Brain parasite caused sea otter deaths
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'Design faults' caused QM2 deaths
'Design faults' caused QM2 deaths
05/13/2004 09:29 PMFrench investigators say design faults caused the accident which
killed 15 on the world's largest luxury liner.
Anne Sofie Von Otter
Anne Sofie Von Otter
01/26/2004 08:49 PMWent to a concert last night by Anne Sofie Von Otter and pianist Bengt
Forsberg. She isn’t in the list of my top ten or maybe even fifty
singers, and I didn’t know a single one of the songs performed, and
while a couple were pretty good I don’t think they’re going into
heavy rotation on the car stereo any time soon. But you know what? I
had a blast; concerts are almost always worth going to. Herewith some
notes on why, and on some of the music...
The Arrival Of The True Computer
Parasite
The Arrival Of The True Computer
Parasite
03/30/2005 08:33 PMYankees' Giambi Diagnosed With Parasite
(AP)
Yankees' Giambi Diagnosed With Parasite
(AP)
06/29/2004 08:31 PMAP - Ailing Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi was diagnosed with an
intestinal parasite and out of the starting lineup Tuesday night when
New York played Boston.
N.Y. Swim Student Bitten by Rabid Otter
(AP)
N.Y. Swim Student Bitten by Rabid Otter
(AP)
08/20/2004 12:29 AMAP - A rabid otter latched onto, and bit, a 6-year-old boy who was
taking swimming lessons at a small public lake Wednesday.
Net caused layoffs, CN says
Net caused layoffs, CN says
05/07/2004 11:29 PMglobetechnology.com May 8 2004 3:42AM GMT
Northeast Blackout Caused By A Software
Bug
Northeast Blackout Caused By A Software
Bug
02/11/2004 11:07 PMTurns 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.
N. Korea Blast Said Not Caused by Nukes
(AP)
N. Korea Blast Said Not Caused by Nukes
(AP)
09/17/2004 08:45 AMAP - 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.
Delta mum on what caused computer glitch
Delta mum on what caused computer glitch
05/03/2004 06:14 PMMiami Herald May 3 2004 9:30PM GMT
Man Who Caused Reservoir Shutdown Fined
(AP)
Man Who Caused Reservoir Shutdown Fined
(AP)
06/27/2004 11:16 AMAP - 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 AMCNET Jun 21 2004 10:25AM GMT
'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 PMThe devastating earthquake at Bam, Iran, in 2003 was caused by a rare,
hidden fault that is invisible at the surface, researchers have
claimed.
"caused a huge tidal wave"
"caused a huge tidal wave"
12/26/2004 11:13 PMGraphic: how a computer could have
caused a catastrophe
Graphic: how a computer could have
caused a catastrophe
04/09/2005 02:46 AMThe Times Apr 9 2005 7:24AM GMT
Weird context shifts caused by IM on
hiptops...
Weird context shifts caused by IM on
hiptops...
12/22/2004 01:40 AMI'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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Witness: Cancer not caused by chemicals
(SiliconValley.com)
Witness: Cancer not caused by chemicals
(SiliconValley.com)
01/27/2004 07:16 AMSiliconValley.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.
Hole in blackbox voting caused by
smoking gun
Hole in blackbox voting caused by
smoking gun
09/01/2004 10:15 AMDavid 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 AMThat 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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Google says MyDoom virus caused problems
Google says MyDoom virus caused problems
07/27/2004 09:29 AMExternally Linked CSS and JS Caused Drop
in Traffic
Externally Linked CSS and JS Caused Drop
in Traffic
12/07/2002 08:31 AMAlthough 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.
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 AMNew York Times Dec 15 2003 1:55AM ET
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 PMFor 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.
2003 viruses caused $55B damage,
antivirus firm says
2003 viruses caused $55B damage,
antivirus firm says
01/19/2004 12:53 PMNorth Korea: Blast Caused $356M in
Damage (AP)
North Korea: Blast Caused $356M in
Damage (AP)
04/27/2004 08:51 AMAP - North Korea's official news agency said Tuesday damage caused by
last week's massive train explosion will come to about $356
million.
Egypt Frees Kuwaiti Who Caused Plane
Scare
Egypt Frees Kuwaiti Who Caused Plane
Scare
04/18/2004 12:34 AMReuters via Wired News Apr 18 2004 4:44AM GMT
MOD cash crisis caused by procurement
failures say LibDems
MOD cash crisis caused by procurement
failures say LibDems
07/29/2004 02:51 AMPublicTechnology.net Jul 29 2004 7:05AM GMT
Computer glitch may have caused drug
labeling errors
Computer glitch may have caused drug
labeling errors
03/19/2003 10:26 PMCalifornia HMO Kaiser Permanente said this week that the computer
problem was caused by a power outage.
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 PMReuters - 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.
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 AMfrom 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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Clerical Errors Caused Terrorism
Undercount -Powell
Clerical Errors Caused Terrorism
Undercount -Powell
06/17/2004 12:10 AMReuters via Wired News Jun 17 2004 4:02AM GMT
Heart Attack, Drugs Caused James' Death
(AP)
Heart Attack, Drugs Caused James' Death
(AP)
09/16/2004 09:01 PMAP - 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.
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 PM10.3: 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 PMI 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...
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 PMOne 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.
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 AMUSATODAY.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
usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-02-11-bush-guard-usat_x.ht
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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 PMReuters - 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 AMOne 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.
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