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...nation's missile-warning specialists at the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs are as worried as anyone about potential Y2K problems, but it is Russia's defense and attack systems, not our own, that give them the jitters. To forestall any Strangelovian mishaps, NORAD intends to create a "joint confidence center" and has invited Russian officials to join them in mid-December at a scaled-down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that...
...Amount of "critical" federal computer systems that were declared Y2K-bug free in August...
Here's one vote in favor of the Y2K disaster. I'd organize a national day for doing nothing, but all that work would send the wrong message. So I'll lead by example. I'm taking Mr. Jitters' Game Boy and smashing it. I'm shutting down. I'm not even going to finish this...
...nation?s missile-warning specialists at the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs are as worried as anyone about potential Y2K problems, but it is Russia?s defense and attack systems, not our own, that give them the jitters. To forestall any Strangelovian mishaps, NORAD intends to create a ?joint confidence center? and has invited Russian officials to join them in mid-December at a scaled-down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that...
...working for new capitalist bosses. Increasingly, U.S. firms are turning to Dumpster divers or computer hackers to stay ahead of the competition, and disgruntled workers are walking off with classified material. One worrisome ploy, the FBI says, is to send in spies posing as tech consultants on the Y2K computer...