Word: glitch
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WORST NEWS OF THE DAY In Japan a glitch shuts down a radiation alarm at a nuclear plant, causing concern but no leaks...
...plagued the Clinton White House," she says. The Justice Department investigation revolves around thousands of e-mails lost between 1996 and 1998, when members of the administration mistakenly sent transmissions to the nonexistent "MAIL2" folder, instead of typing "Mail2." Northrop Grumman, which built the e-mail system, caught the glitch in January 1998 and immediately notified the White House. Three of the firm's employees now say they were threatened by presidential aides with dismissal and jail time if they reported the lost e-mails, which, according to one techie, included dirt on the Lewinsky scandal, Filegate and campaign finance...
...Hampshire to South Carolina to Michigan, his mood has hit highs and lows. The banter on his bus started to go dry in ferocious South Carolina; he was testy with reporters. Before a TV interview the night of his defeat, he was so agitated by delays and a technical glitch that piped a celebratory George Bush into his earpiece he threatened to walk out of the interview. He quickly apologized, but it was a rare slippage for a candidate who admonishes his staff to "keep a steady strain...
...classes, it seems obvious that they would increase server capacity on these two key sites during peak periods like the post-intersession/shopping period rush. Instead, they have caused thousands of students to bang their heads against their computer screens. Hopefully next semester the University will iron out this glitch and make this stressful time a little bit easier for everybody...
...Japan, for example, computers in the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Number 2 nuclear plant, located north of Tokyo, spontaneously reset their dates to February 2036. The date problem caused some important information on the position of the plant's control rods not to be displayed. The glitch is now fixed. It has tentatively been tagged as Y2K-related. MORE...