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

To: Ken who wrote (5083)	3/27/1999 5:09:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

I would add as '0' to your priorities, US, Chinese, ex sov states early warning radar, etc., screens giving data, and CORRECT data. So there is no way they might just turn these systems off?? Hmmm... The latest stories re: Russian reaction to the bombings, is that the us/russian monitor programs will be scrapped by the russians. Equally seriously, will we also have a similiar exchange program of monitoring in place with the Chinese, Ukaraine, etc. Read that today. You were quick to pick up that little nuance. But who's interest is it in to cooperate on Y2K issues, there's, ours, or both?? Who will be vulnerable to a 1st strike, us or them? Who faces permanently being left behind the IT power curve? Who has a good majority of their assets in dollar denominated securities and money(both officially and "unofficially"). I would say that the Russians are trying to yank our chains and its a hollow threat. I would add as '0+', that cyberterrorists and other terrorists attempting to bring down the grid, banking, etc., are all caught in time. Big problem, no doubt. As a certain "tiger team" operation performed by NSA displayed in the summer of 1997, it was quite easy to penetrate critical infrastructure systems and play havoc. We are certainly "eligible" to find others being "retriever"s of sensitive data that should not have access to. But hey.. isn't that activity going on EACH AND EVERY DAY RIGHT NOW??? Didn't DOD computer systems suffer over a 260,000 different penetration attempts on their systems last year?? Hmmm... the world still turns. And the hacking issue doesn't even involve Y2K at this time. Of course, some of those naughty Hindu programmers may have planted some "easter eggs" for us to find in January. But then again, maybe they'll go off Before, or even AFTER Y2K just to keep things interesting. And of course, there would be no reaction from the US towards the perpetrators IT systems, would there?? As for Nukes, they have manual shutdowns. And the fact that Nukes provide some 20% of current US power requirements could lead to grid instability should they be forced to stand down. Again, you apply conjecture and supposition with little documentation as to the actual operational Y2K status of Nuke plants. Cause it ain't been made public. Ken, there is no reason that the authorities have to "nationalize" anything. They have emergency powers that effectively permit authorities to dictate under a state of emergency that private industry obey governmental commands. There is no reason they must assume complete and irreversible control of the utilities. Your bias shows throught once again. You really seem to place a low regard on human ingenuity, especially American ingenuity. You must be of old European stock where you have to wait until someone tells you what to do or when to do it before you take an independent decision. I don't work that way. I don't need to wait for the government to tell what I can do to help fix the problem or provide relief. The people ARE the government and the source of its strength. (pardon the cliches) Get a grip, Ken... Regards, Ron