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If not black hole jets then the astrophysicists next bet will be annilihating Dark matter. The symmetric LSP light symmetric particle has been a dark matter candiate for some twenty year. This gamma ray job could be LSP's annilhating but only if the have the gamma rays match with the galactic halos.

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If not black hole jets then the astrophysicists next bet will be annilihating Dark matter. The symmetric LSP light symmetric particle has been a dark matter candiate for some twenty year. This gamma ray job could be LSP's annilhating but only if the have the gamma rays match with the galactic halos.

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The internet is too powerful, for governments, to leave alone. This is especially true of governments which would like to control the thoughts of there populus, but even for the most Lazze Faire governments, the chance to control the internet industy must be highly tempting.

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The internet is too powerful, for governments, to leave alone. This is especially true of governments which would like to control the thoughts of there populus, but even for the most Lazze Faire governments, the chance to control the internet industy must be highly tempting.

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Lucky it landed somewhere so remote. On day a some rocket parts will land somewhere with a high population i fear.

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Lucky it landed somewhere so remote. On day a some rocket parts will land somewhere with a high population i fear.

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Sound two much like copper. But of course Copernicus was such champion of science that he well deserves a element named after him. Elements 110 and 114 are special numbers of protons. So with the right number of Neutrons an isotope of Coperniclum may be somewhat stable. Most of the Elements heavier that 100 decay in milliseconds. The right number of neutrons is something like 184, so its Cp-296 that is golden target to look for. So far nuclear scientists have not come anywhere near making an atom that neutron heavy.

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Sound two much like copper. But of course Copernicus was such champion of science that he well deserves a element named after him. Elements 110 and 114 are special numbers of protons. So with the right number of Neutrons an isotope of Coperniclum may be somewhat stable. Most of the Elements heavier that 100 decay in milliseconds. The right number of neutrons is something like 184, so its Cp-296 that is golden target to look for. So far nuclear scientists have not come anywhere near making an atom that neutron heavy.

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By Habitable they mean habitable by some life forms. A claim made for any place that happens to have liquid water in it. Since Enceladus has occasion steam, water jet out pooring doesn't mean it has a steady warm inner ocean, like titan is thought to have. I just read on Scientific American the latest results on the surface and interior of Titan. Titan has very good conditions for life, and since its so close to Enceladus, and the whole saturn system, is so full with minor particles, its easy to imagine life starting in Titans ocean, and getting carried to Enceladus. I'm not expecting anything much bigger than a microbe though.

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By Habitable they mean habitable by some life forms. A claim made for any place that happens to have liquid water in it. Since Enceladus has occasion steam, water jet out pooring doesn't mean it has a steady warm inner ocean, like titan is thought to have. I just read on Scientific American the latest results on the surface and interior of Titan. Titan has very good conditions for life, and since its so close to Enceladus, and the whole saturn system, is so full with minor particles, its easy to imagine life starting in Titans ocean, and getting carried to Enceladus. I'm not expecting anything much bigger than a microbe though.

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A selection of best practices. To call php+css+html a best practices is bizarres, its a popular choice, but doesn't mean that other programming languages of choices aren't better. Clearly HTML is required for any web page, css is option but it has more power over layout. PhP is one of many equally efficient scripting languages for the back end. Personnally i find jsp much more powerful. No mention of Ajax, does the smashing book (silly name), do any of that.

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A selection of best practices. To call php+css+html a best practices is bizarres, its a popular choice, but doesn't mean that other programming languages of choices aren't better. Clearly HTML is required for any web page, css is option but it has more power over layout. PhP is one of many equally efficient scripting languages for the back end. Personnally i find jsp much more powerful. No mention of Ajax, does the smashing book (silly name), do any of that.

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DNS spooffing, and cases of DNS taking down large parts of the internet have been problems for years. This should have been done years ago.

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DNS spooffing, and cases of DNS taking down large parts of the internet have been problems for years. This should have been done years ago.

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When learning languages i completely missed out on Python, i learn't perl and php, java and C and even Occam and Fortran. But no Python, are the any advantages to the snake named language?

