SAN ANTONIO — With the old Manu Ginobili back, the San Antonio Spurs looked like champs again.
One more victory and their Big Three, not Miami’s, will be the one that rules the NBA.
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I’m old enough to remember a simpler time in the office, when talking — whether in person or on the phone — was the main way to communicate. I once had a job where I filled out those pink “While You Were Out” slips for employees who had stepped away from their desks.
Talk about ‘Beyond Right & Left’ — when Franken-Rove clash with Scahill-Beck over the NSA program, knee-jerkers are confused. So Huffington & Matalin debate domestic snooping not by Hoover against protestors in the ’60s but by Obama after 9/11 and Boston. Is Snowden an Ellsberg or Manning?
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We have almost reached a tipping point where majorities of Americans who want to government to be on their side look in vain for a government that actually serves them. Meanwhile, the national security state is more overweening than ever. Instead of having a government that delivers practical help while restraining its own excesses, we have one that is doing far too little to keep us economically secure and far too much in the name of keeping us safe. No wonder our politics is a muddled mess.
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When news broke last week that Verizon was handing over information about all of its calls to the National Security Administration, things were bad enough. In the week since then, however, things have only gotten worse for our personal security.
A program called PRISM was outed by the Washington Post. According to the top-secret document obtained by the Washington Post, the NSA and FBI have been “tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets.” How big is PRISM, you ask? Massive. The document states that the collection comes “directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.”
Basically, anything you’ve ever shared with anyone about anything on the internet has (maybe) already been seen by the government.
Here comes a new DLP projector from BenQ, the MW820ST. Designed for classrooms, this 3D-ready projector provides 1280 x 800 WXGA resolution, 3000 ANSI lumens brightness, 13000:1 contrast ratio and up to 10,000 hours of lamp life (SmartEco Mode). It also comes with a built-in 10W mono speaker and a number of connectivity ports including 2x D-Sub, Composite, S-Video, HDMI, 2x Stereo Mini Jack and RCA Audio. The MW820ST is available now for $1,299. [BenQ]
The secret has been revealed – in part – Jay-Z has paired up with Samsung to promote a solo album “Magna Carta Holy Grail” that’ll be sent out “for free” to the first 1 million users of a unique app that’ll only work on select Samsung devices. This release is part of a multi-million-dollar deal
Gigabyte hits back with their new graphics card, the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3X OC. Powered by a 28nm GPU, the card features a 256-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1137MHz (Boost Clock 1189MHz) and a 4GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 7010MHz. The card also employs the WindForce 3X cooling solution and has dual-link DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3X OC should retail for $499.99. [Gigabyte]
Dospara has dropped a new gaming PC called the Galleria XG-A ‘Final Fantasy XIV Online’. This ‘Final Fantasy XIV Online’ certified gaming PC is equipped with a 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-4770 processor, an Intel Z87 Express Chipset, a GeForce GTX 780 3GB graphics card, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 2TB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 750W 80PLUS certified power supply and runs on Windows 8 64-bit OS. Price itself is set at 189,980 Yen (about $2,008). [Product Page]
iiyama has also released their newest 19-inch LCD monitor, the ProLite E1980SD-2. Adopting a TN panel, this 19-inch LED-backlight monitor supports a native resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels and provides 1000:1 contrast ratio, 250 cd/m2 brightness, 5ms response time and 160/170 degree viewing angles. The monitor also has two built-in 1W stereo speakers and features D-Sub and DVI-D connectors. The ProLite E1980SD-2 is available now for 16,800 Yen (about $177) in black and white color options. [Product Page]
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