'Design faults' caused QM2 deaths

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Brain parasite caused sea otter deaths

Brain parasite caused sea otter deaths 05/20/2004 11:34 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 21 2004 4:06AM GMT

Net caused layoffs, CN says

Net caused layoffs, CN says 05/07/2004 11:29 PM
globetechnology.com May 8 2004 3:42AM GMT

Graphic: how a computer could have
caused a catastrophe

Graphic: how a computer could have
caused a catastrophe 04/09/2005 02:46 AM
The Times Apr 9 2005 7:24AM GMT

N. Korea Blast Said Not Caused by Nukes
(AP)

N. Korea Blast Said Not Caused by Nukes
(AP) 09/17/2004 08:45 AM
AP - A diplomat who visited the site of a huge explosion in North Korea said Friday he saw no evidence it was caused by a nuclear test, and South Korean officials said mushroom-shaped plume thought to be from the blast may have instead been a natural cloud formation.

Man Who Caused Reservoir Shutdown Fined
(AP)

Man Who Caused Reservoir Shutdown Fined
(AP) 06/27/2004 11:16 AM
AP - A man who shut down the city's largest reservoir after he tossed a bag containing dirty underwear over its fence was ordered to pay $5,000.

Zombie PCs caused Web outage, Akamai
says

Zombie PCs caused Web outage, Akamai
says 06/21/2004 05:59 AM
CNET Jun 21 2004 10:25AM GMT

Northeast Blackout Caused By A Software
Bug

Northeast Blackout Caused By A Software
Bug 02/11/2004 11:07 PM
Turns out after all the various speculation on reasons, the big northeast blackout from last summer was the result of a software bug that was only just discovered - and not (as many had speculated) from the Blaster worm that was going around at the time. The bug meant that an alarm that should have been triggered never went off - leading to a series of problems that went unnoticed until it was too late.

'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai
says

'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai
says 06/16/2004 04:21 PM
Attackers built a "bot net" of unknowing home PCs to bring down Google and other sites, the company says.

Concealed fault caused Bam quake

Concealed fault caused Bam quake 06/15/2004 06:11 PM
The devastating earthquake at Bam, Iran, in 2003 was caused by a rare, hidden fault that is invisible at the surface, researchers have claimed.

Delta mum on what caused computer glitch

Delta mum on what caused computer glitch 05/03/2004 06:14 PM
Miami Herald May 3 2004 9:30PM GMT

"caused a huge tidal wave"

"caused a huge tidal wave" 12/26/2004 11:13 PM

Witness: Cancer not caused by chemicals
(SiliconValley.com)

Witness: Cancer not caused by chemicals
(SiliconValley.com) 01/27/2004 07:16 AM
SiliconValley.com - A respected cancer researcher Monday told jurors in the IBM toxics trial that he believes exposure to clean-room chemicals did not cause breast cancer in a former employee suing the computer giant.

Google says MyDoom virus caused problems

Google says MyDoom virus caused problems 07/27/2004 09:29 AM

Hole in blackbox voting caused by
smoking gun

Hole in blackbox voting caused by
smoking gun 09/01/2004 10:15 AM
David Isenberg circulated by email this morning a snip from Bev Harris at Black Box Voting: The Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains a stunning security hole Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator — 1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two million votes at a time. By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes...

On representing the backlog caused by an
absence of cerebral RAM...

On representing the backlog caused by an
absence of cerebral RAM... 06/12/2004 04:32 AM

That period before a launch is always stressful. This time is no exception. It's occupying my entire head almost 24/7 no matter whether I try and leave work on time or whether I'm there for twelve or fourteen hour days. It doesn't make any difference. It's just there in my head and it probably will be until a couple of weeks after it's finally launched. C'est la vie. It's the nature of the beast.

