Surgeon Performs World's First 4X HD Surgery 101

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 25, 2009 @04:30PM from the capture-more-gore dept.

docinthemachine writes with word of some "research just presented at the 65th ASRM on 4K surgery. Using bleeding-edge Hollywood 4K cameras coupled to laparoscopes, surgery was performed in 4K, or 4X the resolution of HD. Since laparoscopy is performed while viewing on a video monitor, this is a huge advancement of resolution and clarity for the surgeon. It only took a million dollars of projectors to show it to the audience."

Researchers Identify Wi-Fi Dead Zones Cheaply 37

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @03:25PM from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.

schliz writes "A new technique developed by HP Labs and Rice University could lower the cost of identifying 'dead zones' in large wireless networks. The technique '[combines] wireless signal models with publicly-available information about basic topography, street locations, and land use.' This enables Wi-Fi architects to test and refine their layouts cheaply before a network is deployed by focusing measurement efforts on areas that potentially could be dead zones. The technique requires only about one-fifth as many measurements as a grid sampling strategy."

Submission + - Novell to SCO: Pay up (heraldextra.com)

Submitted by gosherm on Saturday October 06, 2007 @04:39PM

gosherm writes: "The Waltham, Mass., software developer is seeking to lift a bankruptcy stay on litigation against SCO so a federal court trial in Utah can proceed to determine the amount of licensing fees Novell is entitled to, and for a constructive trust to be put in place to protect those funds."

Bookmark Buy me a LEGO (buymealego.com)

by gosherm on Monday October 01, 2007 @12:42PM

Submission + - eBay Seller Sues Autodesk for $10 Million

Submitted by Miasik.Net on Thursday September 13, 2007 @06:00PM

Miasik.Net writes: A lawsuit has been filed in Federal Court (US District Court for the Western Washington District C07-1189 JLR) that alleges Autodesk, Inc maker of the industry standard AutoCAD software and their attorney Andrew S. Mackay have devised an illegal scheme to have used copies of their software removed from the eBay site using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Finally someone decided that non-transferable licenses must be stopped.

Submission + - Vote Swapping Ruled Legal!

Submitted by cayenne8 on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:34PM

cayenne8 writes: Way back when (2000), during that election, there were some sites set up (voteswap.com and votexchange.com) for people across the nation to agree to swap votes. This was set up mostly for Nader and Gore voters to work against Bush.

California representatives threatened to proscute these sites as criminal offenses, and many of them shut down. On Monday, the 9th US court of appeals upheld that "the websites' vote-swapping mechanisms as well as the communication and vote swaps they enabled were constitutionally protected" and California's spurious threats violated the First Amendment. The 9th Circuit also said the threats violated the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause."

See the story HERE .

Submission + - Being Unhealthy Could Cost You -- Money (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

Joe The Dragon

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @01:08PM

Joe The Dragon writes: "http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/070802/aug2007db2007081 804238.html?.v=1&.pf=insurance
By Jena McGregor

For employees at Clarian Health, feeling the burn of trying to lose weight will take on new meaning.

In late June, the Indianapolis-based hospital system announced that starting in 2009, it will fine employees $10 per paycheck if their body mass index (BMI, a ratio of height to weight that measures body fat) is over 30. If their cholesterol, blood pressure, and glucose levels are too high, they'll be charged $5 for each standard they don't meet. Ditto if they smoke: Starting next year, they'll be charged another $5 in each check.

Clarian has been making headlines for its aggressive and unusual approach to covering escalating health-care costs. Rather than taking the more common step of giving employees incentives for merely participating in its wellness programs, such as joining a smoking cessation group or using a health coach, Clarian is actually measuring outcomes. And unlike most employers, it is penalizing workers for poor health instead of rewarding them for taking healthy steps.
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This is yet another way that employers try to mistreat there works and some times the work environment can lead to people gaining weight like making them work 80/H + week with fast food working lunches + hours that don't give the works time to participate in wellness programs. In cases like that it is very unfair to change employees for poor health that sometimes comes from a poor working environment."

Feed Wired: VMWare Fusion Turns Your Mac Into a Virtual Playground (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday August 06, 2007 @06:52PM

When Apple announced it was switching to Intel processors in June 2005, the move kicked off the multi-OS virtualization craze in the Mac community. One of the two major players, VMWare, released the first version of its Fusion virtualization software product on Monday. Fusion allows Mac users to run Windows, Linux or most any operating system on the Mac OS X desktop. Here's a first look.