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Tesla Factory Racing To Retool For New Models 257

Posted by samzenpus from the build-it-faster dept.
An anonymous reader notes this story about what Tesla will have to do in order to double production every year for the next several years as Elon Musk intends. "Having just reported a $107.6-million fourth-quarter loss that sent its stock tumbling, Tesla Motors Inc. intends to double vehicle production in the next year as it finally introduces its Model X sport utility vehicle — after about two years of delays. Meanwhile, Tesla is racing to finish the design of its Model 3, the "affordable" Tesla, expected to sell in the $30,000 range after government subsidies. Musk's company is chasing General Motors Co., which plans a 2017 release of its all-electric Bolt, with a similar price and 200-mile driving range between charges."

Comment Re:Where is the opinion survey ? (Score 1) 2219

by Tim Colgate (#46185393) Attached to: Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

Here's our official survey. Thanks for contributing.

Will you be sharing the raw results of the survey, in, say, a week's time? I'd really like to see, for example, the percentage of people who prefer the new layout. I hope we don't just get a bland "we are using your feedback from our survey to make further enhancements to the UX".

Comment Re:Just be honest - it's not for *US* (Score 1) 2219

by Tim Colgate (#46184741) Attached to: Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

I'll ask the design team.

WTF?? Why are you even on this thread if you don't know what the redesign is designed to achieve? How can you expect to respond to people here if you don't know what the objectives are? It doesn't bode well for the site, if the owners haven't bothered to communicate their objectives with their employees.

Perhaps you could list the benefits and features of the new site compared with the existing one? Currently all I can see is acres of whitespace, very restful I'm sure, but if I wanted that rather than comments, I could just open about:blank ...

Comment Re:No (Score 5, Informative) 388

by Peachy (#41874533) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory?

The basic samba code has indeed been around for decades, and it's great.

Do be aware that samba4 release candidate 4 only got released on 30th October 2012 and as the announcement says "This is the first release candidate of Samba 4.0.0! This is *not* intended for production environments and is designed for testing purposes only.".

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-announce/2012/000277.html
The Media

Submission + - News Corp Under Fire for Hacking Dead Girl's Phone 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. came under pressure from UK Prime Minister David Cameron to respond to "really appalling" allegations that its News of the World tabloid hacked into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and printed a story based on a voicemail left on Dowler's mobile phone on April 14, 2002, when she had been missing from her home in Surrey, southwest of London, for more than three weeks. According to a Guardian newspaper report, a private detective working for the tabloid gained access to Milly Dowler's phone messages after she was abducted in March 2002 and the detective, Glenn Mulcaire, is alleged to have deleted voicemail messages on Dowler's phone, giving her parents "false hope" she might still be alive and thereby complicating the police investigation. According to one source, when her friends and family discovered that her voicemail had been cleared, they concluded that this must have been done by Dowler herself and, therefore, that she must still be alive. "Doing something illegal, the phone hacking in the first place, was bad enough," says Charlie Beckett, director of the media institute Polis at the London School of Economics. "But if you're doing it and then interfering with the course of justice, that's a double crime." Labour's Chris Bryant says the News of the World was "not just a paper out of control, that's not just a paper believing it's above the law, it's a national newspaper playing God with a family's emotions.""
Science

Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot 398

Posted by timothy from the more-guns-less-crime dept.
cremeglace writes "Have you ever noticed that the first cowboy to draw his gun in a Hollywood Western is invariably the one to get shot? Nobel-winning physicist Niels Bohr did, once arranging mock duels to test the validity of this cinematic curiosity. Researchers have now confirmed that people indeed move faster if they are reacting, rather than acting first."

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