Comment Re:Misleading title (Score 2) 91
I think the same thing. I found nothing inside the TFA about the mechanism they are testing nor what is the relation with the obtained data.
Comment Re:So, uh... How? (Score 1) 91
I second that. I honestly are unable to find on the summary or TFA the explanation of why researchers think they found evidence of how the Higgs works, TFA seems to speak only about energy levels, nothing about the operating mechanism and how the data suggest that it is correct.
Researchers Find Evidence of How Higgs Particle Imparts Mass 91
brindafella (702231) writes Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Colider (LHC) ATLAS experiment have been looking through their data, and have found enough of the extremely rare "W boson" (proton-proton) collisions that they can now declare their results: They have found how the Higgs imparts mass to other particles. From the article: "'Only about one in 100 trillion proton-proton collisions would produce one of these events,' said Marc-André Pleier, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory who played a leadership role in the analysis of this result for the ATLAS collaboration. 'You need to observe many [collisions] to see if the production rate is above or on par with predictions,' Pleier said. 'We looked through billions of proton-proton collisions produced at the LHC for a signature of these events—decay products that allow us to infer like Sherlock Holmes what happened in the event.' The analysis efforts started two years ago and were carried out in particular by groups from Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Michigan, and Technische Universität Dresden, Germany."
Here's a pre-print of the paper.
Comment Re:Microsoft is wasting people's time (Score 1) 346
Ahhh I get it now. You are a "pigeon chess player". I do not need to say nothing else.
Comment Re:Microsoft is wasting people's time (Score 1) 346
You are a really really stupid and insistent troll, impressive... When I need portability, I just use my netbook (eight hours or more of battery). And when I want to play games or do something CPU intensive, I go to the desktop. I simply use the best tool for each task, rather than a asshole troll who not content with being stupid still try to offend those who are not stupid.
Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? 509
An anonymous reader writes: My niece, who is graduating from high school, has asked me for some career advice. Since I work in data processing, my first thought was to recommend a degree course in computer science or computer engineering. However, after reading books by Jeremy Rifkin (The Third Industrial Revolution) and Ray Kurzweil (How to Create a Mind), I now wonder whether a career in information technology is actually better than, say, becoming a lawyer or a construction worker. While the two authors differ in their political persuasions (Rifkin is a Green leftist and Kurzweil is a Libertarian transhumanist), both foresee an increasingly automated future where most of humanity would become either jobless or underemployed by the middle of the century. While robots take over the production of consumer hardware, Big Data algorithms like the ones used by Google and IBM appear to be displacing even white collar tech workers. How long before the only ones left on the payroll are the few "rockstar" programmers and administrators needed to maintain the system? Besides politics and drug dealing, what jobs are really future-proof? Would it be better if my niece took a course in the Arts, since creativity is looking to be one of humanity's final frontiers against the inevitable Rise of the Machines?
Comment Re:Microsoft craps its pants (Score 1) 346
Look... After more than ten years using many, many Linux distros, my conclusion is that the linux desktop (linux server works fine, thank you) is still a work in progress and probably always will be, never ready for serious use. Because whenever I think my desktop is finally usable, some retarded change something fundamental (gnome team, seen them around?) and I have to fix it again. And even when it is working the overall desktop performance is always inferior to the performance of Windows on the same hardware.
Comment Re:Microsoft is wasting people's time (Score 1) 346
How many minutes you can stay unplugged, stupid? And if you need to stay connected to a power outlet to play, then what is the point of using a laptop? And remember that a video card of notebook is considerably lower than the equivalent desktop board, because otherwise it would melt your notebook on your lap. Inform yourself before you write shit.
Comment Re:Microsoft is wasting people's time (Score 1) 346
Using 800x600 for resolution? Or paying triple for the same hardware and having to be plugged into an outlet all the time to not finish off the battery in 20 minutes?
Comment Re:Microsoft is wasting people's time (Score 1) 346
Dude, you are a very, very dumb piece of shit. Many people use computers to work, not to play flash games.
With New Horizons Spacecraft a Year Away, What We Know About Pluto 128
An anonymous reader writes In one year, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will reach Pluto after over 8 years of travel. "Not only did we choose the date, by the way, we chose the hour and the minute. And we're on track," says Alan Stern, the principal investigator for NASA's Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission. As the New Horizons spacecraft gets closer to Pluto, we will begin getting the clearest images we've ever gotten. "A great deal of planning went into this mission. But in case you're wondering, the New Horizons team did not plan for Pluto to be downgraded to a dwarf planet in the same year as the launch. That didn't change anything for Alan Stern. Some planetary scientists still dispute Pluto's planet status, and Stern says he'll always think of Pluto as a planet. Either way, it's a distant realm ripe for exploration. Scientists don't know exactly what they will see there. And that's the exciting part. 'When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a long list of how often I've been surprised by the richness of nature,' Stern says."
Comment Re:What difference now does it make? :) Sunk costs (Score 1) 364
The problem with the project is that it is plain stupid. You have no way to make a plane it an excellent dogfighter, an excellent striker and the excelent ground support at the same time. A sane general build three aircraft each specializing in something, such as the F22 as fighter, the F15 as a striker and the A10 as close air support. They tried the "Jack of all trades" with the FB-111 and failed, I thought they had learned their lesson. But Lockheed promises that he will be all of this to sell the project and bring the pork home.
Comment Re:What difference now does it make? :) Sunk costs (Score 1) 364
Fox news? It's hard to decide which is worse. But keep believing in them, will leave the work of your enemies easier.
Comment Re:I was able to sneak into their laboratories (Score 1) 238
Thanks, the linked site from the submission is total shit.
The First Person Ever To Die In a Tesla Is a Guy Who Stole One 443
mrspoonsi sends this news from The Verge:
Elon Musk can no longer say that no one's ever died in a Tesla automobile crash. But few people will be pointing fingers at the electric car maker for this senseless tragedy. Earlier this month, 26-year-old Joshua Slot managed to successfully ride off with a Model S he'd stolen from a Tesla service center in Los Angeles, but police quickly spotted the luxury vehicle and gave chase. According to Park Labrea News, the high-speed pursuit was eventually called off after officers were involved in a fender bender of their own, leaving the police department strained for resources and without any feasible way of catching up to Slot. Reports claim he was traveling at speeds of "nearly 100 mph," but losing the police tail apparently didn't convince Slot to hit the brakes. Instead he sped on, eventually colliding with three other vehicles and a pair of street poles. The final impact was severe enough to "split the Tesla in half" and eject Slot from the car's remains. The Tesla's front section wound up in the middle of the road and caught fire. Its rear portion flew through the air with such force that it slammed into the side of a local Jewish community center and became wedged there.
