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Study shows the impact of polyandry on reproductive success in fire salamanders
Researchers at Bielefeld University and the Technische Universität Braunschweig are the first to confirm the benefit of multiple paternities for a vertebrate under completely natural conditions. Together with their team, Dr. Barbara Caspers and Dr. Sebastian Steinfartz have shown that female fire salamanders mate with several males under natural conditions (so-called polyandry). This grants them fitness-relevant benefits by increasing their number of offspring. The results of their study are being published this Friday (29 November) in the Early View version of Molecular Ecology.
For a long time, it was assumed that females in the animal world are monogamous, that is, they mate with only one male. Males, in contrast, can increase their reproductive success by mating with several females. Nowadays, however, polyandry is assumed to be the rule in the animal world and monogamy to be more of an exception.
Currently, researchers from completely different disciplines are interested in why females mate with several males and what benefits this brings for them or their offspring. There is a particular interest in studies that permit insights and conclusions on these processes under completely natural conditions. As a rule, however, such studies are hard to implement without disturbing the individuals or studying their mating behaviour completely or partially in the laboratory.
Researchers at Bielefeld University's Chair of Animal Behaviour in the group of Dr. Barbara Caspers, Dr. Sebastian Steinfartz, research group leader at the TU Braunschweig, and Professor Michael Kopp from Aix-Marseille University have studied the influence of mating behaviour on the number of offspring in the black and yellow fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra), a widespread European tailed amphibian species. Over the course of the spring season, a female salamander can deposit up to 50 living larvae in small streams and ponds. For their study, the scientists captured female salamanders on their way to deposit their larvae in a forest and took the pregnant females to the laboratory where they deposited their larvae. Every day, the scientists collected the new-born larvae, took a small tissue sample, and returned both mothers and their larvae to the forest. By subjecting these tissue samples to genetic paternity analyses, the researchers could precisely reconstruct how many males each female had mated with and whether or not the sperm of the different males had been mixed – female salamanders can store the sperm of different males for several months in internal receptive organs called spermathecae. The eggs of the female will only be fertilized with the stored sperm, if environmental conditions are optimal and after eggs have developed into full larvae these are deposited in streams and ponds.
It is important to stress that the sperm from the male are deposited on the ground as a sperm packet (called spermatophore) during courtship display, and that the female then actively picks up the spermatophore. Afterwards, the female can decide from which males she will accept sperm or not. Through paternity analyses, the researchers were able to show that some females had mated with as many as four different males. The mixing of the sperm from various males in the spermatheca of the female seems to have quite positive effects, leading to more eggs being fertilized and, as a result, more larvae were finally deposited. Accordingly, polyandry and sperm competition seems to be an important mechanism to increase reproductive success and therefore fitness of a female in this terrestrial vertebrate species.
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Lefty fans eight over eight; Konerko drives in two first-inning runs
CHICAGO -- Let's play a little game called "Guess the American League Cy Young favorite."
One candidate features a 3.01 ERA and has allowed a mere 139 hits over 194 1/3 innings following the White Sox 5-1 victory over the Tigers on Monday night at U.S. Cellular Field. The second, less-talked-about starter has an ERA checking in at 2.90 and has yielded 162 hits over a career-best 195 2/3 innings.
Candidate No. 1 has fanned 215 and walked 48, while Candidate No. 2 pushed his strikeout total to 207 on Monday and his free passes to 41.
Where fWar is concerned, the first choice stood at 5.7 entering Monday, while No. 2 had an fWar of 4.8.
Detroit's Max Scherzer, who would be candidate No. 1 in this scenario, and Chicago's Chris Sale, who would be candidate No. 2, both have statistics infinitely worthy of the highest pitching honor. It just so happens that Scherzer pitches on a better team, helping him get to 19 wins and the unofficial title of Cy Young favorite, while Sale picked up just his 11th victory in the opener of a three-game set.
"The win-loss record for Chris doesn't show what he's done this year on the mound," said White Sox catcher Josh Phegley, who was behind the plate as Sale improved to 3-1 with a 2.27 ERA over four starts against the Tigers this year. "It helps to be playing for Detroit and getting the run support, not to take anything away from Scherzer, because he's a great pitcher."
Sale (11-12) worked eight innings against the Tigers (82-62), striking out eight and walking just one. The only run scored by Detroit came via Victor Martinez's seventh-inning solo shot, leaving the Tigers designated hitter with 11 hits in 19 career at-bats against Sale.
For the sixth straight start, Sale threw at least seven innings. He has won five of his last six decisions and has allowed more than three earned runs just once in his last seven trips to the mound.
Words such as confident and comfortable describe Sale's current demeanor, to go along with his first-rate stuff.
"This is as well as I have seen him pitch this year as far as feeling at ease, throwing all of his pitches at any time," said White Sox manager Robin Ventura.
"Just trying to pound the strike zone, fill up the zone. Make quality pitches," said Sale of his 114-pitch night. "That's a good team. You have to be on your A game. You have to take advantage when you can and it worked out tonight."
Scherzer (19-3) worked a season-low four innings, yielding five runs (four earned) on six hits. He struck out six and walked two. Sale also had the advantage of not facing the game's best hitter after Miguel Cabrera was ejected by home-plate umpire Brian Gorman during his first at-bat.
Cabrera thought a pitch hit his right leg on the second pitch, but Gorman ruled he swung at it. Cabrera fouled off the next pitch but continued to argue and was thrown out. Detroit manager Jim Leyland also was ejected in the ensuing argument, giving him 72 ejections for his career.
When asked about not having to face Cabrera, Sale joked that it's not a bad thing when "the best hitter to ever walk the planet" makes a very early exit. He continued the joke saying that he looked skyward and said, 'Thank you,' after the ejection.
Gorman told a pool reporter that Cabrera continued to argue about the swing part of the apparent hit by pitch. He was warned and was ejected for continuing to argue.
Phegley had a close-up view of the argument and was surprised by the ejection.
"I didn't know he said, 'Get out of here,' and threw him out," Phegley said. "I thought he said, 'That's enough.' But it probably helped us win the game."
The White Sox scored two runs in the first inning on Paul Konerko's two-out single to center. They added three more two-out runs in the fourth on four straight hits, with Dayan Viciedo and Phegley picked up RBIs, while a throwing error by Scherzer scored the third.
"These guys are big league hitters," Scherzer said. "They always have a plan against you, especially this team, and obviously their plan succeeded tonight."
Despite being officially eliminated from any sort of playoff competition with Tampa Bay's win Sunday, the White Sox (58-85) still managed to extend their winning streak to two games. Sale continued his strong '14 finish, sprinting to the finish line instead of limping in September last year, as he put it.
Ultimately, being there for his team stands as more of a reward for Sale than any sort of postseason honor.
"For me, it's one day at a time, one game at a time," said Sale, who became the fastest in franchise history to reach 200 strikeouts in a season when he fanned Austin Jackson to end the third. "Whatever that [Cy Young] stuff happens to be, it is. I'm not trying to put too much emphasis on it. Just go out there and do everything I can to win that game."