In real life, of course, people can sense when you're busy and don't feel particularly upset if you aren't able to give them the time that you would like to. They might not be thrilled about it of course, but they understand. But the signals that I can give off in public through my weblog are less clear. Has he just abandoned the thing? No. Why doesn't he have anything interesting to say anymore? Well, I do! Probably more than ever at the moment. I just can't find the headspace to work with to write them down. Why isn't he commenting on that thing that's so obviously one of his core interests? Well, it's because I'm not commenting on anything - the only creative thing I'm able to do outside work at the moment is doodle in Illustrator.

What I need is some way of actually ambiently reflecting my personal weather - without all that clunkiness of actively choosing states of mind. What I actually need is some way of representing that I'm just really really behind... A first suggestion - some way of representing the number of unread posts I have in NetNewsWire at any given moment (currently way over six hundred). Except that my path of posting tends to be more circuitous than that. NetNewsWire posts get opened in browser tabs if they look interesting, read thoroughly and then (if they're not something I want to follow-up upon) they get immediately closed. The number of open tabs reflects pretty much exactly the number of things I actively want to talk about at any given moment. If there are lots open, it probably means that I have a lot I want to write about and no time to do it in. Except that doesn't work either, because in addition to the six hundred things in NetNewsWire I haven't filtered and the fifty tabs I have open at the moment, I also have four folders in my bookmarks called "State of Play 1-4" that were the sum total of all the things I wanted to talk about and had open in Safari but then had to store quickly so that I could install a Max OSX update. That's another two hundred discussions I really want to get involved in - that I want to contribute to. And then there's the four or five little projects I have on the side that I've been trying to write up but have been incapable of doing so.

So six hundred unfiltered posts, fifty open tabs representing fifty filtered posts to talk about, two hundred bookmarks representing two hundred even more filtered conversations to get into, plus four or five multi-page documents (one around 6,000 words) that have been growing in the sidelines that I'm unable to push out into the world in any effective way. That is the index of how busy and behind I feel. That is the measure of my total absence of cerebral RAM. Do you now understand why I'm not posting that much?

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Weird context shifts caused by IM on
hiptops...

Weird context shifts caused by IM on
hiptops... 12/22/2004 01:40 AM

I'm having a crisis of etiquette caused by what I believe to be bad user interface design. Basically it works like this. I look at my iChat buddy list (to the right) and I see a big list of people who are 'green' (indicating availability), 'orange' (indicating absence or idle-ness) or 'red' (indicating explicitly 'away', but still contactable if necessary).

Now my expectation of people on my iChat list is that if they are green they are currently using their computer at this precise moment. They're actually looking at the screen. Which means that a ping to them should be incredibly unobtrusive but noticeable and should involve the absolute least number of keystrokes / interactions to be able to tell someone you're busy and/or start a conversation with them. Actually, iChat doesn't really handle that totally brilliantly in a range of ways, but the aspiration should remain. The ping should be non-invasive but immediately cognitively recognisable, and a response should be as simple as possible. It is with the understanding that the recipient's experience will be something like this that we are able to ping our friends or colleagues without feeling like we're being necessarily rude.

Except that this presumptive understanding of the experience of the person at the other end of the connection is starting to deteriorate. At least three or four of the people I have on my IM list are now accessing their IM via their hiptops. This changes the experience immediately - firstly because the recipient is now not necessarily engaged in a looking-at-a-screen-like activity. They could be walking in a fish market. They could be chatting to their mother on a phone. They could be driving a car. Secondly in order for them to react to the messages they're receiving they have to physically move the device to a place where they can focus upon it. The casual ping is immediately an intrusive one. And then - of course - they have to find a way to respond to the ping - either by using slow phone-style or fold-out keyboards, or by changing their presence. None of these actions are simple or quick enough to make the experience of using a hip-top and responding to messages on a hip-top comparable with responding via a computer keyboard.

All of which would be fine if it wasn't potentially difficult to distinguish between a person being rudely invasive and a device that encourages potentially invasive attempts at social intercourse... And if it wasn't - in turn - difficult for the person sending a message to distinguish between a long silence that resembles some kind of 'shunning' activity and a long silence that is merely a consequence of circumstances or the difficulties in getting to your messaging. On both sides there are social problems that emerge because the behaviour of the interfaces is confused with the behaviour of the people at either end - the software/interface actually makes the person at the other end seem rude - and purely because there is a disparity between the social engagement one thinks one is engaging in and the consequence it might have.

