You are going to die.

Darned sight better than the crappy imitation larger we get sold in the UK. At least they have laws stating that to sell it as beer, you have to make it out of ingredients for beer. Seriously, most of the larger we get in the UK would be illegal across much of Europe (where it originally came from). It's only stuff that is actually imported (like Beck's) that is actually larger.

That is not the gist of what you said in the comment PopeRatzo was replying to. You implied flawed methodology and even the possibility of a conspiracy. That is neither patient nor intellectually valid.

You realise it is not possible to be peer reviewed in the conventional sense? The peers would require a new LHC. As it is, we have just about the best peer review process already: two experiments working separately, on different data, different methodology, with the same accelerator and they have both produced the same result.

PopeRatzo probably has you nailed down quite well, there. If a little harshly put.
Your information on this is, quite frankly, bullshit. I am familiar with the workings of the ATLAS experiment, and have been present at numerous private lectures given by them giving updates on their data and possible conclusions.
Indeed, far from being the last possibility on the list, the figure of 125.3GeV is basically exactly what the standard model predicted. In fact, the result is so predictable it is almost boring. You say that physicist would be deeply embarased if they didn't find it, but actually many were hoping to find a less expected result than this. So far, the results have not helped us at all with understanding dark energy (though, it is early days, still) as many had hoped. Supersymmetry is looking less likely.
It is OK to be sceptical, but you seem to be basing your comments on nothing more than an uneducated hunch.

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

It would take quite the academic to not know what binoculars are. Seriously, almost everything in the world is a throwback/reference to something that nobody uses/knows what it is any more. Compared to the English language, these icons are stupidly up to date. Fact is, they become self referencing and everyone knows what they mean. I don't want a big long box that says Address book when I can click on an easily recognisable icon. Stop fucking about with a system that works perfectly because of some flawed ideology.

My maths lectures.

If you read the post fully, the author offers "Bonus points for the best apt-get-able distribution that works with a tablet."

Thank you for pointing this out. Really interesting research.

Sorry if I am wrong here, but are you not just producing wild theories here? Surely you don't know what Stuxnet intended to do, so how could you rule that it could not have caused a nuclear catastrophe?

Not in my opinion. It is an appallingly misleading title. The tablet battle definitely implies the sales battle. This title would almost always point to Apple not being as popular as another brand. Most people reading that title would not expect it to mean they loose a court ruling.

You are confusing belief and faith. Belief does not imply logic or illogic. So, as in blind biker's case, you can believe something based on empirical evidence. Or, as with all creationists, you can believe something based on faith.

I would love to use Linux. Every time I install it I really like it an find it a massive improvement on Windows. I first started using it over a decade ago and it has come a long way in that time. Unfortunately, there are still very annoying things about it. I lead a very busy life which is dependant on my computer being reliable. Over the past few years Ubuntu and other distributions have got to the stage where you can use it normally and do just about everything you would like to do on Windows (bar high end gaming and certain applications like Photoshop) with ease. However, every single time the distribution has tried to upgrade itself, it has borked. I'm not kidding: every single time! Sometimes something silly and fairly easy to fix like the new entry in the boot loader not pointing towards the correct new kernel. Sometimes it is something a lot more difficult. At the moment I have an install just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 that lost all visual because of some clash between the new kernel and the current graphics drivers (and I don't have a crazy weird card). It is unacceptable. I realise this is not everyone's experience and I am unlucky, however I refuse to believe the success rate is at all acceptable. So every time this happens I find myself grudgingly going to back to my "faithful" Windows install.

A cease and desist order.