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To: Stitch who wrote (15889)	6/17/1998 6:32:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 18056

Shipping Full-speed Ahead To Beat Millennium Bomb dailynews.yahoo.com << World shipping is at risk from the millennium computer bomb, delegates to a conference were told, and much work needs to be done to ensure against catastrophic failure. Installation of computer driven systems in merchant shipping has meant that big tankers and carriers might each have more than 100 chips running engine rooms, navigation and communications and managing cargo. According to a recent report from London's Entropy Management, up to 20 percent of these chips could fail because of millennium problems. >> It looks like 'embedded chips' are more of a problem than I thought. I read on another thread (unsupported) that the locks in many jails are also controlled by embedded chips, and that for safety reasons (the inmates, not us) they default to open in the case of a failure. We certainly live in interesting times! < G > John