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Geraldine Peacock: The human fertilization and embryology bill gives me hope

This article appeared in the Guardian on Monday May 12 2008 on p27 of the Comment & debate section. It was last updated at 00:05 on May 12 2008.

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First sequence-based map of large-scale structural variation across the human genome

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.Me domain opens for registration

The first .Me domain names opened for registration today. The top-level .Me domain has huge potential for both businesses and individuals looking to register domain names such as call.me, hug.me or talkto.me or those looking to personalise their website.

UK Approves Human-Pig Embryo Stem-Cell Harvest

An anonymous reader writes "British biologists have received government approval to create the world's first human stem cells from hybrid embryos, part pig, part human. The Warwick Medical School team, led by Justin St. John of the Clinical Sciences Research Institute, was granted the country's third animal-human embryo license from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which goes into effect today (July 1)." The above link requires (free) registration; the Telegraph's coverage does not.

Bill Me Later: The 'Frictionless' Online Payment Alternative

Bill Me Later, which allows users to provide limited information and to be billed later for purchases they make online, got a huge profile boost late in 2007 when Amazon announced it would offer the payment alternative and would make an investment in the company.

Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill

StealthyRoid writes "The Senate mortgage bill proposed by Sen. Chris Dodd (who was the recipient of a sweetheart deal on his mortgage from Countrywide, one of the beneficiaries of the bill) includes an attempt to sneak into law a requirement that all electronic payment processors send detailed transaction data to the federal government. The proposed law contains an exception for businesses with fewer than 200 transactions or a total value less than $10,000. Quoting FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey (former House majority leader) from the article: 'This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week. Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay's PayPal, Ama

Online Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Housing Bill

StealthyRoid writes "The Senate mortgage bill proposed by Sen. Chris Dodd (who was the recipient of a sweetheart deal on his mortgage from Countrywide, one of the beneficiaries of the bill) includes an attempt to sneak into law a requirement that all electronic payment processors send detailed transaction data to the federal government. The proposed law contains an exception for businesses with fewer than 200 transactions or a total value less than $10,000. Quoting FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey (former House majority leader) from the article: 'This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week. Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay's PayPal, Ama

Netfirms Accepting Applications for New .me Domain Names

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Netfirms Now Accepting Applications for New .me Domain Names

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Netfirms Now Accepting Applications for New .me Domain Names

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Netfirms Now Accepting Applications for New .me Domain Names

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Netfirms Now Accepting Applications for New .me Domain Names

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Dodd, Feingold To Try and Filibuster Immunity Bill

shma writes "This morning the senate has a scheduled cloture vote to cut off debate on the FISA bill which grants retroactive immunity to telecoms who engaged in warrantless wiretapping. Senators Russ Feingold and Christopher Dodd have pledged to try and filibuster the bill, but require the vote of 40 senators to keep the filibuster alive. The article states that a similar "threatened filibuster failed in February, when the Senate passed a measure that granted amnesty and largely legalized the President's secret warrantless wiretapping programs." Should they lose the cloture vote, the bill is all but assured of passing. A proposed amendment stripping the immunity provision from the bill is also expected to fail."

Bill Allowing Medical Privacy Intrusion Fails in Sacramento; Anti-Privacy Bill by Auto Insurers Faces Vote Wednesday

Bill Allowing Medical Privacy Intrusion Fails in Sacramento; Anti-Privacy Bill by Auto Insurers Faces Vote Wednesday

Too Human is 10 hours long, "isn't for everyone" (Too Human)

Are you "for" or "against" Silicon Knight's Too Human? Destructoid goes hands-on with the title and gives you a few reasons why...

'Diablo III' Producer Plays Down 'Too Human' Comparisons (Too Human)

"Both recent and early impressions of Silicon Knights' "Too Human" have said that the upcoming Xbox 360 title's loot, skill tree and combat systems are similar to that of past "Diablo" titles. Some previews even proclaimed that "Too Human" is "Diablo III" before the Blizzard game was even announced.

House Passes Revised FISA Bill - Telecoms granted immunity for warrantless wiretapping

The revised FISA bill that was under review today was passed through the House without any problems. The revised bill made some changes to the issue of whether or not to give immunity to telecoms that participated in President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping in the past but ultimately it does allow for that immunity to be granted. They simply need to prove that they received instructions from the president which ordered them to assist in the eavesdropping. The Senate is likely to pass the revised bill through without any questions sometime before 4th of July.

8 new human genome projects offer large-scale picture of genetic difference

A nationwide consortium led by the University of Washington in Seattle has completed the first sequence-based map of structural variations in the human genome, giving scientists an overall picture of the large-scale differences in DNA between individuals. The project gives researchers a guide for further research into these structural differences, which are believed to play an important role in human health and disease. The results appear in the May 1 issue of the journal Nature.

New Internet Domain - .ME - Opens Registration for Trademark Holders

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Revised FISA Bill Goes to Vote Tomorrow - Allows for retroactive telecom immunity in warrantless wiretapping case

While Sweden makes a lot of noise in regards to the approval of warrantless eavesdropping, the United States quietly continues to deal with the same issue from a different front. A revised version of the FISA bill is going up for a vote tomorrow and it contains a controversial clause that allows for telecom immunity to be given to those companies that participated in Bush’s warrantless wiretapping after 9/11. An analysis of the bill by the Electronic Frontier Foundation shows that the phrasing may have changed but the substance of the bill remains the same. If it passes tomorrow, the telcos get retroactive immunity for doing what the president told them to do.

Supercomputer Simulates Human Visual System

An anonymous reader writes "What cool things can be done with the 100,000+ cores of the first petaflop supercomputer, the Roadrunner, that were impossible to do before? Because our brain is massively parallel, with a relatively small amount of communication over long distances, and is made of unreliable, imprecise components, it's quite easy to simulate large chunks of it on supercomputers. The Roadrunner has been up only for about a week, and researchers from Los Alamos National Lab are already reporting inaugural simulations of the human visual system, aiming to produce a machine that can see and interpret as well as a human. After examining the results, the researchers 'believe they can study in real time the entire human visual cortex.' How long until we can simulate the entire brain?"

British lawmakers to vote on controversial hybrid embryo bill

Graphic outlining the steps taken to create human-animal hybrid embryos. British lawmakers will debate Monday a bill which would allow scientists to use animal-human hybrid embryos in research after Prime Minister Gordon Brown passionately defended t ...

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