Y2K may be just a bump in the road compared to 5/5/2000.

Please search (5/5/2000) on the web I'd like to know what you think.

thanks

-- Arthur Washington (ARTWASH@webtv.net), June 12, 1999

Answers

I think WebTV users are living up (or down) to their reputation.

-- Eddie Willers (ed_willers@hotmail.com), June 12, 1999.

wellll - we gotta get there first, don't we?

Let's solve one unknown level of problems first, before we solve a second (theorized) problem.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), June 12, 1999.

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The brochure: http://www.fema.gov/library/emfdwtr.htm

-- (fema@info.help), June 12, 1999.

If that doesn't scare you then here is something else to think about:

In appx. 10-15 years there will no longer be any available telephone numbers for sale. Every last number in this format will be used up; (XXX) XXX-XXXX. So why does that matter? The size of a telephone number computers recognize is only ten digits. If you start making telephone numbers larger you have to upgrade all your machines to accept it and use it as workable data. Well , that might prove to be a bit interesting/dificult/hellish mightmare considering the amount of hardware/software that uses ten digit telephone fields. It's probably right up there statisticlly with y2k, as far as remediation is concerned. Boy am I glad I got into the computer field, looks like we'll have work to keep me going for decades. Maybe with any luck they'll start working on this problem more than a year or two before a crisis begins. (ya think?)

-- (keeprs of odd@ knowledge.org), June 12, 1999.

That's okay - they'll just start using letters in the phone number. Right? Or add letters into the SSN, then mulitply the result by your birth date, and divide by the medical insurance/drivers license ID card.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), June 12, 1999.

That still doesn't change the fact that the systems are set up to recognize things like date fields and phone numbers in a certain way. You can quantify that until the cows come home but it doesn't change the facts. Hmm,I think I might have just thought up a great slogan for gateway's math software =)

-- (odd knowledge@ keeprs.org), June 12, 1999.

Oh, I know! I know! They should invent another number!

-- typhonblue (typhonblue@hotmail.com), June 13, 1999.

IBM did it. 99/366. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), June 13, 1999.

Universal birth control is the answer to too many people and too many phones.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), June 13, 1999.

"Universal birth control is the answer to too many people and too many phones."

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), June 13, 1999.

War works too and is great business for the military industrial complex.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), June 13, 1999.

Y2K will solve the too-many problem, unfortunately.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), June 13, 1999.