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Comment All that information is useful to someone (Score 1) 304

by Cow_With_Gun on Thursday October 12, 2017 @07:04PM (#55359585) Attached to: 'Maybe Wikipedia Readers Shouldn't Need Science Degrees To Digest Articles About Basic Topics'

If we tone it down won't the article just become the intro anyway? As a Ph.D. Chemist I pull up those articles all the time to find equations when I'm not near my books. Having a ready repository of knowledge for multiple levels of skills is a desirable trait for Wikipedia, not a detriment. Perhaps a clear delineation of basic vs advanced information would be useful, but all should stay.

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."

Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia 424

Posted by timothy on Friday October 17, 2008 @05:51AM from the unarmed-populace dept.

sparky1240 writes "While Americans are currently fighting the net-neutrality wars, spare a thought for the poor Australians — The Australian government wants to implement a nation-wide 'filtering' scheme to keep everyone safe from the nasties on the internet, with no way of opting out: 'Under the government's $125.8 million Plan for Cyber-Safety, users can switch between two blacklists which block content inappropriate for children, and a separate list which blocks illegal material. ... According to preliminary trials, the best Internet content filters would incorrectly block about 10,000 Web pages from one million."

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