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Russian Resupply Crash Could Mean Leaving ISS Empty 291

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 28, 2011 @10:28AM from the needs-a-good-cat-sitter dept.

astroengine writes "In the wake of the Russian Progress vehicle crash shortly after launch on Aug. 24, a chain of events has been set into motion that could result in the decision not to fly astronauts into orbit. If this happens, the ISS will be temporarily mothballed before the end of the year to avoid landing astronauts during the harsh Kazakh winter."

Comment Re:So wait.... (Score 3, Interesting) 490

by pjeremyh on Thursday June 26, 2008 @03:03PM (#23954051) Attached to: ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs

So for example the .cola domain, if pepsi gets it and registers .cola and pepsi.cola first then the only way we'll see coca.cola is if pepsi let them?

Submission + - Florida Scraps Touch Screen Voting, Literally (nytimes.com) 1

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Kaseijin

on Saturday October 13, 2007 @09:18AM

Kaseijin writes: "Florida Governor Charlie Crist is getting his wish. The New York Times reports the state will replace touch-screen voting machines with optical scan models by July 1, 2008. The touch-screen machines most likely will be sold to other jurisdictions or stripped for parts."

Examining the New Bubble 186

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 12, 2006 @11:31AM from the don't-pop-it dept.

abb_road writes "Whether or not we're in the midst of another boom-bust cycle in technology is a matter of fierce debate. BusinessWeek discusses what constituted that last bubble and looks at current trends to see if we're on the verge of a new one. From the article: 'The Great Bubble of the late '90s shaped a generation of Internet entrepreneurs and investors much as the Great Depression shaped a generation of economizers in the mid-20th century. 'The bubble generation is much more attuned to the fact that things can get really out of hand,' says Bill Burnham, a former partner at Mobius Venture Capital. 'There's a level of caution that has been ingrained.'"

ICANN Finally Rejects .xxx Domain 245

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 11, 2006 @10:03AM from the at-least-it's-over dept.

stalebread writes "Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet's key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the Internet." From the article: "In a split 9-5 board decision, the organisation acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position, in order to put an end to an increasingly difficult and controversial issue - the approval of a .xxx top-level domain. The .xxx registry application has been the focus of enormous political pressure on ICANN for the past six months and was used at one point as a political football in a wider tussle for power within the internet."

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