errors

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Random Stuff

Programming Error Results In Radiation Overdoses

4:00PM Rosa Golijan | In attempt to get better data, a hospital overrode default protocol on a CT scanner over a year ago. Now they’ve realised that they made a little mistake and have been giving people eight times the acceptable doses of radiation. More »
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Software

Art: Painting by Windows Error

10:21AM Brian Lam | When Windows fails to refresh its screen properly, it can lead to frustration. Or an Escher-like piece of art. [TecheBlog, with video] More »
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Friday, January 2, 2009
Software

We Interrupt This Program, With a Windows Error

6:30AM Jesus Diaz | Apparently there’s a huge storm coming up in New Bedford, which will cover most of Massachusetts with a low pressure Windows error system, and tornado watches for the western region of NBC’s weather PC. More »
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Online

Computer Weather Error Shows Why Houston Is in Extra Trouble

6:00AM Jason Chen | Hath Hell frozen over, or hath an internth presseth the wrong buttoneth? [Thanks Dustin!] More »
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Saturday, August 23, 2008
Gadgets

Ohio Voting Machines Lose Votes, Cannot Be Fixed Before Election Day

8:30AM Matt Buchanan | The maker of the evil, wonky voting machines in Ohio that are going to be used for the election despite the fact they’re broken has admitted that the machines do in fact lose votes (before, Premier, aka Diebold, said it was “user error”). It gets better! They can’t be fixed before election day. Hey, it’s not like anyone asked for your opinion anyway. Okay maybe they did, but that’s beside the point, I think. [Columbus Dispatch via Slashdot]
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Phones

A Mobile’s Missing Dot Kills Two People, Puts Three More in Jail

12:05AM Jesus Diaz | The life of 20-year-old Emine, and her 24-year-old husband Ramazan Çalçoban was pretty much the normal life of any couple in a separation process. After deciding to split up, the two kept having bitter arguments over the mobile phone, sending text messages to each other until one day Ramazan wrote “you change the topic every time you run out of arguments.” That day, the lack of a single dot over a letter—product of a faulty localisation of the phone’s typing system—caused a chain of events that ended in a violent blood bath (Warning: offensive language ahead.) More »
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Games

Dusty Wii Syndrome Returns With Launch of Mario Kart

8:15AM Gizmodo US Edition | They say smoking and squalor can kill a human, but that’s turning out to be equally true for the Nintendo Wii. The hardware’s disc-reading laser seems incapable of cutting through the grit, grime and second-hand smoke that accumulates on its lens’ glassy veneer. The issue first appeared with Super Smash Bros. Brawl double-layer DVD, and now reports about the launch of Mario Kart Wii this month in Japan show that game is no different. Nintendo will clean your Wii for free, but that will mean a week or so without it. [GameFront via GoNintendo] More »
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Sunday, February 3, 2008
Games

Dual Layer Discs Not Causing Wii Errors, Cigarettes are

6:00AM Haroon Malik | Word was in that copies of SSBB were causing Nintendo Wii consoles to readout a list of system errors. Nintendo has responded saying the game disc is not faulty, in fact, the likely cause is a dirty disc lens caused by smoke and general dust build-up. The SSBB disc is the first game to ship as a DL-DVD, and this type of DVD requires an increased sensitivity from the lens. So, build up that would not normally effect game play from a single layer DVD would cause errors from the dual layer variety. Thankfully, Nintendo has offered to clean any affected consoles, but they aren’t issuing nicotine patches to help you quit smoking—the cleanup is going to get repetitive… [Kotaku] More »
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