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Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars 336

Posted by Soulskill from the fine-but-can-we-at-least-do-it-on-mars dept.
pigrabbitbear writes "There's a reason why Elon Musk is being called the next Steve Jobs. Like Jobs, he's a visionary, a super successful serial entrepreneur, having made his initial fortune with a company he sold to Compaq before starting Paypal. Like Jobs, he saved his beloved baby Tesla Motors from the brink of oblivion. Like Jobs, [he has] a knack for paradigm-shifting industry disruption. Which means he's also demanding. 'Like Jobs, Elon does not tolerate C or D players,' SpaceX board member and early Tesla investor Steve Jurvetson told BusinessWeek. But while Jobs was slinging multi-colored music players and touchable smartphones, Musk is building rocket ships and electric-powered supercars. It's why his friends describe him as not just Steve Jobs but also John D. Rockefeller and Howard Hughes all wrapped in one. His friend Jon Favreau used Musk as the real-life inspiration for the big screen version of Tony Stark. Elon Musk is a badass."

Submission + - Ecuador Grants Asylum to Julian Assange (guardian.co.uk)

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paulmac84
paulmac84 writes: "The Guardian are live blogging the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister's announcement that Ecuador is to grant asylum to Julian Assange. In the announcement Minister Patino said, "We can state that there is a risk that he will be persecuted politically... We trust the UK will offer the necessary guarantees so that both governments can act adequately and properly respect international rights and the right of asylum. We also trust the excellent relationship the two countries have will continue.". The Guardian also carries a translated copy of the letter the UK sent to Ecuador regarding the threat to "storm" the Ecuadorian embassy."

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How to ensure data would survive a Carrington event 2

Submitted by kactusotp
kactusotp writes: I run a small indie game company and since source code is kind of our life blood, I'm pretty paranoid about backups. Every system has a local copy, servers run from a raid 5 nas, we have complete offsite backups, backup to keyrings/mobile phones, and cloud backups in other countries as well. With all the talk about solar flares and other such near extinction events lately, I've been wondering though, is it actually possible to store or protect data in such a way, that if such an event occurred, data survives and is recoverable in a useful form? Optical and magnetic media would probably be rendered useless by a large enough solar flare and storing source code/graphics in paper format would be impractical to recover, so Slashdot, short of building a Faraday cage 100 km below the surface of the moon, how could you protect data to survive a modern day Carrington event? http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/03/06/3446150.htm
Firefox

Submission + - Nokia Researcher Puts Firefox OS On Raspberry Pi (techweekeurope.co.uk)

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judgecorp
judgecorp writes: "Mozilla's mobile phone operating system only exists in an early beta form, but Oleg Romashin, a researcher at Nokia, has already got it working on the Raspberry Pi and posted video to prove it. We don't think this indicates any alternate strategy for Nokia if Windows Phone doesn't pan out, but it does show that Firefox OS is portable, and the Pi is capable, and both can be played with — which will please both Mozilla and the Raspberry Pi Foundation. And the Firefox OS work in progress is available for download."
Security

Submission + - Anonymous Claims to have Hacked Sony PSN Again (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Anonymous has claimed a new attack on Sony PlayStation Network and this time around it seems that it has managed to hack nearly 10 million user accounts and and as a proof of the hack dumped more than 3000 credentials online in the form of a pastebin post. The notorious hacktivist group is claiming that the entire set of hacked credentials contains over 10 million PSN accounts and that the file is of around 50GB.
Facebook

Submission + - Coming Your Way... Less Intrusive Facebook Data Policies? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by ainandil
ainandil writes: Facebook may have to alter its data use policy now that grassrooters have driven enough complaints about the company's proposed data usage policy to trigger a user vote on the matter. Does this mean the days of the man-in-the-middle attack as social media are numbered?
The Military

Submission + - Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Defense Tech reports that continuing it’s tradition of reverse engineering and fabricating its stockpile of 40-year old American weaponry, Iran announced that it is about to unveil its first ever domestically produced Cobra attack choppers. Nearly 50-years after the US introduced the legendary Bell AH-1 Cobra, once the the backbone of the United States Army's attack helicopter fleet, Iran’s locally-grown Cobras will be armed with “different types of home-made caliber guns, rockets and missiles,” according to Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency. “All the phases of designing and manufacturing of the chopper have been done inside the country and the helicopter enjoys some capabilities which make it preferable to Apache Choppers,” says Brigadier General Kioumars Heidari. Iranian officials stress that the Iran's military and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country reports the FARS news release. More photos available here."
Games

Submission + - Dungeons and dragons playtest released (wizards.com)

Submitted by thuf1rhawat
thuf1rhawat writes: for a certain type of geek, nothing is more important than dungeons and dragons, with the announcement last year of the new edition and the announcement that an open playtest will occur. finally it's available ( subject to usual nda's etc)

Submission + - Hackers broke into Lockheed Martin networks (msn.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Unknown hackers have broken into the security networks of Lockheed Martin Corp and several other U.S. military contractors, a source with direct knowledge of the attacks told Reuters.

