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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (8832)	9/29/1999 9:30:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<95% of public telecom networks are Y2K compliant> Here's part of that 5% that's not compliant: U.S.-RUSSIAN "HOTLINES" HIT BY Y2K GLITCHES WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - *The United States and* Russia have found year 2000 glitches in all but one of their seven Cold War-era "hotlines" and are rushing to correct them*, a top Pentagon official said on Tuesday. The Clinton administration is giving Moscow Y2K-compliant software and computers "to correct program deficiencies in outage reporting, monitoring and channel reroute operations," Assistant Secretary of Defense Edward Warner said. He made his remarks in testimony prepared for the Senate Special Committee on Y2K. The panel is studying pitfalls of the coding glitch that could cause ill-prepared computers -- and the operations they control -- to fail on Jan. 1 with the changeover from 1999 to 2000. To avoid possible misunderstandings during the date change, the United States and Russia agreed on Sept. 13 to set up a joint "Center for Y2K Strategic Stability" at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In addition to sharing missile launch information, Russian and U.S. officers staffing the post will be able to talk through any "other defense-related problems that emerge" during the calendar rollover, Warner said. He said the Pentagon had begun the process of procuring updated equipment for the six of seven hotlines found to have problems, "and while the schedule is tight we are confident that the fixes will be installed and tested by December." "Assured communications between U.S. and Russian leaders is a priority at all times, and of particular concern over the millennium date change," said Warner, who is responsible for strategy and threat reduction. The United States and Russia each keep roughly 2,500 nuclear-tipped missiles pointed at one another on hair-trigger alert despite the collapse of the old Soviet Union in December 1991 and the end of the Cold War. They began installing the seven direct communications links, popularly known as hotlines, during the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, to guarantee immediate communication when needed. Among these are: direct links between the two presidents; a link between the secretary of state and the foreign minister; and one connecting nuclear risk reduction centers on both sides. A secure communications link also is key to operations of the temporary Center for Y2K Strategic Stability [...] greenspun.com <Sorry for the shortage of "good news / not so bad" stories as the media is on the doom and gloom kick BIG TIME.> Wonder why? Cheryl 93 Days until 2000*