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The Courts

Submission + - School girls' science catches out GSK's Ribena

Submitted by anonymous_echidna
anonymous_echidna writes: The NZ herald reports that pharmaceutical and food company GlaxoSmithKline has been fined NZ$217,500 for breaches of the fair trading act, for falsely claiming vitamin C content that Ribena didn't have. The discrepancy came to light three years ago when two fourteen-year-old school girls conducted a science experiment to test the vitamin C content of various juice drinks, and found the vitamin C content of Ribena to be much lower than expected. Fobbed off by GSK, they continued to pursue the issue, finally alerting the Commerce Commission, leading to the action in the Aukland District Court.

Full story at: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id =3&objectid=10431119
Businesses

Submission + - Web anonymity can sink your job search

Submitted by
jcatcw
jcatcw writes: "Computerworld has a story about the importance of creating an appropriate Web-impression on potential employers. For tech workers, it's becoming more important.

In a 2006 survey by executive search firm ExecuNet in Norwalk, Conn., 77 of 100 recruiters said they use search engines to check out job candidates. In a CareerBuilder.com survey of 1,150 hiring managers last year, one in four said they use Internet search engines to research potential employees. One in 10 said they also use social networking sites to screen candidates. In fact, according to Search Engine Watch, there are 25 million to 50 million proper-name searches performed each day.
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Announcements

Submission + - The Air Car - Zero pollution and incredibly cheap

Submitted by torok
torok writes: According to this article on Gizmag, Tata, India's largest automotive manufacturer, has developed a car that runs on compressed air. It costs less than $3 USD to fill a tank on which it can run for 200 to 300km. The car will cost about USD $7,300 and has a top speed of 68mph. About once every 50,000 km you have to change the oil (1 litre of vegetable oil). Initial plans are to produce 3,000 cars per year. I think the world needs about 100x that.
iMac

Submission + - Dual Quad-Core Mac Pro Around the Corner?

Submitted by
Macthorpe
Macthorpe writes: "DailyTech is reporting an error in Apple's UK website which gave customers a glimpse of the new Mac Pro — boasting Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeons. From the article: "The listing, which Apple promptly found and removed, revealed the quad-core Mac Pro in search results when users searched for 'Mac.' The quick description listed the Mac Pro as 'Now quad-core or 8-core processing power. Configure yours today.'""
Businesses

Submission + - How do you score the One Job?

Submitted by
dmayle
dmayle writes: "We all know how to look for a new job. Polish up your resume, look at the job boards, beg your old college roommate, etc., it's not easy, but it eventually works. What do you do, however, when you want a specific job? How do you go about making the contacts necessary and getting through the recruiting process for your dream job? What if your dream job is in another town, or another state?"
Slashback

Submission + - Distributed Proofreaders + /. = 10,000 eBooks

Submitted by Jagged
Jagged writes: This week Distributed Proofreaders commemorated their digital transcription of 10,000 written works. Back on November 8, 2002, Slashdot posted an article on Distributed Proofreaders. That initial Slashdotting smashed records, wore out the DP admins, and started changes in the way the volunteers worked that made Distributed Proofreaders what it is today.

Distributed Proofreaders, a wholly volunteer organization, was established in 2000 for the purpose of producing quality transcriptions of machine-readable texts from public domain sources. The resulting texts are published on Project Gutenberg.

True to its international nature, Distributed Proofreaders, while respecting U.S. copyright laws, does not limit itself to preserving solely English language content. Nearly 15% of completed titles, to date, represent over 20 languages beyond English. A look to DPs 10,000th title set reveals the diversity of world cultural content in the public domain. Among this commemorative collection are a French translation of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; the chronicle of Portuguese explorer Serpa Pinto's African expeditions; a pair of illustrated children stories from Germany; the first part of 'Species Plantarum', a 17th century Latin botanical reference work and a translation of a 17th century Guatemalan Maya manuscript.

The fifteen titles released today are not a cheer towards the past accomplishments of Distributed Proofreaders, nor are they pat on the back for deeds fulfilled on this day. What these titles so clearly represent, of their own merits, is the future and what awaits within the world's public domain yet to be rescued from obscurity and re-presented to an audience hungry to rediscover the cultural treasures of previous ages.
Businesses

Journal Journal: Got Connections? Get Rewarded!

