The contents of Bin Laden's hard drive have been leaked to the public

They were just paid to change the opinion.
Its like French 3 strike law - its widly known and proven that it was bought by local RIAA

Its interesting, especially the robots they have used.

Really amazing stuff

CNBC has nice overview of the recovery operation.

Um, not quite. That is a link to some lame-ass porn, a dude's ass I think. Difficult to tell as the browser window bounced all over my screen as I tried to close it.

However, it could have been recorder rescue footage if the device was actually in the guy's ass... How it got there from the bottom of the ocean is perhaps worth further investigation.

CNBC has nice overview of the recovery operation.

Here is nice video covering the recovery operation

Here new EU patent: A round object intended to ease transportation under certain conditions So hand your car to me please...

Just look at that.... A round object intended to ease transportation

Regarding FITS (Flexible Image Transport System), if this is used in significant ways in medical imaging, the astronomical FITS user community would love to know about it and collaborate. Regarding rice-compressed FITS, I (and undoubtedly my coauthors) would be beyond fascinated to learn of either medical imaging use cases or compression tools for this purpose. Alternately, any FITS-based medical imaging applications should be aware of the astronomical data compression work accessible through http://heasarc.nasa.gov/fitsio/fpack (hopefully I'm not slashdotting myself :-) Another field planning to use FITS is digital manuscript archiving per the Vatican ( http://bit.ly/aagZxN ). Regarding the topic of this thread, the comments here emphasize that the real issue is standardizing on data formats. The richer the community (and none are richer than health and medicine), the richer the software ecosystem.

I'm trying to take your comment as genuine Arterion, although it is difficult.

We kill some 56 Billion* other humans each and every year, for our pleasure and/or profit? I don't think so. I'm not thrilled on "sweatshops", however that is in no way similar to what we do to other animals, who have no choice whatsoever, who are indeed locked inside their confinements, be it by a gate, a wall, a cage or what have you, to await their miserable deaths.

Who decides where we are classified? Did Chickens invent some "food chain", and put us at the top of it? Do they justify "the way the world is" by this image they've concocted? Or do we tell ourselves this, with a design of our own invention, "conveniently" placing ourselves at its pinnacle? :-)

Sociologist Roger Yates has an interesting podcast and blog on this issue, http://human-nonhuman.blogspot.com/

Yes, other animals do indeed kill and eat the remains of further more animals. They also do *many* other things you and I would consider unethical, yet we do not use "all the other kids were doing it!" as an excuse for polygamy, incest, murder etc. If we are indeed capable of caring for others, does that not become an obligation? Is an adult not obligated to care for a child? Lets say, you're driving your car past a school, and some idiot child runs in front of your vehicle, oblivious. Are you obligated to *attempt* to stop, to avoid them? Or, is it "shit happens", with no course correction ethically obligated on your part? Are we to instead ACCELERATE, knocking them into the back of our "ute" (in American, "pickup truck")? I dont think so, I dont think you would either.

I do not believe in a "mother nature".

I would again suggest Professor Gary Franciones "Abolitionist Approach" website, http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/ , his podcasts and articles are fantastic, his work is often published in American media, such as his "We're All Michael Vick" piece from a few years ago, why are we so concerned about a rich African American who made dogs hurt one another, when we believe in harming and killing many billions of *other* animals each year? Why do we hold a moral worth on the life of dogs, yet not pigs?

http://articles.philly.com/2009-08-14/news/24986151_1_atlanta-falcons-quarterback-vick-illegal-dog-dog-fights

If its not crass, can I shamelessly plug my own podcast? My last episode was about American tv shows coming to New Zealand to record, tying this into perceptions given by television, using clips from many episodes of King of the Hill, as related to Animal Rights. Finally, I wrap up the episode with Barbara DeGrande, the founder of Animal Rights and Rescue North Texas, to ask about Texas stereotypes portrayed via TV, aware to those living at the bottom of the world, and of promoting Veganism in Texas.

http://www.invsoc.org.nz/2011/04/episode-52-new-zealand-diet-where-you.html

Best wishes Arterion! *56 Billion land animals killed each year, 2007 FAO figures, PDF here http://bit.ly/56billion

I hope you'll decide to be Vegan, and to extend your respect towards all other animals.

