mistake

Logitech says that its unsuccessful Revue set-top box will be its last Google TV product. The company says that the software platform was incomplete at launch.

Major, major stumble from Flickr today--a Zurich-based photoblogger says Flickr deleted his account by mistake and lost his 4,000 photos.

Free Software Magazine: "I don't know how many times I've run into this particular mistake, but free software developers keep making it, so I think it's worth a brief post"

The 271 Patent Blog: "[T]o our great surprise, we find that the willingness of these patentees to litigate their cases to judgment is a mistake"

Linux User and Developer: "By default, Ubuntu wants to provide just one massive root (/) partition without separate home partitions.

This is a mistake, as anyone who's updated or recovered a Linux system should know."

A very contextually relevant mistake made by Digital Britain's chief, which reminds us of the reality.

Following a DMCA takedown request from Fox regarding an Avatar torrent, Google has removed the BTJunkie homepage from its search results.

A few months ago Google erroneously banned The Pirate Bay homepage for which it later apologized. Whether or not the BTJunkie ban is also a mistake is unclear.

Twitter phishing attacks caught some users off-guard this week, and some expressed surprise that such attacks remain effective.

LWN.net: "In many minds, the Fedora 12 release is likely to remain forever associated with the project's ill-advised decision to allow any local user to install packages without the root password.

That mistake is now in the past and, in any case, there is far more to Fedora 12 than this particular problem."

Paul Reinheimer came across a small bug in a recent PHP 5.2.x release of the language - a debugging message left in by mistake.