"Best part about him, he's a lot like [Mark] Buehrle was here," said Konerko of Sale and his fourth-lowest run support among big league starters. "He's all about the team and never once did he ever --- he has not complained and has been behind his teammates the whole way. Not a bad word he'll say about anybody, so that's how you get respect from your teammates, and he has earned that."


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"Why Cloud will only see widespread adoption if the IT industry has a Stock Market-style crash"
Given that my job is providing PR consultancy to the IT industry I appreciate the absurdity of recommending some kind of Stock market crash as the way forward for the IT industry. I went through the dot com bubble – it wasn't pleasant. However, I am not making this suggestion because I enjoy scaremongering or want to see anyone out of a job, but because I am at a loss to understand how else we can correct and move beyond this 'Age of Institutionalised Complexity.'
Enterprise IT departments, ever since the early days of mainframes, have built up stockpiles of hardware and software, which I would contend they rarely fully use. Sure, technology has pushed greater integration and commoditisation, but major organisations are left with bulky IT infrastructures creaking under the weight of their inefficiency.
Yet models exist which could enable CIOs to become more agile and responsive, but adoption – although on the increase – is not widespread.
It would appear to the cynical eye that enterprise IT environments have become so institutionalised by this complexity that wholesale change isn't possible without some kind of dramatic event, such as a crash.
"Why isn't every IT department moving wholesale to the Cloud?"
Ok, perhaps I'm being a little too impatient for change – and probably only have a superficial understanding of the technical requirements – but enterprise customers, in particular, are not grabbing the opportunity of Cloud Computing to move wholesale away from hereto expensive and restrictive relationships with their existing IT providers (as Ray Wang highlighted last year at the SAP UK User Group).
If we believe the analysts Cloud is heading in only one direction with revenues soaring and yet we're still having a debate about the theory of Cloud – how it should be applied, etc (single tenant, multi-tenant, private cloud, public cloud).
Surely the long-term benefits far outweigh the challenges? Yes, cost is stripped out of IT structures, but more importantly it should create IT environments with the flexibility to respond to ever changing business conditions.
Call it resistance to change, fear of the unknown, or plain stubbornness – there is a need to overcome such blockers as the IT industry will collapse under its own complexity unless it adopts new models such as Cloud.
"Stupid is as stupid does…"
Despite the traditional IT vendors taking flak from every angle for their poor innovation (you only have to read Vinnie Mirchandani's book, which suggests a lot of the innovative application of technology is being done by non-IT companies) we're still moving quite slowly given that 'Cloud' has existed in some form for quite some time. (Simon Wardley suggests the concept first appeared in 1968).
In moments of greater frustration it seems the only conclusion is that humans really are as stupid as some believe. Thankfully, though, further investigation leads me to a different conclusion, one prompted by a term referenced by Dennis Howlett on Cloud – 'Institutional Memory'.
Like Dennis I reviewed the excellent keynotes by Mark Masterson and Simon Wardley at OSCON and started to build a clearer picture of this notion of 'Institutionalised Complexity.'
Both speakers underlined the fundamental in the clash between innovation and the desire to achieve predictable success in business. Masterson applies this view to the previous decade, describing an era he calls the 'Age of Productivity' which was focused on reducing the likelihood of failure and cost of failure in return for predictable business success.
The outcome has been that companies focused on initiatives – both in business and IT – driven by this need for predictability and as a consequence pushed IT products/service development towards commoditisation. As Wardley explains this creates a fundamental issue for innovation, because it requires a risk-taking, uncertain environment to prosper.
Wardley's solution for IT vendors and their customers wanting to reinvigorate innovation is to recommend they analyse where products and services have already been commoditised. He highlights functions, such as HR, CRM, and Finance – all mainstays of ERP – as prime areas for exploitation. Areas where value has been eroded so much that they are ripe for the Creative Destruction process. Masterson sees breaking free of the constraints of the 'Age of Productivity' as the opportunity for open source software and argues that companies should be focused on the 'Age of Growth.'
"Trapped in an Institutionalised Mindset"
Logically that should mean the time is right for mass adoption of Cloud Computing. Yet I have a concern that most enterprise IT departments simply aren't prepared or willing to enter this 'Age of Growth' because they've become so institutionalised in their adoption of IT. Cloud Computing challenges this mindset at every level, in terms of how IT is acquired, supported and how its success is measured. JP Rangaswami even suggests that attempting to apply traditional measures such as Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is wrong, that IT departments need to be designing their IT infrastructure for a 'loss of control.' Applying the linear models of the 'Age of Productivity' is wrong, companies need to be thinking in terms of language such as 'self healing,' 'self aware' and 'heuristic.'
Having grown up being driven by the need for risk aversion and predictability it will be difficult for any IT department to cope with such significant change, particularly at a time when there is even greater pressure on IT leaders to demonstrate value to their business peers. Therefore I contend that the easiest way for such technologies to gain much wider adoption is that the IT industry has some kind of implosion with both vendors and IT customers being forced to start again.
I appreciate this is slightly insane, well possibly very insane, but let me cite two reasons why:
1. All good things come to an end because they become too complicated: Clay Shirky has written about a book by Joseph Tainter, "The Collapse of Complex Societies." In it Tainter analyses why supposedly sophisticated societies such as the Romans and the Mayan Indians eventually implode. In his view complexity has stifled each of these societies and it leads Shirky to suggest:
Complex societies collapse because, when some stress comes, those societies have become too inflexible to respond…When the value of complexity turns negative, a society plagued by an inability to react remains as complex as ever, right up to the moment where it becomes suddenly and dramatically simpler…Collapse is simply the last remaining method of simplification.
2. History is repeating itself: a quick look at any number of examples demonstrates why this logic is applicable to business and therefore IT. The automotive industry went from innovative to commodity driven by Henry Ford and hung on for dear life, until its recent collapse due to the stress of the global economic crisis and changing attitudes to the environmental impact of car travel. While some of the incumbents fight on (eg: Honda, who's tagline has been 'dream the impossible') a range of new manufacturers are emerging. For many the well-publicised collapse of the Financial Services industry has been due, largely, to the complexity of its products and the inability of regulation to cope with this complexity. The Media and Entertainment industry is in the throes of a similar challenge, with various sectors in different stages.
"An alternative solution would be to simply embrace the chaos"
The simplest conclusion for the IT industry is to embrace collapse and its accompanying chaos, but perhaps we don't have to see Rome burning. Rather enterprise IT users should prepare for a period when IT structures and their accompanying 'rules' have to be reset. Cloud Computing is the vehicle for that change and there is a significant opportunity for Cloud vendors to help their customers move towards this 'post-proprietary' era of adoption.
To encourage change Cloud vendors need to follow a number of steps, mainly to appeal to the current institutionalised mindset, but also to lead their customers to place where they believe that risk-taking isn't dangerous.