The software attempts to compensate for this a little bit. Most of my friends that are using hip-tops use some kind of status message to convey that they are mobile - which would work more effectively if you couldn't easily hide the status message to free up screen real-estate. In the meantime, the signifiers that actually tell you that someone is online completely overpower the signals that indicate their mobility.

So what's the solution? Well ideally - since you're looking at another form of engagement you'd distinguish it from the more conventional uses for IM. A separate scrollable container at the bottom of the screen or another buddy-list (a la the Rendezvous window) would compensate for some of these impediments - although probably at the cost of adding in more complexity. Probably the simplest solution would just be to revisit the particular presence indicators. In iChat then there might be two options: firstly an improvement of the portable devices to accurately reflect 'available' and 'idle', and secondly the creation of a new form of presence to go alongside 'available', 'idle' and 'busy'. Either would be a useful corrective feature which could alleviate the social clumsiness of mobile IM.

Do other people have experiences like these? And if so, how do you resolve them? Do you leave it to social convention to work through problems like these, or is a simple UI or technological solution more simple? Any and all thoughts gratefully received...

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Technology Said to End Errors in Chips
Caused by Radiation

Technology Said to End Errors in Chips
Caused by Radiation 12/15/2003 02:25 AM
New York Times Dec 15 2003 1:55AM ET

Externally Linked CSS and JS Caused Drop
in Traffic

Externally Linked CSS and JS Caused Drop
in Traffic 12/07/2002 08:31 AM
Although it makes site updating easier, external files for css and/or js do increase download time and may have a negative effect on search engine rankings.

Computer glitch may have caused drug
labeling errors

Computer glitch may have caused drug
labeling errors 03/19/2003 10:26 PM
California HMO Kaiser Permanente said this week that the computer problem was caused by a power outage.

A Real Gas Station Fire Caused By A
Mobile Phone?

A Real Gas Station Fire Caused By A
Mobile Phone? 05/14/2004 03:14 PM
For years, we've been told that all those stories that get passed around by email forwards about exploding fuel pumps due to a ringing mobile phone are simply urban legends. However, now, the Associated Press is reporting a story that sounds remarkably like that urban legend. Has the urban legend become true or was a reporter taken in by a hoax? It appears the Poughkeepsie Journal has the original story, including some quotes from both the "victim" and the fire chief.

Egypt Frees Kuwaiti Who Caused Plane
Scare

Egypt Frees Kuwaiti Who Caused Plane
Scare 04/18/2004 12:34 AM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 18 2004 4:44AM GMT

North Korea: Blast Caused $356M in
Damage (AP)

North Korea: Blast Caused $356M in
Damage (AP) 04/27/2004 08:51 AM
AP - North Korea's official news agency said Tuesday damage caused by last week's massive train explosion will come to about $356 million.

Clerical Errors Caused Terrorism
Undercount -Powell

Clerical Errors Caused Terrorism
Undercount -Powell 06/17/2004 12:10 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 17 2004 4:02AM GMT

Police Tackle Man Who Caused Alert at
U.S. Capitol (Reuters)

Police Tackle Man Who Caused Alert at
U.S. Capitol (Reuters) 04/11/2005 01:46 PM
Reuters - A man with two suitcases sparked a brief alert outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday before he was tackled and dragged away by police who feared the bags might contain explosives.

2003 viruses caused $55B damage,
antivirus firm says

2003 viruses caused $55B damage,
antivirus firm says 01/19/2004 12:53 PM

Heart Attack, Drugs Caused James' Death
(AP)

Heart Attack, Drugs Caused James' Death
(AP) 09/16/2004 09:01 PM
AP - Toxicology and other tests determined that funk singer Rick James died last month from a heart attack due to an enlarged heart, with numerous drugs including methamphetamine and cocaine contributing factors, the county coroner announced Thursday.

