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Submission + - Watch the Large Hadron Collider Experiments LIVE a (nickduncan.co.za)

NickDuncan writes: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland will perform the first-ever proton collision this morning at 8:30am our time. This is truly a remarkable day for science and the best thing is, you can watch it live on the CERN website. Five webcasts will be available today and the main webcast will include live footage from the control rooms for the LHC accelerator and all four LHC experiments and coverage of the press conference to announce the first collisions. Enough to excite the “inner-geek” in you!

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 269

Nope.
LHC creates holes with relative to earth speed~ 0, while in cosmic ray collisions the holes will have relative to earth speed ~= speed of light.
So if black holes are created on cosmic rays, these black holes will immediately leave earth, while in LHC the holes will stay here and grow...

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Submission + - Imminent Death of the Largest Lake on the Earth (wsj.com) 1

reporter writes: According to a disturbing report by the "Wall Street Journal", the world's largest body of fresh water is about to meet its demise. Known as Lake Baikal, this pristine creation of Mother Nature "contains one-fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water and has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site".

Unfortunately for humankind, Lake Baikal is situated near a paper mill now owned by Oleg Deripaska, a wealthy confidant of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The mill had been dumping toxic waste into the lake from 1966 until October 2008. In 2008, a court banned the further discharge of waste into the lake, and Deripaska shutdown the mill.

Then, last week Putin signed a decree that removes "waste discharges in the production of pulp, paper and cardboard from a list of operations banned by environmental legislation in and around" Lake Baikal. This decree legalized the continued dumping of toxic waste into the lake.

Freed from inconvenient environmental rules, Deripaska will soon restart the mill. He claims that he has upgraded the technology of the mill to the point that it will "not do any ecological harm to the lake".

Comment Encryption drawbacks (Score 5, Informative) 175

Using encryption has its drawbacks:
* you must provide a meaningful key management
* you lose speed of your machines for number crunching
* you can easily lose data in the event of hardware corruption
* access to data is a bit harder even for legitimate purposes
* many systems (for example Active Directory domain controller .vs. ipsec) doesn't work well with encryption
* skills of your systems management must be higher

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