Preliminary investigation has confirmed early suspicions that human error was responsible for a series of blasts at ÄŒaÄak-based Sloboda factory. Lt. Col. Miroslav ÄorÄ‘ević of the Defense Inspectorate has stated that during the storage process, impact to the fuse ignited the pyrotechnic filler of one grenade.
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Skype Outage Caused by Overloaded Servers, Outdated Desktop Client
December 29th, 2010 |
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A bug in the Windows version of the Skype client caused the software to crash after servers got overloaded, resulting in a two-day outage. – The widespread outage that crippled Skype on Dec. 22 appears
to have been aggravated by a bug in the Windows version of the VOIP client,
said Lars Rabbe, the companys CIO, on Dec. 29.
A quot;confluence of events, quot; which included overloaded servers,
a bug in the Windows client and a shortag…
Drinking tea may prevent weight gain caused by junk foods
December 18th, 2010 |
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Want to shed those extra pounds but still eat your favourite junk foods? Well, drinking tea could be the solution. Researchers at Kobe University, Japan found that regular consumption of tea also suppressed damaging changes in the blood linked to fatty foods that can lead to type 2 diabetes, reports the Daily Mail. In the [...]
I Won’t Invest Another Penny Until the Criminals Who Caused the Financial Crisis Are Safely in Jail
December 9th, 2010 |
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Here’s an idea for a bumper sticker:I Won’t Invest Another Penny Until the Criminals Who Caused the Financial Crisis Are Safely in JailCan you imagine how much pressure would be put on the government to start real prosecutions if a million of us put th…
Double Dip In Housing Largely Caused By Failure to Prosecute Mortgage Fraud
December 3rd, 2010 |
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There’s a double-dip in housing prices (and see this and this).As CNN points outs: U.S. home prices fell 2% in the third quarter after having gained steadily since early 2009.The S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index has recorded gains in four of th…
“Failure in communication caused Genoa”
October 14th, 2010 |
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There was a failure in exchange of information between Serbian and Italian side prior to Serbia-Italy football match, stated the Italian FM.
This happened because preventive information never arrived or because the exchange of preventive information did not function the way it should have, according to Franco Frattini.
Government Policy Caused America’s Unemployment Crisis
September 3rd, 2010 |
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The unemployment rate has risen again for the the first time in 4 months. I predicted a growing, long-term unemployment problem last year.Indeed, even after the government plays with the numbers to make them look better (using inaccurate birth-death …
How to Prevent Data Security Leaks Caused by Human Error
August 18th, 2010 |
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The speed of business has accelerated to the point where data must be available at all times to empower productive employees. This data portability has created a data security nightmare for many organizations since poor data security puts company viability and competitiveness at risk. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Angel Mehta explains how to use enterprise rights management as well as e-mail and instant messaging solutions to prevent data security leaks caused by human error. – While malicious users are always on the minds of enterprise IT teams, employees who are sometimes just careless concerns IT teams as well. A recent spate of data leaks attributed to simple human error shows the critical role that data access plays in the protection of confidential corporate informa…
Verizon Hardware Caused New York City Phone Outage
July 27th, 2010 |
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Verizon communications equipment caused the outage July 26 that knocked out landline calls in a portion of midtown Manhattan. Verizon recently reported losses of $198 million for the second quarter, which the company blamed on a number of one-time factors. – Verizon experienced an outage July 26 that knocked out landline calls in a
portion of midtown Manhattan.
AT amp;T’s wireless network in the area was also affected.
quot;A piece of communications equipment (a digital cross connect, to be
specific) in one of our Manhattan
central offices did no…
The Second Leg of the Great Depression Was Caused by European Defaults
May 11th, 2010 |
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Many Americans know that the Great Depression was started by the bursting of the giant Wall Street bubble of the 1920′s (fueled by the use of bank deposits on speculative gambling, which is why Glass-Steagall was passed) , which in turn caused a run o…
Greenspan: The Financial Crisis Was Caused By A ‘Once-In-A-Century’ Event • Taleb: Any Pilot Who Doesn’t Know About Storms Shouldn’t Be In the Cockpit
March 26th, 2010 |
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Greenspan’s big defense is that the financial crisis was caused by a “once-in-a-century” event.Forget about the fact that the “once-in-a-century event” couldn’t have happened if Greenspan’s Fed hadn’t:Turned its cheek and allowed massive fraudActed as …
Spybot Caused Access Database Corruption (Files become Inaccessible) How to Open MDB Files? Posted By : Ben Gates
March 20th, 2010 |
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Spybot Search and Destroy (S&D) is a computer program that is used to detect any software bugs and then remove those bugs from almost all kinds of computer systems. Running Spybot can cause Access database corruption that can in turn cause inaccessibility of Access files. An ideal way to open Access files is to use an Access database repair tool. One such software is SysTools Access Recovery tool.
Man believed to have caused airport security breach arrested
January 9th, 2010 |
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A man believed to have caused a security breach that resulted in major delays Sunday at Newark Liberty Airport has been arrested and will be charged with defiant trespassing. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says 28-year-old Haisong Jiang of Piscataway was taken into custody at
Russia train crash “caused by bomb”
November 28th, 2009 |
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A bomb blast caused the derailment of a Russian express train, killing at least 26 people, intelligence officials say. The Nevsky Express derailed in remote countryside on Friday night as the train travelled between the capital Moscow and St Petersburg.
Expert on Structured Finance and Derivatives: Rampant Fraud and Ponzi Scheme Caused Crisis
October 4th, 2009 |
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Janet Tavakoli is one of the foremost experts on structured finance and derivatives.Tavakoli made an outstanding presentation to the IMF last week on the fraud which led to the financial crisis.Tavakoli was kind enough to send me a summary of the IMF p…
Google Apps Outage Caused by High Load to Google Contacts
September 28th, 2009 |
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The downtime for Gmail and Google Contacts last week was caused by high load to Google Contacts. Google Apps users could not access or experienced disruptions in their Gmail accounts from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. EDT. Users received a 500-series timeout error or found that Gmail pages loaded slowly. Users also could not access Contacts through Gmail from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT, which meant that users also couldn’t access Google Talk or add contacts to Google Apps. To fix the Gmail degradation, Google’s engineering team temporarily stopped all requests to use the Contacts feature from the Gmail interface.
– The issue that degraded or knocked out service to Google’s Gmail application
Sept. 24 was high load on the company’s Google Contacts service, according to
an incident report from the Google Apps team.
Google Apps users could not access or experienced disruptions in their Gmail
accounts from 10 a…
Pituitary tumour caused world’s tallest man’s gigantism
September 18th, 2009 |
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The Turkish man crowned as the world’s tallest man suffers from a pituitary tumour which has resulted in his gigantic height.
Sultan Kosen stands eight-foot-one-inch tall and was unveiled as the tallest man in the world by the Guinness World Records.
Kosen’’s height is a result of a tumour in his pituitary gland, which has led to [...]
PhD Economist: Fed has Caused Soaring Unemployment, Millions of Foreclosures, Millions Losing Life Savings and More than $6 Trillion in Lost Output
July 30th, 2009 |
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In endorsing the bill to audit the Fed, PhD economist Dean Baker wrote last week:The country now has almost 25 million people who are unemployed or underemployed as a result of the Fed’s disastrous policies. Millions of people are losing their homes an…