Word: glitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...blessing. "We used to fight like cats and dogs, but this has brought us closer together. We have a common goal." The goal is facing off disaster. The Eckharts first got wind of potential Y2K trouble a few years ago when they came across newspaper articles mentioning the computer glitch that led them to the Internet, which--surprise!--is full of alarming Y2K websites. That's when Bruce concluded that "there are not enough people on the planet who can fix this problem in time...
...grids and intercontinental ballistic missiles, contain a programming oversight that makes them incapable of reading the date 2000. To represent years, computers generally use just the last two digits. When 1999--that's 99 in computer language--rolls over at midnight to 00, computers that have not had the glitch repaired will conclude that the date is 1900. That can lead to a surprising range of malfunctions, and not just in such obviously date-sensitive tasks as billing...
...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...