In today's New York Times technology section on their website is this article about the government getting a "D" for readiness. (the "good news" is that it got an "F" in the last review):

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/09/cyber/articles/10millennium.html

and this article about a senate panel predicting transportation breakdowns:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/09/cyber/articles/10millennium-day.html

not pretty folks, and the NYTimes is starting to print more of this kind of stuff.

BTW - the Dow Jones was down 249 for the day...

(patrick from NYC)

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), September 10, 1998

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News of martial law contingency plans for Y2K in the UK is also getting the rounds (see http://www.independent.co.uk/stories/A1109820.html). More and more, people will ask: If they are doing that there, why not here?...

-- Joe (shar@pei.com), September 11, 1998.