Big Bang machine will be 'even more perfect'

(CNN) -- On a recent episode of "South Park," Mr. Marsh steals a particle accelerator magnet so his son, Stan, can win the Pinewood Derby. The magnet's power results in an alien encounter, and chaos ensues.

The Compact Muon Solenoid, shown here in December, is one of six experiments inside the collider complex.

While the magnets at the real-life Large Hadron Collider may not reach extraterrestrials, scientists hope they will help lead to encounters with never-before-seen phenomena and answers to fundamental questions about the universe.

The collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, is being repaired after an electrical failure in September. Once it is fixed, the collider will circulate beams of particles with unprecedented energy. When these particles crash into each other, the resulting activity may help scientists figure out why the submicroscopic stuff that makes up our universe behaves the way it does.

The Large Hadron Collider will start receiving current again in July, and will circulate this year's first proton beam by the end of September, said Lyn Evans, former project leader for the collider who is currently involved with the machine's repairs. The collider is located more than 300 feet below the French-Swiss border at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

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Blackout Europe

URGENT - VOTING IN EU PARLIAMENT 5th of MAY 2009
Don't let the EU parliament lock up the Internet! There will be no way back!

Everyone who owns a website has an interest in defending the free use of Internet... so has everyone who uses Google or Skype... everyone who expresses their opinions freely, does research of any kind, whether for personal health problems or academic study ... everyone who shops online...who dates online...socialises online... listens to music...watches video...

Millions of Europeans now depend on the Internet, directly or indirectly, for their livelihood. Taking it away, chopping it up, ‘restricting it', ‘limiting it' and placing conditions on our use of it, will have a direct impact on people's earnings. And in the current financial climate, that can't be good.

The internet as we know it is at risk because of proposed new EU rules going through end of April. Under the proposed new rules, broadband providers will be legally able to limit the number of websites you can look
at, and to tell you whether or not you are allowed to use particular services. It will be dressed up as ‘new consumer options' which people can choose from. People will be offered TV-like packages - with a limited
number of options for you to access.

It means that the Internet will be packaged up and your ability to access and to put up content could be severely restricted. It will create boxes of Internet accessibility, which don't fit with the way we use it today. This is because internet is now permitting exchanges between persons which cannot be controlled or "facilitated" by any middlemen (the state or a corporation) and this possibility improves the citizen's life but force the industry to lose power and control. that's why they are pushing governments to act those changes.

The excuse is to control the flow of music, films and entertainment content against the alleged piracy by downloading for free, using P2P file-sharing. However, the real victims of this plan will be all Internet users and the democratic and independent access to information, culture goods.

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Ubuntu 9.04: WOW

As you all know I have been using Linux for a long, long time. I have installed countless distributions: Some of them have seen long-term use, while some of them have been nothing more than a flash in the pan. Ubuntu is one of those that has come and gone for me. I have used it on many occasions, been generally impressed with its offerings, but ultimately gone back to another distribution for one reason or another.

I have seen, over the last few Ubuntu releases, a serious decline in performance. Starting somewhere around 7.04, each successive release grew progressively more and more sluggish. From boot times to application start up times, Ubuntu seemed to be coming to a slow painful crawl. With 9.04 Ubuntu has made a complete turnaround.

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And while you are there if you are a Pro user you can take a good look at Ubuntu Studio 9.04. El cheapos that use Windows ANY version pirated or Hackintosh please do yourselves a favor and try Ubuntu 9.04. Its FREE and Super.

Tech titans fall but Apple defies gravity

As the global economic crisis shows little sign of relenting, last week was a brutal one in technology. News Corp digital chief Jonathan Miller fired MySpace's two co-founders, chief executive Chris DeWolfe and president Tom Anderson. A Swedish court sentenced the two founders of Pirate Bay to a year in prison.

Yahoo! announced plans to lay off another 5 per cent of staff and shut down GeoCities, the web hosting company it bought for US$3.6 billion ($6.4 billion) in 1999.

The once promising search start-up Cuil has closed, while Joost, at one point the great hope of online video, is for sale. Even Microsoft announced a 6 per cent annual drop in revenue, the first since it went public in 1986.

