Open one of your eyes and shine a light in it. If the pupil constricts, you're alive. Of course, if you have a condition that makes your pupils NOT constrict, you're in some deep trouble!

But these artificial hearts are NOT for permanent implantation, they're to keep you alive until a donor heart can be found. If you have an artificial heart you should NOT be drinking; you're WAY too ill.

My cousin contracted a virus of some sort in her heart, and had an artificial heart implanted for several months. She has a live, donated heart now.

I may or may not agree with you about US-made-the-internet or whatever. However: define "most of the internet."

This seems like a very interesting idea. Most of the internet is outside the US? Does that mean most web servers are outside the US? Or most internet users? or what? citation?

Too late. They have already agreed to sell gTLDs. As if the spam enforcement wasn't horrendous enough (it terms of registrar obligations), it is about to get a lot worse since with the gTLDs will go the registrar TOS.

In other words, for some time ICANN hasn't cared about not doing "evil", as long as it makes money.

As an EU citizen I'm happy and even surprised to see this happening - US actually caring about other people too and giving some control to people elsewhere.

Obama is a realist. He knows that he's got to give up some control over the international ventures if he's going to expand his micro-management of every fuckin' US citizen's personal life.

And how would that be measured (non-invasively)? Blood pressure is read by squeezing off the artery and listening and watching for the various points in the pulse. If there is no pulse, there is no measurement.

eBay's business is in the second-hand sale. They have a strong interest in this practice to be legal.

And if a passenger in the car is on the phone, then what? If people won't make the right/safe decisions, then technology won't do much to correct that without stepping on aspects of cell phone use that aren't driver-related.

Online job applications at the NSF are up sharply.

They do. Here's where they got the idea that these will be unhackable: http://xkcd.com/528/

You're on the right track. This rule is simply an extended version of ones that prohibit recording or photography at concerts and other live performances. And if the SEC finds that an unacceptable number of fans (whatever that may be) are violating the rule, the next step is not a lawsuit. It would be a ban on bringing recording devices -- including camera phones, etc... -- into the stadium for games. Whether it would go as far as a ban on all mobile devices probably depends on the (perceived) negative impact on the conference's broadcast partners of text or voice/audio updates by fans.

Better check your math. I'm pretty sure 0 times 2 is still zero, not one.

Are you assuming that because there are people who don't avail themselves of public housing and other public welfare programs, that none exist? While they may have their flaws, there are many resources --both government and private -- available to the homeless or otherwise disadvantaged. I am curious about your perception of homelessness in the U.S. and the public assistance available (or lack thereof) for those who fall on hard times.

3. US borrows a ton of money from China, and goes on a Wal-Mart buying spree.

4. This economic stimulus, along with a sudden surge in correspondence courses for "Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft Mechanic" pulls the US out of the current recession.

5. ????

5. profit?