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XtremeNotebooks stuffs quad-core X3360 Xeon CPU in Xtreme 917V
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 05:55 AM
 

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XtremeNotebooks is taking its quad-core Xtreme 917V up a notch by tossing an Intel X3360 Xeon processor in there. Notably, the company is pushing this as the "first US-distributed" lappie to boast such a chip, but we already saw Eurocom reveal its X3360-based D901C PHANTOM-X earlier this week. Semantics aside, prospective buyers can get this mobile server equipped with a Blu-ray burner, RAID 0/1/5 hard drive arrays, twin NVIDIA GeForce 8800 or Quadro FX GPU setups and up to 4GB of RAM. As of this moment, this particular system isn't listed on the outfit's website, but you can probably count on it demanding upwards of three grand -- and yes, that's with the "sweet talking the CSR" discount already factored in.
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MPAA dangles early HD VOD releases, in exchange for closing that pesky analog hole
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 05:27 AM
 

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Moving beyond day-and-date releases via internet and HD video-on-demand, movie studios may be ready to move towards regularly putting movies online ahead of the DVD release date for a premium price -- that surveys say some of us are willing to pay -- but prepare to have your analog hole plugged again. The MPAA petitioned the FCC earlier this month to lift the existing ban preventing cable and satellite providers from remotely disabling analog outputs on their set-top boxes via selectable output controls (SOC). In a bit of ICT redux, the movie studios haven't said definitively that they will use the technology, but insist on having the ability to force anyone wanting to view high definition movies to only see them through an HDCP-protected HDMI output to a compatible TV. The failure of AACS and BD+ to prevent high quality copies isn't a deterrent to the MPAA's push, so while ICT has gone unused on Blu-ray and HD DVD, we're still too fond of our component outs, switchers and homemade cables -- and too wary of a future change in policy -- to support any changes in the law.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

 
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UEFA Cup Final - CCTV shows fans chasing police
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 05:05 AM
 
Police in Manchester have released CCTV images of up to 200 football fans chasing officers and attacking one of them after the Uefa Cup final.
 
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MM Is the Fittest — and Richest? — Future Dad on the Block
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 05:02 AM
 

Summer is almost here, and you know what that means — time for Matthew McConaughey to show off his beach body! First order of business is making sure his killer abs are ready after all his baseball beer so he jogged in Malibu with his trainer. It was a rare appearance for his t-shirt, but wearing those weights on bare skin couldn't be comfortable. Lucky for MM, it'll only be a few more months before he can trade in that vest and get his strength training by toting around his baby love child. Speaking of his new addition, even MM is getting into the baby photo selling game — he's supposedly shopping them around and the bidding war is already over $1 million!

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McCain Was for Talking to Hamas Before He Was Against It
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 05:00 AM
 
Given his own position on Hamas, McCain is the last politician who should be attacking Obama. Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News's "World News Tonight" program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange:
 
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Bin Laden marks Israel anniversary with combat vow (Reuters)
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 04:50 AM
 

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden speaks at a news conference in Afghanistan in a 1998 file photo. (Stringer/Files/Reuters) Reuters - Osama bin Laden vowed in an audio tape to mark Israel's 60th anniversary to continue to fight the Jewish state and its allies in the West.


 
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Apple OK with Safari's "Carpet Bombing" Vulnerability
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 04:44 AM
 
Next time you get nagged to install Apple's Safari browser keep this in mind: The company's security team has dismissed research that shows a simple way for miscreants to use the browser to litter an end user's machine with malicious files.
 
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America’s Decline Is Largely Self-Inflicted
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 04:42 AM
 
In a month of horrific natural disasters it's instructive to consider what one of the biggest UNnatural disasters in memory looks like. That is the decline in America's position in the world from where we were when George W. Bush inherited power on Jan. 20, 2001.
 
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Spree of jewel heists puts Houston dealers on edge (AP)
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AP - Brazen jewel thieves are robbing traveling dealers around Houston in a spree of heists that has jewelers on edge.
 
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From Atari Joyboard to Wii Fit: 25 years of "Exergaming"
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 04:37 AM
 
After hugely successful launches in Japan and Europe, Nintendo's Wii Fit exercise game is coming to the United States May on 19th, where it is sure to find sales success. But Wii Fit is hardly the first example of an attempt to meld videogaming and exercise — it's not even the first fitness offering from Nintendo.
 
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Zimbabwe presidential runoff on June 27 (AP)
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 04:34 AM
 

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, seen here in April 2008. Zimbabwes long-awaited run-off election has finally been set for June 27 as opposition leader and first-round winner Tsvangirai prepared to return home for his final push for power.(AFP/File/Carlos Litulo) AP - A presidential election runoff between Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be held June 27, the electoral commission said in an announcement published Friday.


 
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Tours of Hanford nuclear waste site draw interest (AP)
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AP - In a cramped control room, a bright yellow sticker cautions workers about critical radiation alarms. Now a novelty stuck on a wall between dials that haven't spun in decades, the sign hints at the enormity of the plant's mission.
 
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O.K., Avatar, Work With Me - Wii Fit
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 04:33 AM
 
WHEN Nintendo released the Wii 18 months ago, it upended the notion of what video games could be. Moving beyond the sunlight-deprived young men at gaming’s core, Nintendo appealed to the rest of the world with an intuitive, family-friendly entertainment experience.
 
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How to Escape From a Black Hole
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According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. In the 70's Stephen Hawking asserted that any information sucked inside a black hole would be permanently lost. But now, researchers have shown that information can be recovered from black holes
 
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Bush asks Saudis to increase oil production (AP)
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(+ Subscribe) Posted on: Friday, May 16 2008 04:30 AM
 

U.S. President George W. Bush, second right, and U.S. first lady Laura Bush, right, stand with Israels Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, center, and other officials before getting on Air Force One at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Friday May 16, 2008. Bush put the finishing touch on his celebrate-and-be-celebrated Israel stay, leaving the Holy Land Friday with no movement on Mideast peace but hoping to fare better in Saudi Arabia at obtaining help for soaring gas prices at home.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty) AP - President Bush, on a one-day visit to Saudi Arabia, is taking a second stab on Friday at getting the oil-rich nation to increase production and drive down soaring gasoline prices hurting U.S. consumers.


 
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