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Intel Preps Series Performance Boost with Next Year’s Enthusiast Desktop Platform Leaked slides presumably from an Intel Corp.’s document reveal that the world’s largest chipmaker is preparing a rather revolutionary update to its high-end desktop (HEDT) platform next year with the introduction of code-named Haswell-E product. Not only the new high-end client chips will finally see more physical cores, but they will also gain a number of other improvements.The next year’s enthusiast desktop platform will pack a number of firsts and will naturally bring a significant performance boost over regular desktop platforms as well as over existing and incoming HEDT...

A political and ideological movement which I call Cyber Anarchism is impacting governments, corporations and organizations in an unprecedented way because cyber anarchists throw “cyber bombs” instead of conventional bombs.  But otherwise their intentions align well with classical violent anarchism of the type that was prevalent particularly in the first 25 years of the last century.A good analogue is the anarchist Luigi Galleani who operated in the United States from 1901 until 1919.  He was a believer in revolutionary violence, and most of the time the violence came in the form of shrapnel-filled bombs that were used against high officials...

This auction is a charity auction for hand-made guinea pig scale-mail. (You've read that correctly) Is your pet guinea pig tired of wandering around the house unarmored and vulnerable? Do they get picked on by other guinea pigs? Has your guinea pig ever wanted to go with you to a Renaissance Fair but had nothing to wear? Fear not! A solution is here! Used “The chain mail is hand made and is in great condition. The helmet was purchased and is also in great condition. Neither are "new"... [snip]

Freepers! Feel free to make the case for why the NSA, DOJ, DEA or FBI have any moral, legitimate, lawful, legal or Constitutional right to your private information for any reason given such Accidental or intentional purpose. Further, make the case when they collect your information why they are entitled to peruse it or store it for (5) five years or even a nanosecond.

Featured Term (selected at random):RESURRECTION OF CHRIST The rising from the dead of Christ on the third day after his death and burial. Christ's Resurrection is a basice truth of Christianity, which is expressed in all the Creeds and in all rules of faith of the ancient Church. He rose through his own power. The source of his Resurrection was the hypostatic union. The principal cause was the Word of God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit; the intrumental cause was the parts of Christ's humanity, soul, and body, which were hypostatically united with the God-head. Whe Scripute...

In an interview with EWTN's "The World Over's" Raymond Arroyo, The Exorcist author and 1950 graduate, William Blatty spoke about the reasons for the canon law petition on Georgetown University that has been submitted to the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.'s Cardinal Donald Wuerl. The petition compiled by Blatty and The Cardinal Newman Society addresses numerous scandals at the University and whether it can continue to describe itself as Catholic. -

(Reuters) - As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption.

An historic event. WILLIAM RIVERS PITT after years of completely IGNORING the co-author of his unread book, Scott Ritter, ever since he was busted and incarcerated for criminal perversion, FINALLY mentions him. In fact he dedicated an entire THREAD, "Edward Snowden, my book with Scott Ritter, and the art of exploiting the messenger vs. the message" to the imprisoned Ritter. So why the sudden attention given to his co-author who was up to this moment completely IGNORED by Pitt? Simple. Pitt hopes to use the attention now being paid to Edward Snowden and compare him to Ritter in a...

EXCERPT “I don’t think we have a definitive on that yet,” Bachmann said. “I think there’s still a loophole that the speaker might allow himself — that he won’t hold himself to the Hastert rule. In the shorthand, this is what I think is going to happen — the very bad bill is going to be in the Senate. We’re going to have a Trojan Horse bill that will look very good. It will look like border security in the House. Conservatives will vote for it in the House. Both bills will go to conference committee. The guts will get...

Frustrated by an increase in petty crime, residents of an Oregon neighborhood have decided to arm themselves instead of calling the police. Residents of a Jennings Lodge neighborhood in Clackamas county, Ore., have put up fliers advertising their new policy, calling themselves the 'Glock Block', according to KOIN News.'This is a Glock Block,' the fliers read. 'We don't call 911.'

