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In the article, it is said it took them hours to fit it into his left ventricle. I suspect it is one of these devices | http://bit.ly/nopulseman | Or similar. They are classed as Left Ventricle Assist Devices.

This tech, as mentioned in the comments already, is simply shifting the inconvenience from wearing glasses to staying still. Microsoft has come up with a prototype of 3D displays with head tracking technology, and a lens that can shift exactly which direction the light is seen from.

http://bit.ly/MS3ddisplay

http://bit.ly/9hADDl is the episode with that bit I believe.

Sorry I don't have any karma to give to you.

It's an amazing program which anyone with an interest in astronomy should have. You can also determine when amazing astronomic events will take place. For instance, if one looks up at the western sky from the UK on September 9th 2040, one might see this: http://bit.ly/bfEDKj

aw cmon, you were ONtopic!

Theres one solution to the issue of animal suffering in the world, not to regulate it, but to abolish the property status of Animals. 56 Billion land animals a year, ( UN FOA 2007 PDF http://bit.ly/56billion ), for what? Pleasure, and profit.

For more on Veganism, please visit http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/

As another Vegan, glad someone else has played "Defensive Omnivore Bingo" before :)

http://bit.ly/veganbingo

My advice, nod your head and pretend its the first time you've heard the remark, "oh, aren't you the witty one? I'll be off right now, for the first time in years to eat a dead animal corpse thanks to your input, kind sir!"

Microsoft will be around for a long time to come, and so will Google, despite all of this. So I wouldn't worry (or gloat) about them. The real concern is how all of this patent litigation will ultimately impact Android application developers. That's what I stressed in my first reaction to this. App developers invest a lot of creativity, time, money and hard work in a platform. If Google doesn't step up now and make a really serious effort to work out deals with all those patent holders, Android as a platform may be in trouble and app developers would suffer.

Google knew all along that smartphones (and mobile phones in general) are a field in which plenty of patents exist, and in which they are enforced aggressively. Google doesn't have a patent portfolio to match the portfolios of Microsoft, Apple or Oracle; so it doesn't represent a counterthreat. But it could try to negotiate license deals. That's what it must do now, not only for itself, not only for Android phone vendors, but above all for the application developer community its platform depends on.

You have to use twitter and be the type of person who clicks on questionable links without regard.

Which of these links is "questionable":

http://tinyurl.com/2tx
http://bit.ly/heezy
http://xrl.us/bh2p3m

That's what all of the links on Twitter look like, which are OK and which are questionable? How does one distinguish?

Posted earlier http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/25607235096 "Burn all the books you want, Nazi punks. We already have a copy. | CNN http://bit.ly/acJnX9 "
Oh you lolsome cypherpunks :P

But it's a helluva a lot more important for a power company to stay up than FB, no power can cause serious problems. But FB down for two hours, man, the gods forbid you actually are productive or something . . .

This. FB needs perspective.

Done.

http://tinyurl.com/25lsp67
http://3.ly/2e5g64f

bit.ly adds its own little blab page if it detects multiple redirects, which is entertaining in its own way I guess... never-ending loop:

http://bit.ly/9bV4Re

The preview feature is fun too...

http://3.ly/RwuW
http://tinyurl.com/k2w9uiz

With bit.ly, you can simply append a "+" to the URL and get an information page showing, between other information, which URL hides behind it, e.g. http://bit.ly/cTGasX+. I don't know if they have a setting to always display this info page, but I'm sure there are usersrcipts and bookmarklets out there that automatically append a "+" to every bit.ly link.

I reached this article from Twitter, via this URL: http://bit.ly/cTGasX

Check out that README file from SIMATIC PCS 7 CEMAT libraries found at
http://bit.ly/brTlB7

Page 2 "Projekt Schlüssel" (=project key) 024

I bet a "gefillte fish" that project key 024 is stuxnet's target site...

