Word: glitch
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...Cash revealed that they had discovered serious security weaknesses that, according to the students, allowed them to monitor transactions and could potentially allow them to charge expenses to the accounts of others. The system’s provider and the University must act quickly and firmly to correct this glitch to ensure the privacy and property of Crimson Cash users...
...crux of the problem lies in the fact that the findings of the two students are hardly extraordinary, and their process for exploiting the system would not be hard to duplicate. It may only have been a matter of time before someone stumbled upon the glitch, and the rumored ability of some computer science concentrators to procure free sodas from the vending machine in Maxwell-Dworkin Hall suggests that such hacking has already struck the Crimson Cash system...
...Another glitch was timing. The quarantine measures did not go into effect until March 31, three days after they were announced. That lag proved crucial. In the interim, SARS cases at Amoy Gardens soared from seven to 213, and before a lockdown could be implemented there, 113 families living in the complex packed their bags and fled. Instead of separating them from the rest of the city, health officials lost track of them...
Unlike the gimmicky Memento, Noe uses the reverse narrative technique for thematic purposes in place of its common use as a flashy glitch in convention. The film’s assertion that “time destroys everything” is utilized visually in Noe’s dazzling transitional phrases. He finds a relationship between the camera’s motion and the darkened landscape the film inhabits to establish an almost ethereal sense of discontinuity in the film’s temporal projection of its characters. The intense violence of the first half of the film is thus...
What does that exceptionally warm summer represent? Was it just a weird anomaly that briefly interrupted longer-term cooling? Or was the cooling trend itself a temporary glitch, as rising lake levels prior to the mid-1980s suggest? "At the moment," concedes Ohio State University geochemist Berry Lyons, "we don't even know if we're looking at changes that are just regional or if they are related to changes on a global scale...