Businesses report that unwanted e-mail is significantly reducing worker productivity and overloading computer-system capacity.
But as any parent of teenagers now knows, Napster has proliferated like a virus -- so rapidly that kids are swapping entire CD collections on line and overloading university computer networks, much as orders for "Riding the Bullet" crashed Net booksellers.
Mr. Steinberg says his main challenge is to avoid overloading voters.
I'm creating the dust by simply overloading product".
Commercial networks will always be patchy and vulnerable to overloading; and, in the event of terrorist attacks, being switched off.
Even at a time of historically low violent crime, critics argue that overloading parole agents compromises public safety.
The waiting times and overloading of stores is also unlikely to be good for the reputations of the retailers involved".
That is why the Plimsoll safety line on the side of ships was introduced to prevent overloading (easy to spot, it looks exactly like the London Underground symbol).
We also recognize their limitations, and believe that other, proven crime-fighting strategies complement the battle against heinous crimes far better than overloading DNA databases.
