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+ - Tesla Hits Back Against New York Times' John Broder->

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SomePgmr writes "After the notorious, scripted failure of a Tesla on the popular show Top Gear, Tesla Motors has made a practice of enabling all on-board logging for any vehicle given to the media for review. It appears this practice has paid off, as Tesla responds to New York Times' John Broder's review of a Tesla Model S. The summary of log data is pretty damning."
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+ - New York City to cut emissions 90% by 2050?->

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jscheib writes "According to Will Oremus in Slate, a study released today finds that "New York City could slash its emissions by a whopping 90 percent by 2050 without any radical new technologies, without cutting back on creature comforts, and maybe even without breaking its budget." The key elements are insulating buildings to cut energy needs, converting to (mostly) electric equipment, and then using carbon-free electricity to supply the small amount of energy still needed. Oremus notes that including energy savings "would reduce the net price tag to something more like $20 billion. The cleanup from Hurricane Sandy, meanwhile, is estimated to cost $50 billion.

The full report is here."
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+ - Tesla car log: NYT writer Broder lied 1

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Catbeller
Catbeller writes "Tesla has posted the driving log of the Tesla driven by NYT writer John Broder: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive, and it is a hell of a tale. He sped. He turned up the heat. He undercharged. He passed a charging station. He CIRCLED a charging station, apparently to drain the battery. He detached from the chargers when he was woefully undercharged, against advice. He never ran out of power. He seems to have intentionally, maliciously tried to make that car run out of power — and he failed. The car overperformed and gave him more range than the specs indicate, despite the abuse. Let's get this liar fired, kids."
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+ - Lua Scripting Language Support Coming To NetBSD Kernel->

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An anonymous reader writes "With the release of NetBSD 7, it will be possible to extend kernel sub-systems and write device drivers in the Lua scripting language. A Lua interpreter is being added to the NetBSD kernel, a proper programming kernel interface, and a user-space interface for loading Lua scripts into the NetBSD kernel in real-time. Reasons expressed for adding Lua support to the NetBSD kernel is "modifying software written in C is hard for users", providing a rapid application development approach to drivers and the kernel, and better configuring of kernel sub-systems. Python and Java script support was looked at too, but they ended up settling for Lua. Lua scripting support for the kernel has been worked on since 2010."
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+ - Ada 2012 Language Approved as Standard by ISO->

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hypnosec writes "The Ada Resource Association (ARA) announced that the Ada 2012 programming language has been approved and published as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Announcing the development, ARA and Ada-Europe said that the new version brings with it the concept of contract-based programming, Concurrency and Multicore Support, Increased Expressiveness and Container Enhancements. Under the contract-based programming, developers will have the “ability to specify preconditions and postconditions for subprograms, and invariants for private (encapsulated) types.”"
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+ - Samsung Galaxy S3s Suddenly Dying Due To Possible Hardware Issue 1

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An anonymous reader writes "Some Samsung Galaxy S III owners are reporting their devices are suddenly being bricked. The phone simply won’t turn on again after it is charged overnight, or after the screen is turned off. Users are reporting that the mainboards are the root of the problem and that the flash memory is becoming corrupted and failing, though the devices do seem to last somewhere between 150 and 200 days before dying. According to reports, Samsung is replacing them under warranty whether or not people have rooted the devices or installed non-standard firmware, but the company is allegedly using the same revision for the mainboards, suggesting the problem may simply come back in a few months again."

Comment: Re:25 miles per hour (Score 1) 201

by citab (#41884057) Attached to: Electric Velomobiles: Urban Transportation For the Future, Available Now

I commute to work by bike many days of the year. My average speed is almost the same as a car in traffic. On some days it's faster. Not because I'm breaking any traffic laws, it's just that cars tend to hurry up to the next stop light and wait. I don't, I keep pedaling while they are stopped. My speed doesn't come down during my ride much. Granted this is only on roads where the speed limit is 25 mph, but it's the same avg speed the cars are going on that road.

Cars are very inefficient as a mode of transport. Still necessary for certain situations, but if you have the ability and freedom to ride your bike to work, it makes for a nice life (fitness, peace of mind, lower fuel bills).

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. -- Muhammad Ali

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