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When learning languages i completely missed out on Python, i learn't perl and php, java and C and even Occam and Fortran. But no Python, are the any advantages to the snake named language?

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Depends on the load rate of course, and government aid, 30 years is about the payback time for many solar power projects which are in fact going ahead. Hopefully these Fuel Cell people can get the prices down to 5 year payback when they've had enough orders.

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Depends on the load rate of course, and government aid, 30 years is about the payback time for many solar power projects which are in fact going ahead. Hopefully these Fuel Cell people can get the prices down to 5 year payback when they've had enough orders.

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Haven't found anything friendlier than Ubuntu, which seems easier than even MS windows to install. It does have a few problems though, i don't like grub having half a million kernal versions on startup, and its can be a pain getting the best resolution out of usually screens. The X configutor changed completely between 9.04 and 9.10, and i'm still trying to get it to work at few resolution on my laptop. But it seems generally stabler and more user friendly than Windows to me.

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Haven't found anything friendlier than Ubuntu, which seems easier than even MS windows to install. It does have a few problems though, i don't like grub having half a million kernal versions on startup, and its can be a pain getting the best resolution out of usually screens. The X configutor changed completely between 9.04 and 9.10, and i'm still trying to get it to work at few resolution on my laptop. But it seems generally stabler and more user friendly than Windows to me.

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We, the Australian Library and Information Association, Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo! agree that Australia needs to take effective action to ensure that internet users, and particularly children, have a safe experience online. The statement i would sign would be that internet users deserve, freedom and privacy, and protection against Quango's Megacorps and goverments, at all times.

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We, the Australian Library and Information Association, Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo! agree that Australia needs to take effective action to ensure that internet users, and particularly children, have a safe experience online. The statement i would sign would be that internet users deserve, freedom and privacy, and protection against Quango's Megacorps and goverments, at all times.

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Hard drive development just hasn't been keeping place with flash memory. And either portable/netbook owner would rather have flash memory, of course i bet these terabyte flash drives are expensive right now, But could we have terabyte+ flash in average computers within 5 years seems likely now, and my laptop will be that mush faster for it.

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Hard drive development just hasn't been keeping place with flash memory. And either portable/netbook owner would rather have flash memory, of course i bet these terabyte flash drives are expensive right now, But could we have terabyte+ flash in average computers within 5 years seems likely now, and my laptop will be that mush faster for it.

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They have just found the missing link between asians and red indians. I wish they could clone him, to see how much mankind has changed since his time. ---

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They have just found the missing link between asians and red indians. I wish they could clone him, to see how much mankind has changed since his time. ---

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Its a small problem and i bet there fix it. Then the station has a observation and excerise room which will do wonders for space tourism. No point paying for the ride, if you don't get a great view which is exactly what tranquillity with give astronaunts and space tourists. ---

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Its a small problem and i bet there fix it. Then the station has a observation and excerise room which will do wonders for space tourism. No point paying for the ride, if you don't get a great view which is exactly what tranquillity with give astronaunts and space tourists. ---

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But its the reports that like to post the problems not the successes, its like there biases against NASA. Tranquillity is the worlds biggest glass out house, plenty to see there and plus there put the gym in there. Its usages to science is probably quite low. But when it comes to space tourism and making videos of astronauts in space, its the businesses. When they get it working, and i'm sure the will. The ISS can boost its film rights and tourism value, to get new heights hopefully enough to keep it in space, for decades to come.

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But its the reports that like to post the problems not the successes, its like there biases against NASA. Tranquillity is the worlds biggest glass out house, plenty to see there and plus there put the gym in there. Its usages to science is probably quite low. But when it comes to space tourism and making videos of astronauts in space, its the businesses. When they get it working, and i'm sure the will. The ISS can boost its film rights and tourism value, to get new heights hopefully enough to keep it in space, for decades to come.

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Of course you know that there weren't any robots in the orignal foundation trilogy, which the two final books making foundation a quintet explaining why. So there better not be any robots in Roland's version, but somehow I think Daniel and Gascardhttp will probably end up in the movies, just because kids like robots. Sigh, I expect great special effects and the complete loss of maxims like 'war is the last option of the incompendent politian'.