I found Professor Gary Franciones website useful when I first become Vegan, http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/ as well as the many podcast shows out there, heads up, Coexisting is my own show, http://bit.ly/veganpodcastinfo

I can understand your belief that we *need* to "experiment" on other animals, I disagree with you very strongly, and I think we can both look forward to the day that nobody is hurt in the name of experimentation.

Nice thing about paper record players is that they last a long time. I have one that is 32 years old, and still works.... That means of course that the idea is not really new..... See http://bit.ly/happy1979 for a recording I made today of this old masterpiece: an audio "Happy New Year" card in 4 languages.

I'm pretty sure that video isn't for kids. Given the nature of Happy Tree Friends... http://bit.ly/igdpxc

Given the nature of Happy Tree Friends http://bit.ly/igdpxc I'm pretty sure it wasn't educational.

Epic game developer calls iPad 2 graphics leap "astonishing"

"Last year's A4 CPU used in the iPhone 4 and iPad is roughly "comparable to a single Xbox 360 core" Sweeney estimated. The new A5 used in iPad 2 holds the potential for "far, far more potential in that platform than we're exploiting today," he added."

"Sweeney said iPad 2 delivers enough shader performance that "you can use the high-detail shaders we did during Gears of War." The interview noted that "more complex shaders and post-processing effects are going to remain the visual differentiators between high-end mobile devices and consoles for the time being, though we could 'see more of that with more time with the iPad 2.'""

http://bit.ly/evAQPu

http://bit.ly/100MILES

The only larger network than those two is interestingly Chinese QQ, which has 636 million users.

So I find this hard to believe since according to the latest CNNIC numbers for January 2011, China’s total Internet users has reached 457 million http://bit.ly/icm9wY

the "Part two" on the story has been updated. http://bit.ly/ib5R38

UPDATE 3/31/11: Samsung has issued a statement saying that the finding is false. The statement says the software used to detect the keylogger, VIPRE, can be fooled by Microsoft's Live Application multi-language support folder. This has been confirmed at F-Secure and two other publications, here and here. Still no explanation for why Samsung originally confirmed the keylogger's existence to Hassan, as seen below.

UPDATE 3/31/11: GFI Labs, the maker of VIPRE, has issued an explanation and apology for generating the false positives that led to these articles: "We apologize to the author Mohamed Hassan, to Samsung, as well as any users who may have been affected by this false positive."

Except that kevlar and other aramid fibres are almost entirely unlike nylon or dyneema. The structure is completely different, the aramid fibres can withstand high temperatures whereas the nylon fibres cannot (different chemistry), and the manufacturing process is completely different.

Second point: the aramid fibres have a very small elongation (strain) at break, and can hold a large amount of stress. Indeed, on a per weight basis, they are "stronger" than steel, by volume, it is not so good. However, they do not exhibit much creep (but nylon does!) and do not suffer from effects of prolonged loading.

Lastly, they do not bend well, and they cannot handle sharp edges so well because of that. Interestingly, you can get two kinds of protective vests with different weaves: one bulletproof type and one knifeproof type. the knifeproof vest is not bulletproof and vice versa.

You may want to consider reading the introduction to my Ph.D. thesis (or its references) on this material as it appears you may be slightly misinformed. You can get it here: http://bit.ly/gfPdDN

indeed, one of the reasons to use it is the low elongation at break, and the relatively high stress at breakage. Some have suggested using spider silk for bulletproof vests, and indeed it would stop the bullet... just several meters on the other side of your body. more in the introduction of my thesis http://bit.ly/gfPdDN

Too true; I'm motivated by a hatred of successful companies and fighting the counter-revolution in the República de Cuba.

As you can imagine my Haskell is pretty exceptional.. I just wish I had more opportunities to write it.

