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To: David Lawrence who wrote (7403)	8/9/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Respond to of 32911

David, Anybody identified any Y4K stocks yet? There's a small company in Titanium Valley in northern California run by a young guy name of William Gates, MCMLVII (the latest in a long line of Gates) called Microsoft4000. Looks like a good speculative play... KJC

To: David Lawrence who wrote (7403)	8/9/1999 11:51:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 32911

Anybody identified any Y4K stocks yet? I've just about finished up my Y3K list, but haven't started working on Y4K. FYI, Y3K top stock is SpaceDev. Their probe to Alpha Centuri will arrive in 3002, with its cargo of frozen human embryos and the patented nursery software to nurture them to adulthood. Once they land safely their stock should soar. Under the World Interspace Treaty of 2573 if they are able to bring a single human life form to existence they will have rights to claim the entire AC solar system. They expect the colony robots to be producing salable goods by 3004, and the human colony, with the speed-up eugenics that are incorporated in the embryos, to be up and running in 3005. This is a HOT stock. Get it now before it's all gone. DISCLOSURE: the poster holds a few shares of stock in SpaceDev but is not an insider and will only get wealthy from this stock if all you suckers get out there and bid it up to asinine levels. So go for it, please. I need the money. Thank you.

To: David Lawrence who wrote (7403)	8/10/1999 11:08:00 AM
From: broken_cookie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32911

Other bugs: August 22, 1999 - GPS Rollover GPS (Global Positioning System) software rolls over its week counter for the first time. GPS satellites in geosynchronous orbit measure time in weeks; every 1,024 weeks (about 19 years, eight months), this value changes from 1,023 to 0. With the system dating from January 5, 1980, the rollover has never been tested live before. Bugs in international-funds transfer programs that use GPS dates could cause 20-year errors in calculating interest rates. September 9 , 1999 - End-of-file Bug (Part 1) Programs that use "9999" as an end-of-file marker may mistake the date 9/9/99 as an end of file, or vice versa. But by this time, Y2K-type failures will already be frequent news, occuring whenever business contracts, drug prescriptions, travel arrangements, and other critical transactions involving future dates venture into the no-man's-land of 00. January 1, 2000 - The Big One Even if 85 percent of all Y2K-prone applications are fixed, about 1.7 million will still fail next New Year's Day. Jason Matusow, strategy manager for Microsoft's Y2K effort, has deployed hundreds of "the people closest to the code" to test and debug the company's wares and minimize the impact. But most institutions won't have this luxury: The programmers who wrote their code have long since moved on to other projects. September 8 , 2001 - End-of-file Bug (Part 2) One last wave of circa-2000 problems comes when some Unix programs using "999,999,999" as an end-of-file marker confuse the data with the date - 999,999,999 seconds since January 1, 1970, as Unix timekeeping goes. 2000-2025 - Phone Number Fallout The explosion in devices requiring new phone connections - cellular and other wireless telephones, pagers, and fax machines - is eating up the supply of available numbers in North America's 10-digit scheme. Instituting a new system - such as four digit area codes - will break databases and other software based on the 10-digit scheme and make millions of cell phones and PDAs with fixed formats obsolete. January 19, 2038 - Unix End of Time Nearly 40 years from now, Unix systems hit their own date overflow bug when the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, exceeds a 32-bit storage value. "Keep some perspective," advises Unix and C architect Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. "It's 40 years from now. Forty years ago there were no commercial computers at all." Circa 2050 - Social Insecurity A billion Social Security numbers seems adequate for a nation the size of the United States (population 270 million). But think of the ubiquity of Social Security numbers as identifiers. Unless the numbers are recycled - an option under consideration - the addition of digits or other changes in the system will need to be reflected not only in software, but in databases stretching back to the dawn of computing. January 1, 10,000 - Y10K In 10,000, software with four digit year fields will think the year is AD 0000. Seem unlikely? Remember that that most Y2K issues were known to developers even as they wrote their own flawed code. Bright spot: Given the stiff consulting rates charged in the 1990's by masters of obsolete programming languages, college kids in 9998 will find an easy way to hustle up tuition - by learning the 8,000-year-old secrets of Cobol.