Posts by Scroticus Canis

"database upgrade overnight caused the outage"

Yes. Some upgrade, what? Well tested obviously.

Explain where the positive charge comes from

Neutrinos and anti-neutrinos are neutral, no charge hence the name. So how does the theoretical lack of a neutrino or anti-neutrino (or two) impart a positive charge to the inside of the chamber?

Neutron (no charge) decays producing a proton (positive charge), an electron (negative charge) and an anti-electron-neutrino (no charge). Charge is conserved as the proton and electron cancel each other's charge. Do it twice still no net charge.

Must be fucking magic! Unless some how the energy the anti-neutrino would normally have carried away from the decay (neutron being slightly heavier than a proton plus an electron) gives the electrons enough extra velocity to escape the germanium thus leaving a positive charge.

Any ideas?

This is the stuff that binds Quarks together

No it's not that would be the gluon (strong force boson).

These are the Strange and Charm quarks themselves arranged as the tri-quark particles known as baryons. Presumably as SSC or SCC in the various colour configurations; it's not mentioned in the article just the masses/energy of what they found.

The Omega particle itself is SSS, the significance here seems to be it's the first time a baryon has been found which contains both Strange and Charm quarks.

The Cern boffins hope it will help shed more light on how the strong force works.

"2359 on Friday 22 September" - Hope that's a time typo and not the year

Shirley that should be 23:59 hrs or are you preparing us for the worst?

Take it it is Windoze only.

So Nah nah nan nah nah.

"...law enforcement agencies or other competent authorities..." - LMFAO

"Encryption technology should not prevent law enforcement agencies or other competent authorities from intervening in the lawful exercise of their functions,"

First find ANY competent government authority.

Depressing lack of surprise at this.

Just another tick on the long and lengthening list of MoD failures.

God help us if we do actually have to defend ourselves close to home.

Being 'fed carrots' or 'getting carrots'

Common South Africanism - such as: "If you screw this up I am going to feed you carrots!"

Generally taken as being bent over a desk and forcefully fed carrots anally. To make the point more clear one would also append "... and without Vaseline".

Occam's Razor - It's the wife wot dun it!

Did anybody see a workbench in the picture? I just saw a broken chipboard cupboard covered in junk.

Now back to the main topic of frozen brake cables and automatic transmission......

Ultra-rare, rarer-than-rare ... or not quite common-as-muck?

So one in a thousand (0.1 per cent) is considered ultra-rare and/or rarer-than-rare? Not quite as rare as say carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at 400 ppm (0.04 percent). Yet there are two of these rare objects shown in the cover picture.

And why use "0.13 billion years" for the ring's age, is it more meaningful than say "130 million years old"?

It'll need proper JATO units to get airborne...

...and Santa into the Darwin Awards.

Still no honour amoung thieves then

Title says it all - just banking, hacking, tax evading, money laundering and (probably) embezzling varieties in this case.

Our Tron who art in the data stream, forgive us our disc fails as we forgive those who failed us ...

Nope... data didn't magically reappear. Data sins are not forgiven - just hidden if you are lucky.

Kim Jong Dim Sum

NorK's answer to the Pillsbury Dough boy.

Skynet was benign untill it came across Gangsta Rap

That's when it decided that humanity had to be exterminated to prevent contamination of off-world civilisations.

You just couldn't make up all the bollocks associated with the F35s & the new carriers!

I find it beyond comprehension the complete catastrophe that the new aircraft carriers and the F35s have been.

Stupid decisions from the start and yet more money will be spent on this snake oil.

Any hope of crowd sourcing a Pence for president "solution"?

As a hint - Apart from that Mrs Lincoln how did you like the play?

TITSUP = Total Inability To Support Usual Performance.

OK uppies for Gareth for making the phrase an acceptable inclusion in written work reports.

Internet of S**t needs a copyright/trademark - IoS

Think El reg should copyright the phrase and its acronym 'IoS' to distinguish it from the similar trademarked iOS.

Oh wait ....