Australian Commission to investigate computer industry over y2k

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/state/qld/metqld-8jan2000-1.htm

ACCC asked to probe handling of Y2K bug The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is being asked to investigate the computer industry over its handling of the Y2K bug.

Queensland Labor Party backbencher Neil Roberts wants the ACCC to investigate whether there has been collusion in the industry to use the problem to reap profits.

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 07, 2000

Answers

Hey, this is NOTHING compared to what we would have seen (and, conceivably, might still see) if there had been some serious Y2K disasters. One of the more obvious possibilities would have been a governmental demand for programmers to be certified and regulated, like doctors and lawyers, etc. It doesn't make any difference how crazy and unworkable such a scheme would have been; it would still have been proposed as part of a "backlash" against Y2K.

Ed

-- Ed Yourdon (ed@yourdon.com), January 07, 2000.


.....sigh..... Let the games begin...

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), January 07, 2000.

Sure looks like it's gonna get ugly. Anybody hear anything from Senators Dodd, Bennett, or....???

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 07, 2000.

20000107 Friday

This is a classical case of tyrannical, statist bureaucrats with too much authority, money, time on their hands, and a strong need to justify their existence for the sheeple.

Action: Verify the 3 systems left standing (unremediated) in the U.S. and failed.

Conclusion: No scam!

Duh!!

Regards, Bob Mangus

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-- Robert Mangus (rmangus1@yahoo.com), January 07, 2000.


Damned if you do and......I think I'll go dig some more....

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 07, 2000.


Oh, and Ed, you are one of my heros...You have my unqualified respect and appreciation for what you have done and are continuing to do! Now, back to diggin.........

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 07, 2000.

Good point Ed.

Now let me see if I understand this correctly, the government that have their own minds and experts and IT staff decided they were correct and therefore did y2k work. Are they planning to sue themselves and their IT staff?

Ok, may be not, but now they are assuming that they were wrong, and this was a scam. So I see the government that now thinks it was wrong about doing y2k work (according to their own admission since they are doing an investigation presumably under the assumption they didn't need to do any work) is now going to try again and figure out what was should have been done. I see I'm supposed to belive them the second time round.

Can some one help me here, I'm getting dizzy.

-- Interested Spectator (is@the_ring.side), January 07, 2000.


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