... according to top-secret documents.

Should read, " ... according to formerly top-secret documents."

Any discussion like this is pointless without knowing the price. As in, "It's nice, but not for $XXXX." Or, "Since it costs as much per square inch as the two monitors it will replace, it's very attractive."

IBanking sells for around $5,000 or for a cut of the proceeds from theft it facilitates, Symantec wrote.

Like all these stories, $5,000 may be the "sticker" or asking price. How many sold at this price or at any price is the important metric.

How many stories have we read in the last two decades about breakthroughs in power that will replace current battery technology, cut the power cord, end our dependence on carbon or make our undies clean and white on half the water? How many have resulted in actual products and a better life?

Only the clean and white one.

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter scored quite well.

In the interests of completeness ...
Apple, CREDO Mobile, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Sonic, Twitter, and Yahoo Top Chart, Receive 6 Stars Each

... "open source" isn't "open source" isn't "open source?" My gosh, Windows is Windows. Apple is Apple.

I'm so confused.

6,000 tons of Carbon Fiber sounds like a lot until you compare it to total US car sales of more than 16 million units. That's about one and a third pound of Carbon Fiber per car.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/0...

On top of that, the federal government is attempting to force Nevada into accepting a bunch of the uranium 233, as is, for disposal in a landfill (the Nevada Nuclear Security Site).

The Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) is a premier outdoor testing, evaluation and training facility the size of the state of Rhode Island. The Site supports national defense as well as many research and development programs for the National Nuclear Security Administration. The NNSS hosts an array of defense and national security experiments for the National Weapons Laboratories, as well as supporting homeland security, non-proliferation testing and treaty verification training, radiological detection and first responder training.

http://www2.nstec.com/Pages/in...

This isn't some hole in the ground full of coffee grounds and soiled nappies.

And then I said, " ...

Not mentioned in the post for some reason was the loss of $49.8 million for the quarter compared to an $11.3 million profit in the same quarter last year. Accumulated losses since 2009 are on the order of $800 million.
http://files.shareholder.com/d...

Making cars is hard. Making a profit doing it is harder still.

Companies used to locate based on availability of transportation -- rivers, ports etc. Now it's a data pipe.

I would simply buy some land a little farther north.

Or maybe it's not such a big problem.
More than 7,000 years ago, domesticated cattle appeared along the Tigris and Euphrates river valley, the origin of the first agricultural society of the Sumerians. The ancient Egyptians made cheese, and Isis, the Egyptian goddess and patroness of agriculture, is often represented as a woman with the horns of a cow, a sacred animal.
http://www.floridamilk.com/dai...

Isn't it hot there?

It would be nice to know how many of these super electric cars have to be sold for the manufacturer to break even. With and without the tax credits.

Tesla lost $74 million on sales just short of $2 billion in 2013. Cumulative losses from 2009 through 2013 were about $935 million.
http://quote.morningstar.com/s...

German auto brand Volkswagen's XL1, which it claims is the most fuel-efficient production car ever made, has been named the winner of the Transport category at Designs of the Year 2014.
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/05/...

You may have seen this advert in the Goodwood Festival of Speed programme and are wondering how we determined that the XL1 was the worldâ(TM)s most fuel-efficient hybrid production vehicle.
http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/ab...

And it's a looker.

According to Robert Patton, the director of Oklahoma's department of corrections, when doctors felt that the drugs were not having the required effect on Lockett, they discovered that a vein had ruptured.
This is not a problem related to the drug(s) used but incompetent administration.

This in spite of myriad objections that the drugs being used for both lethal injections had not been tested ...
How does one test lethal injections?