Word: error
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Google mistakenly blamed a little known Harvard organization this weekend for causing an error that briefly caused its search engine to warn users that nearly all Web sites contained potentially harmful malware, or software that could infect or damage a user’s computer without consent...
Google later backpedaled on its statement, conceding that the glitch had been caused by a simple human error. A forward slash was mistakenly added to a file that contained a list of potentially dangerous Web sites. As a result of this error, nearly every Web page was added to that list...
...blame. Coaches are rarely blamed for a violent or an unnecessary hit in football, or a flagrant or personal foul in basketball or soccer—individual players are rightly penalized. Here, though, an unreasonable blowout has eclipsed the players’ realm and fallen onto the coach. The error with this partitioning of responsibility is seeing athletes as only beings acting physically on their fields and courts, with all of the mental processing being allotted to the coach. Of course, the coach is not on the playing surface and must work by mentally connecting and advising the players...
...that the Victory went down. That location, according to Stemm, helps clarify why the ship sank. "If it had run aground on the Casquets [an outcropping of rocks in the Channel], as historians have believed for over 250 years," he says, "it would have been because of a navigation error because the Casquets were far south of where the ship should have been. Since it obviously foundered in deep water, with a very experienced crew - it was almost certainly the construction of the ship that caused the loss...
...finest fighter jets currently flying, it has begun to show its age in recent years. Last November, an Air National Guard F-15 simply disintegrated in mid-air, prompting the Air Force to ground most of the F-15 fleet. When structural problems—not a pilot error or a freak accident—were determined to be the cause of the crash, General John D.W. Corley announced that “the long-term future of the F-15 is in question.” If F-22 production is not resumed, the Eagle is slated to remain...