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Topic: Unreliable


In the News (Sat 12 Dec 09)

  
  DCL-02-30, Urgent Need for States to Correct and Resubmit FY 2001 Data Found to be Incomplete or Unreliable for ...
A state whose data are found to be incomplete or unreliable may be assessed a penalty and will not be eligible for an incentive payment for the particular performance measure involved in that fiscal year.
OCSE guidance regarding the need for states to resubmit data found to be incomplete or unreliable for incentive and penalty purposes appears in the preamble section of the final rule.
In the example, a state is determined to have unreliable data for current collections for FY 2001 and the state corrects the unreliable data for FY 2001 during FY 2002.
www.acf.dhhs.gov /programs/cse/pol/DCL/2002/dcl-02-30.htm   (841 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Unreliable narrator
In literature and film, an unreliable narrator is a first-person narrator, the credibility of whose point of view is seriously compromised, possibly by psychological instability, or a powerful bias, or else simply by a lack of knowledge.
One of the earliest known examples of unreliable narration is Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
Humbert Humbert is the adopted pseudonym of the main character and unreliable narrator of the 1955 novel Lolita, by Russian-born American novelist Vladimir Nabokov.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Unreliable-narrator   (2422 words)

  
 Unreliable Failure Detectors for Reliable Distributed Systems - Chandra, Toueg (ResearchIndex)
Unreliable Failure Detectors for Reliable Distributed Systems - Chandra, Toueg (ResearchIndex)
Unreliable Failure Detectors for Reliable Distributed Systems (1996)
Chandra T.D. and Toueg S., Unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /chandra96unreliable.html   (263 words)

  
 Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia - Unreliable Delivery Model   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Data delivery is unreliable at the Network Layer, where IP operates.
This is the main function of the TCP Protocol, which uses sequence numbers and timeouts to detect data loss, and then retransmits lost data until it is received and acknowledged.
The assumption of unreliable delivery, and the consequent demand that software be able to handle intermittent failures, significantly reduces demands on hardware and low-level software design.
ie.activedomain.org /11.htm   (455 words)

  
 Unreliable narrator -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Unreliable narrator -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
One of the earliest known examples of unreliable narration is (English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)) Chaucer's (additional info and facts about The Canterbury Tales) The Canterbury Tales.
Many have suggested that all first-person narration, and indeed narration generally, is inescapably unreliable.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/un/unreliable_narrator.htm   (917 words)

  
 An Unreliable Witness
Meanwhile, the harsh truth remains that if I was actually put into a room with six, sixteen or twenty-six people, I would still be that sweating, stammering, stumbling and clammy-palmed nervous wreck I have always been, unable to look even my closest friends in the eyes.
Be sure to remember, therefore, that in the world of An Unreliable Witness, my life is dangerous, exciting and captivating.
In the world of An Unreliable Witness, I am a fluttering social butterfly whose every profound utterance holds his numerous friends, acquaintances and hangers-on completely spellbound.
unreliablewitness.com   (2436 words)

  
 Safety alarm over unreliable rail phones - National - smh.com.au
TELEPHONES installed in the city's underground rail network for emergency use in a fire or terrorist attack have been found to dial wrong numbers, make phantom calls and fail to ring.
The phones did not meet Australian Communications Authority requirements, remote monitoring was unreliable and the equipment might not be suited to tunnels, the document said.
Staff complain that the phones are making phantom calls, leading to confusion about whether there is an emergency or not, Mr Lewocki said.
www.smh.com.au /news/national/safety-alarm-over-unreliable-rail-phones/2006/05/05/1146335930365.html   (662 words)

  
 Definition of unreliable - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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www.m-w.com /dictionary/unreliable   (41 words)

  
 Schneier on Security: Unreliable Programming
I don't believe the idea of failing unreliably will protect the program authors.
One would have to prove that the program could fail unreliably (even if in different ways) and that may not be too difficult with automation, multiple machines and a long enough time window.
Moreover, the affected party can make the assertion that unreliable failure was purposely tacked on, making the authors even more cuplable.
www.schneier.com /blog/archives/2006/07/unreliable_prog.html   (3184 words)

  
 An Analysis of NESFA Membership Policy - 1971
I don't imagine that a thirty year old essay about membership policy in an SF fan club will be of any great general interest; indeed I expect that there will be but few who bother reading it.
The web, being the universal albeit unreliable encyclopedia, is also the great archive, and is thereby home to such bits of fluff that anybody deems fit for immortality.
In other words it is source material for fan historians.
home.tiac.net /~cri/2003/nesfa.html   (7943 words)

  
 definition of irresponsible
Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.
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Able, Answer, Be, Consequences, Innocent, Liable, Nor, Not, Or, Responsible, To, Trusted, Unreliable
www.brainydictionary.com /words/ir/irresponsible180806.html   (61 words)

  
 Older Adults Unreliable In Court, Study Says - News Story - WRC | Washington
The older study participants were 60 to 80 years of age, while the younger participants were college students.
The study, "I misremember it well: Why older adults are unreliable eyewitnesses," is published in a recent issue of the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
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www.nbc4.com /news/11086395/detail.html   (691 words)

  
 MARISSA MAYER: Utterly unreliable rumor: Is Google VP Marissa Mayer dating Co-founder Sergey Brin? - Valleywag
MARISSA MAYER: Utterly unreliable rumor: Is Google VP Marissa Mayer dating Co-founder Sergey Brin?
Utterly unreliable rumor: Is Google VP Marissa Mayer dating Co-founder Sergey Brin?
Disclaimer: Google has every reason to hunt down leakers by spreading false rumors.
www.valleywag.com /tech/marissa-mayer/utterly-unreliable-rumor-is-google-vp-marissa-mayer-dating-cofounder-sergey-brin-214051.php   (297 words)

  
 The Chronicle: 1/25/2002: Once-Trustworthy Newspaper Databases Have Become Unreliable and Frustrating
The Chronicle: 1/25/2002: Once-Trustworthy Newspaper Databases Have Become Unreliable and Frustrating
Once-Trustworthy Newspaper Databases Have Become Unreliable and Frustrating
Supreme Court decision led publishers to purge much archival material, to the dismay of scholars
www.chronicle.com /free/v48/i20/20a02901.htm   (2386 words)

  
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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www.brainyquote.com /quotes/quotes/e/evanesar129901.html   (74 words)

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