MOD cash crisis caused by procurement
failures say LibDems

MOD cash crisis caused by procurement
failures say LibDems 07/29/2004 02:51 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jul 29 2004 7:05AM GMT

Democratic Underground Forums - Could US
have caused the Iran earthquake?

Democratic Underground Forums - Could US
have caused the Iran earthquake? 12/28/2003 06:33 AM
from the Democratic Undeground on George Bush's complicity in the Iran earthquake .. Could the US have caused the Iran earthquake with a secret military weapon? .. Democratic Underground first .. triggered by Bush .. keeping an eye out .. posed the theory .. pondering

democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topi c&forum=104&topic_id=960877
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Problems getting up to date Hardware
Inventory information caused by BAD MIFS

Problems getting up to date Hardware
Inventory information caused by BAD MIFS 06/15/2004 01:37 PM

Nokia: sales slump caused by inadequate
product range

Nokia: sales slump caused by inadequate
product range 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
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10.3: iTunes issue caused by File Vault
and low disk space

10.3: iTunes issue caused by File Vault
and low disk space 11/10/2003 11:18 PM
I believe I've managed to trace a problem, with a usable "workaround" (till Apple issues a bug-fix update asap!). Here's what happened ... Panther successfully "clean" installed on a reformatted boot drive. Home folder previ...

Ex-officer: Bush file's details caused
concern (USATODAY.com)

Ex-officer: Bush file's details caused
concern (USATODAY.com) 02/12/2004 07:49 AM
USATODAY.com - As Texas Gov. George W. Bush prepared to run for president in the late 1990s, top-ranking Texas National Guard officers and Bush advisers discussed ways to limit the release of potentially embarrassing details from Bush's military records, a former senior officer of the Texas Guard said Wednesday.

USATODAY.com - Ex-officer: Bush file's
details caused concern

USATODAY.com - Ex-officer: Bush file's
details caused concern 02/12/2004 06:26 AM
"cleansing" Bush's military files of embarrassing or incriminating documents in the summer of 1997 .. Ex-officer: Bush file's details caused concern .. USA Today: Bush Files Were Cause For Concern

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Moscow Blast Caused by Suicide
Bomber-Agencies (Reuters)

Moscow Blast Caused by Suicide
Bomber-Agencies (Reuters) 08/31/2004 01:20 PM
Reuters - A blast in central Moscow, which killed eight people and injured at least 10 others, was caused by a female suicide bomber, Russian news agencies quoted security sources as saying Tuesday.

AIDS Researcher Partly Retracts Study
That Caused Stir

AIDS Researcher Partly Retracts Study
That Caused Stir 01/23/2004 02:34 AM
One of the nation's most prominent AIDS researchers is partly retracting a scientific paper in which he claimed to find an elusive substance that protects some people from the disease.

Comair/Delta airline debacle caused by
the overflow of 16-bit pointer

Comair/Delta airline debacle caused by
the overflow of 16-bit pointer 12/30/2004 04:54 PM
One of the most nightmarish Christmas travel foul-ups in recent memory was caused by an application failure. Comair hopes to replace the outdated software some time in January.

Trend Micro Says 2003 Viruses Caused
$55 Billion Damage (Reuters)

Trend Micro Says 2003 Viruses Caused
$55 Billion Damage (Reuters) 01/16/2004 11:32 AM
Reuters - Trend Micro Inc., the world's third-largest anti-virus software maker, said on Friday computer virus attacks cost global businesses an estimated $55 billion in damages in 2003, a sum that would rise this year.

Scope of CardSystems-caused credit card
data theft broadens

Scope of CardSystems-caused credit card
data theft broadens 06/24/2005 03:33 PM
It now looks as if millions of cardholders worldwide are affected by the data theft caused by payment processor CardSystems. A Utah bank has also become embroiled in the controversy.

3G's success depends on managing strain
caused by excess billing data

3G's success depends on managing strain
caused by excess billing data 12/30/2003 05:20 PM
Telecoms.com Dec 30 2003 4:18PM ET
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