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To: Joe T who wrote (22587)	8/23/1998 5:53:00 PM
From: Bill Wexler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

<<Changing one line of code in one program A can create problems for a dozen other programs>> Interesting assumption. Why? By the way, how do Y2K cultists contend with the following two facts: 1) An astonishingly large percentage of software and hardware gets shipped and put into service with bugs - lots of bugs (that's why vendors have technical support and upgrade policies). If the "cascading failure" scenario is true for the so-called "y2k bug" then why hasn't this been the case for other sorts of bugs. Companies and individuals have to contend with shoddy software all the time, yet the power plants and military facilities seem to work OK most of the time. 2) Computers have been doing century date calculations since the dawn of the age of computing. There is nothing magical about the century rollover on 12/31/99. Computers "understand" dates because humna beings set the dates. Computers have all sorts of real-world limitations (i.e. RAM space, hard disk space, floting point overflows, etc. etc. etc.) and yet the world has never come to an end. <<As you add more changes the complexity grows exponentially>> Huh? Why? How do you relate an increase in complexity to "adding changes"? <<Im sorry Mr. Wexler but thier is no way I will ever agree with you that what we are talking about here is a relatively straightforward software/hardware upgrade and maintenance issue.>> That's OK. If it weren't for scientifically illiterate people...or people who think they know what they're talking about but are actually computer dilettantes, then I wouldn't be able to profit from shorting the Y2K scam stocks such as TAVA and ZITL.