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In article <3552003c.15393013@newshost>, da...@XOUT.u.washington.edu
(David B. Greene) wrote:

>Robert Egan <nos...@ptc.com> wrote:
>
>>Check out this article. It's pretty long, so don't stop reading at
>>Heritage Farms. It goes on to talk about nuclear power plants, railroads
>>and deliveries to coal fired power plants, and our own US federal
>>government.
>>
>>    http://www.techweek.com/articles/Survive.html
>>
>>Cheers
>>Robert Egan
>>
>>PS: For those who do hardcopy, check out yesterday's WSJ for a hard
>>hitting Y2K preview from Ed Yardeni. He's the chief economist at
>>Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. A typical quote:
>>
>>"We must prepare for the possibility of business failures and the
>>collapse of essential U.S. government services..."

>This is of course bullshit.  It is just a scare tactic for programmers
>to LOOT the public purse.  Already Y2K checks and fixes are being
>implemented.  If there was a big problem our economy would already be
>tweaking by now as computer systems are now scheduling activities into
>the next millenium.  So far the problems have been minor.

Many corporations who have HIGHLY paid analysts have opted to pay through
the nose for these same programmers.  Hundreds-thousands of financial,
industrial, corporate, and governmental computers are running custom
programs that are build from MILLIONS of lines of custom coded source. 
Each designed to handle a two digit date.  It's possible to fix the
shortcomings in those systems before y2k in most cases but people who
program cobol on unix boxes aren't as common a C++ programmers for
mac/windows.  These people are providing a valuable service.  Companies,
and government institutions are paying them so well because they want to
make sure that they have the best people on their teams.

>I might add that anything making it more difficult for the Feds to
>retrieve archived information on the citizens of this country would be
>a welcome step towards electronic privacy.


Ditto.

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