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Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

Comment 2010 (Score 1) 703

by youngerpants on Monday October 19, 2009 @10:06AM (#29793567) Attached to: Where Should We Focus Our Space Efforts?

"All these worlds are yours except for Europa, attempt no landings there"

Comment Re:it's hard to not visit (Score 1) 958

by youngerpants on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @02:05PM (#29660167) Attached to: How many countries have you visited?

Visit, he said visit, not invade.

How Famous OS Logos Got Started 103

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @12:08AM from the in-the-beginning dept.

Shane O'Neill writes "Ronald McDonald and the NBC Peacock may get more TV air time, but today's operating systems have cool logos, too. Google, Apple, Microsoft and the Linux crowd crafted mascots ranging from cute lizards to circles of life. In this slideshow, we look at the origins of the logos and look ahead to their future."

Comment Re:No need to enable "proposed" updates (Score 5, Funny) 271

by youngerpants on Saturday January 17, 2009 @09:25PM (#26502149) Attached to: Ubuntu's Laptop Killing Bug Fixed

Real men run as root.

Hey, why's my mouse moving all by itself?

Submission + - Can the internet enable direct action offline? 3

Submitted by

notque

on Friday August 10, 2007 @02:26PM

notque writes: "We are sitting in a time with so many political scandals, and some would say an illegal war. You would think that given these facts the United States would be a hotbed of political activity and protest. So far this hasn't occurred, although people continue to do difficult work. There are many websites that attempt to coordinate political activity, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot to show for it. Can the internet actually enable direct action offline? What are some ways that this could be carried out? On another website, digg, there was an article concerning a general strike on 09/11/07 that received 4600 diggs, so it seems that people want to do something, but feel isolated and alone. Does the internet help foster this? Noam Chomsky once said, "By margins that are now so overwhelming that it's even front page news, people are strenuously opposed to everything that's going on and are frightened and angry and reacting like punch-drunk fighters. They're just too alone, both in their personal lives and associations and also intellectually, without anything to grasp. They don't know how to respond except in irrational ways. In some ways it has sort of the tone of a devastated peasant society after a plague swept it or an army went through and ruined everything. People have just dissolved into inability to respond." How can individuals help to change this, and is the internet a useful tool for that? Does the internet just stagnate individuals further? Thanks."

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