Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Another problem reported by HUPD officers and students is some SSI guards' lack of proficiency in English...
Still, he said, "someone with marginal English wouldn't necessarily be a problem...
Harvard's problem, officials say, goes back to a lack of women among tenured faculty nationwide...
...former IBM engineer named Phil Adams who actually pinned down the problem and decided to take legal action. According to Adams, the problem - which resides in the chip's "microcode," the instructions that are actually burned into the chip itself - is especially persnickety because it can manifest itself in a variety of ways, randomly deleting or corrupting information on otherwise healthy disks. Once Adams was sure he knew what he was dealing with, he took it to a Texas law firm, which filed the suit. MORE...
...Despite the fuss, TIME Digital editor Joshua Quittner notes that the monitoring of computer habits can benefit users by customizing service to their tastes, such as e-mailing someone information on a recording artist they have previously downloaded. "The problem wasn't that they invaded people's privacy, but that they invaded people's privacy without their permission," says Quittner. "In the case of RealJukebox, it's a banal thing because it's music, but you can extrapolate a little bit and see how it's a problem as we move forward with other types of information...