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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (456)	6/19/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: Lucky Lady	Respond to of 618

Are you aware of the International Year 2000 Conference on June 23 which is sponsored by GSA and the Group of 8 On-line Project....An open letter of participation in virtual conference? itpolicy.gsa.gov I found it on the GSA government link: itpolicy.gsa.gov

To: John Mansfield who wrote (456)	6/28/1998 4:49:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 618

Shipping, Shell,...., major newspapers: Embedded y2k awareness is on the rise... 'Subject: Ships was: regional blackouts and heavy brownout activity about 80% - Bennett Says, Dodd joins From: kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net (cory hamasaki)Date: 1998/06/16 ... On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:57:46, declan@well.com (Declan McCullagh) wrote: > In article <1998061514371200.KAA28498@ladder03.news.aol.com>, > GLC1173 <glc1173@aol.com> wrote: > > Because the "establishment" media has buried this problem, the sheeple don't > >pay attention to it now. Until I brought it up today on the local talk show, > >Y2K hadn't even come up on the show; that's how uninformed the public has been > >kept.> > Oh, yes, the "establishment" media who on an NBC talk show yesterday > predicted the Dow would drop to 7000. The "establishment" media who > yesterday in the Washington Post warned that a Y2K "apocalypse" is > possible. The "establishment" media who in last week's TIME devoted four > pages to it; Newsweek and USNews &WR in recent weeks have covered Y2K as Uh Dec, are you referring to the "Y2K, Haw-haw, I is an idiot" article in Newsweek?> well. Reuters and AP have been moving Y2K articles daily. Also Dec, a lot of the Y2K traffic never gets to the public. Most people don't have a NEXIS account (some do... because they're reporters, others do because their code runs parts of NEXIS). Reuters is doing a fine job, there's a lot of stuff on FEDWIRE, Press Release Wire, regional (aka continental, asia, africa, etc.) wire services, etc. I see 50-100 Y2K news items a day... sure, most are press releases... "XYZ corp, the leader in cluelessness is proud to announce that they will provide unskilled personnel who will pretend to be Y2K programmers..."But almost none of the good stuff shows up in the press. > Guess it's easier to (falsely) accuse the "establishment" media for > "burying" this problem then taking your own head out of the sand and > reading what's out there. > > -Declan You're doing a good job, no question, but there's lots of stuff that should be reported and isn't. I put the tip on Lloyds and www.ship2000.com on c.s.y2k about two weeks ago; however, the establishment media hasn't picked up the shipping story. They have access to all the sources, stringers, press releases. Here's a quote on ships, "..merchant ships have cut back on crews to such a extent that in the event of massive systems failure no backup would be available." The word isn't coming out where the public can see it. Or this quote from Malcom Gosling, Head of Electrical Services at Royal Dutch's Shell Trading and Shipping Company, "Shell has tested systems on Very Large Crude Carriers, and found failures in seven areas including radar system mapping, ballast monitoring, and ships performance monitoring." Spin away Pollyannas but please don't flame me, flame the Head of Electrical Services at Royal Dutch's Shell Trading and Shipping Company, call him clueless and tell him how big your brain is. I'll expand on this in the next WRP.... cory hamasaki 564 days, oh and the Exxon Valdeze doesn't exist anymore.