Re: [CTRL] Y2K Overhype (Re: [CTRL] OEN 12/27/98)

1998-12-30 Thread Teo1000
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/29/98 4:57:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << So true, so true. Whether it turns out to be a bona fide catastrophe or merely a pretext for martial law, I think we need to start converting our anxieties about it into action, and use

Re: [CTRL] Y2K Overhype (Re: [CTRL] OEN 12/27/98)

1998-12-29 Thread EASTERISLE
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/28/98 4:38:46 PM, you wrote: >This is the whole problem with this topic. One does not know what to believe. >That is the whole point anyway. So true, so true. Whether it turns out to be a bona fide catastrophe or merely a pretext for martial law, I think

Re: [CTRL] Y2K Overhype (Re: [CTRL] OEN 12/27/98)

1998-12-28 Thread JYester
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/28/98 11:38:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > This is the whole problem with this topic. One does not know what to > believe. > That is the whole point anyway. It seems to me that what can be > accomplished > with the "use" of

Re: [CTRL] Y2K Overhype (Re: [CTRL] OEN 12/27/98)

1998-12-28 Thread Teo1000
-Caveat Lector- This is the whole problem with this topic. One does not know what to believe. That is the whole point anyway. It seems to me that what can be accomplished with the "use" of such a thing is great. Consider the "apocalyptic" maundering of the "fundies", as you say. Then conside

Re: [CTRL] Y2K Overhype (Re: [CTRL] OEN 12/27/98)

1998-12-28 Thread Kenn Thomas
-Caveat Lector- > Why do I have such a hard time finding a computer programmer that I know > that's even mildly concerned w/ Y2K? I've asked all my programmer friends > the following questions: 1) Are you the least bit worried about Y2K, and 2) > Are any of your colleagues worried about Y2K? T

[CTRL] Y2K Overhype (Re: [CTRL] OEN 12/27/98)

1998-12-28 Thread Che
-Caveat Lector- >Other electronic equipment besides computers may also be vulnerable. So >engineers everywhere are clambering over pipes, behind walls and into >closets in a giant scavenger hunt for computer chips that control >factories, oil platforms, aircraft, traffic lights and building-secu