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I search "football" on all four search engines and Google shows nfl.com, wikipedia.org/american_football followed by wikipedia/org/football. Ask.com results in football.com followed by news results and Q&A about football. Live search provides the same thing except theres wikipedia.org/football for the Q&A part. Lastly, Mamma shows things about football stuff you can buy followed mostly by articles and histories of football clubs.

UK: Access to Wikipedia Hampered Due to Pornography Filtering System

Wikipedia clearly is among the most innocuous websites and one can not imagine it being blocked by a child pornography filtering mechanism. However, the improbable has just occurred in the UK. The whole problem began when an image of a Scorpions album prompted Internet Watch Foundation’s Cleanfeed child pornography filtering system - used by many of the leading UK ISPs - to block the particular page.

Consequently, all traffic to Wikipedia from ISPs that deploy Cleanfeed beagn to be routed through transparent proxies – one proxy per ISP. Even if a single user is barred from editing by Wikipedia’s anti-vandalism system, all other users using the same proxy suffer exactly in the same fashion as most UK-based Wikipedia users are sharing a handful of IP addresses.

You can track the problem as it unfolds on this Wikipedia page dedicated to it. The IWF has stated on its website that the particular page was reported through its online reporting mechanism. After it was found unsuitable for minors, the page was “added to the list provided to ISPs and other companies in the online sector to protect their customers from inadvertent exposure to a potentially illegal indecent image of a child.”

Mozilla Firefox 1 Billion Add-on Downloads

This morning(November 19th, 2008), addons.mozilla.org reached a huge milestone:
they served our 1 billionth add-on download since they started keeping track of downloads in 2005.

This number only includes downloads from addons.mozilla.org, but as many add-ons are hosted elsewhere, they can be sure the actual number is even higher. This is a very exciting week for Firefox add-ons, with the launch of Fashion Your Firefox yesterday, offering a new way for first-time add-on users to customize their browser.

This amazing feat was made possible by the huge community of add-on users, developers, and enthusiasts, as well as non-Firefox applications that embrace Mozilla add-ons like Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Sunbird, Komodo, Flock, and Songbird, to name a few.

If you're not using an add-on yet, try one out:
http://www.fashionyourfirefox.com/
They're pretty popular.

Link:http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2008/11/19/1-billion-add-on-downloads/

Intel new Core i7

The Core i7 Family

	Core i7-965 Extreme Edition	Core i7-940	Core i7-920
Clock Speed	3.2GHz	2.93GHz	2.66GHz
L2 Cache	1MB	1MB	1MB
L3 Cache	8MB	8MB	8MB
Process	45nm	45nm	45nm
Transistors	731 million	731 million	731 million
QPI Speed	6.4GT/s	4.8GT/s	4.8GT/s
Multiplier Lock	No	Yes	Yes
Default Multiplier	24	22	20
Volume Pricing	$999	$562	$284

Benchmarks

	Core i7-965 Extreme	Phenom X4 9950 BE	Core 2 Extreme QX9770
MainConcept (min:sec) 3	15:58	31.37	24.49
MainConcept Pro (min:sec)	10:08	18:44	14:49
ProShow Producer 3.1 (min:sec)	10:19	20:10	12:52
Premiere Pro CS3 (min:sec)	10:17	16:27	11:26
Photoshop CS3 (min:sec)	1:50	2:48	1:55
Cinebench 10 32-bit	15,398	8,179	12,175
Cinebench 10 64-bit	18,963	10,431	13,849
Valve Map Compilation (min:sec)	2:05	2:47	1:56
ScienceMark Overall	2,091.22	1,608.74	1,920.2
ScienceMark Membench (MB/s)	13,312	7,279	8,559.5
PCMark Vantage x64 Overall	7,510	5,724	6,423
PCMark Vantage Overall	6,705	5,299	5,961
Sisoft Sandra RAM Bandwidth (GB/s)	18.15GB/s	9.73GB/s	7.4GB/s
Sisoft Sandra RAM Latency (ns)	77	95	79
Everest Ultimate MEM Read (MB/s)	15,167	6,701	8,252
Everest Ultimate MEM Write (MB/s)	12,041	4,856	8,490
Everest Ultimate MEM Copy (MB/s)	15,583	7,760	8,426
Everest Ultimate MEM Latency (ns)	39.2	64.7	66.7
WinRAR 3.80 (min:sec)	9:44	18:11	13:57
POV-Ray 3.7 (min:sec)	6:48	11:52	8:08
3DMark06 overall	12,859	11,639	12,906
3DMark06 CPU	5,638	3,532	4,717
3DMark Vantage	7,516	7,301	7,588
3DMark Vantage CPU	39,725	26,709	32,446
3DMark Vantage GPU	5,917	5877	6,044
FEAR (FPS)	51	239	122
Quake 4 (FPS)	228.0	152.3	206.6
Valve Particle Test (FPS)	161	69	111
Crysis 1.2 10x7 very low CPU1(FPS)	164	112	153
World In Conflict (FPS)	250	136	220

