This is a very odd juxtaposition of concepts. It could be said that the Jewish people should have know better than to tweak the nose of a Gestapo agent and thus they are to blame for their own deaths because they opposed the policies in Nazi Germany. The public cleansing of conscience serves as a warning to others that established power will continue to act as they have before and others should come in line or they will get the same.
This type of post event manipulation of public opinion is a hallmark of good propaganda. You start with getting them dirty with exaggerated claims that disassociate the person from the people who might sympathize, then smear them until they are forgotten.
It looks very much like the actions of a wolf pack leader that sees a threat to their position. First cut the offending subordinate out of the pack. Then proceed to punish them until they submit or die. Then strut and publicize dominance.
A more recent example comes to mind and I can't ever know the real facts if everybody is just cherry picking to promote their own interests. I model the process and wonder why every event follows the same script?

Shots fired at the Capitol, Woman shot policeman, Woman shot at police, Woman is shot, Woman has baby with, Woman didn't shoot at police, Woman was crazy, Woman believed that government was spying on her "which is absurd" so don't think that way. Baby is safe in the arms of the people who killed their mother. NSA records of the spying on her reveal many incidents of paranoia about being spied on. Obviously deranged. Praise to the soldiers in full battle gear with machine guns that faced such a dangerous situation with such courage.

To me it looks like a directed graph that is designed to start at various points and ends where it is driven.

There is quite a difference between a nation joined in willing common pursuit and a nation where fear of consequence and psychological manipulation is the driving force. These kinds of situations never end well for anybody.

Foolish person does stupid inconsiderate thing. Rocks are dangerous too. By the time that object is 15 it should know better.
I have a 20 meter tall walnut tree and that scares me too as that is high enough for a walnut to reach near terminal velocity (v=sqrt(2ad). I think that squirrels should be imprisoned because they chew them off and them fumble them with out any consideration that I have to get the lawn mowed.
If stupid was an enforceable crime then congress would have to hold session in the prison laundry. Please don't beg them to make possession of heavy objects a felony. Officer : "Judge we need a warrant and we have proof the perp has at least a 3 pound baby." Judge: "Be careful when you go in that they don't drop it on you, you are authorized to use lethal force." Michael Jackson . Too soon?

AC with an EE?

That is one of my questions also. In microbiology this type of effect is everywhere. The nature of polar and non-polar molecules is the key to the cell bi-layer and is self assembling in the fact that polar loves polar. The natural process of body cooling incorporates hydrophobic elements in the cooling ducts. I don't see how this is big news. I would like to see some more information on Dr Sadoway's work at MIT on the liquid metal battery. If he is correct it would help more than this by many orders of magnitude.

You make some valid points. The problem is not in motive, but in the implementation. This is a subject that winds its way through all science and in signal processing it is SNR ( signal to noise ratio ). The ability to assign identity or origin to a signal is only one aspect of dealing with chaos.
Strict regulation of information assumes that the mod is a perfect gatekeeper.
The black swan is something that I often look for in all the tripe. My interests vary from the norm and so any communication channel centered about an accepted norm would never contain all the information that I seek. In Asimov's book The Foundation it is the mutant Mule that represents that black swan event. It is my position that raw data is better for my purposes and though it may be convenient to have others sift through the garbage it does sometimes throw out things that might interest only me.

X stir men 8 (c)

It would be a de novo experiment as the first was not independent. It seems much like the Microsoft "Scroogle" ads. It made me think they must be desperate to employ such methods. "Coke says Pepsi sucks, Coke confirms it" It was not intended to be a real serious poke at them as I really like their magazine and they do have good articles in my opinion. It sounds like marketing department logic at work here.

Science Magazine did a bad experiment about submitting a spoof scientific report so that you would click on them! How can you trust a science magazine that uses bad scientific methods to make a point. Real scientists create experiments that can be reproduced and independently verified and they did not. Q.E.D.

113.6 US liquid gallons to be more precise and so you are going to have some overflow in those drums, it never ends. But I could be wrong as you may have been referring to imperial gallons.
It is like a Cat in The Hat adventure. litre/liter . The summary seems to have been done by somebody who wanted to please everybody as they use both.
I agree with what I thought you implied: How is this important compared to all the other stuff that happened?
In other news, "Student reports falling asleep in park and his skin was darkened by radiation from an uncontrolled fusion reaction" They call it "The Sun", but we know that it is just a cover up for a leak in the galactic energy corporations black hole generators.

AC:

That -is- confusing, I can't use my mod points to mod myself down after I have posted :)
Boy, if I had ads on the site I woud post anoymously and second that to push traffic, but alas it is flash free, no ads, no blinking gifs, no cookies, no javascript and not even one pony.

I agree with that.
It seems odd that they would want to expend more energy to convert to a different energy base.
I have been working on this for decades and have finally developed a system that deals with the problem. I recently put up a web site that is intended to have all the specifications of the system, how to fabricate, as well as the experimental results that can be independently verified like real science. I am working with a local university as well as a respected expert in nuclear energy power generation.
A recent change in design will allow the direct conversion of natural gas, or basically any type of fuel directly to electrical energy in real time with very high efficiency. It would also work for solar or geothermal, but solar it is not -really- portable, so any normal application must depend on chemical energy.
The site.
Our technology is not going to be patented or restricted in any way. The site is being continually updated as I generate the documentation and so it is a WIP. It is cheap to implement and we hope to deliver test units soon. Of course nothing is certain until it is pudding and can be tasted and that is what we are doing with the university. We will have published papers with all the documentation from university lab experiments available soon. This will also allow interested people to visit and see the technology first hand.

Looks like everybody is playing games to boost scores or readers. I wonder if that works for me , out damn spot.

This kind of stuff is done by everybody. I was forced to go to COMDEX once and marketing wanted something to draw people at the show and so somebody :) created a " matching tweak" because they looked in the competitors code and saw a cheat. I have seen some really good bench mark cheats and what I saw most at COMDEX was engineers upset because somebody else's cheat was so flagrant and over the top that it reflected poorly on the credibility of their cheating.
YMMV pretty much says it.

Something funny is right, but the people who are doing it are the only one who know the plan. I was wondering about what the heck is going on in web hosting and was going to post an article about that. I just got a new host for $10 a year and I see GoDaddy is doing a $1.99 special and is this companies consolidating by running others into the ground? There is a game of monopoly going on and I just hope I don't land on Boardwalk.
As far as the build out of bandwidth , there is much more going on there than meets the eye as it serves two purposes and one is bad and the other one is not good.

from TFS

You can get rice that cooks itself and you too! In soviet America , rice cooks you!

Couldn't have said it better. That was an interesting novella.

The vibration trick seems a bit of a stretch to be useful, but it does fall into a class of things like you said. There are so many holes in the technology created by accident or on purpose that it is a wonder that anything is secure. I was at a COMDEX once a long time ago and was chatting with an engineer ( a friend ) that worked for a modem company about my companies dial up customer service sytem and complaining that it hung up on customers some times. He asked me for my dial up number and I provided it. I assumed he was going to see if it hung up on him. He proceeded to enter a long string of characters and took control of our modem, went into configuration and changed a parameter that set a hang up delay on inactivity. It fixed the problem, but that was creepy. Obviously that was long ago before the internet, but I have never trusted any system since then unless it was open source and open hardware, and even then I am not sure because I have seen spooks at the chip fab and I am sure they weren't there to get coffee.
I watched some videos from DEFCON and became even more certain that we live in a silicon dioxide house and it is subject to fracture on impact, so it would be advisable to avoid conflict with projectiles.