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...Another glitch caused problems last year when transfer students and some others were temporarily prevented from voting. In 1995, election results were delayed for 16 hours and a temporary crash prevented some students from voting...
ONLINE TRADERS BEWARE Ever tried to get your broker on the phone for an urgent trade, only to be greeted by a constant busy signal? That's what happened to E*Trade customers for three days last week when a software glitch prevented the site from executing trades for an hour or two. The incident, which came only a week after SEC chairman Arthur Levitt warned traders about the dangers of Net stock mania, spurred New York State's attorney general to launch an investigation into the booming industry. Some online brokers, hit with a flood of service complaints...
...absence of advisers may cause students to feel displaced and Faculty to take on extra responsibilities, but Lewis believes this advising glitch can be fixed more quickly than others...
...Crimson not pursued the case, the rape (and perhaps future crimes) would have remained unreported in HUPD's public logs--the fault of an apparent glitch in the police departmentis computer reporting system. Moreover, it is likely that most students would never have heard about the incident, except for those close to the victim or perpetrator. And an important issue, acquaintance rape on campus, would not have gained the necessary attention it received...
...fixed by June and all of them before Dec. 31. But nuclear weapons systems in all nations--including Russia, where the state of Y2K preparations is anybody's guess--are computer dependent. In November the British American Security Information Council, a nuclear disarmament group, warned that a Y2K glitch could lead to erroneous early-warning reports or even trigger the accidental launch of a nuclear missile. Nuclear power plants could be vulnerable to the same difficulties. Last year, when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission looked at the Seabrook plant in New Hampshire, it found that Y2K problems, unless fixed, would affect...