Testifying Tuesday on Capitol Hill before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Director of the National Security Agency General Keith Alexander claimed that the NSA program and keeping of millions of phone records has thwarted more 50 terror attacks since September 11, 2001 in more than 20 countries. Alexander stressed the NSA program is focused on terrorism and foreign threats, but that Americans involved in terrorism are looked at. Deputy Attorney General James Cole reiterated this claim, saying that in order to listen or obtain content of phone calls or emails, there must be probable cause a person is...

A drunken man who was stopped by police handed the officer a Miller Lite when asked for his license, police said. Prosecutors said the behavior by Omar Medina, 26, isn't surprising. They said he habitually drives without his license and this is his fourth arrest for an alcohol-related driving offense investigation. He's been charged with felony DUI. --snip-- "I asked him for his driver's license and he handed me the can of Miller Lite," Lorette wrote. Lorette eventually gave his identification card, and once he was put in handcuffs police said he was upset. "Omar became combative and said he...

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – A new poll finds that Wisconsin representative and 2012 vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan is the most popular politician among Republicans. In a Gallup poll of recent GOP newsmakers being listed as 2016 presidential possibilities, Paul Ryan was given a 69 percent favorable rating among right-leaning U.S. adults. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was also rated favorably, while Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was actually given a higher net favorable rating among Democrats than among Republicans.

The Taliban said they were opening an office in Qatar to start peace talks with the Afghan government and revive talks with the U.S., taking an important step toward ending a conflict that has dragged on for over a decade.

A surge in migrant traffic across the Southwest border into Texas has resulted in a milestone: the front line of the battle against illegal crossings from Mexico has shifted for the first time in over a decade away from Arizona to the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. This shift has intensified a bitter debate under way in the Senate over whether the border is secure enough now, or ever will be, to move ahead with legislation that could give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants already here. On Monday, the Senate was scheduled to resume a long series...

Modernizing party can't forget its base: Michael Gerson (Newser) – The Republican Party might win the odd national vote in the coming years, but it needs a long-term prescription: Eventually, "there won’t be enough white and gray voters to win national elections," writes Michael Gerson in the Washington Post. But as the party seeks to reform, it can't forget about the religious conservatives that form its biggest constituency. Just look at David Cameron: He's tried to expand the appeal of Britain's Tories and is losing his base in the process. In short, the GOP "needs to become more socially...

Free trade: it sounds good for innovation, doesn’t it? Well, not necessarily – and here’s why. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement under negotiation among various Pacific Rim countries, including Australia. The negotiations, which started in 2010 and are currently underway in Peru, have been controversial because they have taken place in secret, away from the public. While the proposed TPP text has been circulated to corporate lobbyists including the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), civil society organisations have mostly been locked out of the negotiations. Despite this, a version of the Intellectual Property Chapter of...

An team of scientists and researchers from across the world have managed to reconstructed a dozen medieval and modern leprosy genomes. The results suggest a European origin for the North American leprosy strains found in armadillos and humans, and there is a common ancestor of all leprosy bacteria within the last 4000 years.Humans appear to be the ones who adapted to leprosy, causing its decline in Europe. Credit: EPFL A breakthrough in sequencing ancient bacteria It is the first time scientists have reconstructed an ancient genome without a reference sequence (de novo) due to the extraordinary preservation of the medieval...

Good government in the United States is Constitutionally based, but it is also a matter of common sense and ordinary decency. decisions must be made with deliberation, the truth must be told, and all operations of government must be carried out with transparency. Consider these three truisms as applied to the passage of Obamacare. Obama, you may recall, promised that all aspects of the health care debate would be open, transparent, and, in fact, they would broadcast on C-Span. But instead of broadcasting the healthcare debate on C-Span, the president strong-armed passage in closed-door meetings, made secret deals with big...

Both Senate and House versions of the farm bill that Congress is looking to pass, preferably in short order and definitely before the current bill expires this September, are little better than deliberately gigantic messes full of an impressively convoluted combination of food stamps, corporate pork, tricky amendments, and completely unnecessary federal special treatment that agribusiness lobby claims agriculture for some reason deserves above all other economic sectors. The Hill has a useful rundown of some of the major battles that still need to be fought within Congress before they can agree upon a final bill, but one of the...