As many of you may have heard over the course of the past month, Twitter was banned in Turkey. The reason for this ban was because a few anonymous Twitter accounts had been leaking audio recordings of top Turkish officials talking about corruption and other sensitive issues. Since the lifting of the ban on Twitter in Turkey, the government has been working directly with Twitter to resolve the issue of these undesired tweets. As it seems right now, there are currently two solutions in the works that will allow Twitter to operate in harmony with the current  government.

Those two measures include giving the Turkish government the ability to ban or filter certain tweets from ever appearing via a filtering system that seeks out ‘malicious content‘. In addition to the malicious content filtering and the likely effective banning of certain phrases on Twitter, the company has agreed to remove at least two accounts that have been know to disseminate anti-government materials and partially responsible for the audio leaks that originally kicked off these events to begin with.

Considering how important social media has become in helping organize certain political movements and share the experiences of others aross the world, it is really disheartening to see Twitter bend over backwards in order to satisfy a government that seeks to silence its people. A government that was once considered to be a democracy, is now seeking to ban people’s ability to express themselves over Twitter. This is a horrible step back for Twitter, as they are now actively participating in state sponsored censorship and have effectively given the government everything that they want short of shutting down Twitter. In fact, it may be more beneficial for the Turkish Government to suppress tweets rather than trying to block twitter Altogether.

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I won’t go into fashion decisions, as I am not a big fan of acrylic cases, but I wish my friend all the best when it comes to cleaning up.

When it comes to the CPU itself, Intel Core i7 965 (codename: Bloomfield) works at 1.6 GHz in SpeedStep mode, and works at 3.4 GHz by default. E.g. it works in ASUS motherboard at 3.4 GHz by default, since the board came with Turbo mode on.

Intel Core i7 965 works at 1.2 Volts, the board was feeding the CPU with 1.208V, bus speed was supposed to be 133 MHz, the board was giving out 135.9 MHz (which means QPI is clocked at 3.23 GHz instead of 3.2 GHz), but if you want, you can turn the Turbo mode off. Since Core i7 Extreme is made for overclocking anyways, expect that this system will undergo a nice air cooling upgrade and then target 4 GHz on air.

One thing is certain: somebody is really, really lucky

You are free to use images from the gallery, just please link to this post. If there are interested, resolution is 2048×1536, since all pics were taken with a Sony Ericsson phone. And yes, my Nokia N93i would make way better ones

P.S. If you wonder why Intel chose the name 965 for its Core i7 series, reason is very simple: company wanted to revisit its failed NetBust marchitecture and relive the glory days. Pentium EE 965 was a 150W consuming (that was advertised, reality was a bit different… for the worse) monster that failed to beat AMD processors that worked at much less clocks… now, Intel is challenging AMD with the new 965.

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