However, signatures that are written to be general purpose and block based on a category of potential exploits against known vulnerabilities can cause false positives and thus block legitimate connections.

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Although the contaminated bills do not affect health, Negrusz said, they could cause in a false positive drug test if a person, such as a law enforcement officer or banker, handles contaminated currency repeatedly.

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Although the rumors that Obama - whose father and step-father were Muslims and who was educated in Muslim schools in Indonesia - is a Muslim are demonstrably false, his Christian affiliations are a cause for alarm in and of themselves.

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However, with a defamation per se cause of action, the damages for such false statements are presumed and do not have to be proven.

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In other words, the trader asked cash brokers to provide false market information to Libor submitters at other banks that would cause them to submit rates one way or another.

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About the above, those who should once again know better would cite unions as the cause of work being moved offshore, but this would be a false read.

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In fact, given the incidence of false positives, and of cancers that do not actually need to be treated, such screenings can cause harm.

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That science blends psychiatry and neuroscience, supposing, for instance, that patients with brain injuries produce false memories because it's their bodies' involuntary, natural way of healing, and that hormones can cause memory suppression.

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