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With any technology there are risks, some can be great, some are small, some can be completly catastrophic! Here you will find information regarding problems with technology & their consaquences!
Subject: NSW forced to hand count poll result "Computer problems have forced the New South Wales electoral office to start manually counting nearly 4 million upper house ballot papers. NSW Electoral Commissioner John Wasson says it will be a mammoth task to have all the votes counted and preferences allocated before the declaration of the poll at the end of the month. It is hoped the computer glitches will be fixed later this week, but Mr Wasson says he can not afford to delay the count any longer. [...] Read more here ..
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 01:30:52 -0400 Subject: Nevada hospital system hack traced to Russia
The security of a small Nevada hospital's computer system was breached by a
hacker who has been traced back to Russia. The hacker routed the attack
through the al-Jazeera Web site to make it look as if the attack came from
the Middle East. The hacker may have accessed employees' social security
numbers and bank account information. A Trojan horse program embedded in a
game some employees had downloaded allowed the attackers access. The
hospital's payroll system has been removed from the network and employees
have been instructed never to install software or sign on to streaming
Internet services.
Just incase you havent seen it yet, here's one that still has me smiling! At a recent computer exposition (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If General Motors had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, GM issued a press release stating: "If General Motors had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics: 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason, you would simply accept this. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent of the roads. 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light. 7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying. 8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 9. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. |
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