Step one – build trust: recognise that technology> won't lead to change alone – accept Simon Wardley's point that it is only one of four triggers that drive uptake. Unless the concept for a new technology is clearly defined, unless the customer recognises its suitability for its environment and the customer has been convinced to change their attitude, the technology will always sit on the shelf, no matter how good it is.
Step two – change the benefit discussion around Cloud: both Nicholas Carr and Paul Strassmann have said – in one form or other – that there is little value in IT spend and in fact Jevons Paradox showed that technology adoption increases consumption, rather than saves money. There is a need to appeal to the predictability mindset, because cloud will never achieve widespread, commoditised consumption – similar to other utilities – unless vendors show how Cloud can bridge the default position regarding risk aversion and the desire for repeatable solutions. But making a conversation solely about cost reduction will never move IT users out their comfort zone to experiment fully with the Cloud.
Step three – embolden customers to take risks: for me this is encapsulated by provoking customers to respond to Shirky's question: "Would this be an interesting thing to try?"
It goes to the heart of the point about moving the discussion beyond cost. If Cloud vendors can show the benefits of piloting their technologies can be done at minimal risk, they can begin to break down linear approaches to IT adoption. However, to do this they must bring customers on a journey that explains what their roles will be in the future, because a guaranteed blocker to change is an IT Director, who sees his or her role being replaced by a new technology. (Classic example – which I've witnessed – try selling database automation technology to a room full of Database Administrators)
Cloud Computing suppliers are beginning to reassure more and more enterprises that they have a role in their IT infrastructure, but they are yet to build significant trust among the broader 'Church' of the enterprise IT industry. The danger is that the traditional vendors are not only feeding that hesitation, they are using this period to catch up, so the Cloud specialists don't have long to drive their advantage home.
For this 'Age of Growth' perhaps the new motto should be: "Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better." (Samuel Beckett)
Or as Mrs Doyle said it more succinctly, "Ah go on, go on, go on…"


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Those with older Xbox 360 consoles know it's just a matter of when, not if, their machines give up the ghost and display three red rings. What's worse is that, if you've got an old console, chances are it's out of warranty as well.
Fixing one isn't as hard as you might think, though, as this report on HG101 attests. You can buy kits online that contain all the necessary parts and, with a little reading, most people who can hold a screwdriver should be able to make a fix.
If you're afraid, well...if your 360 is broken and it's out of warranty, what have you got to lose?
Note that this fix only obviously applies to the older console's notorious propensity to fry themselves. If you, say, just broke the console by dropping it, then you're going to need something a little more extensive.
Xbox 360 RROD repair [HG101]


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Made entirely out of recycled bullet casing collected from post-war weapons, our jewelry is more than just an accessory - it's a statement.
All of our products are 100% artisan made and completed from start to finish by hand with love. As such, you may see some individual variation in each and every piece that adds to the unique characteristics of your Collective Goods purchase.


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AuRico Gold Announces Details for 2012 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results Webcast on March 26, 2013
13 Feb, 2013, 15:45 GMT
TORONTO, February 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
AuRico Gold Inc. (TSX: AUQ) (NYSE: AUQ), ("AuRico" or "the Company") today announced that it will release the Company's audited year-end financial results for the period ended December 31, 2012 after market close on Monday, March 25, 2013. The financial statements will be available on the Company's website at http://www.auricogold.com or http://www.sedar.com.
A webcast and conference call will be held on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 starting at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Senior management will be on the call to discuss the results.
Conference Call Access:
- Canada & U.S. Toll Free: 1-888-231-8191
- International & Toronto: 1-647-427-7450
When the Operator answers please ask to be placed into the AuRico Gold Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results Conference Call.
Conference Call Live Webcast:
The conference call will be broadcast live on the internet via webcast. To access the webcast, please follow this link: http://www.newswire.ca/en/webcast/detail/1097407/1195639
Archive Call Access:
If you are unable to attend the conference call, a replay will be available until midnight, April 3, 2013 by dialing the appropriate number below:
- Local Toronto Participants: 1-416-849-0833 Passcode: #88348780
- North America Toll Free: 1-855-859-2056 Passcode: #88348780
Archive Webcast:
The webcast will be archived for 90 days at the link provided below:
Or on the Company's website at http://www.auricogold.com.
About AuRico Gold
AuRico Gold is a leading Canadian gold producer with mines and projects in North America that have significant production growth and exploration potential. The Company is focused on its core operations including the Young-Davidson gold mine in northern Ontario, which declared commercial production on September 1, 2012 and the El Chanate mine in Sonora State, Mexico. AuRico's project pipeline also includes advanced development opportunities in Mexico and Canada. AuRico's head office is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
For further information please visit the AuRico Gold website at http://www.auricogold.com or contact:
Scott Perry
President and Chief Executive Officer
AuRico Gold Inc.
Anne Day
Vice President, Investor Relations and Communications
AuRico Gold Inc.
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The First Nations comprising the Maa-Nulth Treaty Group implemented their treaty with BC and Canada. It is the second BC Treaty Process Treaty to be implemented after the Tsawwassen Treaty in 2009. Here's a round-up of the news: New, April 9, 2011: Treaty opens up a world of opportunity for First Nation (Victoria Times Colonist) […]
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|Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge CPU
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Processors
|Written by David Ramsey
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Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge CPU Review
Intel's processor development follows a regular "tick-tock" cycle. The "tick" is the refinement of an existing architecture; the "tock" is a new architecture. Proceeding at a roughly yearly pace, the "tick-tock" model brought us the 45nm Nehalem architecture processors (the original Core-i3, -i5, and -i7 CPUs) as a "tock", and the subsequent 32nm Westmere processors as the "tick" part of the cycle. Now, Intel introduces their new Sandy Bridge architecture as the latest "tock", and Benchmark Reviews checks out the new Sandy Bridge-based Core i7-2600K. This unlocked, 3.4GHz, Hyper-Threading, quad-core CPU is the top of the Sandy Bridge line, and we'll see how it performs against the best AMD processors and Intel's own as well.
Intel's first quad-core processors were merely two dual-core dies on a single chip; the CPUs had to communicate across the front-side bus. Later iterations put all four CPU cores on a single slice of silicon. In a similar fashion, Intel's Clarksdale processors had on-chip video, but it was simply a separate GPU placed on the same chip as the CPU cores— even the process used was different: 32nm for the CPU cores and 40nm for the GPU. But the Sandy Bridge CPUs make the transition to a truly integrated product, with all four CPU cores and a GPU core on the same silicon. There's even a shared Level 3 cache that's used by both the CPU and GPU cores.
The integrated graphics core is the Intel HD Graphics 3000core, and Intel promises about twice the performance of the graphics core in the Clarksdale-architecture Core i5-661 processor. Like the CPU cores, the GPU core uses Intel's Turbo Boost technology to increase its power draw and performance when thermal and power headroom permit. Since the Cougar Point motherboards I had available for this test were all based on the P67 Express chipset, which doesn't support the integrated graphics of the Sandy Bridge processors, I wasn't able to test the graphics features of this CPU.