Delhi is doing all the preparation for the historic day of commonwealth games as coming closer to meet the expectations of the participants and the tourists for accentuating the amenities provided to the travelers. This largest sport event is going to held first time in India and for the second time in Asia and it will impact on the economy of the hosting country that will surely gives boom to the tourism industry of India. http://bit.ly/cLso7o

This one's got a 7in screen and it's only $150 - http://bit.ly/dxd1Ya

For the first time, the athletes would be watching the opening ceremony of the CWG. Usually, after the march past they go outside. But here they would come back and sit inside the stadium and watch the cultural programmes, which is going to show 500 years of Indian culture. http://bit.ly/cLso7o

but somehow it failed miserably and I didn't see anything. I used these. What am I doing wrong ?

PS should I perhaps print them on glossy paper ?
)

IE8: Total: 331076.6ms +/- 15.9% (after setting the script timeout to infinity)

Full results: http://bit.ly/aIPloH

For reference, FF4b7 took 9452.1ms.

compare http://bit.ly/bFQ17C

Check out the Browser Extensions section of http://bit.ly/pages/tools for an addon that will show you the unobfuscated links. As an example, here's a bit.ly link for my site: http://bit.ly/bHnUhd

I would expect similar tools to pop up for any URL shortening service that becomes decently popular.

Check out the Browser Extensions section of http://bit.ly/pages/tools for an addon that will show you the unobfuscated links. As an example, here's a bit.ly link for my site: http://bit.ly/bHnUhd

I would expect similar tools to pop up for any URL shortening service that becomes decently popular.

If you're a nosy marketer, it gets worse. We're moving from a browser-centric to an app-centric world. Every time you access the Internet through a particular app -- Facebook, Gowalla, Yelp, Foursquare, and so on -- you're surfing from within a walled garden. If you click on a link, all the marketer sees is a new visit. The referring URL is lost, and with it, the context of your visit.

This isn't true. All these sites do a 301 redirect (well bit.ly certainly does) so you won't lose the referrer or the context. Really this doesn't do a lot for the analytics of a site, apart from it is going to help Twitter work out how many people have clicked on which type of link (and if you're logged, who you are). It's giving them some more ammunition for contextual advertising.

I dare you to click (NSFA): http://bit.ly/4ieaw :-)

World class infrastructure is ready for Delhi 2010,” Mr. Kalmadi said. “We have developed the best Games Village and I am sure athletes will love the hospitality. The volunteers, who will be the face and the backbone of the Games, will have a huge role to play in the success of the Games.” To know more click here http://bit.ly/cLso7o

The Queen’s Baton 2010 Delhi arrived in the commercial capital of the country Mumbai amid cultural extravaganza and a grand welcome by the Western Naval Command at INS Viraat.Near the Gateway, the baton was welcomed by two Chetak helicopters which showered petals and two jet cannons which formed an arch, as the baton cruised forward to the Gateway. To know more click here http://bit.ly/cLso7o

Your link is dead. This Yahoo Groups Blog entry explains the situation pretty clearly however. Well and truly disgusting if you ask me!

For another take, read Andrew Pickering's "The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future" ( http://bit.ly/bTFrqb )

I've used Identity Theft Shield for the last few years and it's helpful for taking care of this kind of thing. Tied to a legal plan, you have access to the legal representation you need as well. It's little money well spent:
http://bit.ly/aKbg6V

He also seems to specifically target the US and only the US, as if no other country is currently doing dubious shit.

"RT @wikileaks Outcry in Belgium Over WikiLeaks publications of Dutroux dossier http://bit.ly/9RBPI2"

It seems, to you, that they are only picking on You, but does it seem to you that You are overrepresented in the World series of baseball? Maybe wikileaks isn't picking on the US more than it deserves, maybe you're paying less attention to the rest of the world than it deserves.

My i9000 (European Galaxy S variant) had very poor battery life on the stock firmware. After updating it to newer firmware (leaked beta firmware from www.samfirmware.com) my battery life has improved immensely.