Journal by dmayle

Do you know someone personally who works in HR for Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Adobe? Take a look at my résumé. Would you feel comfortable introducing me? If so, after I've seen them, I'll donate $100 to your favorite* open source project. If I accept a job with the company, I'll donate another $100 to the same project.
Announcements

Submission + - Get Linux Kernel Drivers For Free

Submitted by
Amit Shah
Amit Shah writes: "Greg Kroah-Hartman has sent an email to the LKML mentioning the Linux kernel community's offering to write drivers for any devices manufacturers come up with. They just have to send out the specs. And, if possible, the device.

Were companies holding back releasing drivers for Linux because they didn't get anyone to write drivers for their hardware? Or were they afraid of releasing the specs, so that they would lose their edge over their competition?"
Operating Systems

Submission + - Universal filesystem for removable drives

Submitted by Cap'n Crax
Cap'n Crax writes: As external USB and FireWire hard drives are becoming more and more common, I often wonder how I can use one for native read and write access between Win, Mac, and Linux systems. As far as I have been able to research, Windows can read and write NTFS and FAT32, but cannot handle HFS or HFS+ systems, nor any Linux EXT systems. Mac can read and write HFS and HFS+ of course, but only read NTFS. Linux it seems has good read support, but dodgy write support for both. All systems, it seems, have good support for FAT32, but it has major limits, expecially the 4GB file size limit.

Is there any modern filesystem that all major OS's today can effectively use on external drives, especially for large files? Is anyone even working on this?
First Person Shooters (Games)

Submission + - DNF Screenshot Causes Ruckus

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "A Duke Nukem Forever Screenshot has been released in a job advertisement by 3D Realms hoping to attract programmers. The tiny image is "in game footage" confirmed by 3D Realms that shows "Duke standing in a random hallway." Is this a case of actual screenshots with release dates being thrown around or attempt to attract attention by playing the DNF card one more time?"
Amiga

Submission + - AmigaOS 4

Submitted by Second five-eighth
Second five-eighth writes: The Amiga is alive and sort of well (you can get the OS, but not the hardware), and Ars Technica has a review of the final version of AmigaOS 4. New features include limited memory protection, 3D display drivers, an improved suite of applications (the bounty for porting Mozilla to AmigaOS has yet to be claimed), and much better 680x0 emulation. Perhaps most telling, the reviewer was able to move his daily writing workflow from Windows XP to AmigaOS 4.0: 'Not only was it possible to do this, but having done so I feel no urge to switch back. It is nice to not have any distractions when working—there is no waiting for the system to swap out when switching between major applications, no constant reminders for updates or to download new virus definitions and even if the worst happens and the system locks up, it takes only seven seconds to reboot and get back to a functional desktop.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Explaining short-lived jobs on a resume?

Submitted by n7ytd
n7ytd writes: Since taking a new job in 2006 and finding out it's not what I expected, I am spitting out resumes to find a new gig. I've been wondering how to explain the short time I've been in this job to prospective employers. Have fellow Slashdotters found this to be a challenge in the past, or it is par for the course and no big deal? As someone interviewing, would the 6-month position I've had with my current employer cause you concern?
Novell

Submission + - Novell says desktop Linux costs 10% of Vista

Submitted by Robert
Robert writes: Novell Inc might have signed a patent and interoperability deal with Microsoft Corp but it is not about to give up competing with the software giant and last week released a study that suggests its Linux desktop product is better value than Windows Vista. The Waltham, Massachusetts-based company's competitive guide compares SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop with Windows Vista and claims that the Linux product provides 90% of Vista's functionality and 10% of the price.
Linux Business

Submission + - Linus on why the kernel is "special"

Submitted by daria42
daria42 writes: In this one minute video, Linus explains why the Linux kernel is "special". "I have always felt that the thing that makes the kernel special is it never does anything on its own ... It has no agenda. It is at the mercy of all the "real" programs that actually do something for the user," he says. "I try to see what are the issues that users have with programs and what are things that we in the kernel can help them do better," he said.

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