Posts by dukwon

Zombie Cambridge Analytica told 'death' can't save it from the law

Re: Fob off is a very polite way of describing it

Isn't that technically true? Doesn't everyone enjoy this kind of protection against UK-based companies under the DPA, regardless of location?

Boffins gently wake the Large Hadron Collider from annual hibernation

Hold your horses

There are 5 weeks planned of 'recommissioning with beam' and 1 week of 'scrubbing' before we get to the physics programme, currently scheduled to start on 12th June.

I'm looking forward to seeing the machine approach the maximum number of bunches per beam (in principle 2808, in practice a bit less). The operators are already teasing us by uploading a candidate 2760 bunch scheme.

Colliders, containers, dark matter: The CERN atom smasher's careful cloud revolution

Re: in the control center photo

In the LHCb control room we used to have some Win7 machines mixed in with Scientific Linux machines, but now they all run CERN's own flavour of CentOS. At the CERN Control Centre (pictured) apparently the accelerator operator machines all run Linux now (presumably the same CentOS). There might be some Windows machines left for other purposes.

Re: in the control center photo

They definitely used to. I don't think they do any more: it's probably an old photo.

Large Hadron Collider turns up five new particles

Re: Er, "new" particle?

I don't know where you got the idea that hadrons aren't particles. Even the paper itself uses the word "particle" several times to refer to hadrons: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04639

CERN boffins see strange ... oh, wait, that's just New Zealand moving 2m north

Re: That sinoidal signal in the CERN data...

It's the tidal force of the moon on the Earth's crust