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Comment Chicago Museums (Score 1) 435

by CaptCrunk on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @06:34PM (#29044957) Attached to: Science, Technology, Natural History Museums?

Chicago does have the Museum of Science and Industry, but also houses the Field Museum, Adler Planetarium, and the Shedd Aquarium. While it seems that this would be less interesting, it's worth mentioning the Chicago Art Institute too. All of these museums are fairly close to each other (with the exception of the Museum of Science and Industry).

Submission + - Audio File Converter for FLAC/MP3/WMA/APE/MP4/WAV (audio-transcoder.com)

Submitted by

Oriana

on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @10:16AM

Oriana writes: "Convert audio and rip CD music with audio file converter and CD ripper called Audio Transcoder. It supports many audio formats, such as AAC (.aac, .m4a, .m4b, .mp4), MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC, APE, WAV, SPX."

Submission + - Undercover cameras catch PC repair scams (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

Barence

on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @08:52AM

Barence writes: "With help from readers of PC Pro, Sky News in the UK launched an undercover investigation into rogue PC repair shops. As a result, Sky's cameras caught technicians scouring through private photos, stealing passwords and over-charging for basic repairs. It was a simple enough job: "To create the fault, we simply loosened one of the memory chips so Windows wouldn't load. To get things working again, one needs only push the chip back into the slot and reboot the machine. Any half-way competent engineers should fix it in minutes." But these technicians had other ideas, stealing photos and documents, as well as login details for email and bank accounts. The eye-opening story is currently running on UK TV, and this PC Pro article has the full report."

Submission + - Vacuum leaks lead to a NEW Hadron Collider delay (zdnet.co.uk) 1

Submitted by suraj.sun on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @05:07AM

suraj.sun writes: The restart of the Large Hadron Collider has been pushed back further, following the discovery of vacuum leaks in two sectors of the experiment.

The world's largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to a Cern press statement. The project had been expected to start again in October.

To repair the leaks, which are from the helium circuit into the insulating vacuum, sectors 8-1 and 2-3 will have to be warmed from 80K to room temperature. Adjacent sub-sectors will act as 'floats', while the remainder of the surrounding sectors will be kept at 80K, Cern said in the statement. The repair work will not have an impact on the vacuum in the beam pipe.

Cern has pushed back the restart a number of times, as repair work has continued. To begin with, scientists said the LHC experiment would restart in April 2009.

In May, Cern told ZDNet UK that the restarted experiment could run through the winter to make up some of the lost time. Normally, running the experiments through the alpine winter is prohibitively expensive, due to high electricity costs. However, as the experiment has not been running since last September, Cern would have the budget to cover energy costs over the winter.

ZDNet UK : http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39689352,00.htm

Comment Killer Robot Arms? (Score 4, Funny) 332

by CaptCrunk on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @06:16PM (#22579892) Attached to: Killer Military Robot Arms Race Underway?

What's next? Killer robot legs? What happens when they get the whole killer robot put together? I answer: Mecha-Streisand.

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