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• Spelling checker not up on U.S. Marines (from BONG Bull No. 437!): Semper fi?
• Snowbound workers overload Nynex lines: East coast blizzard results in telephone overload as workers telecommute.
• Some bugs are real
• The Illusion of Truth: Software Bugs as NewsBytes: Getting a story more important than getting the truth or truly informing.
• Website on Spreadsheet Research: Alarming rate of spreadsheet errors.
• Spy 'Viruses':Trojan horse software can spy on user activity.
• SSN used in
• If Big Brother Has Been Dismembered, Are We Safe?: A centralized Big Brother is not essential to the loss of privacy.
• Thieves steal license machines: Impossible to counterfeit? Not when you steal the machines.
• Tax Software: Errors in tax preparation software. Should IRS publish an algorithm?
• Crypto breaking: Using process timing to determine probably keys.
• A definitive clarification of time measurement: GMT, UT, TAI, UTC, and so on.
• Time signals from TV stations: Risks in auto setting date and time.
• Re: Priority Inversion and early Unix: Relates to Mars Pathfinder failure.
• Year 2K and my VCR...: VCRs may be subject to the year 2000 problem.
• Risks of not thinking before you submit: Facetious or intemperate submissions may be archived.
• Risks of web robots: Security risks in web crawlers indexing all accessable URLs.
• Credit-Card Scare Tactics: Risks of sending credit card numbers over net may be overblown.
• Wildcard inconsistencies in Windows 95: Meaning of '?' in wild cards is not consistent.
• Windows 95 user sues Microsoft for OS-related damages: Win95 sues MS for flaws in Windows 95, seeks class action status.
• Cell phones: Phone companies make (temporary?) progress in war against wireless fraud.