Razer promises sneakier sneak attacks with $130 Orbweaver Stealth Edition mechanical keypad

That guard you just stealth-killed in Dishonored never heard you coming. But everyone else did. Which is why you might want to consider a noise-dampened mechanical keyboard of some sort. There are a few of 'em out there, not least the Matias Quiet Pro we reviewed last year, and now Razer has a keypad option solely for gamers: a new Stealth Edition of the original Orbweaver that came out in January. The price is unchanged at $130, as are the main specs and adjustable design, but Razer promises "silent tactile feedback" that provides an "entirely new feel," alongside a slightly reduced actuation force of 45g (instead of 50g). Perhaps your long-suffering colleagues will throw in a decent headset to go with it.

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Sony responds to Red lawsuit with its own patent claims, seeks damages, injunction

If we've learned anything from the patent wars it's that lawsuits beget lawsuits, and Red and Sony's budding spat is no exception. In response to allegations that Sony's F5, F55 and F65 cameras violate a pair of Red camera patents, the Japanese manufacturer is filing a suit of its own. The company says that the Red One, Epic and Scarlet cameras infringe on seven Sony patents, and is seeking damages and a sales injunction on the offending products. Accessories like the REDMOTE are headed to the courtroom, too. Sony's demands aren't as specific as Red's, which originally sought to have its competitor's camera's destroyed -- but we'll sure things will heat up when litigation starts. Take a peek at Sony's brief statement after the break.

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Margaret Thatcher, 'Iron Lady' who led conservative resurgence in Britain, dies at 87

Margaret Thatcher, the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century and the only woman ever to have held the post, passed away after suffering a stroke. She was 87. NBC's Martin Fletcher looks back at the life and times of the "Iron Lady."

By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the ?Iron Lady? who led a conservative resurgence in her home country and forged a legendary partnership with President Ronald Reagan, died Monday following a stroke, her spokesman said. She was 87.

Thatcher led Britain from 1979 to 1990, the first and only woman to hold the job and longest-serving prime minister of the postwar era.?

?It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning,? the spokesman, Lord Tim Bell, said.

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A pioneer for her sex, Margaret Thatcher was prime minister of the United Kingdom for almost 12 years. Take a look back at her life and career.

Queen Elizabeth II was sad to hear the news and planned to send a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said. Prime Minister David Cameron, from his official Twitter account, said: ?It was with great sadness that l learned of Lady Thatcher?s death. We?ve lost a great leader, a great Prime Minister and a great Briton.?

Her successor as prime minister, John Major, said that Thatcher?s economic reforms and the British victory in the Falklands War ?elevated her above normal politics, and may not have been achieved under any other leader.?

A grocer?s daughter with a sharp tongue and a no-nonsense style, Thatcher was elected to Parliament at age 34 and climbed the Conservative Party ladder. She became its leader at age 50 and swept into 10 Downing St. four years later.

Thatcher transformed the British economy and took on its welfare state and powerful unions. Her government closed or sold state-owned industries, notably struggling steel plants and coal mines, to the private sector and radically cut taxes and public spending ? strong medicine, she conceded, but precisely what was needed to restart a stagnant nation.

?The problem with socialism,? she once said, ?is that eventually you run out of other people?s money.?

In 1979, the year she took office as prime minister, Thatcher took note of her place in history: ?Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.?

Ten years earlier, she had predicted that no woman in her time would hold the job of prime minister or foreign secretary.

In 1980, she addressed opponents waiting for her to make a political U-turn: ?You turn if you want to. The lady?s not for turning.?

Under her leadership, Britain fought and won a war with Argentina for the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean ? determined to preserve one of the last outposts of the British empire.

Thatcher?s military worries became focused on a speck of land halfway around the world in 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falklands, a British archipelago. After American mediation attempts failed, Thatcher decided to retake the islands, a feat accomplished in a few weeks. The war was a huge boost to Thatcher's popularity.

She survived an assassination attempt when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a Conservative Party conference in the British city of Brighton in 1984, killing five people and injuring a cabinet minister, among others. Thatcher gave the keynote speech hours later and said: ?This attack has failed. All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail.?

She had a well-known friendship with Reagan during his two terms as president in the 1980s. They shared an allegiance to free-market principles and opposition to the Soviet Union.

Thatcher recalled in her memoir, ?The Downing Street Years,? that she met Reagan in 1975, when she led the political opposition in Britain and Reagan was the ascendant governor of California. She said that she was won over by his ?warmth, charm and complete lack of affectation ? qualities which never altered in the years of leadership which lay ahead.?

When Reagan died, in 2004, Thatcher delivered a recorded eulogy and said: ?We have lost a great president, a great American and a great man. And I have lost a dear friend.?

Thatcher was forced out of office by her own party in 1990, unhappy with some of her policies. The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said Monday that Thatcher?s views had been vindicated ? on unions, on communism and on the movement toward political union on the European continent, of which she was extremely skeptical and urged British to stay out.

?The country is deeply in her debt,? Johnson said. ?Her memory will live long after the world has forgotten the grey suits of today?s politics.?

Thatcher?s daughter said in 2008 that she had been suffering from dementia for eight years, and had to be reminded that her husband was dead.

Margaret Hilda Roberts was born Oct. 13, 1925. At the hand of her grocer father, she later said, she learned both thrift and capitalist principles.

?Before I read a line from the great liberal economists,? she wrote, ?I knew from my father?s accounts that the free market was like a vast sensitive nervous system, responding to events and signals all over the world to meet the ever-changing needs of peoples in different countries, from different classes, of different religions, with a kind of benign indifference to their status.?

A spokesman said that Cameron would cut short a visit to Europe to return to Britain. Cameron?s office said that Thatcher would receive a ceremonial funeral with military honors at St. Paul?s Cathedral.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Are Your Goals Negatively Impacting Your Relationships ...

Home ? Goal-Free Living ? Are Your Goals Negatively Impacting Your Relationships?

April 5, 2013 ?

Today?s Friday Fun Fact?

Last week I briefly touched upon my perspective on goal setting. While they have been universally considered a magic bullet for success both personally and professionally, goals are not without their downsides.

Interestingly, the way in which you frame your goals can have a significant impact on your relationships.

This, according to the authors of a paper published in the Current Directions in Psychological Science that focused on whether people are open and straightforward when working with others.

The?study?noted that?people who establish goals to improve themselves (?self-improvement goals?), like getting better grades, increasing sales numbers or nailing a perfect ?10?, tend to be more cooperative in nature.

Whereas people who set goals that will enable them to perform better than others (?performance goals?) such as becoming Valedictorian or completing a task more quickly than a fellow co-worker, have more of a tendency to be ?deceitful and less likely to share information with coworkers.?The reason for this is fairly obvious ? when you want to outperform others, it doesn?t make sense to be honest about information.?

The study suggests that those with self-improvement goals?on the other hand tend to be quite open. ?If the ultimate goal is to improve yourself, one way to do it is to be very cooperative with other people?(however) they?re not really altruists, per se. They see the social exchange as a means toward the ends of self-improvement.?

Other research shows that those with self-improvement goals are also more open to hearing different perspectives, while those with?performance goals ?would rather just say, ?I?m just right and you are wrong.??

According to the authors, both types of goal setting can be effective. However, their findings suggest that helping individuals frame their goals to focus on self-improvement instead of performance may foster a better overall team environment.

From my perspective, performance goals can be extremely useful for creating a powerful team when the objective is to be better than external competition.

Regardless, a good balance of goals creates a high-performance environment that also fosters collaboration. The key, as I have discussed before, is to not hyper-focus on the goal to the point where you miss the bigger picture and bigger opportunities.

P.S. For more on my goal-setting perspective, read?Goal-Free Living.

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Moroccans among hackers who launched cyber attacks on Israel ...

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New York, April 7, 2013

According to the Doha-based Aljazeera channel, Moroccans were among the group of anonymous hackers who conducted a massive cyber attack against Israeli website this weekend.

In addition to Moroccans, the anonymous group includes hackers from Tunisia, Kosovo, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Albania, Turkey and Indonesia, where most attacks came from, according to Aljazeera.

A number of government?s website was brought early on Sunday, such as the Israel?s Bureau of Statistics, Defense and Education Ministries, Israel Securities Authority, the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption.

In a video posted on YouTube on Sunday, the group of Anonymous said that, ?elite cyber-squadrons from around the world have decided to unite in solidarity with the Palestinian people against Israel as one entity to disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace.?

?You have NOT stopped your endless human right violations. You have NOT stopped illegal settlements. You have NOT respected the ceasefire. You have shown that you do NOT respect international law,? it added.

But the Israeli government said it foiled the hackers? attempts to disrupt its websites, arguing that the hackers don?t have the skills to damage its online infrastructure.

