Comment Re:I have the same problem (Score 1) 388
I wonder whether this was supposed to be one of those "your mother" jokes or whether the poster really does not know the difference between "geologically" and "geographically"...
Comment Re:It's a little overkill... (Score 1) 776
Same here. I almost always have an open Mathematica session anyway, so I use it even for trivial calculations.
Comment So what's new ? (Score 1) 223
I already posted this back in November but people called me a troll for it ...
You Can't Be Fired For Being Drunk At Work In Peru 8
Peru's top court has ruled that workers cannot be fired for being drunk on the job. The ruling was criticized by the government for setting a dangerous precedent. Celso Becerra, the administrative chief of Chorrillos, a suburb of Lima, denounced the ruling. "We've fired four workers for showing up drunk, and two of them were drivers," he said. "How can we allow a drunk to work who might run somebody over?" Go with the liquor, Peru.
Comment Re:Information policy (Score 1) 229
The LHC is its own prototype. Similar beam related incidents happened at Fermilab. It's shit but it happens, and they handled it dreadfully.
Thank you, that was exactly the point that I wanted to make. This weekend, Rolf Heuer still gave summer 2009 as the restarting date, I do not understand why they aren't more open about the damage that was caused by the incident.
Comment Re:Information policy (Score 1) 229
Ummmm, perhaps scientists don't like to make statements that they aren't reasonably sure of?
I was not talking about official statements that give a definite starting day, but about the way that the actual extent of the damage was communicated. I am actually part of the theoretical High Energy physics community and even I only received this information yesterday through word-of-mouth and the link to the slides. Some senior colleagues in our institute yesterday called this "Soviet Russian information policy"
Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009 229
gaijinsr writes "The damage done in what CERN calls the 'S34 Incident' (and what other people call a major explosion in the cryogenics system) is much more serious than originally admitted: The earliest possible restart date is late summer next year, but with some proposed improvements to avoid repetitions of the incident, it looks more like 2010. They kept this pretty quiet up to now, not the kind of information policy I would expect from CERN."
Submission + - Earliest LHC restart late summer 2009, likely 2010 (indico.cern.ch)
gaijinsr writes: The damage done in what CERN calls the "S34 Incident" (and what other people call a major explosion in the cryogenics system) is much more serious than originally admitted: The earliest possible restart date is late summer next year, but with some proposed improvements to avoid repetitions of the incident, it looks more like 2010. They kept this pretty quiet up to now, not the kind of information policy I would expect from CERN.
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