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U.S. Army Awards Lockheed Martin 1 Million for Counterfire Radar Production
The options include spares, testing and training materials. If all options are exercised, 38 additional low- and full-rate production systems could be added and the total contract value would exceed $ 800 million. "The Q-53 is in production and has been …
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Structural batteries-building in power
Structural batteries could also become integral to all devices carried by soldiers, thus doing away with bulkier traditional batteries and the need to carry spares. Any such reduction in weight could be highly beneficial from a military point of view …
Read more on Environmental Expert (press release)

JUDGE SPARES BURGLAR JAIL, THEN HE BREAKS BREAKS INTO 22 HOUSES IN 9 MONTHS

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JUDGE SPARES BURGLAR JAIL, THEN HE BREAKS BREAKS INTO 22 HOUSES IN 9 MONTHS
Bristol Crown Court was told this week that during one burglary two children, aged 14 and 11, hid in a wardrobe and thought they were “going to die” after he smashed his way into their home, making off with the girl's laptop.
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NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 6 April 2012
In the SM, Kononenko worked on the RSE-1 laptop, replacing its shell #1183 (which has a failed USB connector) with a new shell (#2209) from spares. [Steps included replacement of HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) and then monitoring the RSE-1 #2209 loading with …
Read more on Space Ref (press release)

Information security: students aim to peer into the mind of the cyber thief
Nobody spares the subject a second thought – until something goes embarrassingly wrong. In 2011, Sony share prices fell by 4 per cent after the company admitted that the personal details, including credit card information, of more than 25 million …
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Q&A: want to sell laptop for spares/repairs – can i wipe the hard drive beforehand without damaging sale value?

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Question by nolzers: want to sell laptop for spares/repairs – can i wipe the hard drive beforehand without damaging sale value?
i have 2 laptops to sell for spares/repairs but want to get my personal data off them before selling – will removing/destroying the drives significantly affect the resell value? would it be better to get a hard drive caddy and get the data off without destroying the hard drive?

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Answer by jstransky
unless you are trying to sell the operating system along with the hard drives… just go ahead and format them. The only thing worth anything on the drives is the OS.. otherwise they are just drives..

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Can i sell a laptop for spares on e-bay and keep the operating system disc?

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Question by : Can i sell a laptop for spares on e-bay and keep the operating system disc?
Well i have a laptop its quite new but its not gonna work anymore and therefore i am forced to sell it for about £50-£100 for spares on e-bay when i paid about six times that’s amount. Can i keep the vista disc i mean its faulty not like they will need it. Also if you know anything about computers and for some reason the vista disc won’t work on another computer please tell me!

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Answer by zer0tux
Yes, you can keep the disc since you own the license for it. And yes, it will work on other computers, providing it’s actually a Vista Operating System disk and not a System Restore disk from the laptop manufacturer :)

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Judge spares pervert from prison sentence

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I started stickering to cover up some horrible scratches. Thought I had more saved stickers; if you have any spare, send them my way!

Judge spares pervert from prison sentence
Warrington Crown Court heard on Thursday that when police took away his laptop and two hard drives, he told them he was responsible for any indecent images found on them. Jane Morris, prosecuting, said: “He had been sourcing material from December 2009 …
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NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 3 January 2012
In the MRM1 Rassvet module, Anatoly performed an audit/inventory on three bags containing light units and their power supplies, selecting and pre-packing old SD1-7 units for disposal as per uplinked listing, and restowing remaining spares for future …
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NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 4 January 2012
[Data were copied to the RSE1 laptop for downlink to Earth via OCA, with photographs, and the activities were supported by ground specialist tagup as required. Objective of the Russian KPT-2/BAR science payload is to measure environmental parameters …
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