[SGI News]Computer tech accidentally deletes $38 Billion of data

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Last year (according to a March 2007 Associated Press report), a computer technician for the Alaska Department of Revenue accidentally erased a disk containing all the data for paying the state's 600,000 residents their annual oil-revenue dividends, and a duplicate disk was also erased, and the fail-safe backup tape was discovered to be unreadable. It took two months of around-the-clock work for state employees to re-computerize all paper records.
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Can you say... Ooops?

Kentucky Inmate Released After Receiving Phony Fax
Timothy Rouse, 19 (and who had been charged with assaulting an elderly person), was matter-of-factly released from the Kentucky Correctional and Psychiatric Center in LaGrange in April after jailers accepted as official a crudely written, ungrammatical fax ordering him freed, supposedly from the state supreme court but whose originating line clearly showed a local grocery store. Furthermore, it took the jailers two weeks to realize they had been scammed. (Fortunately, Rouse was easily re-arrested at his mother's house.)
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Vibrator a Threat To National Security
Earlier this year, Britain's Ann Summers sex-product company announced it would stop selling its remote-controlled Love Bug 2 personal vibrator in Cyprus after Cypriot military officials complained that the device's signals were interfering with army radio transmissions.
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Well that's it for another week, from major oops to dangerous vibrators. Once again it proves we live in a very, very weird world.

[Antares]

Ok, I wish that the first story never happens to me while working with money, that must be horrible. And for the last story, my comment to that will be: LOL!!!

[Bean Bandit]

The fax topic is actually funny

[KeokoXxXInuzuka]

Ok I have no brain here but thats kinda scary to know? oO; how does it do that???

[Princess Cupcake]

The duplicate being erased is surprising.

[zyronet]

Woah.. What a news.
.... 600,000 resident?! and 38$ of data.. >_< [that's a huge amount of number..]
and the fax news, its rather amusing. [funny..]

[Mazrim Taim]

Wow.. just wow. That's god awful. >_>
38 billion dollars down the drain..

Also the fax thing is pretty funny. Lool.

[OminousCloud]

Lol maybe that computer technician should work for the CIA (if I never return to these forums, they've gotten to me!).

[UrusaiSevera]

Lol the second one.... big time idiots.....

[Queen-of-Mars]

The original copy and the duplicate? Yeah, that's not a little sketchy.

How stupid do you have to be to just read a fax and say, "Okay!" before you check things out? Wow.