They breached security systems designed to keep out intruders by creating duplicates to "SecurID" electronic keys from EMC Corp's RSA security division, said the person who was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.
Image

Zuckerberg Only Eating Animals He Personally Kills 544

Posted by samzenpus from the welcome-to-my-food-list dept.
theodp writes "Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has begun personally slaying animals for food, part of a resolution to fully appreciate the meat he eats by limiting it to that which he personally kills. Zuckerberg has mostly been vegetarian since making the vow, but his hands-on kills thus far include a goat, pig, chicken and a lobster. 'He cut the throat of the goat with a knife,' Zuckerberg pal Jesse Cool told FORTUNE, 'which is the most kind way to do it.'"
Sci-Fi

Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? 607

Posted by CmdrTaco from the toss-some-cash-in-the-hat dept.
Cutriss writes "Now that Caprica is gone and SG:U has concluded, I see new shows coming in their place such as Alphas and the Red Faction series, and I find myself asking if the fate of Atlantis and SG:U might have gone differently if SyFy had been a paid cable network. I know the Slashdot audience would probably trade a few dollars a month if it meant replacing wrestling and ghost-chasing shows with relicensed classics and more appropriate treatment of original content. Plus, with a paying audience, the ad space would become much more lucrative and SyFy could lose some of the seedier ads it has been saddled with lately, and better fund new original content."
Microsoft

Submission + - An Amazing Vintage Tech Collection (stormdriver.com)

Submitted by
StormDriver
StormDriver writes: "For every good design there are a dozen of failed concepts. Nothing illustrates that better than a great online vintage gadget collection, published yesterday by Microsoft Research team. The collection is a brainchild of Bill Buxton, one of the principal Microsoft researchers, a guy who’s been through 30 years of continuous tech design. Awarded with three honorary doctorates and several professional awards, Bill also likes to gather things – the vintage, geeky kind of things to be precise. Over the years, he has gathered an impressive collection of prototypes, probably the best I have seen online"
The Courts

A Court's Weak Argument For Blocking IP Subpoenas 220

Posted by Soulskill from the justice-or-justish dept.
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes to point out some unfortunate holes in a judge's recent ruling that was largely welcomed 'round these parts: "A federal judge has ruled that a Canadian adult film producer cannot subpoena the identities of ISP users that were alleged to be sharing its copyrighted movies. Regardless of whether one supports the conclusion, the judge's reasoning was pretty weak. But the real hurdle is convincing people that a non-lawyer is entitled to call out a federal judge on their logic in the first place." Read on for the rest of Bennett's thoughts.

Comment Re:Fail (Score 1) 350

by ainandil (#35691542) Attached to: Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page
Sort of. Random idiots can sue on behalf of society (note the lawsuit referenced in paragraph 11 in the complaint) -- but stand a chance of winning only if they have a valid cause of action. In this case, Klayman alleges damages which can neither be substantiated nor proved: an excess of one billion dollars, compensatory and punitive, plus attorney's fees and costs, for assault and negligence. IMHO, the complaint is worth reading as a welcome respite from the inane attempts at humor we've seen here on /. the past day. Best part? Paragraphs 4 and 17, wherein Klayman references "The Social Network" in substantiating Zuckerberg's "questionable business and ethical practices."

Share and enjoy,

Ainandil
Facebook

Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page 350

Posted by timothy from the no-seriously-he-really-did dept.
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from ZDNet: "Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for their role in furthering a 'radical' Facebook Page called 'Third Palestinian Intifada,' which openly advocated another uprising against the citizens of Israel. The complaint reserves the right to be amended into a class action suit and prays for compensatory and punitive damages in excess of $1 billion. ... As a quick refresher, Facebook originally said it would not remove the page but would monitor it instead. The company later pulled the page after discussions degraded into violence and hatred."

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