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Submission + - Harvard Business School Study Reveals Significant Obstacles To EV Sales (hbs.edu)

Submitted by NoWayNoShapeNoForm on Monday July 01, 2024 @07:13PM

NoWayNoShapeNoForm writes: Harvard Business School used AI to discover findings in in it's recent EV review data collected from multiple open sources.

Quoting from the HBS article: "New data-driven research led by a Harvard Business School fellow reveals a significant obstacle to increasing electric vehicle (EV) sales and decreasing carbon emissions in the United States: owners’ deep frustration with the state of charging infrastructure, including unreliability, erratic pricing, and lack of charging locations."

Sounds like the key issues for many potential EV owners is not "range anxiety" but "charging anxiety".

The study URL: https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php...

Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation 504

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @12:23PM from the when-science-gets-dirty dept.

schwit1 writes "The Washington Times reports, 'The problems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were so pervasive they swamped the agency's inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars.' One senior executive at the National Science Foundation spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer, records show. The cost to taxpayers: up to $58,000. Why aren't they running a product like Websense?"

Submission + - Firewall Recommendations

Submitted by

anomalous cohort

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @07:34PM

anomalous cohort writes: "The company that I work for is looking at upgrading to a proper firewall (sadly, we use only the MS-ISA server now). Our I.T. guy is ready to recommend Fortigate [45]00a. Ours is a small company with about a dozen employees and about 400 customers. Does anybody have any experiences, good or bad, with these two products or with the Fortinet company? Are there any recommended firewalls (outside of Cisco's) that we should seriously look at?"

Submission + - Award winning Ad in Australia taken off air

Submitted by

bol_kernal

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @07:22PM

bol_kernal writes: "An Award winning advertisement on Australian TV for the new Hyundia 4WD has been pulled from being broadcast after they received 80 complaints from concerned parents. The ad consists of a small child (aged around 2yrs) cruising down the road, window down, arm out the window, in his new Hyundai 4WD, sees a girl of the same age standing on the side of the road, pulls over picks her up and they go to the beach together. All in all it's cute, funny and very well done. This ad has won advertising awards and doesn't air until later in the evening (8:30pm or later) but it has been pulled due to concern from parents about the copycat risk. More details can be found here. What I want to know is where has the responsibility of parents gone? Is the world becoming so serious that fantasy is no longer allowed?"

Feed $1.5 Billion Fine for Microsoft (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday February 22, 2007 @07:12PM

The Redmond, Washington software maker loses the first of six patent lawsuits filed against it by France's Alcatel-Lucent. By the Associated Press.

Viacom Turns to Joost, Spurns YouTube 139

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @11:55AM from the google-has-lost-please-turn-to-page-57 dept.

Vincenzo writes "Viacom has signed a deal with Joost that will see content from MTVI, Comedy Central, and CBS distributed on the new P2P distribution service. The move comes just two weeks after demanding YouTube pull over 100,000 videos offline. 'Joost's promise to protect their copyrights was a major factor in Viacom's decision, and also a stumbling block in their discussions with YouTube/Google. At the moment is it quite easy to download and store video content from YouTube, but no such exploit for Joost is known to exist.' It's also a 'secure' distribution medium in the eyes of many in the entertainment industry, since users can't upload content themselves.'"

Clover Vets Open SEEDS, Capcom Clears The Air 27

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @11:47AM from the planting-the-stuff-to-grow-a-new-company dept.

Last week, the designers who used to head Capcom's Clover Studios (makers of Viewtiful Joe, Okami, and God Hand) announced that they were forming a new studio named SEEDS. Clover principles Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya, and Shinji Mikami are looking to make some 'preposterously amazing' games. People upset by Clover's closing, though, should know that most of the studio is back inside Capcom. In a Gamasutra article with Capcom Vice President of Marketing Charles Bellfield, he makes it a point to say: "Capcom, unlike most other developers, doesn't have dedicated strict boundaries between each of its development teams. We actually have one pool of development talent at Capcom and those individuals are basically assigned based on the timescales of each product we're working on ... the rest of the Clover team was just incorporated back into the rest of Capcom's development talent pool. So in fact, while three individuals left, Clover Studios as a separate entity was merged back into the rest of the Capcom teams and today, still, the talent we had, with the exception of three people, is still remaining at Capcom."

Comment Re:The Global warming link is irrelevant... (Score 2, Interesting) 712

by Minux on Tuesday September 20, 2005 @04:18PM (#13607958) Attached to: Running out of Hurricane Names

It is true there will always be hurricanes and natural disasters, the question however is how you can reduce the impact of these events. Earthqaukes in California resulted in the strenghting of building codes, as did the the recent land slides. These actions will not have any immediate effects, but will help when the next quake happens.

By your standards we should abandon all long term ideas and only focus on the short term; and where if anywhere has that got us?

You yourself agree that global warming is real. So why not start taking action that will help the long term side by side with short term options. Yes disasters will happen and nothing you ever will do will stop those. But you cannot loose sight of what might hapen in the future.

so your first line "it's completely irrelevant" is truely irrelavent.

Just my two cents.

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