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I read this headline, and all I can think of is Steve Jobs being questioned in a tuxedo with a top hat and a cane, like this guy: http://bit.ly/fVUUOJ

He has. Here's the link: http://bit.ly/gTJhzk

Mozilla's TP suite of benchmarks is exactly this. We take a snapshot of the top X sites from alexa.com, and measure how long it takes to load the whole suite, memory usage, etc. See http://bit.ly/e8SGfK for how far we're come over the past year.

Just like this moron http://bit.ly/eX5DDF

New handhelds are cheaper to create, make and market than a full home console (but its not without risk as Nintendo just found out - http://bit.ly/eW7nOC) . I'll be surprised if Xbox3 doesn't turn up in late 2013 - or later - but am starting to think it'll be the last true home console because by the time Xbox4 is due, your TV set will have all the hardware (and more importantly - the connectivity) in it for whatever level of gaming we're at... of course Microsoft will be making its own TVs by then anyhow.

It's in today's New York Times, a short story in the Bits section about a Congressman who did it. Here's the link.

If you think about it, Jeopardy's a much easier game. It's a question and answer with a 1-to-1 mapping of question to answer. If IBM didn't waste all those millions, they got really close to having 100% of the answers in the database. The hard part might have been some of the word associations to find some answers and real world knowledge to avoid bad answers. In any sports, there's no way to predict what the opponent will do strategically, nor how to discern the moods of the players and the coaches, or deal with slips and errors. How is this coaching Watson figure out who was hung over or sore from too much sex? Or who was madder than hell that day? How is all the data about the way a basketball bounces going to help?

There's an interesting take on how this new item was sort of buried in the newspaper here.

That's nothing. This is way better. http://bit.ly/eX5DDF

Not shown in summary, but here is the video of google car merging in the traffic.

fwiw, I can still browse to bit.ly.

I've been expecting Twitter to have a major conniption when Gaddafi inevitably shuts down the whole .ly TLD.

Since you can't use limits or integrals, maybe this means Ito_calculus is something that can't be used for options pricing? It is a branch of mathematics in the financial world. (a bit.ly link had to be used due to broken character filtering...)

The idea: Maxwell's field theory is the best one we have, the basis of the standard model by swapping out the gauge groups. I figured out how to write the Lagrange density (every way energy can be exchanged inside a box) using quaternions. That is not so hard. Do you know how to factor (B^2 - E^2)? If so, then (Del A - (Del A)*)(A Del - (A Del)*) is the same thing, quaternion style. The quaternions cannot do gravity which involves totally symmetric changes in a metric. Therefore I used an even less popular algebra known by names such as the hypercomplex numbers or the Klein 4-group. Put that into the Lagrangian, which flips exactly half the signs. That makes my proposal for gravity.

Combine the EM quaternion rewrite with the hypercomplex gravity Lagrangian, but without that -(Del A)* thing which was subtracting away the gauge term. The gauge term is there in both the gravity and EM portion, but they wipe out each other, so gravity and EM apply to massive particles, but overall the Lagrangian is gauge invariant. The Higgs mechanism works via a clever solution. My unified standard model works via a clever Lagragian.

By the end of 2012, I will know if my t-shirt is wrong because the Higgs and/or supersymmetric particles are found, or my t-shirt is barking near the right tree.
Doug

Supporting material about the t-shirt
http://bit.ly/GEMIAPday1video
http://bit.ly/GEMIAPday1pdf

Read the paper, but to ruin it for you, the code is compiled in a way that the client can verify quickly and accurately the safety of the code. Bad binaries can be detected on load by the client.

I'm not an Apple fan but I have a lot of respect for Steve's accomplishments and battles both business and healthwise. On the other hand, while some of his actions in the past have been controversial, his story(ies) of success should be something for us to emulate. Oh and here's the link I'm totally dropping just for kicks. http://bit.ly/AeriaNews

This seems entirely uninteresting. The only obvious conclusion you could draw from this data is that reaching a major milestone in a major social event triggers a major outburst of communications, which seems trivially obvious. For some interesting analysis on #jan25 tweets, see for instance this, an attempt to visualize influence levels between twitter users. It is interesting to note that there are relatively few highly "influential" tweeters, many of whom were arrested or detained at some point during the protest. This could possibly indicate that the Egyptian authorities were conducting a similar analysis.

