' Re: DC Y2K Weather Report 90 ( Day 500, Y2K not a big deal,
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kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net (cory hamasaki)
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Re: DC Y2K Weather Report 90 ( Day 500, Y2K not a big deal, SHARE)
It's DON SCOTT! He lives! This is terrific.
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:57:42, scottd@nbnet.nb.ca (Don Scott) wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:24:01 GMT, fedinfo@halifax.com wrote:
>
> >> ------------- Y2K minus 500 ---------
> >>
> >> What does it mean... We're outa time for triage and the contingencies
> >> that would keep a semblence of the infrastructure running.
> >>
> >
> >I have been saying this from Day one. It is grade school math.
> >
> Big Chicken Little responds to Little Chicken Little - ".....that's
> what I've been telling you".
>
> Self-induced delusion is alive and well in this newsgroup, I see.
>
> You guys coming up out of your bunker for a reality check soon?
>
> LOL,
> Don Scott
Say don, weren't you going to debunk the rail problem? Don't bother...
Senator Bennett's people have been contacting the railroads. I'm sure
they'll issue a statement about how clueless I am... any day now.
Oh and the next WDC Y2K, September 15th will feature:
John Koskinen, Chair of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion
Joel Willemson, Director, Civil Agencies Information Systems, US GAO
I'm sure they'll tell us how great things are going. Actually, I've
been searching for some good news, any good news, unfortunately every
time I find good news, some troublemaker, an oversight board, an
Inspector General issues a report calling the compliance statements a
fabrication.
Maybe koskinen will straighten my sorry butt out... maybe I'll be
sitting in the back, drinking my free pepsi and he'll shout out, you,
you there, I recognize you from the CBN specials, you're the clueless
one who's been harrassing me in cyberspace... don scott is right, you
got a self-induced delusion, the DOT's Inspector General didn't catch
the FAA fabricating compliance reports, the DoD's Inspector General
didn't catch the Pentagon fabricating compliance reports, a whole bunch
of agencies didn't get 'F's.
Yes don, I'm the one with the delusion... the FAA, well, Mr. John Meche,
the DOT's Assistant Inspector General didn't say, "...For the systems
reported as renovated we found there was limited support for the work
reported as done. If the system needed replacement parts and they were
ordered, FAA counted the system as repaired. And limited evidence
existed of what needed to be done on system interfacing."
come on, pal. We have large organizations with serious, life and death,
responsibilities, commiting fraud, certifying safety systems as Y2K
compliant and ... surprise, the Inspector General comes in and finds
<please, those with sensiblities, skip the next part, it's R rated.>
them with their pants down, engaged in some kind of circle jerk. <OK,
you can start reading again.>
what the h*ll is going on? We're not talking about some low level
functionaries taking a long lunch. These are billion dollar, mission
critical, life and death systems and they're playing loosey-goosey with
the compliance criteria. ...and then they have the nerve to say, it's
safe to get on a plane?
I would be overjoyed to find one industry that has its act together. I
don't mean nice press releases, I mean auditable, show me the test
results and let me or a team of superprogrammers examine the systems,
dump the data, run our own tests.
cory hamasaki 499 days, 11983 hours. |
