Jobs, of course, has been on medical leave since last month, when the Cupertino, California computer maker released a statement from Jobs announcing he will take a medical leave, his third since 2004, and handing day-to-day operations to Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook.

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The statement also criticised the computer reconstruction of the accident, saying it did not provide "a true, complete reconstruction of events".

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In his dress blue uniform and wire-rimmed eye glasses, the slightly built Manning followed a slide show of the prosecutor's hour-long opening statement, watching on a laptop computer at the defense table.

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Mr Broughton said his boss, John Eardley, rang him a week after Mr Farr's death to ask him to retrospectively sign a method statement, a risk assessment and a computer-aided drawing of the barrier's construction.

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No, the statement is not that access to a computer at home is a basic human right, along with food, shelter and clothing that the rest of us must stump up taxes to pay for.

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In a separate statement also aimed at improving consumer confidence, the Commission said it was looking at ways of fighting computer crime following the damage caused by Thursday's Love Bug virus.

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