Word: glitch
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...communication glitch between the lander and the rover took longer to resolve, but by late Saturday engineers believed they had synchronized the two systems and were cautiously declaring that that problem too was licked. Simply because Sojourner was now able to take to the Martian plains, however, did not mean that the going would be anything but painstakingly slow. For all its anthropomorphic sweetness, the plucky rover is a rather dimwitted machine. Its route from rock to rock will be programmed for it by a controller at a J.P.L. console, those instructions will be relayed to it through the Pathfinder...
...that someone who invented a giant electronic brain for Planet Earth would have a pretty impressive brain of his own. And Tim Berners-Lee, 41, the creator of the World Wide Web, no doubt does. But his brain also has one shortcoming, and, by his own account, this neural glitch may have been the key to the Web's inception...
...been nine months since Clinton played federal marshal in the Great Yellowstone Mine Shootout. The dispute began in the late 1980s as new techniques for locating pay dirt suddenly turned old claims on Henderson into a $1 billion lode of extractable ore. The glitch was that the peak is a scant 2.5 miles upstream from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups, warning that a megamine would poison the park's ecosystem, threatened massive lawsuits against Crown Butte, the company planning a round-the-clock extraction effort. Then the Administration stepped in, and after months of secret talks, Crown Butte agreed...
Trust Wall Street to spot a hot investment play in what threatens to become the computer glitch of the century. The snafu--a.k.a. the Millennium Bug--arises because corporate and government computers recognize years by their last two digits, and thus will be unable to tell the year 2000 from 1900. Fixing the problem could cost $600 billion...
Yesterday, for the first time in a long while, I turned on the television in my room. As a program started, some odd letters flashed on the left hand side of the screen: TV-something. What were they, these mysterious letters? A glitch of the emergency operating system? Some odd code to alien spaceships so their attacks could be synchronized? Perhaps even a subliminal message? In fact, the strange message in the corner of my screen was a part of the new system of television ratings...