We just released the tablet UX alpa. You’ll find it here http://appdeveloper.intel.com/meego. In addition, we are giving 5000 MeeGo based Software Development Platforms at our App Labs to help developers get started with app development. More here: http://bit.ly/Iapplab. So, you can develop apps for MeeGo today. There are some exciting early adopter incentives http://appdeveloper.intel.com/opportunities. ~Gunjan from Intel

This could be cool if you had a clay model of a landscape and were to simulated floods, tsunamis, etc. You could quickly mold new landscape modifications to try out. Or with a detailed enough sensor you might be able to simulate a wind tunnel (ie this pic of the Tesla Model S - http://bit.ly/Tesla_Model_S) - of course the model could only be reduced in one direction, with a single sensor (the typical drawback of a topographical map).

MPEG themselves (not MPEG LA) also issued press release: "MPEG envisages royalty-free MPEG video coding standard" http://bit.ly/hFMdGd

You're headline is true. Your statement is incorrect.

That's what Sony DID do.
Take a look at the screenshots from the Sony app status page. http://ebookstore.sony.com/rme/
The Reader store screenshot looks an awful lot like mobile Safari..

“We have not changed our developer terms or guidelines,” Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller told Ars Technica. “We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase.”
  http://bit.ly/i133FF

I'm guessing that's a trap door link, right? linking to goatse soon? wget http://ow.ly/3Ou1l --02:34:18-- http://ow.ly/3Ou1l => `3Ou1l' Resolving ow.ly... 75.101.155.42, 184.72.246.159 Connecting to ow.ly|75.101.155.42|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://bit.ly/gsokC2 [following] --02:34:18-- http://bit.ly/gsokC2 => `gsokC2' Resolving bit.ly... 168.143.172.53 Connecting to bit.ly|168.143.172.53|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Location: http://webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com/ [following] --02:34:19-- http://webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com/ => `index.html' Resolving webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com... 204.13.248.125 Connecting to webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com|204.13.248.125|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://img43.imageshack.us/i/screenshot1rx.png/ [following]

I'm guessing that's a trap door link, right? linking to goatse soon? wget http://ow.ly/3Ou1l --02:34:18-- http://ow.ly/3Ou1l => `3Ou1l' Resolving ow.ly... 75.101.155.42, 184.72.246.159 Connecting to ow.ly|75.101.155.42|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://bit.ly/gsokC2 [following] --02:34:18-- http://bit.ly/gsokC2 => `gsokC2' Resolving bit.ly... 168.143.172.53 Connecting to bit.ly|168.143.172.53|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Location: http://webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com/ [following] --02:34:19-- http://webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com/ => `index.html' Resolving webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com... 204.13.248.125 Connecting to webwiki.dyndns-wiki.com|204.13.248.125|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://img43.imageshack.us/i/screenshot1rx.png/ [following]

Dude... seriously?

At least they SOMETHING to help the people in egypt. What do you want? a full scale google invasion?

And by the way a google employ (exec) was kidnapped by plain clothed security forces in cairo and is missing since several days. The arrest was caught on video. See around 1:11

Not quite so cushy after all.

I was a little peeved by the Keep-Alive: yes

If all you're doing is a redirect, it's like... why would you leave the connection open? "Dude, go here... and um... stick around for a bit, I just want to make sure you don't have anything else to ask about..."

In that case, don't ever look how http://bit.ly/ redirects.

Fine, so none of the early commenters here want to play good looking games on the go.
Well, I'll have some of that and I'll pay reasonable money to do so. Also, every portable console EVER has had proprietary storage - why should this one be different?
Some sensible PSP2 news, thoughts and reaction for people actually interested and not starting a typical sdt bitchfest - http://bit.ly/hXdAUi