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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...
...Subsequent to that, after some e-mails and frantic phone calls, Google updated their statement to properly characterize their relationship with StopBadware and to correct that the error was on their end,” Weinstein said in a phone interview yesterday...
...internet users around the world encountered the error page, traffic flooded StopBadware’s Web site. According to Weinstein, the Web site received at least three times its average daily hits. With such an increase in congestion, the site ended up crashing...
...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...