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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (6076)	6/21/1999 8:14:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Insurers Could Pay Up To $35 Bln In Y2K Costs << Insurers could pay $15 billion to $35 billion for claims and legal costs related to year-2000 computer problems, potentially ranking the expenditures second only in size to asbestos and pollution-cleanup claims, the Wall Street Journal reported. The estimate of insurers' Y2K burden comes from Milliman & Robertson Inc., an actuarial firm that has made past estimates for asbestos and environmental claims ... more ... >> dailynews.yahoo.com John ***** OT - SETI SEARCH If anyone would like to put their computer's idle time to work, they can join me and more than 650,000 other computers searching for et ... This number of PCs churning away roughly equates to 65 of the world's largest 'parallel' supercomputers and allows searches at 10 times the sensitivity achieved previously. This is serious science via Berkeley ... It uses signals from the largest radio telescope in the world, the Arecibo Radio Telescope in northwestern Puerto Rico ... The telescope has a fixed dish 305 meters (1000 feet) across. The free software will work in either screen-saver or continuous running mode. More information at: setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu :-))