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This seems to be another one in a string of papers by Fortunato et.al.; the previous ones were The egalitarian effect of search engines (from arXiv, which never seems to have been published properly), and Googlarchy or Googlocracy (from IEEE spectrum.)

It was even featured on slashdot before: Search Engine Results Relatively Fair, posted by Zonk on Sat Nov 19, '05 04:29 AM.

But they seem to have improved their reasoning this time: They finally cite Donato et.al.'s work (Large scale properties of the Webgraph), which explicitly contradicts their claim that there is a correlation between in-degree and pagerank.

Regards, Sebastian.

There's many more, perhaps 90% is over the top, but there is much to go on about a reduced risk of cancer. I was hoping you would look more toward the sources listed on the pages, not the pages themselves.

"A vegetarian lifestyle of long duration (> or = 20 y) was associated with decreased overall and cancer mortality. Other determinants of decreased cause- specific mortality were physical activity, body weight, and strictness of adherence to the life-style. The relationship between a vegetarian and fiber-rich diet and a decreased risk for colon cancer has been reported in many studies. In this study, the influence of other factors such as health-conscious behavior and a healthy lifestyle seem to indicate partly stronger effects than nutrition itself. This may explain the generally better health of moderate vegetarians. "
http://intl.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/59/5/114 3S

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd= Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=95190656&dopt=Citatio n
"This report is a review of results that suggest that the diphenolic isoflavonoids and lignans are natural cancer-protective compounds."

"Other analyses showed that non-meat-eaters had only half the risk of meat eaters of requiring an emergency appendectomy, and that vegans in Britain may be at risk for iodine deficiency. Thus, the health of vegetarians in this study is generally good and compares favorably with that of the nonvegetarian control subjects."
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/70/3/525S

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd= Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6944545&dopt=Citation

"Frequent consumption (more than once a day) of soy milk was associated with 70 per cent reduction of the risk of prostate cancer (relative risk=0.3, 95 percent confidence interval 0.1-1.0, p-value for linear trend=0.03)."
http://www.springerlink.com/(unt1czj5hhaoh3i5sckbk 255)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&bac kto=issue,5,18;journal,75,126;linkingpublicationre sults,1:100150,1

"We conclude that a well planned lacto-vegetarian diet or a mixed diet with abundant amounts of vegetables and fruits is beneficial as regards the rate of cell proliferation, and most likely also reduces the risk of developing colorectal cancer."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd= Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7652722&dopt=Citation

And more:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=vegetarian+can cer&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=50&sa=N

No, not everything is "you-must-be-vegetarian" it's more, less red meat(don't have to eliminate) and give soy milk a try. I love to see how defensive people get when you (don't actually) challenge their diet. :)

The online journal appears to be here.

Whether it is pretigious or not, I leave to people who know more than I.

Perhaps they can use some kind of trust and reputation assessment tool. If you look at some papers on the http://www.springerlink.com/(wrwksw55m1sbuk55j3laz 1yi)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&bac kto=issue,3,6;journal,4,38;linkingpublicationresul ts,1:102852,1subject , there are some interesting approaches which have been proposed to validate systems of autonomous agents. I don't think it would be much of a problem to use them to validade people's opinions.
Of course, a high-level of collusion can jeopardise the system, but I remember having read that even in that case their reliability can be assessed based on who agrees with whom, in which case you will see pockets of people with 0 reliability (these people can then be banned from the system).
If that's what they are proposing, it would be a nice change on how information is gathered using the internet, because as it is, I am always suspicious of those product review sites.

A number of academics in domains like ethics, speech act theory, and philosophy of mind (among others) have been contributing to journals and having conferences related to computing and philosophy for a good while. I imagine that the interesting discussions on issues like free-will as well as models like functionalism will probably gradually enter the wider computer science curriculum.

I am not a doctor, but possibly you find this article interesting:

http://www.springerlink.com/(n1np1am0yqkikx45ylh3j fzb)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&bac kto=issue,7,14;journal,85,121;linkingpublicationre sults,1:100366,1

Okay, first the dislaimer: I am in the 'dissenter' camp. At least as far as the bandwagon goes. I think the models are incomplete and the issue far too politicized for the science to be trusted at this point in time.

But, to address your question about the solar input, there HAS been some work done on that. I found these links by searching "global warming, anticorrelation" on Google Scholar a while back.

Cosmic Rays and Climate

and

influences of solar radiation on the global climate

Okay, feel free to take with a grain of salt if you wish; the analysis of proxy data is fundamentally flawed: http://www.climateaudit.org/

Link should be this, and I have noticed at least one spelling error in my above post.

I should really learn which button is "submit" and which is "preview" ;)

Wanna bet the HD-DVD & Blu-Ray consortium have learnt something from this?

Nope. (I'm on campus, so I hope people off campus can still download the PDF)

Long story short, algorithm can be implemented in chip with less then 10,000 gates. The 'master' secret key that generates all key pairs can be obtained by breaking 40 key pairs. This means, after breaking 40 key pairs, you can start generating your own signitures (or decrypt all other existing signitures).

The original paper is unfortunately not available without a subscription, but it has considerably more detail.

The cost breaks down as a capital outley of 45 billion dollars for the barges and equipment; and operating expenses of 1.3 billion dollars per year. The barges would be wind powered for the pumping operations so no substantial CO2 is generated.

