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Comment Big Fat Nothing Burger (Score 4, Insightful) 390

This is probably not a big deal, IMHO. Sure, some groups will be stymied by the lost of tax breaks and grants. But let's face it; solar and wind are going to become cheaper than fossil fuels in the long term anyway (hell, it's a dead heat right this minute) and we won't need government funding for renewables to propagate. In fact, I would rather the feds just get out of the way.

Comment Re:or the Captain Midnight hack (Score 1) 168

Two things:

Max Headroom was never caught. This was a nearly miraculous feat, because he had to get his transmitter within the 5-10 degree beam pattern of the receiver (probably not an easy trick in Chicago), *and* know what frequency to use, *and* have more power *and* the right modulation scheme. I'm guessing he was an insider. There was still a little bit of interference from the real STL signal, but that just made Max Headroom's presentation creepier.

Captain Midnight worked at TV station, and was caught. The station's character generator had a custom font on it, and he used the custom font in his text overlay. Busted.

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