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9 Jul 2007 at 12:58pm Four men were convicted Monday of plotting to bomb London's public transport system July 21, 2005, an attack with deliberate echoes of suicide bombings that killed 52 commuters on the network two weeks earlier.
9 Jul 2007 at 8:34am Four of six men charged after small explosions were set off on three underground trains and a bus in London on July 21, 2005, have been convicted of conspiracy to murder.
30 Jun 2007 at 11:25am For them what might be interested, this Monday (July 2nd) I’ll be the guest on Off By One, a half-hour technology radio show originating from the studios of WCSB in sunny downtown Cleveland and is available on iTunes as well as via the station’s streaming audio. Locals can, of course, catch it at 89.3 [...]
2 Jul 2007 at 6:13am A Boy and His Dog Originally uploaded by evilgenius Naptime around the house. To quote the old story: “I know what love is. A boy loves his dog.”
6 Jul 2007 at 12:00am Motivation: Modern strategies for mapping disease loci require efficient genotyping of a large number of known polymorphic sites in the genome. The sensitive and high-throughput nature of hybridization-based DNA microarray technology provides an ideal platform for such an application by interrogating up to hundreds of thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a single assay. Similar to the development of expression arrays, these genotyping arrays pose many data analytic challenges that are often platform specific. Affymetrix SNP arrays, e.g. use multiple sets of short oligonucleotide probes for each known SNP, and require effective statistical methods to combine these probe intensities in order to generate reliable and accurate genotype calls. Results: We developed an integrated multi-SNP, multi-array genotype calling algorithm for Affymetrix SNP arrays, MAMS, that combines single-array multi-SNP (SAMS) and multi-array, single-SNP (MASS) calls to improve the accuracy of genotype calls, without the need for training data or computation-intensive normalization procedures as in other multi-array methods. The algorithm uses resampling techniques and model-based clustering to derive single array based genotype calls, which are subsequently refined by competitive genotype calls based on (MASS) clustering. The resampling scheme caps computation for single-array analysis and hence is readily scalable, important in view of expanding numbers of SNPs per array. The MASS update is designed to improve calls for atypical SNPs, harboring allele-imbalanced binding affinities, that are difficult to genotype without information from other arrays. Using a publicly available data set of HapMap samples from Affymetrix, and independent calls by alternative genotyping methods from the HapMap project, we show that our approach performs competitively to existing methods. Availability: R functions are available upon request from the authors. Contact: yxiao@itsa.ucsf.edu and rufang@biostat.ucsf.edu Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
9 Jul 2007 at 2:32pm New research, sponsored in part by AT&T, points out that neutral networks will need much greater capacity than "smart" networks. Yet a neutral 'Net still might be the cheapest.Read More...
A guest post by Spencer Weart, in collaboration with Raymond T. Pierrehumbert The simple physics explanations for the greenhouse effect that you find on the internet are often quite wrong. These well-meaning errors can promote confusion about whether humanity is truly causing global warming by adding carbon dioxide to the ...
9 Jul 2007 at 2:14pm Mary Jo Foley reports on the people and projects Microsoft has aligned with its ?Live? strategy. She says it looks to her like the ?Microsoft Live? brand will subsume the ?runaway ?Windows Live? brand.? She points to a growing list of Live-branded projects that don?t use the word ?Windows? including Live Maps, Live Search, Live Platform. The development people who have been shuffled from Windows Live to Live Platform Services is long. While the Who's Who is interesting enough, the list points to a bigger point ... the breadth of projects Microsoft has in development right now under Live. Online identify services, including projects to merge identity and directory services and presence. Microsoft?s own datacenter services for consumers such as an advertising, payment, storage platforms and Xbox Live. Even database stuff like P2P projects, synchronization and more. That's a whole lotta Live Microsoft has planned.Continue At Source Continue to this article at Bink.nu
6 Jul 2007 at 1:15am In an enjoyable but somewhat unsettling show at the Parrish Art Museum, the artist Joe Fig presents miniature, detailed models of the studios used by a few well-known artists who sometimes call the Hamptons home.
A mechanism has been discovered by which Mycobacterium avium -- a bacterium which can result in serious lung infections and is prevalent in emphysema and AIDS patients among others -- infects tissue cells or "macrophages" and thus compromises the body's immunity.
"My daughter's graduating from high school, and I'm gonna be in [bleeping] Dubai! I had to tell her" New York, June 18: It looks like Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler is tired of extensive touring of the band, for he can't find any time for himself. via Daily India
24 Jun 2007 at 2:26am An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin known as 'Chemical Ali' and two other former regime officials to death by hanging for their roles in a 1980s scorched-earth campaign that led to the deaths of 180,000 Kurds.
Greenpeace has filed a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over a Victorian power company's use of the term 'clean coal'.
Associated Press June 17, 2007 ORLANDO, Florida - Like many teenage girls, Lee Ann Thill was obsessed with her appearance. A diabetic, she was already suffering from bulimia - forcing herself to throw up to lose weight. But it was not enough, and she recently had put on 20 pounds (9 kilograms).
Agreement Ends Copyright Threats Over Non-Commercial Use of Popular Dance San Francisco - The man who claims to have created "The Electric Slide" has agreed to call off his online video takedown campaign and to stop threatening people using the popular line dance for non-commercial purposes. Instead, he's making the dance available for all noncommercial use. The agreement settles a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of videographer Kyle Machulis, who posted a concert video to YouTube that included a ten-second segment of audience members attempting to do the Electric Slide. Richard Silver sent a takedown demand to YouTube under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), alleging he owned the copyright to the Electric Slide and that the video infringed his rights. Machulis's video was removed from the site. "Mr. Silver's misuse of the DMCA interfered with our client's free speech rights," said EFF Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry. "New technologies have opened multiple avenues for artists and their audiences to create, share and comment on new works. We cannot let absurd copyright claims squash this extraordinary growth." Under the terms of the settlement, Silver will license the Electric Slide under a Creative Commons license -- allowing the performance, display, reproduction or distribution of any recorded performance of the dance in any medium for non-commercial purposes. Silver has agreed to post these terms on any of his current or future websites that mention the Electric Slide so that users are aware of the Creative Commons license. "Often, 'all rights reserved' copyright is too restrictive and prevents people from being able to legally use and build upon other people's creativity in any reasonable way," said Eric Steuer, Creative Director of Creative Commons. "When that is the case, it makes sense to adopt a more flexible, 'some rights reserved' approach to copyright. We couldn't be happier that Mr. Silver is using a Creative Commons license to make the Electric Slide freely and legally available to anyone in the world to use for noncommercial purposes." "We are pleased that Mr. Silver has stepped up and recognized fair uses of the Electric Slide," said EFF Staff Attorney Jason Schultz. "Copyright law is meant to encourage creativity. It must not be used to chill free expression." For more on the Electric Slide lawsuit: http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/electricslide/ For more on Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses Contacts: Jason Schultz Staff Attorney Electronic Frontier Foundation jason@eff.org Eric Steuer Creative Director Creative Commons eric@creativecommons.org