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Of course y entire argument relies on AMD finally getting up enough tech power to challenge Intel in the higher end market--something it hasn't done wince 2004.
Ok, ok, it's really easy to break my argument down: If Intel locks us out of OCing, and AMD does not and can come even close to Intel performance, it's a no brainer--AMD will win the day.
So, there's only one option for us: Buy Intel CPUs and give up OCing, or buy AMD cpus and continue OCing. And this is where my second key premise comes in, that AMD will need to bring a lot faster cpu to market than it has today, since even the stock 950 beats it handily. In other words, if I had to buy a processor, and it was a choice between an OC-able AMD that was always going to be slower than a stock, locked Intel, I'd choose the stock, locked Intel.
So the argument, when broken down looks like this:
AMD OCed if and only if Intel is locked and AMD can provide near equal speed by OCing for a fraction of the cost (e.g., The Intel 920 did this).
This all is a factor of Intel being able to beat AMD to a point that they can, again, start dictating the market. For instance, if AMD came out with an OC-able CPU that could nearly match the new 2600 Intel, but only cost 1/3 the price, then OCers would buy that CPU and OCers would have nothing to do with Intel. Again, this harks back to the key point that the only reason I can see Intel doing this is that OCing does cut into their bottom line enough to try and force the sale of the more expensive CPU. If that is a true premise, then again, if AMD can rise to the occasion (like the 920 did), Intel will get smoked out of that market share.
Intel has no high-end Desktop competition today. That's why we're seeing this.
The fastest OC'g AMD chips top out at ~ 4.0, Phenom 4 or 6
Intel can do near 4.5 on their stock cooler
The Intel SB chips are cheaper.
And last but not, their chips are just plane faster clock for clock and just another 25%
Chips are then set to their maximum stable settings, some(ones with less impurities) can be used for over clocking and are sold with an unlocked multiplier.
There is quite a bit more left to how this works, but basically chips with locked multipliers are locked for a reason, not due to companies trying to make more money.
Nice article!
Looks like a separate spread sheet will be needed when all the mobo players get their version of 1155 spec'd out and sorted to the various processors. And yet another for the on-board GPU cycles vs. discrete graphics.
I'm tired just thinking about it.
Happy New Year !
So here we are, at a place, or nearly a place, where we can buy a 300USD CPU and have it be so fast that unless we are doing very specific tasks, and lots of them, we will not see or enjoy more speed from the CPU, and except for a hobby and fun, have no need to OC for practical reasons.
We've had this discussion before: Things are getting so fast and so small, that they are becoming mainstream and uninteresting. It's only a matter of time before you can buy an entire system as fast as any top of the line OCed desktop, and have it fit into your hand.
I'm all for it. Saves me space and time.
Then in the next sentence, you state that processors have gotten so fast that it doesn't make a difference.
So which one is it?
AMD guys will do anything they can to justify the fact that AMD will always be 2nd best to Intel, and there are only 2 companies in competition. LOL
Gotta love the AMD guys for supporting their sub-par performance for the past 6 years.
If you consider real-world performance and saving money more important that bragging about your scores in AIDA64 or CINEBENCH, an AMD hex-core processor might be your best bet.
Now, personally, I'm one of those people who must have the fastest, even if it makes no difference. So my personal machine is an overclocked 980X with 12G of memory, a 256G SSD main drive, and two spanking new GTX580 cards. But you know what? When I drag out my overclocked 1090T AMD system with Radeon 5770s, I never notice any difference in gameplay at 1920x1200 in games like Crysis, Metro 2033, and Bad Company 2. So what did all that extra money for the 980X system really buy me?
The point is that unless you're the kind of person who brags about their car's 1/4 mile times (utterly irrelevant to real-world driving), you should plan where to spend your performance dollars.
For example the old Voodoo2
Max 640*480 refresh = 120 Hz
Max 800*600 refresh = 120 Hz
Max 1024*768 refresh = 85 Hz
I`m currently cpu limited with my Q9650 at 4.1ghz and a GTX 580 and this is why i`ve just ordered the i7 2600k along with 8gb of ram and an asus P8P67 deluxe.Money well spent imo seeing as this lot cost much less than your cpu alone and will definitely improve MY gaming along with the encoding i do.
"And this is where my second key premise comes in, that AMD will need to bring a lot faster cpu to market than it has today, since even the stock 950 beats it handily.
If you research into current advancements and and productural timelines, you should begin to see consumer based entry level systems within the next 5-10 years. Intel Knows this, as well as AMD, NVidia/ATI..
One only has to view some the time lines and review current tech reviews and product spec's to see it begin to unfold very quickly. You can blame SSD's, they are what bandwidth is needed to make the all happen, Hard drives were always the bottleneck, you can blow the doors off a better processor and slow drive system with a slower processor and the fastest drive system. Especially if if that drive system can handle multiple reads and writes per clock cycle.
Oh the expense of it all, I could have probably bout an Island in the Bahama's for the money I've spent over the years on PC's
What the fanboys from Team Orange never want to admit is that when you overclock you pay quite a bit for a beefier power supply, a 3rd party cooler, and a bigger case with more fans to fit the cooler into. Those are not insignificant expenses and can easily exceed $200. So when I see someone trying to compare their OC'd-to-the-max 1090T to an i7-920 running stock I just laugh. Are they really that desperate?
Sandy Bridge is going to be a game changer for sure, and I doubt if Bulldozer will even be enough to catch up to the edge Intel holds just with their current 1156 and 1366 products.
with RamDisk Plus version 11:
We already have a 16 GB XP/Pro workstation working
well with a 10 GB ramdisk using an earlier version
of that software:
32 GB total - 4 GB for 32-bit OS = 28 GB for a storage partition!
I think AMD could "leap ahead" by enhancing their
integrated memory controllers to support quad-channel mode.
(I suggested this to them, many weeks ago, but
received no acknowledgment.)
If Intel's Sandy Bridge will only get "shrunk"
at the next "tick-tock" iteration, Sandy Bridge
is "stuck" with dual-channel mode.
AMD, are you reading this?
/s/ Paul A. Mitchell
Systems Development Consultant
Just Saying.
And to think AMD now own ATI, which for years I loved, but crippled those video cards too, thats why NVidia is way better, double precision FPU, parrallel processing etc....Not to mention NVidia eqquips their cards with (PPU), Physics Processing Unit, and a GPU, (Graphics Processing Unit)...Which has not only been the fastest Gamming cards always, but performed Direct Processing for quite some time, which is why BIONIC, folding at home etc., use them for Physics as well as high speed calculations....
I could go on and on, but my point is you get what you pay for period..
If you want the best of the best stay with Intel and NVidia all the way and you will have the fastest, most accurate, stable and reliable computing platform period. Very few BSOD's and computation errors.
Peace out people
Variables being temperature, voltage, clock speed, etc.
