• 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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  • 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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  • 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 2000 televised broadcast play, based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The play, broadcast live in...
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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • is no one to trigger such retaliation. The term fail-deadly was coined as a contrast to fail-safe. Fail-deadly operation is an example of second-strike...
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  • Fail-safes in nanotechnology are devices or features integrated with nanotechnology which, in the event of failure, respond in a way that will cause no...
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  • placed in the bottom and performed elimination stunt.   The contestant was safe from elimination by winning elimination stunt.   The contestant was eliminated...
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  • 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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  • [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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  • 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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  • two contestants among them by mutual decision. ^ The Undercover Agent is safe from elimination until his/her identity gets discovered. He/she can give...
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  • 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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    Independence Day (1996), Air Force One (1997), Thirteen Days (2000), Fail Safe (2000), and Eagle Eye (2008).[citation needed] He has made many guest...
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    Failure (redirect from Fail)
    major damage, destruction or death Error – Incorrect or inaccurate action Fail-safe – Design feature or practice Failure analysis – Process of collecting...
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    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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  • culture, i.e. "Fail fast, fail often." Crash-only software Design by contract Failing badly vs. failing well Fail-safe Fail-stop Fail-silent system Khanna...
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  • 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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    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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    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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    which a component failed "functionally" on the component level. Often a part has only a few failure modes. For example, a relay may fail to open or close...
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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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    (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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    as in computer software. These switches are usually used as a form of fail-safe where they stop a machine with no operator from a potentially dangerous...
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  • musical Baker Street. On screen, he made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe (1964), and appeared in Marathon Man (1976), Black Sunday (1977), Demon...
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