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A range of only 100 miles from a 41.8 kWh battery pack is not much to get excited… 1

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A range of only 100 miles from a 41.8 kWh battery pack is not much to get excited about especially for $50,000. With only 2,600 units coming over 3 years, this one definitely falls into +John Voelcker's compliance EV category.

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Toyota USA has finally taken the wraps off the 2012 RAV4 EV, and it estimates its range at about 100 miles. What do you think? Compliance vehicle?

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2012 Toyota RAV4 EV Electric SUV: Fewer Than 1,000 A Year
Today, Toyota revealed the production version of its eagerly awaited 2012 RAV4 EV all-electric crossover, with a powertrain designed and provided by startup electric carmaker Tesla Motors. Surprising …

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This is an interesting article about George Hotz (aka geohot) the hacker that cracked… 1

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This is an interesting article about George Hotz (aka geohot) the hacker that cracked the security code of the Sony PS3. While Hotz is an interesting character, perhaps the more interesting part of this tale was the subsequent cracking of most of Sony's websites by online activists angry at the company's legal attack on Hotz.

From a PR perspective, Sony's attack on Hotz and the removal of the ability to run Linux on the PS3 was a colossal blunder. On the other hand the counterattack against the Japanese giant, exposed huge lapses in Sony's online security. While it's unfortunate that so much consumer data was stolen, the hacks against Sony and other follow-on attacks made the world much more aware of how big companies handle security. Hopefully everyone has taken this as a learning opportunity and addressed these problems.

Unfortunately I suspect there are still a lot of big organizations that have not taken the lessons to heart.
#geohot #georgehotz #sony #security

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George Hotz, Sony, and the Anonymous Hacker Wars
Martyrs win devotees, and soon Hotz had gained the allegiance of the most notorious hackers: a group called Anonymous…

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While my wife +Julie Abuelsamid and I were hanging out in South Beach last week we…

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While my wife +Julie Abuelsamid and I were hanging out in South Beach last week we took a long walk along the beach each morning. Every few hundred yards, there was a lifeguard tower but unlike what I've seen along other shorelines, every one of these towers was unique. No two towers had the same design or color scheme. One morning I took along my camera took a series of photos some of the towers we saw.
#southbeach #lifeguardtowers #photography

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One of the problems with developing new aircraft engines is how to test them in airborne… 1

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One of the problems with developing new aircraft engines is how to test them in airborne environments before the planes they are meant to propel even exist.

Pratt and Whitney has acquired a pair of Boeing 747SPs that have been retired from airline service and modified them to allow installation of prototype engines. Larger engines are mounted on one of the four standard wing positions on one aircraft while the second plane has been modified to accommodate smaller engines on a special stub wing hanging from the 747 hump. AviationWeek takes a look at how this was accomplished.
#airplanes

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Inside Pratt's new flying testbed
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Demonstrating to Audi and Toyota that creative and innovative racing cars don't… 2

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Demonstrating to Audi and Toyota that creative and innovative racing cars don't have to cost tens of millions of dollars.

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This is so terrific.

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This is why LeMons is the best race series
This weekend, Audi marked the competition debut of its latest R18 race cars at the World Endurance Championships at Spa Francorchamps. Yet the most

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I would be very curious to see how many potential votes Samuel Wurzelbacher loses…

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I would be very curious to see how many potential votes Samuel Wurzelbacher loses because the people who would like to support him are scratching their heads in the booth trying to figure "Where is Joe? I don't see Joe on this ballot?"

#politics #indecision2012

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Thank goodness that not all laws being pushed through congress are hundreds or thousands…

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Thank goodness that not all laws being pushed through congress are hundreds or thousands of pages long. So many bills like the USA Patriot Act and budgets get passed into law without anyone ever actually reading the entire text.

Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-NY) introduced a beautifully simple one page bill HR-1062 that does one thing and one thing only. If passed, the innocuous sounding but disingenuous Burdensome Data Collection Relief Act would repeal Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Public Law 111-203). You can find the full 849 page text of the Dodd-Frank bill at http://bit.ly/KEKhMi

So what does this single onerous paragraph of this huge bill require publicly traded companies to do? They must publish the ratio between the total compensation of the CEO and the median compensation of all employees of the company.

It's a good thing we have Republicans like Hayworth to protect us from being exposed to excess and burdensome information like how much more our bosses make than we do!

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H.R. 1062. To amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to repeal certain additional disclosure requirements, and for other purposes. In GovTrack.us, a database of bills in t…

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In the second round of World Endurance Championship at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium… 1

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In the second round of World Endurance Championship at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium today, Audi debuted its new 2012 versions of the R18 in a dominating performance. Audi ran two each of the R18 Ultra and the R18 e-tron quattro. The Ultra is an updated version of the car that won at 24 hours of Le Mans last year and continues with its twin-turbocharged diesel V6.

The e-tron quattro takes the diesel sports car concept that Audi has been running since 2006 to a whole new level. In addition to the diesel V6 powering the rear wheels, Audi has hybridized the R18 with the same electromechanical flywheel system used so successfully by their corporate cousins at Porsche for the past two years.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/alternative-fuel/hybrids/porsche-911-gt3r-hybrid-flywheel

The e-trons with their electrically powered front wheels supplementing the diesel powered rear end, dominated the rainy early part of the race, but as the conditions changed the Ultras made a better choice going straight to slick tires. Ultimately the four Audis crossed the line taking the first positions with the order Ultra/e-tron/Ultra/e-tron.

Toyota is going to have one hell of a battle on its hands next month at the 24 Hours of Le Mans!

#wec #worldendurancechampionship #audi #audir18etronquattron

Audi R18 e-tron quattro #2 (Audi Sport Team Joest)Dindo Capello (I), Tom Kristensen (DK), Allan McNish(GB)

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