If run properly, they will both return correct results (unless that piece of silicon is actually faulty, which would get detected before sold)
If I remember correctly, the only processor that ever actually computed numbers incorrectly was an old pentium version that had a division error.
This is the major point I am trying to get across....
For me, this has been my experience, run for a month or so and the AMD's return Divide by Zero and compute errors, BSOD's or a host of other issues.
Durability under other than normal working conditions, you'd be wise to Invest into Intel/NVidia...Think about what I said, over seven years, no errors, nothing, they just keep on running at 100%. That in of itself speaks volumes to me about product quality. I spent a thousand dollars a piece for those Pentium 4 Extreme processors and believe me when I tell you that I have gotten more than my monies worth from them. I cant think of anything else you can buy that will run that long at full throttle non-stop with out a meltdown well before 7 years..It's amazing, It's called Intel, It's what should be inside everyones box.
What a shame Intel could not take that one little lesson from what they copied from AMD. I would have gladly purchased one of these new processors if it would have fit my MOBO. This year?s upgrade will put into AMD hardware to go with the 5870 upgrade from 2010.
The next time I upgrade, I may well buy AMD for those reasons, if they can get close to Intel CPU speeds. It would be nice to only have to pop in another CPU and you're done, rather than replacing your RAM, MB, and cpu.
Pretty damn perky Linux system actually.
I am a Comp Sci major and have had to research and study such things as Computer Hardware Architecture, Operating systems etc. I constantly build computers to study them, old to new. I have both AMD and Intel computers, I have a closet full of parts I play with all the time, build computers, run software to check performance etc. take it back apart.
The idea that a CPU would not support an Operating system is plain ridiculous that is absolutely not possible. And there are scientific reasons Intel changes their pin patterns not just to create a new line of cpu's to sell. And Currently AMD cpu speeds not clock speeds but actual measured performance speed of calculations etc. are still pretty far behind Intels chips.
I am tempted to sit here and reply to all of these with facts, but really do not have the time, not sure what I was researching when I found this site.
See my earlier Blog, 28 years of computing experience with both platforms and AMD has yet to live up to its promise to Knock Intel to the wayside.
AMD produces nothing but compute errors, and BSOD's even at stock clocks, which is why none of their motherboards support ECC RAM, why would you spend money to verify compute errors. 1+1=2 not 3 or 4 or 5. Thats why my main rig is Intel, and the AMD is just a file server. I dont like mistakes, And when I do game, I like the fact that my main rig based on Intel/Nvidia smoke the hell out of anything AMD/ATI has ever had to offer. Dont believe me, just look at the history of 3Dmark, SYSMark etc. and see the truth for yourself..
I run both Intel and AMD rigs, and neither seems to have a stability advantage over the other.
You claim that AMD has "yet to live up to its promise to knock Intel to the wayside." I don't recall AMD ever "promising" such a thing, outside of the usual advertising hyperbole both companies engage in, but when the original Athlon 64 X2 processors came out in late 2003, they decisively smoked everything Intel had at the time, and remained on top of the performance heap for at least a year.
AMD cannot compute high end math and physics very well, period...These arent assertions, theyre plain fact... And believe me if I could I would tell you why, but I am not at liberty to tell you why....
I would love for AMD to be a better processor, but they arent, otherwise I would buy them...
So I'm stuck spending more money to get real world accuracy....
But I really value your honest opinion and killer benchmark reviews, the are some of the most thorough and accurated and unbiased I have seen to date, in my entire experience with computing, way to go and thank you.
I'm talking real world heavy use, Don't tell me no half trut's and I'll tell you no lies my friend...You go ahead and believe in AMD/ATI, thats your right, I run both AMD/Intel, NVidia/ATI, IMO Intel/NVidia combo, hands down, wins period.....
I can be rather pushey by nature, as well as brash, I'm sorry if you took offense, as it wasn't intended that way..
And your idea that Intel creates nothing but compute errors when over clocking is wrong as well, I also have an AMD computer sitting right here, it overclocks just fine. To properly overclock you have to know what you are doing, many things have to be set inside your BIOS and can't just be directly controlled by a piece of software inside the operating system.
It is depends on your motherboards BIOS, whether you can over clock, what you can over clock and to what extent. You also need to know the math to figure out what settings you should set and to what they should be set. I build computers constantly. I spend days researching motherboards, RAM, CPU's, etc. on manufacturers sites, reading white papers, manuals and other specs, before I decide on a good combination of hardware to build a system with.
It trips me out to see amateur hobbiests on sites like this passing along faulty information based on their weekend trials and errors with computers.
... like integrated memory controllers?
... like native 64-bit logic backwards compatible
with 32-bit instructions?
How quickly we forget!
If you want an entry level low tech way to game AMD is what I run.
But I'm 48, and I like to play with movies and editing and audio as well as gamming, and when everything is idle it defaults to [email protected], BIONIC projects etc. My main entertainment system PC does it all so very very well and so much more reliable. 2600k, Dual SLI GTX 580's...
Those AMD's are religated to file servers, and print servers etc., as well as some of those BIONIC chores etc during their idle time. But they fail misserably at that chore. Oh by the way every single one of those have crossfire going on, so they were'nt exactly cheap eigther...
more to follow:
I'm still Configuring and tweaking the new hardware and software, but initial impression, hell yeah and allright Intel....
Real world computing and serious damn gamming for men with bigger toys..
You get what you pay for, Enterprise quality, speed, perfomance and accuracy, Thank you Intel, and a special thanks to NVida on the SLI GTX 580's..BOOM, BOOM, A, ZOOM, ZOOM!!!!!
more to follow:
One thing I will conclude with is faster RAM, means faster, everything..Running SSD's do better with the fastest board memmory, everything completes so, so, much faster, This machine is a monster, my god, AMD you'd better take note, because the dust you see was left by Intel..
Me happy now, and high David
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Other than that, why is it that I can find no information on processor errors when googling AMD for that information? If you have evidence that AMD is producing faulty CPUs please do post it.
but proven claims about defects in Intel's push-pins are NOT OK??
Surely this will prove your systems overall integrity, not to mention possible problems will usually occur during this burn in run. Really, you should try this out, I learned alot of things about the whole system in general, as I prepare PC's extreme heavy load computational environments, that's all I am trying to convey here..
1. What does it mean exactly for a motherboard to "support" Sandy Bridge integrated graphics?
2. Which boards currently do so?
3. Do no P67 motherboards offer this support? That would rule out the ASUS P8P67 DELUXE and the Intel DP67BG motherboard, each of which I was considering to use with the i7-2600K processor.
4. What criteria should one use to determine whether a motherboard can exploit the full capabilities of the i7-2600K processor?
You need a P67 motherboard to overclock the CPU, but then you can't use the integrated graphics.
An H67 motherboard supports the integrated graphics, but doesn't allow any overclocking.
Don't like that? Complain to Intel. I sure don't.
1. Does this really mean that if you use a P67-based motherboard with the i7-2600K processor, the graphics capabilities of the processor really go entirely unused altogether?
