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Comment Re:And this is what will finish them off. (Score 2, Insightful) 425

(perhaps even creating their own)

They already did create their own news syndication operation. It's the AP. "The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staffers." from Wikipedia

Comment Re:Needs a "sarcasm" tag? (Score 1) 874

P.S. Her funniest essay is "I Like Babies". It's not what you expect... or, if it is, you are very strange.

Apparently I'm very strange, as I (correctly) expected it to be about eating babies after reading your intro to it. It's sort of the obvious 'unexpected' thing to like about babies. Now if it were about how she liked to use babies for painting, that'd be less expected...

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Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts 198

An anonymous reader writes "Almost ten years after the an internal report, and a year after a Baltimore sun story warned that the electrical system at the fort Meade NSA HQ couldn't keep up with the growing electricity demand ... the problem has got worse. The 'NSA has had to resort to partial, rolling brownouts at its computer farms and scheduled power outages and some offices are experiencing significant power disruptions'. NSA director Alexander testified to congress about this problem. It is suggested he wanted to add more than $800 million to the 07 budget. A recent public powerpoint presentation suggested 70% of of all intelligence spending goes to contractors. It also included a graph, without numbers, of this spending. It suggests that US intelligence spending is around $60 billion. An internal survey that showed NSA employees have problems trusting each other."

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