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1 March 2011

Intel has completed its $7.68 billion acquisition of McAfee.

The completion of the deal, announced yesterday, follows approvals by the various boards of directors and stockholders, as well as reviews by the Federal Trade Commission, the European Commission, and other regulatory groups.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel, McAfee will become part of the company's Software and Services Group, run by senior vice president Renee James. McAfee president Dave DeWalt will report directly to James.

McAfee will continue to offer its own branded line of security products and maintain its own customers. The two companies said they're prepping the "first fruits" of their partnership to hit the market later this year.

The need for greater security across a greater array of devices was the driving force behind Intel's bid to pick up McAfee.
Pointing to the growing number of connected devices, from PCs to mobile phones to TVs to medical devices, the two companies have said that today's approach to security isn't enough. And with the mounting threat of cyberattacks, a new security framework that combines hardware, software, and services is needed.

Security itself has become a "third pillar of computing," according to the companies, on par with energy-efficient performance and connectivity as essential elements. Among other avenues, Intel is looking to bring security to silicon by integrating it at the hardware level before the operating system even comes into play. This core approach to security applies to both embedded products and mobile devices, the companies said.

"Security challenges put the future potential of computing at risk," James said in a statement. "The acquisition of McAfee adds not only world-leading security products and technologies to Intel's computing portfolio, but also brings incredibly talented people focused on delivering products and services that help make connecting to the mobile Internet safer and more secure."

Blogging about the completed acquisition yesterday, DeWalt said that Intel and McAfee will present a webinar in May to discuss how the two will partner to concentrate on security. McAfee will also have more to say at its Focus 2011 security conference in October.

Lance Whitney

Obama chose a gay guy to do the parties at the White House.

Was there any other sensible choice?!

But in this case, Breyer said, it would be wrong to "punish Westboro for seeking to communicate its views on matters of public concern."

There is no total right to say whatever you like.

You can not scream fire in a crowded theater no matter how much you want to.  Nor can you incite others to violence.  Nor can you make sexual or racial comments in the work place.

Free speech is not absolute, as countless Supreme Court cases prove, so why do they claim it is when dealing with homophobic hate speech?!

I like ID Pleasure.

It sounds like he went extremely over the top with the lube.  Just get him to use {from the what you said} a lot less of it.  Once the pair of you are in a rhythm and know each other's likes/dislikes, it will get a lot better.

Scented/flavored lubes tend to be sickly sweet smelling and gross tasting.

Scotland has deep fried candy bars, pizza and pretty much anything else you can think of.

Well, the starting premise is that we aren't good enough to have marriage, then it goes on that if we got marriage, we'd pollute it so bad that it would totally destroy it for the heteros.

It's basically the same premise as segregation in the southern US.

Regardless of what the UK government claims, hetero marriage and civil partnerships are not equal in all but name.  I've pointed out a few things in the forums; ie pensions and whatnot.

Civil unions {and the UK's civil partnership} are so 2nd class citizen.

The testimony led lawyer Valentine to ask, "When does a fish become a whale?"

When she's a bull dyke.  >:D

Section 2 that allows statesto discriminate against gays in marriage will still be defended, as part of "state's rights".  However, no one ever talks about how DOMA {specifically Section 2} killed the full faith and credit clause of the constitution all because of hate mongers.

Intelligence Squared does a series of debates every year on various topics and here is the one on "Is the catholic church a force for good?" from 2009.

This is the entire debate with the voting results, broken into 5 parts of about 9.5 minutes.  I'm not sure why, but some times you need to select the next part rather than it automatically starting on it's own.

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It should be noted that, while they do give a brief bit of info on Anne Widdecombe, they leave out that she is a hard core catholic convert and she often slags off the church for being too liberal.  She also claims to be a virgin for god, but it probably has more to do with how ugly she is rather than her religious beliefs.

@ fancydude

Well, I think we're just on opposite poles and aren't getting anywhere since you ignoring stuff is exponentially increasing just like your philosophical cohort Raphjd so I see no point in taking this further.

