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Technology Stocks : 2000 Date-Change Problem: Scam, Hype, Hoax, Fraud

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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (173)	10/6/1997 12:28:00 AM
From: Bill Wexler	of 1361

It's not up to the skeptic to counter a claim. It's up to the person making the claim to back up his hypothesis with evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It is obvious that any piece of software can encounter a boundary condition problem if the programmer did a bad job or if the machine has physical limitations; but computers have all sorts of boundary conditions which cause problems similar to Y2K. Either the hardware evolves, the software evolves, or both. It seems that a lot of the consulting firms (and investors) have seized upon this issue because on the surface, the hypothesis seems reasonable, and fairly simple for a lyamn to understand. I wouldn't exactly rely on the federal assesment of the situation as an indicator of scientific validity.

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