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Submission + - Neutrinos: Yup, they're faster than light. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by mrthoughtful on Friday November 18, 2011 @09:06AM

mrthoughtful writes: The CERN team who announced neutrinos may travel faster than light has carried out an improved version of their experiment — and found the same result.

Acknowledged critics of the first report had said that the long bunches of neutrinos used could introduce an error into the test.

The new work, posted to http://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.4897v2, used much shorter bunches.

It has been submitted to the Journal of High Energy Physics, but has not yet been reviewed by the scientific community.

Submission + - Internet Explorer IQ bashing was a hoax (itpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

twoheadedboy

on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @07:06AM

twoheadedboy writes: "Earlier this week, a report claimed Internet Explorer users received lower IQ tests than those running other browsers. We now know it was a hoax. The biggest giveaway was the fact that AptiQuant – the 'company' responsible for the purported research – had information on its website copied from another company called Central Test. After further investigations, it emerged AptiQuant does not appear to be a real company. Central Test is now planning action against those responsible for taking info from its site. This leaves us with the question of why such an elaborate rouse was carried out, fooling hundreds of writers from trade journalists to nationals like the BBC? Was it just a big joke? Or was it a PR smear campaign against IE?"

Submission + - GNOME 3 Shell Controversy

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 07, 2011 @08:37AM

Submission + - London Stock Exchange tackles closing auction syst (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @12:26PM

DMandPenfold writes: The London Stock Exchange has taken steps to resolve a system problem that occurred at 4.30pm yesterday (Tuesday), which saw a delay to the start of the closing auction and knocked out automatic trades during a 42 second period.

The problem occurred a day after the high profile launch of its new matching engine on the main equities market, based on the SUSE Linux system from Novell.

Sources close to the exchange today told Computerworld UK that the problem yesterday involved a system linked to the matching engine....

Submission + - London Stock Exchange Completes Move to Linux (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 14, 2011 @07:02AM

An anonymous reader writes: The London Stock Exchange has successfully completed the 'go live' weekend for its new Millennium Exchange, a next-generation trading platform powered by the open source Linux operating system. Developed and named by MillenniumIT, the Millennium Exchange's inaugural weekend comes after the LSE trialled Linux as a real-time trading platform on its Turquoise trading pool back in October — finding that the switch from its outdated Microsoft .Net platform brought a massive decrease in trading latency.

Comment I'm almost positive that's not a real Buran (Score 1) 226

by beanfeast on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @05:30PM (#33728596) Attached to: Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap

I was in Moscow in May last year. I went on a boat trip along the Moskva River and passed a Buran in Gorky Park. I immediately altered my plans for the following day so as to include a visit.

The next day, May 28th 2009, as I walked towards the Buran I was mortified to see guys with hammers, shovels and brushes starting to demolish it.

I wasn't able to get right up to it to take photos because some uniformed guard insisted that taking photographs was forbidden, but you can see one of the surreptitious snaps I took here - http://www.samoa.co.uk/images/proc0023.jpg

If you look carefully, in the image linked to above, at the nose section where the tiles have been stripped away, you will see that the tiles were actually mounted on wooden lathes.

A somewhat better photo of the nose section can be found here - http://www.samoa.co.uk/images/proc0024.jpg

A little bit of Googling and it turns out that the Buran in Gorky Park was actually a simulator.

The OP was correct, it was a carnival ride.

The Frontier of the MMO Genre 92

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @08:35AM from the they-don't-even-have-regular-socks dept.

Eurogamer is running a feature about what they call "frontier" MMOs, games that are on the fringe of a market flooded with attempts to replicate the success of Everquest and World of Warcraft. Many publishers already have more MMO projects than they know what to do with, and often leave the more unusual and unique games out in the cold, preferring to stick with familiar IP or a tried-and-true approach. "Like any gold-rush, the MMO market also attracts a different kind of adventurer: the fearless, inexperienced, determined and solitary dreamer, making a go of it on nothing but their own resources and pluck. The online distribution and direct revenue streams — be they subscriptions or micro-transactions — make it theoretically possible to make a mint in MMOs without any help from the gaming establishment at all." They take a brief look at several such games currently in development, including Earthrise, Gatheryn, and Global Agenda.

Submission + - Big Brother Disapproves of Weekend Boozing

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @08:09AM

MattSparkes writes: "Staff at Pequannock Township High School in New Jersey are going to start using a sneaky new test that can detect if students have been drinking in the last week. The test measures urine concentrations of an ethanol breakdown product called ethyl glucuronide (EtG). I find it bizarre that in the US you can't drink until 21; at 21 I had spent already three years completing my undergraduate degree and drinking copious amounts of Guinness."

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