2. I realize it's a very powerful processor in other respects as well, but doesn't that in part defeat the purpose of getting the i7-2600K?
3. I saw a website that suggested a new Intel chipset, the Z68, would be released in the near future (2nd Quarter 2011, possibly). Does anyone know about this, and whether it would be more appropriate for the i7-2600K?
2. If you use a P67 motherboard and use a video card (presumably with HDMI/DVI output ports), how much worse video performance would you experience compared to using the integrated graphics capabilities that an H67 motherboard would offer?
No, you don't. Probably.
"If you use a P67 motherboard and use a video card (presumably with HDMI/DVI output ports), how much worse video performance would you experience compared to using the integrated graphics capabilities that an H67 motherboard would offer?"
I haven't tested the integrated Sandy Bridge video, but Intel states it provides roughly twice the performance of their previous generation integrated video, which was unusably slow for modern gaming. So it's a pretty safe bet that almost any separate graphics card costs more than $50 will handily outperform the Sandy Bridge integrated video.
Yes, that's what it means. It's more than just the connectors available on the board; the P67 Express chipset does not have the circuitry required to support Sandy Bridge video.
"...doesn't that in part defeat the purpose of getting the i7-2600K?"
In part, yes, although one could argue that most people buying the top-end Sandy Bridge would want better video. Of course, if you buy that argument, why should the 2600K have integrated video at all? Good question.
Any Z68 stuff is rumor at this point.
"one could argue that most people buying the top-end Sandy Bridge would want better video. Of course, if you buy that argument, why should the 2600K have integrated video at all? Good question."
This is very interesting and also helpful. If a $50 video card can significantly outperform the on-board graphics capabilities of the Sandy Bridge (i7-2600K), it really does raise the question of why Intel bothered to put such a capability on the chip in the first place. Perhaps just "because they could." I suppose this is just a stepping stone to some future processor whose on-chip graphics capabilities WILL be as good or better as those on a separate video card. Maybe. In the meantime, I guess the obvious choice is to choose a P67 motherboard over a H67 motherboard, because
1. P67 motherboards can overclock and H67 motherboards can't
2. a P67 motherboard using a separate video card offers better graphics than an H67 motherboard using the on-chip integrated graphics.
Is this correct? If so, why would anyone opt for an H67 motherboard?


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To counter the CFR, Damon is forming CSPER or the Council on Renewal. He is starting a blog and will be promoting the Council. He is currently setting up methods for membership, I encourage everyone to bookmark Damon's site and to register to his site in order to receive updates from him. Also note that I have included his blog in my blogroll in the lower right hand column of this blog. Here's Damon's statement about the opening of his blog:
I decided to launch a blog so the Council on Renewal could quickly respond to important news that gets funneled to us in the fake left vs. right stage show called the mass media. The corporate/state controlled media industry is designed to hide the truth and keep us fighting each other in Dem vs. Repub cheerleading groups--just like the Celtics vs. the Lakers, or Apple vs. Microsoft. We need to remember that just like the Celtics and Lakers or Apple and Microsoft, the Dems and Repubs are controlled by money powers and compete in a corporate-controlled arena. My goal with this blog is to expose that and discuss the news from the perspective of the corporatocracy that controls everything mainly through their policy group and networking clique called the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Writing articles for my Canada Free Press column allows me to flesh out the big issues, but it's not appropriate for daily "quick hits." This blog site will be the quick hits.
Damon has a gift of creating a clear and concise message. We need efforts like his to counter the BS and to bring light into the motives of those in power. I agree that there's more to this McChrystal/ Petraeus move than meets the eye, please be sure to view it within the context of other moves now occurring in the Middle East as well as in the political arena. I also would like to note that our own media is now working very hard to discredit McChrystal…
McChrystal vs. Obama
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The mass media stageshow is a hoot. Remember that all of this is controlled by the top folks in CFR (the inner financiers behind the Wall St cartel). Just like Tom Cruise in The Firm, those top folks use CFR membership to control/influence/co-opt the rest of the people in the group. Who are some of those people? McChrystal is CFR. Petraeus is CFR. James Jones is CFR. Gates is CFR. Eikenberry is CFR. In fact, Obama's entire team is CFR, just like Bush's was. Much of the media is also CFR.
The motive of the top controllers in this McChrystal vs. Obama episode could be any one of many possibilities…
- CFR wanted to stoke an Obama vs. military fight to rally the "raging war machine right" for the 2010 elections against Obama rather than leaving room for 3rd party and other efforts to save the US from Wall Street.
- CFR simply wanted to put Petraeus back on the front page as they groom him for the 2012 presidential campaign. He has been a good yes-man for his Wall Street CFR controllers. They like careerist generals like Petraeus and Richard Myers who are subservient yes-men doing whatever they're told to feel the affirmation of pleasing their bosses and getting more medals. They also like ruthless frigid generals like Barry McCaffrey (or lower ranks like Oliver North) who massacred thousands on orders even though they were retreating, which violated every sense of morality and international law, but that's not Petraeus.
- CFR needed to replace McChrystal because he started seeing the truth, feeling his conscience, and siding with his soldiers vs. his controllers back in NY. CFR would've had insiders close to McChrystal to know his general mindset and even overhear his private conversations to detect if he was straying from their desired goal to maintain their presence in Afghanistan perpetually to control all the natural gas, mineral deposits, opium, and otherwise keep the process on track of managing young Americans to their deaths in order to convert Afghanistan into a satellite state of our banking/corporate empire. By the way, this doesn't mean they're necessarily using secret people. They simply surround executives (from the President all the way down through civilian and military chains of command) with big staffs, and those staffs report up their own chains of command where they all eventually reach the top of the Pentagon, State, etc where inner CFR members typically rule. But it could be secret people as well. The CIA uses assets inside all sorts of organizations–foreign governments, corporations, military units, state governments, etc–to ensure they're secretly staying on top of things. And CIA serves CFR/Wall St.
Overall this media stageshow is probably a strategic chess move to accomplish a combination of all 3 of these things and then some. Just don't let yourself be caught in their manipulations. And help explain this to your friends, family, neighbors. The media is used to accomplish strategic objectives, NOT to report news.


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Generally speaking, the cost of living in Malaysia in higher than in many Asian countries, especially Thailand and Laos, although it is cheaper than is Indonesian and significantly less than in western countries. Those on a tight budget should be able to spend just $20 a day, although this will only buy the absolute basics and $35 a day will allow you a few small luxuries. Those who can afford to spend $150 each day will be able to stay in some of the country's top hotels and dine in style, while for those with a real taste for luxury $275 a day should be more than enough to experience the best of Malaysia.
