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Technology (Apple)

Submission + - Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago

Submitted by evw
evw writes: The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required, or google the url and click from Google) that Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago. He is on track to return to work at the end of June. William Hawkins, a doctor specializing in pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgery at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., said that the type of slow-growing pancreatic tumor Mr. Jobs had will commonly metastasize in another organ during a patient's lifetime, and that the organ is usually the liver. Having the procedure done in Tennessee makes sense because its list of patients waiting for transplants is shorter than in many other states. There are no residency requirements for transplants. Also in the Mercury News.
Displays

Submission + - LG To Offer Monitors with Built-In Virtualization (hothardware.com)

Submitted by
MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Later this month, LG Electronics plans to start selling flat screen monitors that can function as virtual computers. LG's new SmartVine N-series LCD monitors will utilize embedded virtualization technology from U.S.-based NComputing. This technology is based on the idea that today's computers are so powerful that many applications use only a small fraction of the computer's capacity. NComputing's virtualization enables many users to tap the unused capacity and share the computer as if each had their own machine. Because LG Electronics is embedding NComputing virtualization circuitry inside the new SmartVine N-series monitors, users simply connect their keyboards and mice directly to the monitor, which then connects to the host PC via a cable. A PCI Card Kit must also be installed in the host PC."
Microsoft

Submission + - The Truth Behind the Death of Linux on the Netbook (groklaw.net)

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Groklaw brings us news of Microsoft holding the smoking gun in regards to the death of Linux on netbooks. You see, the question of Linux on netbooks in Taiwan was put forth to the Taiwan Trade Authority director who replied, 'In our association we operate as a consortium, like the open source consortium. They want to promote open source and Linux. But if you begin from the PC you are afraid of Microsoft. They try to go to the smart phone or PDA to start again.' It's simple, fear will keep them in line. PJ points out 'So next time you hear Microsoft bragging that people *prefer* their software to Linux on netbooks, you'll know better. If they really believed that, they'd let the market speak, on a level playing field. If I say my horse is faster than yours, and you says yours is faster, and we let our horses race around the track, that establishes the point. But if you shoot my horse, that leaves questions in the air. Is your horse *really* faster? If so, why shoot my horse?'"
Education

Submission + - Women Engineers and Workplace Sexism

Submitted by yali
yali writes: Women in traditionally male-dominated fields like math and engineering face the extra burden that their performance, beyond reflecting on them individually, might be taken as broader confirmation of stereotypes if they perform poorly. A newly published series of experiments tested the effects of such stereotype threat among engineering students. Standardized observations showed that male engineering students who had previously expressed subtle sexist attitudes on a pretest were more likely, when talking with a female engineering student about work issues, to adopt a domineering posture and to display signs of sexual interest (such as noticeably looking at the woman's body). In the next 2 experiments, female engineering students were randomly assigned in one experiment to interact with males who had endorsed different levels of subtle sexism, and in a second experiment with an actor who randomly either displayed or did not display the domineering/sexual nonverbal behaviors. Women performed worse on an engineering test after interacting with the randomly-assigned sexist males (or males simulating sexists' nonverbal behavior). In another experiment, women's poorer performance was shown to be limited to stereotype-related tests, not a broad cognitive deficit. In a final experiment, interacting with a domineering/sexually interested male caused women to have temporarily elevated concern about negative stereotypes, which they subsequent attempted to suppress (thought suppression being a well-known resource hog). The results indicate that even subtle sexism can be toxic in workplace environments where women are traditionally targets of discrimination.
The Courts

Four Google Officials Facing Charges In Italy For Errant Video 153

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the looks-like-digging-for-deep-pockets-to-me dept.
mikesd81 writes to tell us that four Google employees may be facing charges of defamation and failure to control personal data simply because they didn't remove a video of a boy with Down's Syndrome being harassed and eventually hit over the head with a box of tissue, from Google Video. The video was posted in September of 2006 and was removed by Google within a day of receiving the initial complaints, but apparently that isn't fast enough. "Google maintains charges against the employees are unwarranted, Pancini said. Europe's E-commerce Directive exempts service providers from prescreening content before it is publicly posted, he said. Also, the video was technically uploaded to a Google server in the US, not in Italy, Pancini said. 'It was a terrible video,' Pancini said, adding that Google is concerned about the case's impact on censorship on the Internet. The defendants include David C. Drummond, a Google senior vice president, corporate development and chief legal officer. Pancini said Drummond did paperwork to create Google Italy, but has never lived in the country."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Coupon Hacker sued for breaching DMCA (wired.com)

Submitted by
Virgil Tibbs
Virgil Tibbs writes: "With a strange new twist, the DMCA is being used to combat coupon hacker, John Stottlemire
He is alleged to have posted instructions that allowed shoppers to circumvent copy protection on downloadable, printable coupons and is now on the receiving end of a lawsuit from Coupons Inc. However he claims he is not at odds with the DMCA:

"All I did was erase files or registry keys," he says. "Nothing was hacked. Nothing was decoded that was any way, shape or form in the way the DMCA was written."
The case continues..."

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