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Must as i don't mind pirate bay and similar services telling people where to find downloads, its wasn't very legal and the guys doing it knew they where pushing the law. Now one of these guys wants to set up a micropayment service after his last site was shutdown by the law, i'm not sure I trust his new site at all. Unless his account is Abraham Lincion or Mahitma Gandi, i don't think i'll trust his payment service with any of my money.

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Must as i don't mind pirate bay and similar services telling people where to find downloads, its wasn't very legal and the guys doing it knew they where pushing the law. Now one of these guys wants to set up a micropayment service after his last site was shutdown by the law, i'm not sure I trust his new site at all. Unless his account is Abraham Lincion or Mahitma Gandi, i don't think i'll trust his payment service with any of my money.

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Seeing as a new born baby is a worry bomb for most parents, and the infact morality rate in america is trival, all mums and dads need is some text service to baby babble, until they get used to it, (some 20 years later). Capitalism does pretty well out of this sort of stuff, so i don't think the government need pay for it, and its the sort publc guesture that goes down well, until looked into.

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Seeing as a new born baby is a worry bomb for most parents, and the infact morality rate in america is trival, all mums and dads need is some text service to baby babble, until they get used to it, (some 20 years later). Capitalism does pretty well out of this sort of stuff, so i don't think the government need pay for it, and its the sort publc guesture that goes down well, until looked into.

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Can't beat the where you put very small cows answer for funny. But a Barn is the unit of cross-sectional area, which is a directly related to the chance of getting a collision in a collider. The Barn is name after the "couldn't hit a Barn door from 10 foot", put down for sharpshooters, and is 10^-28 meters square, about the cross-sectional area of a uranium atom to a neutron, (very big compared to most atomic interactions). Femto is 10^-15 in Si prefices. To get the number of collision, multiply the cross-section of the interactions, by the lumosity in inverse barns. So the LHC will give enough particles to split 10^15 uranium atoms next year (if that was the process theyhttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1536204&cid=31019954# where looking for), the Higgs cross-section is of course much smaller. Interestingly the after Femtobarns the next smaller cross-section is 10^-48 aka a Shed (not kidding), so i'm looking forward to CERN upgrading the LHC to get Shedloads of collisons.

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Can't beat the where you put very small cows answer for funny. But a Barn is the unit of cross-sectional area, which is a directly related to the chance of getting a collision in a collider. The Barn is name after the "couldn't hit a Barn door from 10 foot", put down for sharpshooters, and is 10^-28 meters square, about the cross-sectional area of a uranium atom to a neutron, (very big compared to most atomic interactions). Femto is 10^-15 in Si prefices. To get the number of collision, multiply the cross-section of the interactions, by the lumosity in inverse barns. So the LHC will give enough particles to split 10^15 uranium atoms next year (if that was the process theyhttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1536204&cid=31019954# where looking for), the Higgs cross-section is of course much smaller. Interestingly the after Femtobarns the next smaller cross-section is 10^-48 aka a Shed (not kidding), so i'm looking forward to CERN upgrading the LHC to get Shedloads of collisons.

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Perphaps a better description would be mars' forming earth life forms. Now that we have bacteria which have a good chance of surviving on parts of Mars, (not the parts of the surface is highly oxidating soil, which would act like bleach), that doesn't mean it would terraform Mars. We would need to do a lot of simulations to find out what the effect actually would be. Mars starts with such a low gravity that it might not hold oxygen in its atmosphere for very low. Adding a lot of C02 would help. Perphaps giant mirrors aimed at the Poles of Mars, are the way to start.

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Perphaps a better description would be mars' forming earth life forms. Now that we have bacteria which have a good chance of surviving on parts of Mars, (not the parts of the surface is highly oxidating soil, which would act like bleach), that doesn't mean it would terraform Mars. We would need to do a lot of simulations to find out what the effect actually would be. Mars starts with such a low gravity that it might not hold oxygen in its atmosphere for very low. Adding a lot of C02 would help. Perphaps giant mirrors aimed at the Poles of Mars, are the way to start.

