Comment True aficionados (Score 1) 316
Personally, I think the poll question is too inspecific. True aficionados will get different answers depending on whether they're quantifying by count, capacity, weight, or volume.
Classified US Intel Budget Revealed Via Powerpoint 364
Atario writes "In a holdover from the Cold War when the number really did matter to national security, the size of the US national intelligence budget remains one of the government's most closely guarded secrets. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the highest intelligence agency in the country that oversees all federal intelligence agencies, appears to have inadvertently released the keys to that number in an unclassified PowerPoint presentation now posted on the website of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). By reverse engineering the numbers in an underlying data element embedded in the presentation, it seems that the total budget of the 16 US intelligence agencies in fiscal year 2005 was $60 billion, almost 25% higher than previously believed."
Comment Wait, what? (Score 1) 228
I've used a number of cell phones near many different sets of speakers over the years and have never encountered this problem.
What model phone/speakers do you use? I'll have to remember to avoid them.
What model phone/speakers do you use? I'll have to remember to avoid them.
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