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Travellers' Cheques and Credit Cards
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Changing Your Money
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BENASH, BENJAMIN (or BENUSH):
Cabalist of the beginning of the eighteenth century; son of Judah Löb Cohen of Krotoschin, Prussia. He wrote the "Shem-Ṭob Ḳaṭan"—extracts from alleged works of Isaac Luria and Moses Naḥmanides, and containing various prayers and formulas illustrating the practical application of the Cabala. Among others there is a prayer by Moses Naḥmanides for making oneself invisible to robbers while on a journey—the writer adds that he tried it himself and found it efficacious—and another prayer for extinguishing a conflagration. Conceived in the same spirit is his other book, "Amtaḥat Binyamin" (Benjamin's Bag).
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. p. 790;
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, pp. 44a, 592.


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We can all rejoice. NBC Sports has just named former SPEED personality Will Buxton as the pit reporter for all of its F1 coverage in 2013.
This is a welcome turnaround for Buxton, who found out that SPEED was losing F1 — and that he was losing his job — via Twitter.
Buxton will be joining Leigh Diffey, David Hobbs, and Steve Matchett on the 2013 NBC commentary team. With a promised 100 hours of coverage and another promise to send reporters to a few races (Buxton will be at every round), NBC's coverage for next year is sounding pretty awesome.
There is also a chance that Buxton will be alongside Diffey during IndyCar broadcasts next year as the pit reporter there. That has not been announced quite yet.
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Hacker tests limits of US cyber law
Case becomes flashpoint in debate over where to draw the line on internet freedom.
He is a red-headed hacker who hails from Arkansas, goes by the name "weev" and seems to delight in being annoying. For years, he broke into computer systems, disrupted blog sites and riled people with personal attacks.
Now his case has become a flashpoint in the debate over where to draw the line between online freedom and cybercrime in the United States, and whether the law is too broad or too narrow in both criminal and civil cases.
Andrew Auernheimer is appealing his prison term of three years and five months for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the main US anti-hacking law.
Auernheimer, 27, rants from prison that jurors wrongly convicted him of conspiring to take 114,000 email addresses from AT&T's website.
During his trial, the Justice Department said he broke the law on unauthorised access of protected computer systems. His lawyers want an appeals court to interpret the law more narrowly, arguing that AT&T's site was virtually wide open and left unsecured by the company's design.
"This is really about freedom to use the web," said Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor who is helping prepare Auernheimer's appeal. "The future impact is enormous because, effectively, if this is a crime, then visiting a website is a crime when the website owner doesn't want you to visit in that way."
Auernheimer's conviction and 41-month sentence have emboldened those who say the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) can be interpreted much too broadly by prosecutors and judges. Some internet law experts and civil liberties groups seek legislation to narrow its scope, contending that without reform it could be used to turn innocent internet users into criminals.
From prison, where he has been held at times in solitary confinement, Auernheimer continues to argue that he is the victim of a draconian law that threatens research and ordinary internet usage. He sent a Twitter message that the law "doesn't hinder Romanians, Estonians, Chinese" hackers, "it only hurts researchers and activists".
His case highlights one of the knottiest issues in the digital economy: How can the law help ensure freedom of movement and information in cyberspace, while protecting billions of records and devices, as well as intellectual property, from theft and intrusion?
Those conflicts are playing out in criminal cases like Auernheimer's, as well as in civil lawsuits, including one filed by Craigslist, which is suing startup companies that used data on its public website to build applications.
Adding to the urgency of the debate is a backdrop of unrelenting assaults against business and government computer systems around the world, accusations by US officials that Chinese hackers have pilfered vast amounts of intellectual property and classified materials, and turmoil over disclosures about the US government's digital spying on its own citizens.
Bradford Newman, a lawyer who represents corporations in preventing data theft, defended the act, saying prosecutors are using it appropriately.
"The CFAA serves an important role in our society now more than ever, when computers are a daily part of everything we do," said Newman, a lawyer with Paul Hastings.
The Justice Department has been criticised at times for the cases it has chosen to prosecute under the act, which was passed in 1984. The department came under fire after the January suicide of Aaron Swartz, an internet activist facing prosecution for breaking into the computer system at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Representative Zoe Lofgren proposed language to make it clear that simple breach-of- contract or terms-of-service violations did not violate the law and to limit the act to circumventions of technology barriers. A competing proposal, supported by the Justice Department, would create stiffer penalties and make violators subject to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, which is typically used in organised-crime cases.
Appeals courts have issued contradictory interpretations of unauthorised access under the law.
In Auernheimer's case, his appeal team, including Kerr and the online civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation, will ask the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals to limit the concept of unauthorised access.
Unauthorised access should be defined by the circumvention of technical security barriers, like a firewall or encryption, because otherwise it is impossible to set a clear standard, said Marcia Hoffman, a former foundation lawyer working on the appeal.
Paul Fishman, the US lawyer in New Jersey who oversaw Auernheimer's prosecution, said his office did not pursue minor infractions of the law, and privacy violations were obvious.
"If you hack and you get 114,000 email addresses, and you look at them and say, 'I don't want to tell anybody about this,' it's different than sending them out and publicising what you do and basically thumbing your nose," said Fishman. "If we don't respond under circumstances when people do something that is so notorious, that sends a bad message, too."
Auernheimer was convicted last November by federal jurors in Newark of conspiracy to access AT&T's servers without authorisation and of identity theft. Prosecutors said his associate Daniel Spitler breached AT&T servers and stole email addresses of more than 114,000 users of Apple iPads. Auernheimer disclosed that data to the Gawker website. AT&T plugged the hole and apologised to customers.
Auernheimer emailed iPad users at news organisations to say he had "stolen" identification numbers for their address, and he "would be happy to discuss the method of theft". At trial, Auernheimer said he used the words like "theft" as "rhetoric and hyperbole" to "sensationalise" the story.
Spitler pleaded guilty and testified against Auernheimer. He described how he carried out his attack by writing computer code to generate iPad identification numbers. Auernheimer told jurors that the information was public and that he never considered what he did as theft.
Auernheimer's lawyers will argue that his 41-month sentence is excessive because he did not damage AT&T's computers and the email addresses were never distributed or used in any other way. The law covers unauthorised access to computers when the damage exceeds US$5000 ($5287). The judge ordered Auernheimer to pay restitution of $US73,167 to AT&T.
His sentence shows how disconnected the anti-hacking law is from the harm it was meant to prevent, said James Grimmelmann, a New York Law School professor.
"If I crash a computer, if I delete data, if I access confidential information, those are all things that we might be very concerned about happening on computers," Grimmelmann said. "Those involve specific harm to the computer owner or to other users."
Given the limited distribution of the data weev took, one could argue the harm he caused was "much smaller" than prosecutors said and deserved a lesser punishment, he said.
Auernheimer's appeal to the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit follows a ruling by the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit in the case of David Nosal. He was prosecuted for inducing two accomplices to access information from a database at the executive search firm where they worked.
The Ninth Circuit narrowed his criminal case as well as the application of the statute, ruling last year that employees could not exceed their authorised access unless that access has been revoked. It rejected the government's interpretation, saying "millions of unsuspecting individuals would find that they are engaging in criminal conduct".
After the case was narrowed, a jury convicted Nosal on April 24 of conspiring with employees at his former firm to violate the CFAA, unauthorised access to a computer and trade secret theft.
