p2pnet World Headlines: Dec 12, 2009
RCMP slammed over tasering of teenaged girl CNews
The RCMP’s public complaints commission has condemned an officer’s use of a taser on a handcuffed 15-year-old girl who was being restrained by four guards. Commission chairman Paul Kennedy denounced the use of the taser – and the followup investigation by the RCMP – in an incident in Yellowknife in March 2007. The investigation had many parallels to the case against RCMP officers who used a taser on Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport on Oct. 14, 2007. Dziekanski died following the incident. The latest investigation deals with a female young offender at the Arctic Tern Youth Facility who was refusing to cooperate with the facility’s guards. The young woman, whose indentify cannot be released, continued to be uncooperative when RCMP officer Const. Noella Cockney arrived and threatened to use the conductive energy weapon on her.
Eagles (and Tea Sets) Flock at E.D.S. Auction New York Times
In September, Hewlett-Packard scrapped the Electronic Data Systems name. Now, it’s doing away with the E.D.S. eagles. Well, as it turns out, eagles do flock – on auction Web sites. H.P. is in the midst of auctioning off E.D.S. office equipment and the like, as it shrinks the number of E.D.S. offices in Plano, Texas. The auction included a bunch–a whole bunch–of eagles, some china, paintings, tea trays, ice buckets and faux floral arrangements. Basically, a lot of stuff that fails to fit into the Mark Hurd school of lean operating. Also up for sale were some patriotic items like an American flag given to the company for its support of troops that fought in Iraq and a President’s Service Award from Bill Clinton.
Tiger Woods’ hiatus from golf could hurt EA’s golf video games GamesBeat
Tiger Woods announced today he would take a break from professional golf. The announcement could take a toll on Electronic Arts‘ big Tiger Woods video game franchise. Even before Woods’ announcement today, the pressure was building on EA to drop Woods, whose scandalous car crash and news of various affairs could take a big toll on his billion-dollar endorsement business. [Also see Tiger Woods sex scandal good for Google]
Johnny Hallyday in drug-induced coma after surgery Guardian
One of France’s favourite rock stars, Johnny Hallyday, was tonight in an induced coma after doctors in the US performed an emergency operation to remove lesions on his back. The 66-year-old singer, dubbed the “French Elvis”, whose ailing health in recent months has held a devoted nation in suspense, was rushed to hospital in Los Angeles yesterday, suffering complications from earlier surgery in Paris. After briefly waking up and opening his eyes “to recognise his wife”, he was put back in an artifical coma to aid his recovery, said his producer, Jean-Claude Camus. Hallyday, a superstar in France who has sold more than 100m records, has seen a gruelling valedictory tour disrupted this year by repeated health scares. Ever since the revelation over the summer that he had been suffering from colon cancer, his legions of fans have been obsessively following his condition.
Can You Work On A Virtualized Windows Desktop? Network World
I’m using a Macbook Pro laptop running OS X and I have Windows 7 installed on the Bootcamp partition. Normally this kind of setup only lets you boot up either Mac OS X or Windows, but with VMware Fusion 3 for Mac OS X I can run the bootcamp partition (Windows 7) as a virtualized guest operating system. The Unity feature of VMware Fusion lets Windows apps appear in their own window on the Mac OS X desktop. That always turns heads because people say, “You’re running Outlook on a Mac?”.
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December 12th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
“Johnny Hallyday in drug-induced coma after surgery Guardian”
Who is this guy?
December 13th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
demonoid is back online!
December 13th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I’m as sick and tired as anyone else of all the Tiger Woods excrement stinking up news sites, but here is one aspect of this saga that’s not just more of the usual tabloid trash:
“Tiger Woods has won an injunction banning the British media from reporting new details about his personal life after instructing London-based lawyers to take legal action.
The move, described by lawyers as “unbelievable”, prevents the media reporting information that was already widely available in the US, prompting further anger about the ability of foreigners to take advantage of strict English laws that would not be available abroad.
“This injunction would never have been granted in America,” the media lawyer Mark Stephens said. “It’s unbelievable that Tiger Woods’s lawyers have been able to injunct the UK press from reporting information here that is freely available in the US.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/dec/11/tiger-woods-gags-english-media
December 13th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Artist taking another hit.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/myspace-imeem-deal/
December 14th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
woods is only the latest a-hole in the “I’m a celebrity – get outta here ’cause I’m better than you” reality show.
but not the last.
seems our fav “artist” – NOT! – lily allen was seen smoking backstage at her concert in the UK recently, as was reported by the BBC.
smoking in workplaces in the UK is against the law, and dear lily might be arrested and charged with breaking the strict no-smoking laws.