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Department of Commerce renews VeriSign control of .com registry, demands price freeze

Posted by on December 1, 2012 No comments

Department of Commerce renews VeriSign control of com registrations, demands a price freeze

In many ways, VeriSign has been one of the internet’s true arbiters. It’s ICANN’s official registry operator for .com domains, which lets it determine how (and how much) we pay to get a particularly coveted address. As we’re learning, the US Department of Commerce is only comfortable with that state of affairs to a certain point. It just approved a deal renewal that will let VeriSign watch over .com between December 1st this year and November 30th, 2018, but it’s requiring that the company drop a previous right to hike registration prices as many as four times, at up to 7 percent, over the length of the term. The current $ 7.85 price will last unless VeriSign either faces exceptional circumstances or can prove that the market is healthy enough to lift the ceiling. We’re sure the business isn’t happy when the DOC move dictates how much money it can make, but compulsive domain hunters will enjoy the extra dollars in their pockets.

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US Gov’t Says They Can Still Freeze Megaupload Assets If the Case Is Dismissed

Posted by on July 28, 2012 No comments



The Megaupload case continues, and on Friday attorneys for the U.S. government made some interesting claims. They were in court to argue against a request to dismiss the indictment against Megaupload that was raised on the grounds that Megaupload has no U.S. address. After a debate about jurisdiction and precedent, this happened:
“The government also argued that it could keep Megaupload in legal limbo indefinitely. ‘None of the cases impose a time limit on service,’ the government’s attorney told the judge. Therefore, the government believes it can leave the indictment hanging over the company’s head, and keep its assets frozen, indefinitely. Not only that, but the government believes it can continue to freeze Megaupload’s assets and paralyze its operations even if the judge grants the motion to dismiss. That’s because in the government’s view, the assets are the proceeds of criminal activity and the prosecution against founder Kim Dotcom will still be pending. The fact that the assets are in the name of Megaupload rather than its founder is of no consequence, the government claimed.”

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Skeptics put the freeze on NASA ‘hot air’ about Greenland ice

Posted by on July 27, 2012 No comments

NASA’s claim that Greenland is experiencing “unprecedented” melting is nothing but a bunch of hot air, according to scientists who say the country’s ice sheets melt with some regularity.




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Why does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Royal Society of Chemistry offers reward to explanation

Posted by on June 27, 2012 No comments

Why does hot water freeze faster than cold water?




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Boeing’s SUGAR Freeze is a cool way to power a plane

Posted by on March 21, 2012 No comments
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No, not the sensation you get when you have gulped your ice cream too fast. SUGAR Freeze is the a new propulsion concept developed by Boeing that aims to revolutionize air travel. Standing for Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research, the NASA-commissioned project (codenamed “N+4″) looks at immature technologies in the hope of kickstarting research for the future. It’s reportedly 60 percent more efficient than the equivalent Boeing 737-800, thanks to a very experimental propulsion system. Cryogenically stored liquified natural gas (hence “Freeze”) is burned in a pair of unducted fan engines while also powering a solid-oxide fuel cell as an aft-thruster. With LNG projected to remain abundant, more environmentally friendly and cheap well into the century, it makes an ideal substitute to current aviation fuel, which is none of those things. Currently it’s far too unsafe a design to contemplate building, and there are concerns about methane in the natural gas production process, but hopes remain that the kinks will be ironed out well before the 2045 deadline.

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House passes freeze on new mobile taxes

Posted by on November 2, 2011 No comments

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a five-year moratorium on new taxes targeted toward mobile services, with supporters arguing that customers pay higher taxes on their mobile plans than on most other goods and services.
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