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Submission + - Skateboard Attack is a Quantum Mystery

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NotNormallyNormal

on Thursday June 25, 2009 @03:16PM

NotNormallyNormal writes: "It appears that quantum mechanics can't be solved with a skateboard. A court case in San Mateo County has a homeless man on trial for attacking another transient. Apparently a discussion between two homeless men about "quantum mechanics and the splitting of atoms" was rudely ended by a third homeless man who joined the conversation and then ended it by hitting one of the other men with a skateboard. It might be hard for the man to claim innocence with there being two external observers knowing that will collapse the wave function. Maybe he was trying to explain how the skateboard could tunnel through his head?"

Submission + - ICANN loses control of its own Domain Names (www.cbc.ca)

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NotNormallyNormal

on Friday July 04, 2008 @02:59PM

NotNormallyNormal writes: "CBC.ca picked up an AP story about ICANN recently losing control of their domain names ICANN.com and IANA.com for about 20 minutes on Thursday. A domain registrar run by the group transferred the domains to someone else. As quoted by ICANN about the situation:

"As has been widely reported, a number of domain names, including icann.com and iana.com were recently redirected to different DNS servers, allowing a group to provide visitors to those domains with their own website. The domains in question are used only as mirrors for ICANN and IANA's main websites. The organizations' actual websites at icann.org and iana.org were unaffected... ...It would appear the attack was sophisticated, combining both social and technological techniques, but was also limited and focused.""

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