Powering Starships with Compact Condensed Quark Matter from local very fast …Next Big FutureThis hypothesis implies a relic CCO population in the Solar System, captured during its formation, which would lead to a population of “strange asteroids,” bodies with mm-radii…
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Think ICANN Will End Up Rolling in New gTLD Cash? Think Again! – CircleID
Think ICANN Will End Up Rolling in New gTLD Cash? Think Again!CircleIDWith an initial 1,930 applications received, round one actually netted ICANN $359.994 million. But subsequent reimbursements at percentages of 80, 70 and 35 of the total $185,000 application fee…
We Saw It Coming: Dinky Asteroid Hits Earth, Burns Up – Discovery News
Space Ref (press release) We Saw It Coming: Dinky Asteroid Hits Earth, Burns UpDiscovery NewsFor only the second time in history, an asteroid has hit Earth that was discovered hours before impact. But don’t panic! The asteroid didn’t put a…
Rewiring Internet Governance: Summing up ICANN Policy Walking Backward … – CircleID
Rewiring Internet Governance: Summing up ICANN Policy Walking Backward …CircleIDis a figment of the institutional ambitions of persons responsible for ICANN administrative policies that, if left unchecked, will bifurcate Internet and thus obviate or make it difficult to subsequently introduce…
Tiny Asteroid Discovered Just Yesterday “Virtually Certain” to Have Harmlessly … – Slate Magazine (blog)
SkyandTelescope.com Tiny Asteroid Discovered Just Yesterday “Virtually Certain” to Have Harmlessly …Slate Magazine (blog)For just the second time in history, an asteroid was discovered before it impacted the Earth. Don’t panic: It was very small, probably just a few meters…
Asteroid families classification: exploiting very large data sets – Space Ref (press release)
Asteroid families classification: exploiting very large data setsSpace Ref (press release)The number of asteroids with accurately determined orbits increases fast. The catalogs of asteroid physical observations have also increased, although the number of objects is still smaller than in the…
ICANN advises on domain name collisions – ITWeb
ITWeb ICANN advises on domain name collisionsITWebThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued advice to IT professionals worldwide on how to proactively identify and manage private name space leakage into the public domain name system (DNS).…
FOWLER: Health care fumbles, new pope, exploding asteroids, oh my! – Seguin Gazette-Enterprise
FOWLER: Health care fumbles, new pope, exploding asteroids, oh my!Seguin Gazette-EnterpriseWhile scientists were determining that Mars could have supported life and keeping an eye on a huge well-tracked asteroid passing within 17,200 miles of Earth, another asteroid snuck in the…
It's Time for Privacy Progress in ICANN – CircleID
It’s Time for Privacy Progress in ICANNCircleIDPrivacy issues have been important to parts of the ICANN community for many years. I can attest to that fact as a long time veteran of Whois debates as far back as 1998 when…
New York Times Interview Vin Cerf On ICANN/ITU & Where The Internet Is Going – TheDomains.com
New York Times New York Times Interview Vin Cerf On ICANN/ITU & Where The Internet Is GoingTheDomains.com“Dr. Cerf, who was chairman of Icann from 2000-7, has become known as an informal “Internet ambassador” and a strong proponent of an Internet…