The military continues to do these things to this day. This is why we have intelligence centers for each branch of hte military.

supporting your argument, the CIA encouraged belief in UFO sitings to use as cover for SR-71/A-12 and U-2 flights. Mind you, and I need to say this on/., but this has nothing to do with weather or not there really are UFOs; it's just that if more people believe in then fewer will think that a jet they may see from extreme range/altitude is really a jet.

yeah much worse than all of those reinactors, right?

of course not, who would be shooting at dead people?
again, the war's over. let it go man!

dude, the war ended 144 years ago. let it go. seriously.

technically that same army not only pointed guns, but actually invaded my town, NYC, to put down draft riots. This was dramatized in the movie Gangs of New York; the Navy didn't fire on the City in reality as happened in the movie, but the Army sure did shoot up the town with troops and artillery; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Draft_Riots.

just a comment on your sig...

I love the reference to Sneakers. Great old tech flick.

You're wrong, at least partially. The ethanol does not displace extra electricity production, but could displace extra oil production. Think of it this way. Right now there are A LOT of coal plants. They aren't going anywhere any time soon. Hooking them up to this to make lots of ethanol would enable us to displace a lot of oil that is currently being burned in cars. So, this CO2 does get "burned" twice, but it does save the CO2 from the gallons of gasoline that are not being burned, but would have been if we hadn't done this.

that was funny, thanks for the laugh... had to say something

I have no problem with the caps. Your argument is valid. The problem that I have, and I think most folks have is not the concept of the cap, but the costs per GB. Users in other countries are getting faster rates for fewer dollars. Users in the US are faced with few, usually 1, choice for HS connections. We have only 1 choice, and we believe they are charging us too much for it.

I feel the costs offered by TWC are off by a factor of 5-10; more or less. If they brought either down the cost, or upped the caps by that factor, then most folks wouldn't balk. I'd be willing to pay $75/month for their highest quoted DL rate capped at 500GB-1TB of data.

Overall, too, most folks, myself included, feel that we are heavily overpaying for cable TV service, and that is spilling in to this argument. Why are the rates for TV going up so much faster than inflation when I am not getting more channels, or better quality? (For the record, I already pay for the DTV/HDTV package, and still my rates rise between 10-20% a year for TWC in NYC.)

Someone should have told Hannibal!

I remember my college professors doing this from the Quad during the open houses every year while I was in college. I went to Syracuse University from 94-98, and got a BS in Electrical Engineering. This is cool, don't get me wrong, but far from news; or maybe I'm just a geek. Hmm, well this is /., and I am trying to prove how uncool these guys are...