In engineering, a fail-safe is a design feature or practice that, in the event of a failure of the design feature, inherently responds in a way that will...
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Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The...
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A fail-safe describes a device which, if or when it fails, will cause a minimum of harm. Fail-safe may also refer to: Fail-Safe (novel), a 1962 novel...
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Fail-Safe is a bestselling American novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. Expanded from Wheeler's short story "Abraham '59" (originally published...
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Fail Safe is a 2000 televised broadcast play, directed by Stephen Frears and based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler...
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Fault tolerance (redirect from Fail-safe (computer))
system that is designed to fail safe, or fail-secure, or fail gracefully, whether it functions at a reduced level or fails completely, does so in a way...
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Electromagnetic lock (section Fail-safe vs fail-secure)
devices can be either "fail safe" or "fail secure". A fail-secure locking device remains locked when power is lost. Fail-safe locking devices are unlocked...
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Safety engineering (redirect from Fail-safe operation)
is often "inherently fail-safe". That is, change the system design so its failure modes are not catastrophic. Inherent fail-safes are common in medical...
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[citation needed] Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler's later best-seller, Fail-Safe, so closely resembled Red Alert in its premise that George sued on the...
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Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes is a personal finance book written by American investment analyst and politician Harry...
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Dr. Strangelove (section Fail Safe)
Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick learned that Fail Safe, a film with a similar theme, was being produced. Although Fail Safe was to be an ultrarealistic thriller...
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Buffer overflow protection (redirect from Fail-Safe C)
to those provided by GCC and Microsoft Visual Studio. Fail-Safe C is an open-source memory-safe ANSI C compiler that performs bounds checking based on...
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alternative design philosophies like fail-safe design and fault-tolerant design were developed. One way the safe-life approach is planning and envisaging...
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Stargate SG-1 season 5 (redirect from Fail Safe (Stargate SG-1))
spans over 2 or more episodes. Sky One aired "Fail Safe" before "Summit" and "Last Stand", although "Fail Safe" follows the two-parter plotwise. Showtime...
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Safety coffin (redirect from Fail-safe coffin)
assistants had been buried alive ended badly when the signalling systems failed. Luckily, the breathing tube had activated and the assistant was disinterred...
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Men (1957), North by Northwest (1959), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Fail Safe (1964), The Americanization of Emily (1964), Patton (1970) and The Verdict...
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novelist, and non-fiction writer, co-author of The Ugly American (1958), Fail-Safe (1962), and author of The 480 (1965). He was born in Sheldon, Iowa, the...
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roles; playing the President's interpreter in the televised broadcast play Fail Safe (2000), a science teacher in the thriller Donnie Darko (2001), a mob enforcer...
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exceptional condition, it is either correct, or will terminate with an exceptional condition. Exception handling Fail-safe Fault-tolerant Bottom type...
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trigger such retaliation.[citation needed] The term fail-deadly was coined as a contrast to fail-safe. Fail-deadly can refer to specific technology components...
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(1962), Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), The Pawnbroker (1964), Fail Safe (1964), The Hill (1965), Serpico (1973), Murder on the Orient Express...
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appeared in the films Black Like Me, A Fine Madness, What's Up, Doc? and Fail Safe. In 1962, he starred in the Broadway musical Fiorello! as the title character...
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cranes in France. In 2011, Hong Kong introduced a "Code of Practice for the Safe Use of Tower Cranes" and Singapore introduced a "Workplace Safety and Health...
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Norwegian railway signaling (section Fail safe)
one of the green lights in signal 22 fails, the indication becomes the lower speed signal 21 – this is fail-safe. Other nearby countries reverse the role...
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Safety-critical system (redirect from Fail-operational)
launch-on-command are fail-safe, because if the communications systems fail, launch cannot be commanded. Railway signaling is designed to be fail-safe. Fail-secure systems...
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of Jeannie. Hagman had supporting roles in numerous films, including Fail-Safe, Harry and Tonto, S.O.B., Nixon, and Primary Colors. His television appearances...
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Presley vehicle King Creole (1958), Stanley Donen's romance Charade (1963), Fail Safe (1964), Gene Kelly's musical Hello, Dolly! (1969), Elaine May's screwball...
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Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe (1954), Brigadier General Warren A. Black in Fail Safe (1964), Marshal Ney in Waterloo (1970), Conal Cochran in Halloween III:...
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and no "fail-safe" provisions were needed.: 162–165 For this design component to be approved ("certified") by the FAA without any fail-safe provision...
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