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Ok, the picture is an browny yellow circle with some darker patches on it, not the impressive although at least the circle is round to a good precession. But pluto is a very long way away, and i think these could be the first pictures showing any surface details on pluto. In less than a year, the New Horizon probe should pass pluto, and then i'm expecting some proper photographs showing the minor-planet to a good resolution, for the first time.

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Ok, the picture is an browny yellow circle with some darker patches on it, not the impressive although at least the circle is round to a good precession. But pluto is a very long way away, and i think these could be the first pictures showing any surface details on pluto. In less than a year, the New Horizon probe should pass pluto, and then i'm expecting some proper photographs showing the minor-planet to a good resolution, for the first time.

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Most programs are very much not written to take advantage of multi-cores. Even advanced 3D games which might find the extra compute power useful, often can't deal with extra cores. E.g. I had to set the affinity of Borderlands to 1 CPU only to stop it crashing. Multithreaded programming is slowly getting easier as libraries to help it, become available. Java is particularly easy for this, have a look at java.util.concurrent, with i've just started using on the serverside. But most programs are miles behind in the move to being able to work with multiprocessors. Right now 6 cores will have very little to offer the desktop, on the server side however, i'm sure the extra core will have use, but only if the server is particularly loaded with transactions, something with rarely happens.

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Most programs are very much not written to take advantage of multi-cores. Even advanced 3D games which might find the extra compute power useful, often can't deal with extra cores. E.g. I had to set the affinity of Borderlands to 1 CPU only to stop it crashing. Multithreaded programming is slowly getting easier as libraries to help it, become available. Java is particularly easy for this, have a look at java.util.concurrent, with i've just started using on the serverside. But most programs are miles behind in the move to being able to work with multiprocessors. Right now 6 cores will have very little to offer the desktop, on the server side however, i'm sure the extra core will have use, but only if the server is particularly loaded with transactions, something with rarely happens.

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If it lives up to its title they be to much fun stuff, and to much mystery in this one journal. All the experiments which don't turn out like it was predicting will end up being documented in the JoSaUR. If we're unlucky these strange results will get burried in is ths journal and no one will bother to try to reproduce the unexpected. The serendipitous and unexpected is of course, exactly what moves science forward, so I hope experiments that end up in JoSaUR do get looked at again and hard.

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If it lives up to its title they be to much fun stuff, and to much mystery in this one journal. All the experiments which don't turn out like it was predicting will end up being documented in the JoSaUR. If we're unlucky these strange results will get burried in is ths journal and no one will bother to try to reproduce the unexpected. The serendipitous and unexpected is of course, exactly what moves science forward, so I hope experiments that end up in JoSaUR do get looked at again and hard.

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I very much doubt that the LHC will find the Higgs in its 2011, 7TeV is plenty of power to find a Higgs between 100 and 200 GeV, however the luminosity of the LHC and the number of collisions it will make is a lot lower too. The LHC will only deliver about 1 inverse femtobarns in that time. But the Tevatron has will a built up to 8.5 inverse femtobarns of collisions in that time. That means that the first years run of the LHC will be a drop in the ocean of the already existing Higgs data from the Tevatron. So hard luck Europe, but the LHC won't detect a Higgs before 2013. The Tevatron might just see the beginnings of a signal, but probably not enough to confirm anything.

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I very much doubt that the LHC will find the Higgs in its 2011, 7TeV is plenty of power to find a Higgs between 100 and 200 GeV, however the luminosity of the LHC and the number of collisions it will make is a lot lower too. The LHC will only deliver about 1 inverse femtobarns in that time. But the Tevatron has will a built up to 8.5 inverse femtobarns of collisions in that time. That means that the first years run of the LHC will be a drop in the ocean of the already existing Higgs data from the Tevatron. So hard luck Europe, but the LHC won't detect a Higgs before 2013. The Tevatron might just see the beginnings of a signal, but probably not enough to confirm anything.

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At least this plan (that all it is, the demo propulsion system, hasn't been built yet). We allow the Cubesats to steer themselves away from potential collisions.

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At least this plan (that all it is, the demo propulsion system, hasn't been built yet). We allow the Cubesats to steer themselves away from potential collisions.

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