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Technology Stocks : 2000: Y2K Civilized Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (329)	8/18/1999 5:38:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 662

Sixty Percent of Large Businesses in Japan Expect Y2K Troubles Guess they expect them to be pretty minor problems - LOL - Troubles will never occur: 18.0% - Solved within several hours: 19.6% - Solved in a day: 14.2% - Will take a few days: 15.8% - Will take a week or so: 7.0% - Will take two weeks or more: 4.0% - No idea: 21.4% nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (329)	8/18/1999 11:03:00 PM
From: J.L. Turner	Respond to of 662

Cheryl your post made me go back and reread some 1998 info regarding "The Deadly Embrace" On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:57:26 -0400, chris mendla <cgmsys@op.net> wrote: >One thing that I didn't like when I read the reports.. That is that the grid >is dependent on the telcos for switching.. It's obvious when you think about >it.. The problem there is that without the telcos, the grid will fail. IOW, >the probability of failure of the grid is increased by the probablity of >failure of the telcos. Previously, I was under the illusion that all we >needed to avoid a major disaster was that the power grid stays up. Now is >seems that we need both the power and telcos to avoid 'lights out'. But you've missed the "deadly embrace", Chris. The telcos are themselves dependent on the grid, which is dependent on the telcos and so on. If the grid goes down for, say, a few days, the battery backup of the telcos will be exhausted in enough different places so that it will no longer be possible to restart the grid without communications, which can't be restarted without the grid . . . J.L.T.