Cody Taylor

mcleland lets us in on a Wall Street Journal story about two cold-war era, formerly top-secret vessels the US Navy is trying to give away. At issue are the Sea Shadow (the ancestor of all modern naval radar-evading technology) and the Hughes Mining Barge (a floating dry-dock and more-or-less base for the Sea Shadow). While the ships are being ‘given away,’ there are multiple regulations involved, making the gift a very costly one. “A Naval Museum is ‘a bloodthirsty, paper-work ridden, permit-infested, money-sucking hole,’ warns the Historic Naval Ships Association. Because the Navy won’t pay for anything — not rust-scraping or curating — to keep museums afloat, survival depends on big crowds.”

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afabbro writes “The US Supreme Court rejected the FTC’s bid to impose anti-trust penalties on Rambus. Without comment, they let stand an appeals court decision favoring Rambus. The FTC had found that Rambus undermined competition by getting secretly patented technology included in industry standards, but the Supremes evidently didn’t agree.”

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