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Dupple writes: At least two other particles could be masquerading as the God particle, according to a new analysis of the data from CERN
The news coming out of CERN in recent weeks has been hard to miss. At first, there was a dripfeed of gossip which turned into a firehose of 'Higgsteria'. Finally, last Wednesday, CERN announced that it had found a new particle that is "consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson".
Note the phrasing. CERN has been careful not to claim that the new particle is the Higgs, only that it could be.
An anonymous reader writes: A Norwegian company Thinfilm is developing a printed sensor platform for the packaging market. As a result of this, there will be a new category of packaging that can collect and wirelessly communicate stored sensor information. This is a commercial breakthrough in printed electronics.
bricko writes: "Lamar Smith Looking To Sneak Through SOPA In Bits & Pieces, Starting With Expanding Hollywood's Global Police
While it didn't get nearly as much attention as other parts of SOPA, one section in the bill that greatly concerned us was the massive expansion of the diplomatic corp.'s "IP attaches." If you're unfamiliar with the program, basically IP attaches are "diplomats" (and I use the term loosely) who go around the globe pushing a copyright maximalist position on pretty much every other country. Their role is not to support more effective or more reasonable IP policy. It is solely to increase expansion, and basically act as Hollywood's personal thugs pressuring other countries to do the will of the major studios and labels."
Stephen Fry has a good diatribe on grammar that I use against grammar Nazis. He also talks on the importance of formal and informal typography. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
"The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry — Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies — to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out."
Have any Slashdotters seen any issues anywhere in the world as yet? We've already seen some good IPv6 addresses today from the participants. What other good v6 address combinations can Slashdot think of?
www.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2620:0:1c18:0:face:b00c:: cisco.v6day.akadns.net has IPv6 address 2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d www.luns.net.uk has IPv6 address 2a01:8900:0:1::b00b:1e5
c0lo writes: Now might be a good time to check your Facebook privacy settings as many Facebook users are reporting that the site has enabled the face recognition in the last few days without giving users any notice. Once again, Facebook seems to be sharing personal information by default, instead on users having to 'opt-in'. Some other comments and an interesting reaction from Google and how to get around/disable it .
An anonymous reader writes: The University of Tokyo in collaboration with Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Nippon Mektron Ltd has developed a flexible printed circuit board (PCB) embedded with pressure sensors. The Next-generation Tactile Sensor is made by forming electrodes inside a flexible PCB. To showcase the capabilities the University has developed a human hand which has 1000 tactical sensors on the palm. The linear tactical sensors have a width of 1mm and thickness was less than 0.1mm. This is a quantum leap considering the fact that earlier it was possible to squeeze only 200 sensor points on palm.
An anonymous reader writes: About 40% of the 69k files are missing. Besides there are issues regarding icons, toolbar XML, descriptions, translations, templates, and many other features.
Dear resident,
We are writing to inform you that during the next three weeks Special Forces will be performing operations in your area; due to this you may experience power shortages, power surges, slit throats or bullets to the cranium. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation in this matter,
Yours sincerely
The power company