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The largest particle accelerator in the world, the LHC of the European Center for Physics, will start in August , as being told by CERN in Geneva. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a circular tunnel 27 kilometers long at the height of Geneva and the Swiss-French border. In this tunnel particles are fired at nearly the speed of light that in turn come into conflict with each other.…

When a business leaves payment up to the customer, what you do says a lot about you By REBECCA DUBE From Monday’s Globe and Mail July 28, 2008 at 9:44 AM EDT KITCHENER, ONT. — Would you steal if no one was watching? Are people basically good? Is trust dead? Weighty questions to ponder before your morning coffee, but they percolate daily along with the fair-trade coffee at the…

Tens of thousands of Britons are being covertly tracked without their consent in a technology experiment which has installed scanners at secret locations in offices, campuses, streets and pubs to pinpoint people’s whereabouts. The scanners, the first 10 of which were installed in Bath three years ago, are capturing Bluetooth radio signals transmitted from devices such as mobile phones, laptops and digital cameras, and using the data to follow…

The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The project, which is still in its initial stages, goes by the name “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,” or IPETEE for short. It tackles encryption not on the application level, but on the network level, the aim being that…

George Carlin recently put his “doomed to go to hell” soul to rest =6/22/2008 RIP truthspeaker= and in memory of his humorous awareness of life (dark side//bright side): a clip out of one of his performances. George Carlin: education and the owners of America <<video>>

Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide ‘renewable petroleum’ “Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – this is…

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Town where cocaine is the only currency By Jeremy McDermott in Guerima Last Updated: 11:04PM BST 15/06/2008 Guerima, a remote Colombian settlement, wants its Marxist rebels back. With the national army deployed in a stranglehold around the town, there is nobody to traffic the town’s only commodity – drugs. JERRY MCDERMOTT A shoe shop owner weighs out coca base handed over by a customer in exchange for goods More…