I'm not sure what gsmarena did, but they got very impressive results when they were reviewing the Galaxy S. http://bit.ly/d7AmWA

Let's clarify, since the description isn't that great. Apple will now allow Adobe's Flash to export in iPhone app format

Also, Apple released their App Store Review Guidelines (PDF). Worth a read.

Yeah, totally makes sense that, after receiving a warning that "the government of Sweden is out to get you," you'd... go to Sweden.

He was there at the time, not traveling there after the news broke - but we digress...

I'm well aware that many other countries have troops over there. But let's be fully, brutally honest - the US has "the most" to lose in Afghanistan. Sweden has ~550 troops there

So that automatically means it must have been the CIA when the Australian spooks warned of "dirty tricks"? That could be called the "US is the center of the world" attitude, an attitude that even the US mil is trying to change (article courtesy of the wikileaks twitter feed). Perhaps that is why you and others see "CIA" plastered all over the Australian spook "dirty tricks" warning.

A4 has a PowerVR SGX535 GPU, which can push 28 million triangles/sec whilst the Galaxy S has a PowerVR SGX540 GPU that pushes 90 million triangles/sec.

http://bit.ly/bM3JeK note: the article lists iPhone 3gs at 7 million triangles/sec with 28m deleted, but IIRC it's actually the other way around. (7m rumoured, but it was actually 28m)

Nothing less than to abolish copyright will do. Copyrights and patents prevent progress in the sciences and the useful arts. They were an experiment that utterly failed.

I'd love to hear your evidence of this, because as far as I can tell, there are a lot of benefits of copyright and patents.

There's quite a lot of evidence against the efficacy of copyright (in its current form) in stimulating the creative industries, and more being researched all the time. Some of it indicates that in fact copyright does quite the opposite of its original intent. I know less about patents, since that's a completely separate thing, but a quick google will turn up a great deal.

Here, for example, is some recent research from the UK:

http://bit.ly/9NRmLa

Leadership training has always been a lie. All the theories upon which training was based have been refuted or considered non-trainable. I believe that we will be able to settle for the right leadership training, but how can we do it if we don't even have a consensus on which Group Development theory is right? After all, the role of the leader is that of realizing which stage of group development an organization is and, then, take appropriate measures to burst productivity, either by utilizing a privileged development stage, or directing the group towards another development stage.

I like the Integrated Development Model that is used here in the University of Coimbra in many things ( http://bit.ly/90XCCA for instance). This is a modified version of Wheelan’s Integrated Model of Group Development, it's Miguez and Lourenço's Integrated Model of Group Development.

Other examples where this theory is exposed: http://bit.ly/9CmeNA and https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.psicologia.com.pt/artigos/textos/A0338.pdf (mentions it) and http://www.slideshare.net/daniellopes314/gesto-de-equipas and http://bit.ly/aU9Rvy

They may all be in Portuguese, but they show a real (and IMO, the best) approach to Leadership and the likes.

Leadership training has always been a lie. All the theories upon which training was based have been refuted or considered non-trainable. I believe that we will be able to settle for the right leadership training, but how can we do it if we don't even have a consensus on which Group Development theory is right? After all, the role of the leader is that of realizing which stage of group development an organization is and, then, take appropriate measures to burst productivity, either by utilizing a privileged development stage, or directing the group towards another development stage.

I like the Integrated Development Model that is used here in the University of Coimbra in many things ( http://bit.ly/90XCCA for instance). This is a modified version of Wheelan’s Integrated Model of Group Development, it's Miguez and Lourenço's Integrated Model of Group Development.

Other examples where this theory is exposed: http://bit.ly/9CmeNA and https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.psicologia.com.pt/artigos/textos/A0338.pdf (mentions it) and http://www.slideshare.net/daniellopes314/gesto-de-equipas and http://bit.ly/aU9Rvy

They may all be in Portuguese, but they show a real (and IMO, the best) approach to Leadership and the likes.

