http://www.crashthesystem.com A Monkey Wrench in the Works Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:33:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Skype's Heartbeat blog recently posted an explanation of why there was a massive Skype outage affecting millions of customers on Thursday, August 16th carrying through until Friday. Their explanation was that there was a bug in the Skype client software that was made evident by a major Windows Update that ... http://www.crashthesystem.com/2007/08/20/skypes-excuse-for-outage-seems-flimsy/ At the end of the last US administration, there was a budget surplus, there were steps being taken to foster peace in the Middle East, the US had close and warm ties to Russia, relying on their aid in many situations, and the momentum seemed to have no end in ... http://www.crashthesystem.com/2007/08/17/erasing-the-last-thirty-years/ A recent study by CNET shows that, among the top five search engines, Ask.com is the one paying the most attention to privacy concerns. Many of the top online search engines retain their search data for long periods of time, increasing the risk that the data could be used to link ... http://www.crashthesystem.com/2007/08/13/askcom-pays-attention-to-privacy-concerns/ It sounds like the plot to a campy summer horror film, but according to the Seattle Times, ten sheriff's deputies stranded themselves in the wilderness after fighting tooth and nail to remove 3000 marijuana plants growing on the side of Dog Mountain on Saturday night. With some of them exhausted and ... http://www.crashthesystem.com/2007/08/13/deputies-stranded-in-the-wilderness/