Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call them, are automatic voting programs that come into our web site and vote over and over on our polls. Why do we care about them? Because they ruin the fun for everybody. Heavy robot activity can radically alter the vote tally, slow down our web site and crash other polls unrelated to the one under attack. Just because our polls are unscientific doesn't mean that we will allow them to become a joke...
...world is getting a crash course in international trade this week as it ponders the clash of visions and interests at the meetings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle. Meshing the interests of the 130-plus governments at the meetings would be hard enough, without the added complexity of the kaleidoscope of interest groups and activists that have turned the streets of Seattle into a mix of protests, political muscle-flexing and violence. The WTO is portrayed by its supporters as protector of the poor and bulwark of global prosperity, and by its foes as an unaccountable, secretive...
...works as planned, a small, cheap microphone placed on the lander by the Planetary Society will begin streaming the sounds of the Red Planet to a web page near you. Which if nothing else means next time a Mars probe goes astray, we'll be able to hear the crash...
...Rebounding and defense lost the game," Clemente said. "If we don't do those things, we're not gonna win the game. That's the kind of team Marist is, they put a lot of athletes and slashers on the floor, their guards crash the boards, and we didn't get bodies on them...
...other hypotheses is of little scientific utility, and this area of inquiry is unlikely to draw research resources away from the more pressing search for a vaccine and a cure. But just as we're not satisfied with perennially checking the "don't know" box in explaining an air crash, we're burdened, as a culture, to find an explanation for a phenomenon that has killed 16 million people - and has infected 33 million more - in less than two decades. "The interesting thing is that in Hooper's explanation, as in all the plausible scenarios for how the virus made...