Reminds me of my last job. I'm the only admin who understands Linux (problem #1) and I had some Ubuntu servers up and humming along nicely. While I was on vacation, apparently somebody decided that something needed to be done on the server. The other admin looks up the apt-get string to install a graphical environment, and voila! Full blown GUI on my nice streamlined servers wasting resources and broadening our attack surface. It was brilliant. /vent

Obligatory Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-02-21/

Please refer to subject.

You're obviously not a hunter. A game camera is what you're describing. They're camo motion activated cameras you mount to a tree. You can have it snap pictures to an SD card, some of them have night vision, etc. Cabelas has some examples: http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&N=0&fsch=true&Ntk=AllProducts&Ntt=game+camera&x=0&y=0&WTz_l=Header%3BSearch-All+Products

This FAQ from FermiLab on the Higgs may be of some use to many here to answer some of the more basic questions that seem to be emerging from this discussion. http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/03/06/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-higgs-boson/

To over-simplify, it didn't exist. It was created by the release of energy (which, as we all know, can be converted to matter). Things get slightly goofy at the quantum level and particles can just appear and disappear all the time.

Correct. To answer the original question, think about mass-energy equivalence (E=mc2). What the LHC did was smash protons together with enough energy to cause a Higgs boson to be created. The mass of the protons aren't really as important as the energy involved in the smashing. Think about it - what has a bigger impact, a semi-truck rear ending another semi-truck at 5mph or a Mazda Miata rear ending another Mazda Miata at 100mph? The point is that they needed to create enough energy to cause a Higgs to be created, which it turns out just so happens to take 125GeV.

I'm a bit confused by this part. A proton is made of two up quarks and a down quark. Using Wikipedia's top-end estimates of the mass of those three, that means a proton should have a mass of at most 11.9MeV which would make 125 protons weigh 1.4875GeV... nowhere near 125GeV. I'm not a physicist so I trust Mr. Organtini, but I can't figure out where this figure is coming from.

I'm using Chrome right now - one of the first things I tried was the Acid2 test, and sadly it fails. It's close, but not quite. It doesn't render the eyes properly. By the way... first post with chrome?