Submission + - Another new record at the LHC
tist writes: LHC sets new record – accelerates beam to 3.5 TeV http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR05.10E.html
Comment Re:$1.4 Billion (Score 1) 467
3. Illegal immigration is ILLEGAL. Let's either address that and stop the flow, or change the rules. I don't mind if we decide to allow unfettered immigration, or lower the barriers, but we should certainly make the choice. Until then, when will our government address the problem? Do we need to vote them out again and again until they get the point? When does our government stop listening to the corporations and start listening to us?
Emphasis mine.
This really is the root of it isn't it? As long as corporate money can be used to buy politicians (the elephant in the middle of the room) what exactly can any of us do about it? Isn't this the age old campaign finance reform story? We see it over and over - Corporations have the rights of individuals (does that make any sense?) and money = free speech or more exactly more money = more free speech.
Comment Re:Good for PF...but also...bad for PF? (Score 1) 601
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Comment Re:STFU (Score 1) 467
And if it was going to do something _chances are_, it would have by now. There, fixed that for ya.
Comment Re:Greenhouse Gases (Score 2, Informative) 305
A proton (or other particle) at full speed in the LHC:
7 trillion electron Volts
7.0 * 10 ^9 eV.
A 100 watt light bulb burning for one hour:
2.2 * 10 ^24 eV
So the light bulb represents 3.1* 10 ^14 (that’s 310,000,000,000,000) times the energy of the particle accelerated in the LHC.
7 trillion eV is really, really small.
Comment Re:Yeah, it's the end of the world (Score 1) 717
...doesn't require nearly as much active maintenance, as in, driving over it with snowploughs when it snows, to be able to drive on it at all.
Having driven all sorts of roads and being from Buffalo, NY, I'm confused by the contention that you don't have to plow or salt/sand a gravel road. I'm sure the folks in Michigan can tell you that a road (no matter what it's made out of) has to be kept clear of ice and snow to be passable in the winter. Maybe you live in a much warmer clime?
Comment Re:Not a first (Score 1) 330
34 year old college seniors doing a capstone project of building a radio?
Submission + - Linux in a 757
tist writes: This isn't really news per se, but it may be interesting to the Linux community. The 757 I was flying home in had displays on the back of each seat where anyone could buy movies, listen to music, play games or watch tv programs. Not really interesting in itself, but the movie choices weren't working so one of the stewardesses rebooted the system. Lo and behold, Linux startup messages were displayed to every passenger. I have to admit I was surprised to see Linux and surprised to see the console log messages on every screen.
