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Examples of computer glitches causing disruption include an unexpected shutdown of a water filtration plant in New Canaan, 2010, [7] failures in the Computer Aided Dispatch system used by the police in Austin, resulting in unresponded 911 calls, [8] and an unexpected bit flip causing the Cassini spacecraft to enter "safe mode" in November 2010. [9]
Phrases used by the tech savvy to mean that a problem is caused entirely by the fault of the user include PEBKAC [8] (an acronym for "problem exists between keyboard and chair"), PEBCAK [9] (an alternative, but similar, acronym for "problem exists between chair and keyboard"), POBCAK (a US government/military acronym for "problem occurs between ...
[238] [239] [240] In November 2010, a video of the Turkish politician Deniz Baykal caused the site to be blocked again briefly, and the site was threatened with a new shutdown if it did not remove the video. [241] During the two and a half-year block of YouTube, the video-sharing website remained the eighth-most-accessed site in Turkey.
The iPhone 4s was announced on October 4, 2011, and introduced the Siri virtual assistant, a dual-core A5 processor, and an 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video recording functionality. The iPhone 5 was announced on September 12, 2012, and introduced a larger 4-inch screen, up from the 3.5-inch screen of all previous iPhone models, as well as ...
Break/Pause key on PC keyboard. The Break key (or the symbol ⎉) of a computer keyboard refers to breaking a telegraph circuit and originated with 19th century practice. In modern usage, the key has no well-defined purpose, but while this is the case, it can be used by software for miscellaneous tasks, such as to switch between multiple login sessions, to terminate a program, or to interrupt ...
Glitch (character), a character in Tin Man; Glitch, an electronic monster character in Garfield: Caught in the Act; Glitch, a character in Dance Central 2 and Dance Central 3; Glitch, the protagonist in Metal Arms: Glitch in the System; Glitch, Bob's keytool in ReBoot
Key rollover is the ability of a computer keyboard to correctly handle several simultaneous keystrokes. A keyboard with n-key rollover (NKRO) can correctly detect input from each key on the keyboard at the same time, regardless of how many other keys are also being pressed. Keyboards that lack full rollover will register an incorrect keystroke ...
Animated example of what a glitched video can look like, by Michael Betancourt (Mae Murray in a screen test). Glitch art is an art movement centering around the practice of using digital or analog errors, more so glitches, for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices.