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Submission + - Murdoch complains about BBC license fee model (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28, 2009 @04:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: News Corporation's James Murdoch has said that a "dominant" BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK. "The expansion of state-sponsored journalism is a threat to the plurality and independence of news provision," Mr Murdoch said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8227915.stm

Submission + - UK Climate Change Computer Named Top Polluter (datacenterknowledge.com) 2

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1sockchuck

on Friday August 28, 2009 @08:58AM

1sockchuck writes: "In a vivid example of the "headline risk" posed by IT energy usage, the UK Meteorological Office has been cited as one of the country's worst polluters — primarily because of its use of a powerful IBM supercomputer used to predict climate change. Met Office spokesmen have sought to argue the merits of the science conducted by the supercomputer (numbers 73 and 74 in the Top 500 list), but media have seized on the seeming disconnect between the agency's goals and the energy overhead of its supercomputing operations. The story has been widely featured by the BBC, The Guardian, Telegraph, Daily Mail and The Sun."

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