E-filing also is less prone to human error, both by the IRS and taxpayers.

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The Corporation is investigating the mix-up, but it is thought to be down to human error.

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The railway companies complain that only 3% of crashes are caused by the sort of human error that PTC is designed to avert and that claims that the system will improve efficiency on the network are unfounded.

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When this occasionally occurs by mistake or human error, every effort is made to withdraw the advertising immediately and no fee is paid to the media owner.

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Is there much that we can do to avoid human error in these high-tech days?

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The real problem is that the current mindset surrounding human error seems to be one of retroactive fire drills rather than proactive prevention.

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In other words, exactly the sort of human error the post-election canvass is designed to catch and fix.

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Some take approaches which can best be described as akin to a human immune system, applying different remedies to an error and logging what is effective for future use, alerting the owner for intervention only when all other options have been exhausted.

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Without such safeguards in place, there is no reason to assume that human cloning will not repeat the messy trial and error of current animal research.

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Human error will always be a part of baseball and it is more important to see a vast improvement in the quality of umpires rather than dependence on instant replay.

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