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U.K. Dealer Sells 'Death Trap' Twice, Faces Jail Time

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He sold the car through his store, Shelby's of Netherton. Hickman has admitted to "engaging in a misleading commercial practice and engaging in a commercial practice which contravened the requirements of professional diligence" according to Car Dealer Magazine. He was supposed to refund 3,500 pounds to the first customer.

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Toyota Rumored to Debut Performance Automatic Transmission for GR Models Next Month

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This may just be more publicized speculation from Japan’s Magazine X. Unlike a standard automatic transmission, Toyota’s GR-DAT units are supposed to minimize slippage of the torque converter. That said, we still like the sentiment and are eager to see what the company has in store. But it exists on a credible timeline.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Audio Magazine/Internet Archive /Scotch As Smithsonian Magazine notes , the formulation he developed, combining cabinetmaker’s glue with glycerin, proved to be just the right level of easy-to-remove adhesive that it became an out-and-out phenomenon. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. The HEC can allow consumers to better control how their data is stored, shared, and monetized, Alamouti says. Participation in Wi-Fi standardization projects.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. proved loath to support a truly standard language. Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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GM Proposes Electric Car Plug Standard - GoodCleanTech

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These Yankee assholes have examined their own inadequate technologies, decided they are the best, and prescribed an asinine standard to fit them! PC Magazine, the PCMag.com logo and Gearlog are registered trademarks of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. What an arrogant lark! All Rights Reserved. is prohibited.

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How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

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I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The Institute. I was a firsthand witness in what was a period of great opportunity for LAN technologies and intense competition between standardization efforts. During the 1980s and early 1990s, I led Digital Equipment Corp. ’s

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