Microsoft chief financial officer Chris Liddell describes business conditions as "the most difficult economic environment the company has faced in our 30-year history". But for Apple, Microsoft's greatest rival over the last 25 years, the most serious global economic crisis in a century has had little impact on the company's growth.

Yes, in the midst of all the economic carnage, a Steve Jobs-less Apple continues to defy economic gravity.

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RapidShare

Indeed. They are Sharing Rapidly your IPs to the labels.

The popular Germany-based file hosting service RapidShare has allegedly begun handing over user information to record labels looking to pursue illegal file-sharers. The labels appear to be making use of paragraph 101 of German copyright law, which allows content owners to seek a court order to force ISPs to identify users behind specific IP addresses. Though RapidShare does not make IP information public, the company appears to have given the information to at least one label, which took it to an ISP to have the user identified.

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First, ThePirateBay.org and now this? You people surely are dumb as dumb can be.

So, pirates vs companies, what is the score? 4-0? YOU ARE DAMN SHEEP!

Notice to Tim Cook: Apple Has A Netbook

>> RETARD ALERT ON <<

Sorry, Tim. But you’ve already done it. You have a netbook, today. It’s called the MacBook Air. And it has a hard time measuring up to Windows-based netbooks, on price, or Mac OS-based laptops, based on performance.

You can avoid the facts, if you want. But the class “A” netbook on the PC side is the Asus Eee PC 1000HE. The class “A” netbook on your side is the base version of the Air. Kid yourself not. When consumers are comparing portable computers that let them move about with little weight, decent-sized keyboards and screens and access to Web, these are the machines (and Windows and Linux equivalents) that let them do so.

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However, below are my two cents for what they worth.

That retard, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, is amazingly diving into the bullshit territory with his above post. He compares that ASUS crap book with a real high tech wonder book that MacBook Air still is and that other bigger PC players than ASUS, even in the next half year if not more, STILL trying to play catch up while NO MATTER what their price level is.

And yet, here we are, talking about THE MOST retarded post of that professional ZD writer in quite some time. Just to give you an example, if all the above seems chinese to you, its like saying that an apple fruit equals an orange fruit. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld = stupid. Oh, yes. STUPID. What a retard. Please go and commit a suicide before you even point to Apple that they already have a netbook product.

Oh, and while you are there, please check around the world how many professional writers, analysts, business people, et al BEGGING Apple to produce a netbook. Oh, wait, didn't you just did the same thing on your post? Let me remind your OWN RETARD words:

Get over the acerbic analysis. Get on with a market-redefining product for accessing the Internet.

That uses both hands. Or voice alone. But not the slow tap-tap-tap of the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Get lost you Micro$oft hypocrite. YES, YOU the Mr. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld person. Or should I say, GTFO of our Internet world.

>> RETARD ALERT OFF <<

Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion

In a recent blog post, the Cyber Secure Institute claims that based on their previous studies into the average cost of such malware attacks, the economic loss due to the Conficker worm could be as high as $9.1 billion.

Despite that their analysis also considered a much limited infection rate (200,000 infected hosts), they claim that the cost of the virus in this case is still around $200 million. The research excludes an important fact though - not only is Conficker still active and infecting, but also, according to the most recent infection rate estimate courtesy of the Conficker Working Group, the number of infected hosts is 3.5 million.

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Microsoft sales fall for first time in 23 years

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that declining PC sales hurt revenue, as the software giant reported quarterly sales that fell for the first time in its 23-year history as a public company.

The Redmond, Wash.-based company said sales fell 6% from a year earlier to $13.7 billion, missing analysts' expectations of $14.1 billion.

Meanwhile, the company's net income fell 32% to $2.98 billion, or 33 cents per share, in its third quarter ended March 31.

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I've long thought it funny when Microsoft-fans would tell me how Linux, open-source, the Mac, whatever would never be important because Microsoft products were clearly better. Now, everyone can get on the joke as Microsoft's earnings plummeted in the last quarter by over 30%.

For the stockholders among you that means Microsoft's diluted earnings per share were down 30% over last year and well below what the the analysts were expecting. What carved into Microsoft's piggy-bank? According to Microsoft it was "a poor showing in its Client, Microsoft Business Division and Server & Tools groups." In other words, pretty much everything.

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World of Warcraft

Your friends are concerned about how much you play World of Warcraft.

Watch until the end. Enjoy.