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Comment Re:And that's bad how? (Score 1) 1747

by wynler on Thursday December 10, 2009 @01:27PM (#30390594) Attached to: The Science Credibility Bubble

You can't prove a negative. It is the responsibility of the scientists to prove it IS happening. The "deniers" have been asking the CRU for reproducible data. They were stonewalled until FOIA request were made. Then the answer was no we destroyed it when we moved buildings. There is no data, and the models are not reproducible. Therefore

Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

Comment Re:Welcome to the real world (Score 1) 1006

by wynler on Friday November 13, 2009 @02:48PM (#30089930) Attached to: Software Piracy At the Workplace?

Take for example two small companies (Alpha and Beta) of similar size both offering similar services in a community. Alpha has made an effort to be compliant in their licensing, the Beta has not. Since Beta has not spent the time and money to comply with licensing, it is able to provide it's services at lesser cost than Alpha. Alpha loses customers to Beta. It's not just BSA and Microsoft that loses out on such a scenario.

Submission + - Phone thats more then meets the eye.

Submitted by Strio on Thursday September 06, 2007 @06:25PM

Strio writes: A clever Motorola modder has turned his MOTOROKR E6 into a fully functional transformer cellphone. More can be seen here

Feed New Scientist: Virus blamed for mysterious disappearance of US bees (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Thursday September 06, 2007 @06:12PM

The work suggests genetic engineering could help stop the massive die-off by making the bees resistant to the virus

Submission + - Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs to US

Submitted by

phobos13013

on Thursday September 06, 2007 @05:15PM

phobos13013 writes: "NPR is reporting Indian software maker Wipro is outsourcing positions to a development office opening in Atlanta, Georgia. Although, it sounds good for US job growth, although the implication is that firms outside the US appear to be dominating more and more in the global economy, even from developing and underdeveloped regions of the world. Similarly, salaries of IT professionals world-wide are projected to stagnant or possibly fall due to the large pool of qualified applicants in the market today. Likely another reason companies like Wipro and Cognizant see it possible to outsource to the US and still remain competitive."

Submission + - Sony caught editing Halo 3 wikipedia page (vnunet.com)

Submitted by on Thursday September 06, 2007 @04:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: Another high-profile wikipedia scandal has emerged after an edit on the Halo 3 page was revealed to come from one of Sony Entertainment's studios. The edit added no real content beyond claiming that it "would not be any better than Halo 2".

Submission + - Stearn announces free energy demonstration

Submitted by cmclaren on Friday April 13, 2007 @09:35AM

cmclaren writes: Today, Steorn announced in a five-minute video on its website that it plans to demonstrate it's 'free energy' technology in July in London. According to the video, 22 scientists, culled from 5000 applicants, are in the process of validating this technology.

Feed Debian redefines itself with new release (slashdot.org)

From feed by lcfeed on Friday April 13, 2007 @09:32AM

For much of its history, Debian has been the major noncommercial, philosophically free distribution. Now, as Debian developers and users have deserted the distro for Ubuntu, does Debian have a purpose any more? Debian 4.0, which was released this...

Bookmark Create and deploy blog and wiki modules with Apache Geronimo (ibm.com)

by navux on Friday April 13, 2007 @09:05AM

Submission + - The World's Most Dangerous Internet Sites

Submitted by

hackathology

on Friday April 13, 2007 @09:03AM

hackathology writes: ""While the appeals court ultimately ruled against the student and in favor of the warrantless search in that particular case, the judges made it clear that students in general are entitled reasonable expectations of privacy when connecting their personal computers to university networks."

Journal Journal: Sperm made from bone marrow

Journal by oblonski on Friday April 13, 2007 @08:58AM

In a BBC article http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/health/6547675.stm/ it is reported that new developments at a German research institution has seen scientists find a new way to develop spermatagonial cells from stem cells taken from the bone marrow tissue of male volunteers. From the BBC article: "The researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Münster and the Medical School of Hannover isolated adult ste

Submission + - Adobe Launching Creative Suite 3

Submitted by Ta on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @09:18AM

Ta writes: Adobe Systems Inc. announced Tuesday that new versions of its popular Creative Suite software, which executives have billed as the most significant product launch in the company's 25-year history, will go on sale next month.

Submission + - Wikipedia co-founder starting over

Submitted by smooth wombat on Monday March 26, 2007 @10:57AM

smooth wombat writes: Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, will be moving in a new direction starting this week. He will be unveiling Citizendium, a competitor to Wikipedia which he hopes will have far fewer warts than Wikipedia does.

The difference this time is that those who contribute will be required to use their real names and experts in a given field will be asked to verify the facts. From the article:

"If there's going to be a free encyclopedia, I'd like there to be a better free encyclopedia," says Sanger, 38, who has a doctorate in philosophy and speaks slowly, as if cautiously choosing every word. "It has bothered me that I helped to get a project started, Wikipedia, that people are misusing in this way, and yet the project itself has little chance of radically improving."

Submission + - Interview: Castlevania's future

Submitted by

ferricide

on Monday March 12, 2007 @07:11PM

ferricide writes: "The latest game in the Castlevania series, Dracula X Chronicles, will be released for the PSP later this year. Thanks to Game Developers Conference, GamesRadar was able to sit down and have a lengthy interview with Koji "IGA" Igarashi. It started out as a discussion of that game (a pack which contains a ground-up remake of the 1993 classic and a port of 1997's Symphony of the Night) but which became more wide-ranging, concerning the development philosophy and future of the entire series."

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