-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 4:47 AM Subject: FC: US DoD says it's Y2K-OK; first Y2K suicide http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20723.html Y2K Military Minutiae on Track by Declan McCullagh 3:00 a.m. 14.Jul.99.PDT FAIRFAX, Virginia -- F-15s diving into the ground and Trident nuclear missiles accidentally obliterating New Jersey may grab headlines, but the US military is just as worried about fixing a much more prosaic Y2K problem: Buggy computers that keep track of the mundane. The Defense Department is home to hundreds of massive, creaky computers that, if not readied for the year 2000, will cause troop supply shortages and missing spare parts. Defense brass spent Tuesday afternoon insisting that such a situation is farfetched, if not impossible. [...] http://www.y2kculture.com/reactions/19990712.suicide.html THE FIRST Y2K SUICIDE It's the first real-live -- make that real-dead -- casualty of the glitch. July 12, 1999 http://www.y2kculture.com/feedback/19990712.feedback.html READER FEEDBACK A reader contributes some Y2K verse: "I do not want dark and Y2K. I want to hold the fear at bay." July 12, 1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