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Obama plan hits seniors, low-income taxpayers

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama's proposal to change the way the government measures inflation could lead to fewer people qualifying for college grants and anti-poverty programs, reduced benefits for seniors and veterans, and higher taxes for low-income families.

If adopted across the government, the new inflation measure would have far-reaching effects because so many programs are adjusted each year based on year-to-year changes in consumer prices.

Social Security recipients would get smaller benefit increases each year. The federal poverty level would rise by smaller amounts, meaning more people would technically rise out of poverty with only small increases in income.

Taxes would go up because of smaller adjustments to income tax brackets, the standard deduction and the personal exemption amount.

In all, the change would reduce the federal budget deficit by a total of $340 billion over the next decade, according to congressional estimates. However, the White House has said it wants the adjustments to include protections for "vulnerable" recipients, so the savings could be less.

Obama is proposing the new measure of inflation as part of his 2014 budget plan, which is scheduled for release on Wednesday. Obama has already agreed to adopt it twice as part of negotiations with congressional Republicans over reducing government borrowing. Neither of those talks produced an agreement.

Called the Chained Consumer Price Index, the new measure would show a lower level of inflation than the more widely used Consumer Price Index.

The chained CPI assumes that as prices rise, consumers turn to lower-cost alternatives, reducing the amount of inflation they experience. For example, if the price of beef increases while the price of pork does not, people will buy more pork rather than pay the higher beef prices.

The chained CPI is unpopular among many Democrats in Congress and advocates for seniors who complain that it would disproportionately hit low- and middle-income families.

"I am terribly disappointed and will do everything in my power to block President Obama's proposal to cut benefits for Social Security recipients," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats. "I also am especially concerned about the impact this change would have on disabled veterans and their survivors."

AARP and other groups have been fighting for years against changing the way inflation is calculated. They argue that seniors don't have the same ability as younger people to buy alternative products, especially health care.

But the new inflation measure is popular among budget hawks in part because it cuts benefits and increases taxes gradually, in ways that might not be readily apparent to most Americans. The savings, however, become substantial over time.

Among the spending cuts over the next decade:

? Social Security: $127 billion.

? Federal retirement programs for military and civilian workers and Supplemental Security Income: $38 billion.

? Medicare and Medicaid: $29 billion.

On average, annual increases in Social Security payments, government pensions and veterans' benefits would be about 0.3 percentage points smaller each year, according to the chief actuary for the Social Security Administration.

The COLA for 2013 was 1.7 percent or about $21 a month for the average Social Security retiree. If the new measure of inflation were in effect, the COLA would have been about 1.4 percent, or a little more than $17 a month. That's $4 less than the current system or about $48 less during the course of a year.

Once the change is fully phased in, Social Security benefits for a typical middle-income 65-year-old would be about $136 less a year, according to an analysis of Social Security data. At age 75, annual benefits under the new index would be $560 less. At 85, the cut would be $984 a year.

The tax increases would start off small, too, but would add up to $142 billion over the next decade, according the Joint Committee on Taxation, the official scorekeeper for Congress.

After 10 years, taxpayers making between $10,000 and $20,000 would see a 14.5 percent increase in their federal taxes with a chained CPI, according to a 2011 analysis. Those making between $30,000 and $40,000 would see a 1.4 percent increase while taxpayers making more than $1 million would get a tax increase of 0.1 percent.

Low-income taxpayers would see the biggest increase because much of their income is not currently subject to the federal income tax. Smaller annual adjustments to the tax brackets would push more of their income into the 10 percent tax bracket.

The wealthiest taxpayers wouldn't feel it as much because most of their income is already taxed at the top rate.

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Take 21 ? Seeking a communications intern

The Seattle Channel is seeking an intern to help coordinate our online and on-the-ground marketing and outreach efforts. We?re an Emmy-award winning TV station, which was voted best municipal TV station in the nation in 2012. We present programs on cable channel 21 and on the web to help residents connect with their city.

The paid, part-time internship (10 hours per week) is open to undergraduate college?students studying marketing, communications, public relations, journalism, English or a closely related field.? The six-month internship will begin in June and run through mid-December.

Strong written and verbal communications skills are required and experience with e-mail marketing, social media and blogging is a plus, along with an interest and knowledge of local public affairs, arts and the Seattle community.

The intern will gain practical marketing and communications skills and a broader understanding of the public sector and the inner workings of municipal government as well as exposure to TV production.

Application deadline is 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 23.?Go here?to learn more and apply.

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