“GENEVA — Scientists will have to wait until spring to use the world’s biggest particle collider for groundbreaking research because repairs to damage will run into the laboratory’s normal winter shutdown, the operators said Tuesday.” So reported Fox News today (9/23/08).

Apparently during start up of the Large Hadron Collider, two magnets need to properly operate the system melted. This damage appears to be result of an electrical failure. Scotty, where for art thou? This was the second failure near startup. Per the news article, the first (a faulty electrical transform) happened about 36 hours after startup and was quickly repaired. The current failure will require several weeks waiting time to warm the LHC from absolute zero before damage assessment can begin. It is estimated that total repair time will be at least two months. This ‘dead’ time will push the re-activation of the collider passed it’s normally scheduled winter break. Due to the massive power demands of the collider, it is typically shut down from Mid-November thru late March/early April due to increased European power demands.

When asked for comments, Dr. Gordon Freeman remarked. “I’m getting the frak out of here. If I don’t take my vacation now, I’ll never get it.” All other comments were quickly silenced by the facility security.

Kid Dogg and Mongo Bear are back and this time around there’s no script no plan.Interested!/ find out what happens when you let two geeks go at it. there’s talk about RFID chips and there use’s in the Gaming industry talk on weather Apple should make there own game system. so tune in and see what happens. music guest’s this week are Sister Machine Gun with two songs (if you don’t count the KDS theme song) Carbon Copy and Loser.

Fresh from their success at Nvision, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman – better known as the Mythbusters – have found themselves in the middle of a global conspiracy conducted by major credit-card corporations. At least, if Adam’s comments at a recent conference are true.

According to CNet, Savage was asked by an audience member at an un-named conference why the team – which host a show aimed at testing common myths in an often explosive manner – had never tested the well-publicised vulnerabilities of RFID chips, including the well-known (and well-cracked) MiFare Classic.

In a video of the conference, Savage details a call which took place between Tory Belleci – a member of the show’s B-team – and Texas Instruments as part of the research carried out ahead of a planned RFID-busting episode. Sadly, Belleci got more than he bargained for: as well as Texas Instruments, the call featured the chief legal councils for American Express, Visa, Discover, and “everyone else” which left the team feeling “way, way out-gunned.”

In a fit of foot-stomping reminiscent of the recent court-ordered ban on a talk regarding the vulnerabilities in the MiFare Classic-based CharlieCard transport payment system, the Discovery Channel – which owns the show – were told in no uncertain terms that “they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down, being a large corporation that depends on the revenue of the advertisers.” Savage continues with the explanation that the idea of an RFID-busting show is now “on Discovery’s radar and they won’t let us go near it.”

Bad news for a show which has, in the past, demonstrated shortcomings in PIR-based security systems, tumbler-based safes, and top-end biometric locking systems: especially when one considers that hiding the truth about RFID’s security issues isn’t going particularly well. As has been demonstrated so very many times in the past, security through obscurity is no security at all.

Texas Instruments, on the other hand, recalls the conversation very differently. In a statement, the company claims that the credit card companies were only involved “to help Mythbusters get the right information,” and that only “one contactless payment company’s legal counsel member” was involved. The company further asserts that “technical questions were asked and answered” and that it was waiting “for Mythbusters to let us know when they were planning on showing the segment” when they heard “that the storyline had changed and they were pursuing a different angle which did not require our help.

Here we go again as Kelly continues to kick both mine and mongo’s butts across the world of podcasting, this time around were talking about up coming movies that were looking forward to. Including the new fast and the furious movie, tron 2 and G.I Joe.

It’s a first for KDS as we have our first female guest on the show Kelly “mrs leftybrown” Brown and boy dose she step up swinging. Join us as KD and Mongo get there ass handed to them by Kelly as they talk about film stars upcoming movies the press and Brendan Fraser Action figures!?
Music guest this week are strangeday and mainstreet exit

following on from the last KDs were talking about podiobooks, we give you some ideas about what you can find out there.music guest this week are And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead,Crush and Black Atom.

Disney unveiled computer animation that for a sequel to its classic 1982 animated SF movie Tron in a surprise announcement to more than 6,500 fans at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 24.

The sequence opens with a camera twisting through the clouds during a thunderstorm, then down and across a grid. In the center, a figure in a new version of the blue light suit runs and jumps, and a new version of the lightcycle materializes under him.

He engages a second lightcycle rider in yellow-green in a chase, down stairs, up ramps, over planes of transparency, hurtling toward the grid’s edge, beyond which loom gray mountains, split by a narrow crevasse.

The cyclists speed side by side toward the crevasse, each trying to sideswipe the other one and throw him off balance.

Blue reaches the mountain and disappears into the gap. Green skids to a stop, perpendicular to the opening, and then takes off in a different direction.

Blue travels on a twisting path through the mountain; beyond lies a bridge leading to a vast cityscape.

Blue crosses Green’s laser trail, and his lightcycle shatters into a million pieces, throwing Blue through the air.

The footage then cuts to a vast, white live-action room in which sits an older version of what seems to be Kevin Flynn from the original film, still played by Jeff Bridges. He looks out a broad window and sees Green below him on the bridge.

Green has gotten off his bike, and is carrying a collapsed version of his lightcycle, approaches the crumpled body of Blue.

Green stops and looks up, toward a gigantic mountain rising above them. We can see white light shining from a rectangular window cut into the mountain side. Is this where Flynn is watching?

Blue says to Green, “This is just a game!”

Green replies, “Not anymore.”

Green throws his cycle at Blue and the footage cuts to black. The footage ends with a stylized “2,” which merges into the word “Tron.”

From:Scifi.com

Zachary Quinto, who takes over the role of Spock from Leonard Nimoy in director J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek reboot movie, told SCI FI Wire that he based his characterization as much on the film’s script as on Nimoy’s previous performance of the iconic character.

“I really felt like my relationship to the character was specific to the text I was playing and to the world in which the character is being created right now, this time,” Quinto said in an interview at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 20. “So I didn’t feel beholden to Leonard, other than to honor the origins of what he created, obviously. But I think the whole project was based in that philosophy, so it wasn’t a problem.”

Qunito plays Spock at an early stage in the character’s life. Nimoy also appears in the film, presumably as an aged version of the character, though Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have remained coy about the exact storyline.

Quinto–who also returns to play the villainous Sylar in the third season of NBC’s superhero series Heroes–said that he wrapped his role in Star Trek at the end of March and that the film wrapped production at the end of April. It is now in post-production, with an eye to a May 8, 2009, release.

Quinto can be glimpsed in his new Spock makeup and costume in a preview poster for the film that will be debuted at Comic-Con International in San Diego this week; the poster, one of four, can be viewed at the official Web site under the “downloads” link.

“I think it looks great,” Quinto said of the teaser posters. “I think it’s a really cool concept to bring them all together. I think the colors look really great. And, you know, I think it’s a hearkening of what’s to come. … I think it’s going to be really cool.”

So how cool was it to put on the ears? “That was a momentous occasion,” Quinto admitted. “I shared it with my dog. He was there.”