Where the rainbow fringes become most tightly spaced is where the fault break came closest to the surface, although the data indicates the fault is unlikely to have broken right through to the surface.

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Some found fault in how California reported its data.

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While smaller companies may be primarily at fault for privacy breaches lately, data exposures at Web sites run by larger companies also can happen and when they do they can pose an even greater risk, according to Ari Schwartz, policy analyst at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, D.

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In other words, to the extent these fraud detection programs have failed, the message is that the fault lies not with the programs themselves, but with the data on which they depend.

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The current plan for Blueberry is to come back up the hole and sidetrack again to get around the nonconformity or fault that seems to have not shown up on the seismic data.

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The data likewise confirms the need for companies to habitually monitor their fault lines and first identify where those fault lines lie.

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