The standard "let the audience know this person is a loser" scene in movies where the forlorn heroine returns from a night of cat-sitting to an answering machine that bleats "you have no messages" would cause confusion with contemporary viewers.
When we talk about a good book (the content), we never ask what type of computer it was written on (the tools)." James Fallows has a strategy for avoiding Petraeus-style e-mail disasters: "Never put anything in an e-mail message, to anyone, that would cause you serious problems if it fell into the wrong hands".
Mr Barroso, appealing for a vote of confidence, said he had got parliament's message but said a reshuffle would "cause more political and inter-institutional problems than it would solve" - code for his inability to get national government approval.
Huppert said total access to internet messages for the security services would "cause huge problems for anyone that relies on secure online transaction for banking and online shopping, jeopardising Britain's reputation as a safe a place to do business".
In case you missed it, an obscure bug was uncovered by users on Reddit who found that sending a string of symbols and Arabic characters via text to a person's iPhone would cause the Messages app to crash, and in some cases, also cause the iPhone to reboot.
Supplies and manpower were short in the disaster areas, but disaster relief volunteers were given the wrong message that their entrance into the regions would cause an added burden.
Omar called the State Department and demanded President Bill Clinton's resignation, asserting that the missile attack would spread Bin Laden's anti-American message by uniting the fundamentalist Islamic world and would cause further terrorist attacks.
That would cause a sensation.
This would cause grave harm to clients.
Doing so would cause another shutdown tailspin.
