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Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content 504

Hugh Pickens writes Weston Kosova writes in Newsweek that Rupert Murdoch gave an impassioned speech to media executives in Beijing decrying that search engines — in particular Google — are stealing from him, because Google links to his stories but doesn't pay News Corp. to do so. 'The aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content,' Murdoch says. 'But if we do not take advantage of the current movement toward paid content, it will be the content creators — the people in this hall — who will pay the ultimate price and the content kleptomaniacs who triumph.' But if Murdoch really thinks Google is stealing from him, and if he really wants Google to stop driving all those readers to his Web sites at no charge, he can simply stop Google from linking to their news stories by going to his Web site's robot.txt file and adding 'Disallow.'"

Comment Re:The Answer.... (Score 1) 444

The NSA and NRO have always been military organizations headed by a serving officer, usually of the Navy or the Air Force. Most of the actual intelligence collection and analysis is done by uniformed specialists. They might be sailors on ships or in planes (remember the EP-3 incident?), soldiers in tactical vehicles or at strategic sites, or airmen aloft. (Indeed, all services have specialized intelligence-collection aircraft). The US is no different in this than other nations. Given the volume of material you're looking at, the tough day-to-day work of intelligence -- at least the technical, vice human, intelligence -- gathering and processing, is and always will be done by enlisted service members under the command of uniformed officers. That's just the way it is. Any military service that wasn't thinking about cyberwarfare now, would be like a service in 1938 that thought airplanes were a passing fad. So... even if you are right and cyberwarfare "should" be the province of intelligence agencies, it gets delegated back onto uniformed shoulders.

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