Kerr and the Electronic Frontier Foundation say that Auernheimer's conviction is an example of the overreach warned against by the Ninth Circuit, putting too much power to determine a user's violations in the hands of the Justice Department and a computer's owner.
The Department of Justice advanced the interpretation that even simple terms of service breaches could be violations of the anti-hacking law in the case of Missouri woman Lori Drew. She was convicted of a misdemeanour CFAA violation for creating a phoney account on News Corp's MySpace.com to trick a teenager, who later committed suicide. A judge tossed the conviction in 2009, saying it "criminalises what otherwise would be a breach of contract" under a website's terms of service.
The questions over unauthorised access have also crossed into civil cases, particularly in commercial disputes otherwise resolved under contract law, according to Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. "By using the CFAA in such a heavy-handed way, we are actually throwing other bodies of law out of kilter," she said.
A group of internet companies sent an open letter in March to Congress warning that "the law has lost its way" and may quash innovation if courts continue to interpret breaches of contractual agreements or policies as CFAA breaches. Such interpretations "give incumbent companies a dangerous and unfair weapon to wield against competitors," the companies wrote.
In one case, Craigslist, the provider of free online classified ads, is suing 3Taps Inc, which grabs data from public websites for application developers. 3Taps's harvesting of data is "unauthorised access" under the law, Craigslist claims.
Craigslist is also suing PadMapper Inc, which automates the combing of real estate listings and places them on a map for renters or buyers of apartments. New York Law School's Grimmelmann said he expects more such lawsuits.
Auernheimer's sentence of 41 months has rallied the law's critics, who say he was punished for being obnoxious. At his sentencing hearing on March 18, he told the prosecutors and the judge, "if you people understood what you were doing with the rule of law and the Constitution, you would feel shame". The judge criticised his "pervasive disrespect," which he factored into his sentence.
After being imprisoned, Auernheimer continued to send electronic messages about his experience, relying on friends who posted tidbits from emails sent through the prison email system.
In early April, he was cut off from prison email without explanation. He used recordings, posted by supporters on the audio-sharing site SoundCloud to document his prison experience, as he was moved from Brooklyn to a facility in Pennsylvania and then to Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex in White Deer, Pennsylvania.
"We live in a country with a childishly authoritarian government that can't handle anybody saying anything mean about it on the internet," Auernheimer said in an April 15 clip.
In late April, all his books and papers were taken away and he was placed in a special housing unit used to separate and punish inmates.
"The conditions in the SHU here are pretty terrible," Auernheimer wrote in a letter dated May 1 to Bloomberg News. "We are rotated on a weekly basis between solitary confinement and extreme overcrowding. Right now I am subject to the latter, in a bunk where I cannot even sit up."
Auernheimer compared the unit to Japanese prison camps in World War II. He said he was passing the time by meditating.
Auernheimer was told by prison authorities that he is under investigation for "abusing the telephone," according to his lawyer, Tor Ekeland. Administrative detention is typically used for inmates under investigation for misconduct, Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke said, while declining to comment in more detail.
Ekeland contends Auernheimer's treatment amounts to retaliation for his dogged use of technology to document and publicise his prison experience and hammer against the anti- hacking law.
"I don't see any other reason for them doing it," Ekeland said. "Right now our focus is filing the appeal, but we're probably going to litigate the prison issues."


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QR Codes as Classroom Tools
Monica Burns offers what amounts to a classroom teacher's ode to QR ("quick response") codes, in an Edutopia blog post.
The fifth-year teacher explains that having students scan the codes with Smartphones or tablets is simpler and less time-consuming than having them type in long Web addresses. She also claims the codes are easy to make (for instance, Qurify.com) and "keep things new and exciting" for students. She writes:
Try creating scavenger hunts that will get your students to visit a variety of websites to gather information on a topic. Get students engaged and moving by placing QR codes in different parts of your classroom or school building.
The obvious caveat here is that Burns works in a setting with one-to-one technologymainly iPadsand most teachers do not.
But here's another potential caveat: When's the last time you used a QR code yourself? Is this a real-world-relevant tech tool or simply a passing (passed?) fad? Seems to me that long Web addresses are here to stay, so maybe giving kids practice with them isn't a bad use of time. I'm not so sure about QR codes.
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HANGING UP: Even the hanger companies are making M&A news. The Great American Hanger Co., the largest supplier of garment hangers to retailers and fashion firms, as well as trade shows such as MAGIC, has been acquired by Austin, Tex.-based International Hanger, a provider of custom clothes hangers to major retailers, brands and hotels such as Macy's, Ralph Lauren, Omni and Hilton. The purchase price wasn't disclosed.
Great American Hanger, whose headquarters will move to Austin but will keep a Miami office, was started by Devon Rifkin in his apartment in 1999. His business also includes hangers.com and hangersdirect.com. About 10 people will stay in the Miami office. Rifkin was named Entrepreneur Magazine's "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2008 and Great American Hanger was listed on INC's 500 Fastest Growing Businesses three straight years.
"I just have been doing it a long time, and I was ready for something else. I want another challenge," said Rifkin, who will consult for the company during the transition, as well as other businesses, as he prepares for his next venture.


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God of War III To Be Released in March 2010 For the PlayStation 3
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God of War III will be released for the Play Station 3 in March 2010. I can't wait to get this game. I promise I will get a PS3 before then, hopefully the rumoured Slim! It's only 9 months away, so just wait patiently.
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Local media
Our local media – print, broadcast and online – are still excellent ways to reach people involved with the community project and attract new visitors. Not everyone's online yet. You are though: do take a look at our Facebook page.
One of our volunteers has built up a terrific relationship with them and gains lots of publicity for the different activities and events that ATU runs. Here's a piece published today about a screening of The Eagle of the Ninth, based on Rosemary Sutcliff's classic tale which visited our villa site.
There'll also be a talk by Andy Brockman, who specialises in community archaeology and the Archaeology of Modern Conflict.
All Because of Tutankhamun?
Here's another contribution with thoughts about promotion from Dr Lesley Hardy:
'I'm writing this in a brief break from a longer writing task. Two weeks of study leave is hopefully going to allow me to make some further headway looking at the culture which took place in the 1920s.
In part, the appetite for all things archaeological was linked to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 but I argue its roots go back much further into the C19th and are also explained by the shifts that take place in culture and society post-WW1.
In order to trace these changes and their significance for how we look at archaeology today, I'm following the excavation of the Roman villa site at Folkestone. These were excavated by S.E. Winbolt in 1924 and in many ways epitomise the turn towards the promotion and integration of archaeology (especially, I think, Romano-British archaeology) through a wide range of media – newspapers, books, radio even.
The Earliest Heritage Site?
In other words, Folkestone is one of the first 'Heritage sites' in the country.
Must get back to the job in hand – production of this article: 'The Romans in Folkestone: S.E. Winbolt and the evolution of Public Archaeology in the 1920s."