Leadership training has always been a lie. All the theories upon which training was based have been refuted or considered non-trainable. I believe that we will be able to settle for the right leadership training, but how can we do it if we don't even have a consensus on which Group Development theory is right? After all, the role of the leader is that of realizing which stage of group development an organization is and, then, take appropriate measures to burst productivity, either by utilizing a privileged development stage, or directing the group towards another development stage.

I like the Integrated Development Model that is used here in the University of Coimbra in many things ( http://bit.ly/90XCCA for instance). This is a modified version of Wheelan’s Integrated Model of Group Development, it's Miguez and Lourenço's Integrated Model of Group Development.

Other examples where this theory is exposed: http://bit.ly/9CmeNA and https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.psicologia.com.pt/artigos/textos/A0338.pdf (mentions it) and http://www.slideshare.net/daniellopes314/gesto-de-equipas and http://bit.ly/aU9Rvy

They may all be in Portuguese, but they show a real (and IMO, the best) approach to Leadership and the likes.

Danish rocket launch postponed till Sunday. Live coverage and comment will be at http://bit.ly/a8yZss - also follow #raket and @ingdk at twitter

Confirm our editor applied for Swedish residency on Aug 18 to obtain prior-restraint protections http://bit.ly/czWlGT

When you follow the link, you will read nothing about "prior-restraint" protections - in fact Wikileaks has until now no protection at all under the Swedish press laws. And they will not get it soon, because Wikileaks did not fill out the application correctly.

Another migration board spokesperson, Gunilla Wikstroem, told Swedish news agency TT the application was on hold since some information was missing,

This is only one of the countless contradictions Assange was caught on. For example Assange claimed in 2009 a 17 year old Wikileaks contributor by the police in Iceland to press him for information about Wikileaks. In fact the juvenile was caught breaking into a business premises and was subsequently interrogated in the presence of his parents, police did not even know about any Wikileaks connections. Even when he had to wait for less than 30 minutes at an airport in Australia Assange did spread conspiracy theories about foul play and intelligence agency involvement.

Exactly. And just a reminder,

It wouldn't take too long before you'd have a sizable underclass which would have no rights, but still be able to do various manual labour jobs. It wouldn't very much different than slavery.

How is usury not creating slavery? How does most of the land being property of a very few people not lead to slavery? You are born and must work in order to have a place to live, for the right to occupy space. Then you borrow money for something and must return more for what you borrowed, so you must work more.

How is this not (wage) slavery for most?

You may want to see this for how slavery really works: http://bit.ly/economichitmanvideo

So I guess in your mind "liberal" == "someone who's paying attention".

Could very well be the case... in many minds.

Also, I would suggest "liberal" == "someone who questions practices based on cruelty and power over other people"

Choosing "Conservatism" is linked with experiencing harsh authority figures during childhood enforcing obedience by means of cruelty and torture (refusing children basic needs like connection, approval, attention, understanding as a means of enforcing obedience is emotional torture as many of these are linked to the sense of survivial. Using physical violence on children as a means of enforcing obedience is, well, just torture).

For "liberal mind" someone needing help == someone needing help == they ought to be helped.
For "conservative mind" someone needing help == someone weak, undisciplined and therefore undeserving of what they need == they should be taught a "tough lesson." (which is how the "Conservative mind" was trained out of compassion and empathy after all, so the template is internalized)

For more see George Lakoff's lecture on Moral Politics: http://bit.ly/moralpoliticsvideo

I posted a few anti-recruiter comics at http://bit.ly/ad3sMh Plug: my automated assessment product is in private beta at http://codeboff.in/. Beta passes available via the blog.

I mean, does InfoWorld pay snydeq to do anything else besides astroturf daily on Slashdot?

If we don't have ideas, aren't we becoming nothing more then sophisticated animals? - http://bit.ly/9sUuWE

the idea that a government can just hand-wave and shutdown a major ISP is somewhat unsettling. Even though this doesn't affect me personally, I would still consider this a "rights" issue - as in the right to choose one's ISP, without the government interfering and saying who can and who can't be an ISP.