If we only said bad things about muslims,you'd be in the center of this thread and loving it.  However, since we also included christianity, you aren't happy at all.

If you were able to switch into unbias mode, you'd see that you are slagging off everything to justify the abuses by your religion.

And before you bitch about the cost of a helicopter, bitch about how much wealth your church has accumulated over the last 2,000 years that could help a lot of people.  And while you are at it, think how they got a lot of that wealth.

Maybe so, but does your country keep telling you how much equality you have and therefore should worship the government?

BTW, we're meeting with our MP today at 4:30pm to discuss the anti gay inequality that remains in UK laws.  Her name is Anne Begg and she was just made a Dame for championing the rights of the disabled.

The UK government loves to brag about how "equal" it's laws are.

Excluding the anti penis rules in the UK state pension system {and in countless other areas of law}, there are some homophobic rules that people should be aware of.

The rules regarding state pensions, such as top ups, spouse/partner credits, etc do not apply to gay MALE couples until April 2015.  Married women have always had these rights, and married men and lesbian couples got these rights last year {May 2010}.

Married women and lesbian couples get 100% of their spouse/partner's state pension when the spouse/partner dies.  HOWEVER, married men and gay men couples only get 50% of their spouse/partner's state pension upon death.

Women can get state pension credits by staying home and being a house wife, with or without kids.  This is not possible for men, so make sure your man makes enough to provide for you in your old age if you wnat to stay home and take care of the house.

While the law says that work and private {ISAs} pensions must go to the surviving spouse upon death, they are specifically exempted from this requirement for civil partnerships.  The law says that they may if they wish give spouse type survivor benefits to civil partnerships.  According to a recent study, less than 2% of UK businesses give pension survivor benefits to civil partnerships.

So when you are planning your retirement, keep these issues in mind.

Again, the UK government said it has no interest in revisiting gay equality as it deems LGBTs has already being equal under the law.

NOTE: While the above doesn't take into consideration any kids in the relationships, the rules are still very much the same as above when kids are included.

Where would you like to live- the USA (or most of Europe?) or Iraq?  Esp. as a Gay male?

Let's be fair about this and ask the question in a proper way.

As a gay man where would you rather live, Uganda (majority catholic) or Iraq (majority muslim)?

OR

As a gay man where would you rather live, Jamaica (mainly christian) or Turkey (mainly muslim)?

If you look, Turkey is very similar to the US in it's treatment of gays in virtually all aspects of life.

Spin - I don't think I ever said I was unbiased towards Christianity - being raised that way, and more or less still practicing (as in the love your neighbor stuff ; not the:  I've committed mortal sin if I miss Mass here and there - or Gay sex!) - I don't know if that is even possible.  I try to be objective about other religions.  I've already said and demonstrated in the previous exchanges that Christianity isn't without its flaws. If I argued that as a practical matter, it is more forgiving and more compatible with democracy than often unyielding theocracies -  for that I will not apologize.

Your religion is just as unyielding as any other.  However, you admit you reject the parts of your religion you don't like, while defending your religion as being more yielding.  You made your religion more yielding by the very fact that you cherry picked the bits you like, rather than staying faithful to your faith.

I can prove that any religion is the best on earth, once I reject the bits I don't like.

Face it, your holy text say that you must be executed and your church says you are going to burn in hell for eternity.  You have made a mockery of the whole confession thing that as a catholic is part of the core of your religion by not being honest about your sins and still being actively gay.

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Here's a US christian ministry that says executing gays is moral.  Of course they are just saying what the bible {as currently written} says.

I just saw on the news that later today, a UK court will rule on whether a mentally disabled woman should be sterilized after she gives birth in a couple of weeks.   There is no attempt to ban her from having sex.

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This is more proof that the UK is still very homophobic.

EDIT:  The case has been adjourned until after she has the baby in May.

Let's not forget that it was the christians that committed genocide against the muslims in Bosnia.

I think anyone reading this with a neutral eye can see that I have not exempted Christianity from scrutiny.  I've invited you to compare very specific situations with pointed questions and you've ignored most of them.  I'm well aware that Christianity isn't just flowers and puppies.

