Word: glitch
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Four thousand Harvard employees began the year with an unpleasant e-mail surprise—an electronic pink slip. And though the massive layoff was a glitch, further technological and administrative difficulties meant that some student employees went unpaid for as much as two months...
Jamison and Watkins exemplify a glitch in the academic tenure system known as “The Couples Problem...
...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...