Stephen-
Thanks for the update. It seems there are several variants of these Google 
screw ups going around! I'd give the daughter a break though. ;) Google is a 
big target and there are more and more people out there with the free time to 
take aim! On a similar vein, I used to have a coffee mug that read, "To screw 
things up requires a human. To screw things up millions of times per second 
requires a human with a computer!". I think the "axiom" applies in this case! 
(Someone swiped the mug- but just once so it probably wasn't a computer.) :(
Tim
_______________________________
Timothy O. Shearon, PhD
Professor and Chair Department of Psychology
The College of Idaho
Caldwell, ID 83605
email: [email protected]

teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and 
systems

"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sat 1/31/2009 1:10 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] "Site may harm" (was:  Darwin, Science, and Religion)
 
On 31 Jan 2009 at 10:43, Rick Froman wrote:

> Looks like it actually happened

You betcha, scoffers.   And it wasn't a virus or worm either (otherwise 
strange that it would have affected both my and my wife's computer 
simultaneously).

It turns out to be....wait for it...human error. A single errant 
keystroke, would you believe.  

Wait 'till I give my Google-resident daughter an earful on this. Have 
they no decency, Sir?

See: 

Google blacklists the entire Internet
Glitch causes world's most popular search engine to classify all web 
pages as dangerous
The Guardian, Jan 31/09
/www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/31/google-blacklist-internet
or
http://tinyurl.com/ang54a

Aren't you sorry you missed the excitement?

Stephen
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Stephen L. Black, Ph.D.          
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus   
Bishop's University      e-mail:  [email protected]
2600 College St.
Sherbrooke QC  J1M 1Z7
Canada

Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of
psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

---
To make changes to your subscription contact:

Bill Southerly ([email protected])


---
To make changes to your subscription contact:

Bill Southerly ([email protected])

<<winmail.dat>>

Reply via email to