Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer, which were first developed in the sixties. In the past writing a program meant coding it entirely by hand, making it computer-readable by creating large stacks of punched cards, then waiting for a slot of time or turn it on the computer. If the program had an error, the same process had to be repeated all over again...
...room for error in these computer-heavy areas is vanishing small. In the case of a nuclear attack, the President must decide to retaliate minutes after initial warnings of a Soviet strike are received. When practice data was interpreted as real by the North American Air Defense computers in 1980, for example fewer than five minutes separated the finger from the button. Airline navigation is a similarly dramatic example; bad data in a flight plan program is the suspected cause of a 1979 Air New Zealand crash that killed 257 passengers, the pilots, flying in poor weather were told...
...seconds to say you made a mistake or poison gas starts coming out of those nozzles.' He pointed to small doors along the wall. 'A minute after the gas starts coming out men with machine guns come out shooting from behind those doors,' he said." All for an unacknowledged error...
Where to from here? While we hope that Rajiv Gandhi learned much in the way of political skill during his two year apprenticeship under his mother, we also hope that he has vision enough to see the error of her ways. He should proceed as planned with the January elections and prove that the democratic process is alive and not endangered by nepotism. The future of a united India depends not on the extension of family rule but the health of democratic institutions. In the past these institutions have displayed a remarkable resilience. India weathered two years of emergency rule...
...said that 99 percent of all writers don't die of cancer or consumption [tuberculosis] but of printing mistakes?" Gottlieb quipped, after discovering that the misplacement was due to printer error...