YES, you have exempted christianity from scrutiny.  You say that all/vast majority of muslims do evil things only because of their religion, then say that christians do evil things even though they happen to be christians.

You want to control the discusion so it suits your wants/needs.  That's why you got upset because I refused to maintain your dictated topics.

I've specifically said lay the blame where it should be.  I acknowledged the US had their own terrorists before you mentioned it. I know capitalism has some terrible excesses, I cited the books I"ve read thinking that would be enough, but apparently not.  So here's an example:  I know that the USA meddles in the affairs of other countries and our corporations do some terrible things like sell poor countries seeds that don't reproduce so they have to buy again from these corporations.  But none of that is religiously motivated, it is just plain human greed.  I've even agreed with you about the diminishing role of religion and I get accused of anger where there is none.

YES, you refuse to admit that GWB, Gods Army, Christian Identity and countless others have done evil things because of their religion.  How about the IRA in the UK?!  I wouldn't doubt if there are still white preachers still teaching that the mark of cain is talking about black people.

Capitalism can't use religion, however the people that are part of the capitalist system can and do use religion to justify their actions.

Christians, including the mormons, are funding hate against people they don't like, especially gays.

It is clear that in Christian societies people have much more freedom, especially women.  This alone cannot be highlighted enough.  The governments do not act on behalf of a Church or specifically for religious leaders.  That is probably why the founders of the USA tried to separate Church & state.  Most people would prefer to live in a western style democracy.  You asked me to say which is better for Gays, Christianity or Islam?  Well, if I remember correctly, a Muslim theocracy executed two young men by hanging last year for homosexual relations.  Name a primarily Christian country where the government did the same.

Ever hear of the Southern Baptists?!  They believe women should be bare foot, pregnant and in the kitchen, while being totally subservient to the men in her family.  Sound a lot like the muslims you are complaining about.

Let's talk about gays.  People, not just gays, are still being murdered simply because some asshole thinks they might be gay.  Then when they go to trial, they get to use the "gay panic" defense {aka "Guardsman" or "Portsmouth" defence in the UK} and the jury either totally lets them off, despite there being no evidence to justify the "gay panic" defense or they get a light slap on the wrist. About 4 years ago, there was a case in Michigan where a guy murdered a gay man and used the "gay panic" defense.  After the trial, and double jeopardy was applied, a couple of the jurors came forward and admitted that they let the guy off even though they didn't believe him, simply because the victim was gay.  They both said because of their christian beliefs, they could never convict a person that killed a homosexual because they were doing what god wanted.

If we talk about black centric nations that wear their religion on their sleeves, it's much, much worse for gays.  You seriously need to investigate christian black centric countries to truly understand how bad they are for gays.  They use the bible to justify their evil treatment of gays.  Jamaica is well known as being the world's most homphobic nation.  Last year, a man paid some thugs to beat his ASSUMED gay son to death while he went to the local church and prayed the god wouldn't hate him for producing a gay son.  The police did nothing about the murder, in fact, they condoned what the father did.

As I previously said, both the bible and the koran demand that gays be executed.  Oddly, most scholars {believers and non believers} say the current bible is full of mistranslation, the vast majority of christians refuse to accept this and demand that everyone still hate gays.

No matter where you live, you can not turn on a TV without hearing several preachers spewing hate against gays, telling everyone how god hates us and that we must be destroyed.  According to your own church doctrine, you are going to burn in hell for eternity.

I doubt if we'll discuss anything in the future so I could be nasty here or pious and wish you peace and I can't really do either one.  It is just kind of sad and unfortunate that I've typed so much for you to ignore or twist and then try to lay all the blame at my feet.

If I "ignored" something, it was because you wouldn't properly respond to what I said, so I was trying to keep you on track.

You can not slag off muslims and expect your religion to be exempt from the same scrutiny, otherwise you are being hypocritical.

You have blinders on that will not let you see that christianity isn't all flowers and puppies.  That is why no one can talk to you about topics like this.