This is "the" point in this issue, Fibertel has ceased to exist in 2009, they merged with another company, which voided their license. They even admitted it and put it in a report when they wanted founding on London (Spanish only, sorry http://bit.ly/9V1bOf).

The government did not shut down an ISP, they pointed a company which was doing business without a valid license and forced them to stop doing it.

This is not what the average Aussie wants. There was a petition that set the record http://bit.ly/aJuLUO in Australia for the most number of supporters, for anything, ever! There was also a public debate http://bit.ly/cts8kl showed 98.2% support for a higher rating from over 60,000 submissions.

The current government may well be voted out this week, but the problem is, the state attorney generals decide classification guidelines http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/Classification_policy. And if only one of them has a personal vendetta http://www.news.com.au/technology/attorney-general-to-veto-r-rating-for-games/story-e6frfro0-1111115654451 against something it won't get through.

Our hopes were raised when Michale Atkison, main detractor for a new rating, "retired" http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/04/new-s-a-attorney-general-might-support-r18-might-not/ earlier this year. But all that seemed to do was delay decisions.

If you'd like more information, please subscribe to the very informative r18 tag for Kotaku http://www.kotaku.com.au/tags/r18/.

Disclaimer: I am in no way afilliated with any political party or news site. I just value my freedom, or what little we have left. http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23nocleanfeed

This is not what the average Aussie wants. There was a petition that set the record http://bit.ly/aJuLUO in Australia for the most number of supporters, for anything, ever! There was also a public debate http://bit.ly/cts8kl showed 98.2% support for a higher rating from over 60,000 submissions.

The current government may well be voted out this week, but the problem is, the state attorney generals decide classification guidelines http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/Classification_policy. And if only one of them has a personal vendetta http://www.news.com.au/technology/attorney-general-to-veto-r-rating-for-games/story-e6frfro0-1111115654451 against something it won't get through.

Our hopes were raised when Michale Atkison, main detractor for a new rating, "retired" http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/04/new-s-a-attorney-general-might-support-r18-might-not/ earlier this year. But all that seemed to do was delay decisions.

If you'd like more information, please subscribe to the very informative r18 tag for Kotaku http://www.kotaku.com.au/tags/r18/.

Disclaimer: I am in no way afilliated with any political party or news site. I just value my freedom, or what little we have left. http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23nocleanfeed

Moore's law, the base of his argument that technology is evolving exponentially is pretty much on schedule. We are now on the Petaflop (10^15) range, with the transistor count following the predicted exponential.

Cost of DNA sequencing, another of his examples, is today at 0.000008(USD) per base pair. Fits the curve.

RAM cost is now at 28000kB/USD, also fitting the curve

GDP per capita also is within schedule (note that the scale is logarithmic), even with the wealth transfer east (which is bound to be limited in time to ten more years give or take)

And, lastly, the core of all atacks on Kurzweil, so is life expectancy on track.

You may still believe these exponentials will hit some kind of ceiling somehow. That might be true. The numbers, however, support Kurzweil's theory. And predicting from the number of times Moore's law depletion was announced in the last twenty years, I'd wager my bets on Kurzweil.

Moore's law, the base of his argument that technology is evolving exponentially is pretty much on schedule. We are now on the Petaflop (10^15) range, with the transistor count following the predicted exponential.

Cost of DNA sequencing, another of his examples, is today at 0.000008(USD) per base pair. Fits the curve.

RAM cost is now at 28000kB/USD, also fitting the curve

GDP per capita also is within schedule (note that the scale is logarithmic), even with the wealth transfer east (which is bound to be limited in time to ten more years give or take)

And, lastly, the core of all atacks on Kurzweil, so is life expectancy on track.

You may still believe these exponentials will hit some kind of ceiling somehow. That might be true. The numbers, however, support Kurzweil's theory. And predicting from the number of times Moore's law depletion was announced in the last twenty years, I'd wager my bets on Kurzweil.