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LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million 163

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @09:08AM from the black-holes-don't-come-cheap dept.

ThanatosMinor writes "September's quench at the Large Hadron Collider is going to cost CERN at least $21 million and delay future collisions until June of 2009 at the earliest. Enjoy your last few months outside of an event horizon."

The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker 637

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 13, 2008 @07:37PM from the well-deserved-shadenfreude dept.

eldavojohn writes "You might remember the tiny news that Half Life 2 source code was leaked in 2003 ... it is the 6th most visited Slashdot story with over one kilocomment. Well, did anything happen to the source of the leak, the German hacker Axel 'Ago' Gembe? Wired is reporting he was offered a job interview so that Valve could get him into the US and bag him for charges. It's not the first time the FBI tried this trick: 'The same Seattle FBI office had successfully used an identical gambit in 2001, when they created a fake startup company called Invita, and lured two known Russian hackers to the US for a job interview, where they were arrested.'"

Comment Re:two good apps , for irc and ssh (Score 0) 238

by BrennanM3 on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @05:42PM (#25739107) Attached to: (Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks?

If you use irssi for irc you can just leave it running in something like screen and get to it from any ssh client.

Comment Re:Like to see this replicated (Score 0) 639

by BrennanM3 on Monday November 10, 2008 @12:36PM (#25705781) Attached to: German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant

Unless they are one of the "bug chasers" trying to get pozed up with AIDS.

Comment Re:Any wagers? (Score 0) 292

by BrennanM3 on Monday November 10, 2008 @11:30AM (#25704455) Attached to: NVIDIA Makes First 4GB Graphics Card

You don't have to upgrade your machine with the latest expensive stuff every 6 months to play games. I'm still running a machine from 2005 and have played crysis, fallout 3, etc without any problems.

Comment Only two processors? (Score 2, Funny) 149

by BrennanM3 on Friday November 07, 2008 @04:50PM (#25680751) Attached to: Toshiba Launches Laptop With Three GPUs

Totally unacceptable, I wouldn't even recommend this for checking your email.

Comment Re:For the uninformed: (Score 1, Insightful) 160

by BrennanM3 on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @05:36PM (#25650141) Attached to: Critical Vulnerability In Adobe Reader

That might work on some or most files, but there still is no replacement for Acrobat.

Comment Re:The old saying still holds (Score 0) 184

by BrennanM3 on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @04:45PM (#25648895) Attached to: Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials

I know this one, this is the same guy who also said it's like a series of tubes and not a dump truck.

Comment How long until... (Score 2, Funny) 310

by BrennanM3 on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @11:06AM (#25625193) Attached to: Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox

ogg/theora porn?

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