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Submission + - Dean Kamen combines Stirling with electric (unionleader.com)

Submitted by Colin Smith on Sunday November 09, 2008 @03:09PM

Colin Smith writes: Dean Kamen, (inventor of the Segway) has combined a Stirling engine with a battery electric vehicle based on the Ford Think to provide a fully decoupled electric hybrid car which can run on any fuel which can provide enough heat to run the Stirling generator.

Ford Think:
Top speed: 55mph
0-30: 6.5 seconds
Range: 60 miles on battery

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=1b081989-f67b-458e-8e42-913c8568fb36

Think are also producing a purely battery "Think City" car which is capable of 62mph and with a range of 126miles.

Submission + - The London Stock Exchange goes down for whole day

Submitted by Colin Smith on Monday September 08, 2008 @01:44PM

Colin Smith writes: Yikes!

TradElect... The Microsoft .Net based trading platform for the London Stock Exchange was offline all day, meaning that their 5 nines SLAs are shot for approximately the next 100 years.

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSL01084620080908

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/en-gb/products/membershiptrading/tradingservices/Incident/LIVE

http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/LSE-TradElect-system-goes-live/843/Default.aspx

It really doesn't get much more expensive than that. Well, at least nobody died.

Submission + - Coppola loses all his data 4

Submitted by Colin Smith on Saturday September 29, 2007 @12:35PM

Colin Smith writes: This is really an object lesson in backup methodology.

Film director Francis Ford Coppola has appealed for the return of his computer backup device following a robbery at his house in Argentina on Wednesday. He told Argentine broadcaster Todo Noticias he had lost 15 years' worth of data, including writing and photographs of his family.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7019644.stm

Once you have backed everything up... Take it somewhere else!

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