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Comment Re:So (Score 1) 1105

by Whatanut (#38011236) Attached to: IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years

Here's the problem with this. You can make your public transport system as green, affordable and practical as you want. However, outside of major urban areas, it's still far more convenient for me to go get in my car and go where I want, when I want. Not to mention the psychological effect of being in control of where I'm going.
Power

Tesla To Build a Rapid-Charging Station Between LA and SF 215

Posted by timothy from the good-place-to-get-mugged dept.
thecarchik writes "Earlier this year at the official launch of the 2012 Model S Sedan, Musk said that Tesla was planning on installing ultra-rapid charging stations along major arterial freeways such as the I-5 between Canada and Mexico, but declined to give specifics. But in an official Tesla earnings call last week, Musk let slip where the first of these ultra-rapid charging stations would be: somewhere between San Francisco and Los Angeles. However, even by the shortest route, the distance between the two cities is nearly 400 miles, meaning that an equidistant SuperCharger would be no use to owners of Model S sedans with smaller 160 or 230-mile battery packs."
Cellphones

Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets 281

Posted by samzenpus from the have-another-option dept.
First time accepted submitter GuerillaRadio writes "Mark Shuttleworth is to announce that Canonical will be taking Ubuntu Linux to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL starting today. Shuttleworth said, 'This is a natural expansion of our idea as Ubuntu as Linux for human beings. As people have moved from desktop to new form factors for computing, it's important for us to reach out to our community on these platforms. So, we'll embrace the challenge of how to use Ubuntu on smartphones, tablets and smart-screens.'"
Security

Authorities Seize Duqu's C&C Servers In Mumbai 53

Posted by samzenpus from the following-the-trail dept.
wiredmikey writes "In Mumbai, Indian authorities seized components from servers in a data center after Symantec informed them that they were communicating with the command and control infrastructure used by Duqu, the Trojan that is touted as the precursor to the next Stuxnet. According to a report from Reuters, officials the Department of Information Technology in India seized hard drives and other components from a server hosted in a Mumbai data center. Security vendors and government labs are worried that malware such as Duqu and Stuxnet are the building blocks needed in order for attackers to target critical infrastructure. Based on the initial analysis of Duqu, many researchers warned that it was the second generation development of Stuxnet, but this is still the subject of much debate, with some experts now saying that the connection between the two malicious programs is questionable."

27,000 South Koreans Sue Apple 112

Posted by samzenpus from the one-bad-apple dept.
jfruhlinger writes "You may have already forgotten the iPhone location-tracking furor, but 27,000 South Koreans haven't! They (or the lawyers recruiting them) have launched a class action suit against Apple due to the 'emotional distress' suffered. The litigants are seeking around $1,000 apiece in damages. From the article: 'Apple has faced complaints and criticisms since it said in April that its iPhones were storing locations of nearby cellphone towers and Wi-Fi hot spots for up to a year. Such data can be used to create a rough map of the device owner's movements.'"

Comment Define "suffered from the outage" (Score 4, Insightful) 189

by Whatanut (#36217910) Attached to: PlayStation Network Hack Will Cost Sony $170M

Let's be honest. This is an outage of an entertainment network. I don't think anyone can really claim they suffered due to it not being available. If anything they may have gained by the fact that they did something else.

Now, if you want to argue that people are suffering due to the information loss, I'll go with that one. But not from the outage itself.

Comment Re:Nothing but respect... (Score 2) 349

by Whatanut (#35531420) Attached to: Heroism Is Part of a Nuclear Worker's Job

From the IAEA (http://www.iaea.org/press/):

CLARIFICATION
Contrary to several news reports, the IAEA to date has NOT received any notification from the Japanese authorities of people sickened by radiation contamination.

In the report of 17 March 01:15 UTC, the cases described were of people who were reported to have had radioactive contamination detected on them when they were monitored.

Comment Upstream pipes? (Score 1) 249

by Whatanut (#33566536) Attached to: Gigabit Speeds At Home In the US

Aaaaand, what's the pipe they have to the rest of the world? I don't care if I've got 1Gb to my provider. The rest of the internet isn't going to make that experience any better than 1Mb... In many cases I find that 1Mb isn't any better than 56Kb.. There are just too many factors to make this a non-issue. Fix the upstream and maybe I'll get excited about the link to my house.

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