Saab is apparently suspending all new car, powertrain, emissions and parts warranties, along with recall campaigns, certified pre-owned coverage and no-charge maintenance programs effective immediately.

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"We wanted something on the desktop that would be low maintenance - no hard drive and no floppy drive, " he said.

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"Many of the systems we have built for authentication and session maintenance assume no man-in-the-middle attack, " he said.

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Responding to Monday's debate, defence procurement minister Peter Luff said no decisions had been made on long-term maintenance contracts but the "main investment decision for support arrangements" would be taken "before the middle of this decade".

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For conventional companies, archives are an expensive problem: they need curating, maintenance, storage space, and no-one can ever judge what will be significant in the future.

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It hurts performance, locks people out of their own single-player game during maintenance, and serves no purpose that benefits consumers whatsoever.

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Never mind that the jobs "created" are funded for only five years or that they tend to be low-level security and maintenance jobs and offer no training in new skills needed in the 21st century.

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Firms will install vast storage boxes for holding data and single-task servers running crucial applications that require almost no maintenance.

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There is no need to drain lithium-ion batteries fully before recharging, meaning less maintenance, though they can catch fire if overcharged.

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This helps it land at No. 2 on the list, despite BMW's fairly comprehensive free scheduled-maintenance program for all models.

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