8100 barges, with a wind power system, a low volume pump and two high volume pumps per barge. 32 helicopters, 4 harbors, 4 air bases and 1 control center, for the Thunderbirds, I guess.

The original article can be found here for those who don't want to subscribe to the NY Times or use bugmenot.

Anecdotes don't make for strong statistics.

A small sampling of the more popular studies:
http://www.springerlink.com/(dt10aj3uaf0uc555jygud a55)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&bac kto=issue,5,10;journal,57,79;linkingpublicationres ults,1:100150,1
http://www.anesthesiology.org/pt/re/anes/abstract. 00000542-199805000-00001.htm;jsessionid=DulLk2jICr 21YEWNWncR3KAVuVUI511gQGn56CR2brpxYvhd46WX!4796555 35!-949856144!9001!-1
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstrac t/110504879/ABSTRACT

And be sure to look at:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&client =firefox-a&q=scholar%3A+smoking+cancer+risk&btnG=S earch

Smoking may well be beneficial to a small number of people. Particularly for certain kinds of pain management, I would expect nicotine to be an effective stimulant. However, you'd almost certainly be safer with a nicotine patch, and the rest of us around you would definitely be better off.

Tree burning is carbon neutral.

There's a bunch of interesting papers out there on content-based image analysis and retrieval. Below is a sampling from my bibtex file. Does anyone else have others they'd like to share?

* Finding Naked People (Fleck et al, 1996)

* Video google: A text retrieval approach to object matching in videos (Sivic & Zisserman, 2003): web page demo here

* Names and Faces in the News (Berg et al, 2004)

* FACERET: An Interactive Face Retrieval System Based on Self-Organizing Maps (Ruiz-del-Solar et al, 2002)

* Costume: A New Feature for Automatic Video Content Indexing (Jaffre 2005)

Abstract We address the high variability in sex offender recidivism rates by examining several of the critical methodological differences that underlie this variability. We used a dataset on 251 sex offenders (136 rapists and 115 child molesters) who were discharged over a 25-year period to examine changes in recidivism as a function of changes in dispositional definition of reoffense (e.g., arrest or conviction), changes in the domain of criminal offenses that are considered, and changes in the length of exposure time. The data indicate that: (a) both rapists and child molesters remain at risk to reoffend long after their discharge, in some cases 15-20 years after discharge; (b) there was a marked underestimation of recidivism when calculating a simple proportion (%) consisting of those who were known to have reoffended during the follow-up period, and (c) there was a marked underestimation of recidivism when the criterion was based on conviction or imprisonment. Forensic, clinical and policy implications of this high variability are discussed.

If you actually want to understand what they did, some research publications put out by the CogVis lab have better information regarding the technical side of things.

Towards an Architecture for Cognitive Vision Using Qualitative Spatio-temporal Representations and Abduction (Cohn et al, 2003)

Modeling interaction using learnt qualitative spatio-temporal relations and variable length Markov models (Galata et al, 2002)

For anybody interested in current state-of-the-art research in accelerometers I can recommend http://www.springerlink.com/app/home/issue.asp?was p=lp3efmtvrp5vxmv5pn5u&referrer=parent&backto=jour nal,311,1851;linkingpublicationresults,1:105633,1

For anybody interested in current state-of-the-art research in accelerometers I can recommend http://www.springerlink.com/app/home/issue.asp?was p=lp3efmtvrp5vxmv5pn5u&referrer=parent&backto=jour nal,311,1851;linkingpublicationresults,1:105633,1

what I did, and you might have to do to (if link doesn't work), is to go here and search for (in/under 'Articles'): " Laura Juliano " or/xor " Roland R. Griffiths "

Here's some info:

Psychopharmacology
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg
ISSN: 0033-3158 (Paper) 1432-2072 (Online)
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-004-2000-x
Issue: Volume 176, Number 1
Date: October 2004
Pages: 1 - 29

Review: "A critical review of caffeine withdrawal: empirical validation of symptoms and signs, incidence, severity, and associated features"

what I did, and you might have to do to (if link doesn't work), is to go here and search for (in/under 'Articles'): " Laura Juliano " or/xor " Roland R. Griffiths "

Here's some info:

Psychopharmacology
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg
ISSN: 0033-3158 (Paper) 1432-2072 (Online)
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-004-2000-x
Issue: Volume 176, Number 1
Date: October 2004
Pages: 1 - 29

Review: "A critical review of caffeine withdrawal: empirical validation of symptoms and signs, incidence, severity, and associated features"

Gnu Privacy Guard is the most peer-reviewed of the encryption programs, I think.

Even that doesn't make it invulnerable to implementation problems. The implementation of ElGamal signatures in GPG was broken for FOUR years! (Previously mentioned on slashdot, see here for the actual paper presented at this years EuroCrypt). The fix for this problem in the latest version of GPG? Remove that option.

As the author of the paper said, availability of source code may well be a necessary condition for detecting flaws in cryptographic software but it certainly isn't sufficient!

For matematics, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, statistics, and other things in that vein, the indespensible resource is MathSciNet, a service of the AMS (American Mathematical Society. Almost every article is reviewed, many have abstracts, and all have citations. Some have the full text of the article (or links to it).

You should also check out jstor.org, sciencedirect, and springerlink.