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Update on SuperK Detector Failure
This note came in from Director Totsuka to the press and other scientists. Hemos and I felt it deserved more than just a regular SlashBack reference, as we feel that this is an important project. (I belive this comes form a translation from japanese, so forgive the errors) this is an update to the original post on the Super-K malfunction.
As a director of the Kamioka Observatory, which owns and is responsible to operate and maintain the Super-Kamiokande detector, it is really sad that I have to announce the severe accident that occurred on November 12 and damaged the significant part of the detector. The cause and how to deal with the lo ss in future will be discussed by newly found committees. However, even before discussing with my colleagues of the Super-K and K2K collaborations, I have decided to express my intension on behalf of the staff of the Kamioka Observatory.
We will rebuild the detector. There is no question. The strategy may be the following two steps, which will be proposed and discussed by my colleagues.
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1. Quick restart of the K2K experiment.
- (1) We will clear the safety measures which may be suggested by the committees.
- (2) reduce the number density of the photomultiplier tubes by about a half.
- (3) use the existing resources.
- (4) resume the K2K experiment as soon as possible; the goal may be within one year.
- (1) Restore the full Super-Kamiokande detector armed with the state-of-the-art techniques.
- (2) The detector will be ready by the time of the commissioning of the JHF machine.
Best regards,
Yoji Totsuka
director, Kamioka Observatory
On behalf of the Kamioka Observatory staff
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This is an important warning to all slashdotters. CmdrTaco has been luring people (mainly underage males) into the slashdot compound to eat his "special taco".
You may be wondering what CmdrTaco's "special taco" is. You will be wishing that you hadn't been wonder after you finish reading his post. To make his "special taco", CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconcious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconcous until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim.
After the victim is unconcous, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTaco's nefarious sexual purposes.
Please, if CmdrTaco offers you his "special taco", RUN LIKE HELL!!!!!!!!
Digital Divide? The only divide Linux can bridge is the crack of my ass, when I use it to wipe my ass clean.
Rock solid stability for a Long time. Thats gotta be linux.
I must say, the very fact that people such as those who make posts like this makes me wonder about the value of the human race. I for one, hope that this commnet was made by random ASCII values due to bugs in slashcode, and not by a real person
Don't Bogart the fish sticks
OPEN SOURCE PROGRAMMERS STINK
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Slashot admits the truth here:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/25/219
As we already know open source programmers stink, both at their jobs, and in general. Take RMS for instance. He can't get a job as a real programmer so he starts the FSF. He also hasn't taken a bath or shower in over 20 years making him stink in general. Living in a dark cave doesn't help either. I don't want to know what is crawling around in his hair.
I'm sure there are people at your office who are just like RMS if they can hold their jobs. You know they are close because you can smell them. You are spending hours of overtime fixing their code.
For anyone reading this post none of this is a suprise. However, slashdot is a bastion of open source programmers. That is why the code is so bad, and its the only website that you can smell over the internet because it reaks!!!!
What was suprising to me (and to you I'm sure) was that slashdot admitted in the above linked article that open source programmers stink.
I commend slashdot for admitting the brutal yet honest truth.
Digital Divide? The only divide Linux can bridge is the crack of my ass, when I use it to wipe my ass clean.
How's that Indrema thing you guys are so fond of?
How did CmdrTaco get his name? We now know more of the story.
The story goes something like this. Rob Malda always liked tacos. He would eat them every day. Rob would also shove taco shells up his ass. Since CowboyNeal loved to spank Rob (and Rob enjoyed being spanked by CowboyNeal), the taco shells would be smashed driving the shards into his puckered filthy anus.
Like most Mexican food, the tacos gave Rob lots of farts and shit coming out of his ass. The farts stank everything up so much so that Hemos (the name Hemos as we know came from the two words he and homos) and the rest complained constantly. The only relief was when RMS would come over to suck their dicks since RMS stank worse than Rob since he hasn't taken a bath or shower in over 20 years.
The other problem was the shit coming out of Rob's ass. One problem was that Rob was a shit dribbler. (This was a result of the smashed taco shells in his ass. You could think of it as a miniture version of the anus of the goatse.cx guy.) That meant that whereever he went in the slashdot compound there would be a small layer of shit on the floor. (You know that everyone in the slashdot compound is naked so Rob never shit in his pants unless he went outside.)The other problem was that the toilet was always clogged from when Rob needed to take an actual shit meaning that JonKatz would have to piss and shit outside. Needless to say the neighbors did not appricate this leading to JonKatz's arrest many times. (It's too bad that he wasn't kept in jail.) This problem was eventually solved by letting JonKatz shit out stories on slashdot. What??? You thought that JonKatz's stories came from a part of his body other than his ass????
It was later discovered that Rob was a toilet slave. He enjoyed eating other people's shit. Instead the rest of them force fed him his own shit. Rob would also lick the floors clean. Thus, he commanded the taco for its entire life cycle (from both ends of his body no less) earning the name Commander Taco. This was later shortened to CmdrTaco.
Digital Divide? The only divide Linux can bridge is the crack of my ass, when I use it to wipe my ass clean.
It has been estimated that the US will spend $100 Billion in a year pursuing justice in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. That comes out to approximately $300 million per day! Or we will spend what is required to fix the SuperK in 12 hours. Kind of puts things in perspective.
If you by I seriously doubt most of them want to eat CmdrTaco's "special taco", or be used as his sexual toy you mean I am seriously trying to cause sensorship of posts that sicken the rest of humanity, the yes, perhaps it was a valid post. I hope you die, lonley and in pain.
Don't Bogart the fish sticks
What, did CmdrTaco turn down your gay advances, or something? Is that why you're so pissed off?
They should have just done a full restart from the beggining. Or better yet, upgrade to windows 2000, it is much more stable than 98. Or maybe they installed a new printer and the software conflicted with their purple monkey guy program and their prirated version of quake III.
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What does this mean for Joe Sixpack?
Yet another crppling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confrmed tht *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in th recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
No one expected someone as stupid as you to be able to use a browser, either.
I'll come in again.
Now I is one!
signed,
BurritoBandito, MrMenstruation, MeEunuch, Jon "Floater" Crapz, Crowboy Kneel, Timid mouthy and My creel.
...but my major love of /. back in the day was that people who knew a little bit about the topic would chip in and we'd all learn more. My problem with /. today is that every jerkass with a wisecrack speaks up. Please Taco, we need a dumbass filter, now more than ever.
/. in mind that the parent gets modded down first and that others cry out against the idiocy that is running rampant on our beloved site.
I expect that my comment will be modded down, as it is entirely offtopic, but I pray, with
Perhaps we should have two sections to every story, a 'for play' section and a 'for real' section where those that are informed can spread the knowledge.
Thank You
"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." -- Dalai Lama