Computer Safety Tip appears to be laced with fake antivirus malware on its right-hand rail.

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While we may try and act noble and bold from behind the relative safety of the keyboard, or computer screen.

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The airport itself points to problems with the fire safety system as the immediate cause of the delays: The fire safety system incorporates some 75, 000 sprinklers, but computer programming glitches mean it's not clear whether all of these sprinklers would spray enough water during a fire.

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In his Google blog post, Mr Thrun - professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University - insisted that safety was the "first priority" in the project.

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To the extent possible, nonnuclear tests are used to assess weapon safety and performance and together with past nuclear test results are used to validate computer simulations.

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In January 2003 the Microsoft SQL Server worm, known as Slammer, infected a private computer network at David-Besse nuclear power plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, disabling a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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