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...allowed me to diagnose a hardware conflict and explained how to cure it. But when at last I fired up FunMail, the final half-second of any message I recorded repeated itself, as in "Seltzer boy! boy!" A Sony spokesman said I was the first person to report the bug. I am not surprised. At least I didn't lose any tools...
Chilled by a possible blizzard of year 2000?bug lawsuits -- one estimate sees $1 trillion in damages -- corporations are asking the feds for help. "Because of fear of litigation, many companies are afraid of sharing information" about their readiness, says Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America. President Clinton agrees, and plans to send a bill to Congress this week designed to get companies to reveal how Y2K-OK. their computers are, in exchange for partial protection from lawsuits. "The maker of any such statement shall not be liable" for it if the company made an effort...
President Clinton this morning warned the country about the danger of computers running amok come January 1, 2000, saying that although there could be serious problems, there's no need to panic. Indeed, the President's mixed message illustrates his dilemma -- if he ignores the millennium bug, he seems out of touch; if he dwells on it too much he opens himself to charges of not having done more sooner, and risks sowing panic. Stung by Republican complaints that he hasn't addressed the Y2K problem, Clinton said he'll ask Congress to approve a "Good Samaritan" law to encourage...
...tricky part of the White House's Y2K political problem will be telling everyone there's no need to stockpile canned food -- while being alarmist enough to prod business leaders into action. "The consequences of the millennium bug, if not addressed, could simply be a rash of annoyances, like being unable to use a credit card at the supermarket," Clinton said. But the worst-case scenario? He added: "It could affect electric power, phone service, air travel, major governmental service." Not to mention Vice President Gore's presidential ambitions...
...like going to the children's library. It also suffers from weird glitches. In testing, every time I typed in a potentially objectionable word, it retrieved a transcript of a (tame) interview between two of my favorite writers, Martin Amis and Will Self. That's a bug I could live with...