NOTES: How we tested. We used matched GeForce 8800GTX cards for all three platforms, matched Western Digital 150GB Raptors, Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit and the same graphics drivers. The Core 2 Quad had 4GB of DDR3/1333, the Phenom X4 BE 9950 had 4GB of DDR2/800 and the Core i7 had 3GB of DDR3/1066.

Windows 7 Pre-Beta Leaked Onto Torrent Sites

While Windows 7 is shaping up to be something fresh and new, this pre-beta isn’t anything to worry about. To spend the time, bandwidth (especially for Comcast and AT&T users) and electricity downloading this pirated version of the fledgling OS would be cheating yourself, because this pre-beta comes up low on the impressive meter. And plus, we can’t in all good consciousness condone pirating software.

While the accidental release of the build of Windows 7 came through the Pirate Bay and Mininova (in convenient 32-bit and 64-bit formats!), it was originally intended for an unnamed group of developers. The downloads of Microsoft’s OS of tomorrow have been off the charts as well, with one particular copy providing more than 1,000 uploaders, and roughly 7,000 downloaders.

The build that’s being sought so desperately is a notably incomplete version. It’s missing taskbar updates, as well as other large features. According to comment threads on the torrent sites, most users are unimpressed with what they’ve found. But with a pre-beta, what did they expect?

Source:http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/windows_7_prebeta_leaked_onto_torrent_sites_dont_you_dare_pirate_it

Intel Looks to Jet Engines for the Future of Notebook Cooling

The issue of burning legs (that’s right, burning legs) has been an issue on the mind of Intel for some time now, and they’re looking to soothe that with their latest breakthrough.

Intel has been focusing on the increasing issue of hot thighs with something called Laminar Flow. Laminar Flow occurs when a fluid or gas/air flows in parallel layers, allowing a non-turbulent way to misdirect hot air away from the surface of a jet engine (or laptop). As demonstrated, this technology allows efficient cooling of temperatures upwards of 1,000 °C.

A demo of this technology was given at this week’s Intel developer forum in Taiwan by Mooly Eden, Intel’s head of Mobile Platforms Group. “We are licensing it to our customers so they can keep making thinner and thinner laptops,” said Eden.

Source:http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/intel_looks_jet_engines_future_notebook_cooling

Gateway XHD3000[1600p]

The Gateway XHD3000 is a 30 inch monitor and is one of the best high end monitors to date, with its 1600p you can go high definition. You'll be seeing more than 97% more pixels for front-row action, advanced games and enjoying the latest DVDs in home theater-quality, crystal-clear HD. You can enter a new level of hi-fi audio with the DXP™ speaker system featuring incredibly rich 3D sound using 8 high-powered, low-profile transducers. It supports a 2560 x 1600 resolution so you can watch streaming video in a picture-in-picture window; resize the PIP window up to full HD resolution or move and adjust the color and transparency.

The XHD3000 has 6 simultaneous video inputs with support for computers, gaming consoles, digital cameras, cable boxes and more. You can view and edit digital memories at more than 4 megapixel resolution for the ultimate in detail and quality. With the universal remote control, adjust settings and switch video inputs from the comfort of your seat. Connect directly to the 30” display with the 6 integrated USB ports and reduce clutter with simple connections to mice, keyboards, printers, backup hard drives, USB drives and more.

SPECS
Native Resolution	2560x1600
Interface	Single and Dual Link DVI, HDMI, Component, Composite, S-Video, VGA, USB 2.0 (six ports), audio inputs for all video inputs
High-def Support	1600p, 1080i, 1080p, 720p, 480i, 480p

Cost: MSRP: ^$1599<sup>99

Link: http://www.gateway.com/retail/xhd3000.php</sup>