Cory Hamasaki about the recent DC Y2K meeting
'On Thu, 21 May 1998 13:12:55, scottd@nbnet.nb.ca (Don Scott) wrote:
>
> After a meeting, you met with someone who has "worked up a death
> projection" and believes that millions of people will die world-wide
> (the "mega-death" projection). Apparently, we are not to see the
> details of this information.
Don't ass-u-me anything. This was a chance meeting and I didn't see their
numbers or learn their basis. I have sent the person I spoke with an email
and hopefully they'll provide more information.
The person I spoke with wasn't the guy who worked on the switch code. He and
the programmer are investigating this issue.
> I assume that the person(s) in question work for a railway ("worked
> code on the other end of the freight switch....."). This would lead
> me to believe that the "death projection" is NOT an individual effort
> (which would be of limited to no value.... see Milne et al), but is
> instead a company effort.
Don't know. Again, this was 5 minutes of conversation mixed in with other
issues. They were familiar with the Union Pacific situation. I suspect
(ass-u-me) that they are working on a paper or article for publication or
circulation.
> This is serious indeed. I'm sure that you would be willing to tell us
> which rail COMPANY is involved, even if we are not to know the person
> involved. I think that every person in this newsgroup should be
> contacting that company for additional information on their doomsday
> scenario.
I don't know and I don't think they want every Harlan, Don, Dave, Brian,
calling them at their office. It's their research, they can choose to publish
it when they're ready. Speaking of Harlan, I saw Harlan's son at the meeting
but he left before we got to the good part. The really scary stuff is discussed
after the meeting.
>
> One other question, while we're on the subject of railways - how
> "recent" was your information on TCAM 10 being used as a railway app?
> It seems to have stirred up a number of questions here.
Not recent, 1980's. But I haven't seen any evidence of a mega rehost project
and I'm wired into the DC area IT industry.
> And no, no matter what little tidbits of information you may dig up,
> I will always believe that Paul Milne is a clueless paranoid ranter.
careful, a stopped clock (mechanical, remember them) is right twice a day. It's
starting to look like paul milne is correct on y2k. The DC Y2K after meeting
discussions have included some opinions that make paul sound like a
Y2K-pollyanna.
>
> Thanks,
> Don Scott
>
cory hamasaki
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Subject:
Re: DC Y2K Weather Report (Denial, Rates, Medical, Rail, Software, 3330 mod eleven)
Date:
21 May 1998 17:54:05 GMT
From:
kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net (cory hamasaki)
Organization:
IBM.NET
Newsgroups:
comp.software.year-2000
References:
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