Wrong question. It is open source. If you need it, you fix it.

So the institutions do not have any data lifecycle management for research data. Are we supposed to be surprised? Ensuring that data are not lost is a huge undertaking and cannot be left to the individual researcher. It may also require a change in the research culture at many institutions. As long as research is measured by the publications, that is where the resources go and where the focus will be.

Will this change? Probably not.

To the best of my knowledge, they have not sold XP since Windows 7 was released. At least not around here. Unless you mean XP starter edition, but that is a crippled version only sold with hardware. A Windows 8 license cost considerably less than XP cost when it was actually sold.

If a disaster seems to be long lasting, then shut the phone down during most of the day, and only turn it on when you need it. And text instead of call. The phone will easily last for a week. My BB will last for less than a day if I use it actively. When I use mainly texting it will last for 3 days.

And if you are making a case for POTS vs. mobile, what if you cannot stay at your house?

So, if you text instead of talk when there is not an immediate need for assistance, you stand a better chance of having battery life left when you really need it.

If calling between rooms in your house is a priority, then by all means stick to your DECT phones. In my household we prefer to talk face to face when at home. But that may just be our geeky ways...

And regarding cell phone plans: My youngest really does not call that much, so his cell phone calls cost us all of $20 per year. I can live with that...

And what does age have to do with it? Or is it that you are jealous of us who are twice your age and have learned a thing or two on the way :-)

Well, you are not really concerned with battery life in those cases, are you?

Not quite. Where I live, new houses will get only digital lines. Besides, a lot of people drop house phones anyway. When everybody in the household has a mobile phone, the POTS phone is simply not used, so why pay to keep it?
I have not had analog phone line for more than 10 years.

Texting instead of talking will also reduce battery drain, so in an emergency, any phone with decent battery should last at least a few days.

Which I did not claim. My last sentence was "Different energy stores, different risks". To compare the risks, we must first understand them.

The difference is that the batteries can ignite without an external heat source. As in the case mentioned, if the battery short-circuit for any reason, it can ignite. Fuel needs an external heat source to ignite.
Liquid fuel is actually not easily ignited (do not believe what you see in movies :-) ).
One other factor is how a fast a fire becomes dangerous. If the fuel ignites, you are in big trouble NOW. If the battery ignites, it is quite likely not immediately dangerous, as the flammable material does not spread.

Different energy stores, different risks.

That might be significant if it was statistically significant. One incident does not make it significant.
Now, if there were 10 in 63000, that would be significant, but one in 6300 is not.
In addition, this accident was not caused by a car malfunction, it was caused by an external event.

My company uses Harris Caprock for satelite links. We use them for locations where ground network is not available (mainly Africa in our case, but also on our ships). We use them for our corporate network, but as far as I know, they also offer intenet access.

There is a coverage map at http://www.harriscaprock.com/coverage.php

How to use the ancient thing called "book" (or "bok" in norwegian): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