The Y2K Bug, or Millennium Bug as it was known over here in the UK & Europe, was a problem which arose due to years being programmed into computers using 2 digits rather than 4. This meant that 99 was interpreted as 1999, but 00 was interpreted as 1900 rather than the year 2000. Su...
The 2038 bug is similar to the millennial bug (the Y2K scare in the year 2000), but it’s potentially more damaging because there are far more devices in much more diverse types of electronic equipment today. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be one solution that works as a universal ...
Somebody That You Used To Know by Gotye and Kimbra was the number one song on Billboard in 2011, the best-selling song of 2012, and this banger’s music video has over 2 billion views on YouTube alone. Given that this song is so well-known and popular, it should come as no ...
While the Y2K scare at the turn of the century put a spotlight on IT teams and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09 accentuated the roles of finance executives, COVID-19 has thrust HR leaders into the hot seat. The pandemic is essentially a human crisis and it has forced businesses aro...
the more of a playing field hacker has to indulge in their sinful fantasies. There is a vast pool of systems out there. Hacking has become powerful because of the ignorance on the part of companies and does not take it seriously or takes it too seriously. Think about the Y2K scare when...
Dad claims to want to protect his son, but his inflammatory speech here mostly just unnerves the narrator. Though the Y2K scare (predicated on an error in “clocks” computer programmers used) would turn out to be a false alarm, Dad’s anxieties about humanity’s “arrogance” will be born...
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Sixty-one-year-old John Kim is concerned about his children: college graduate Ana and high school senior Ronald. He worries about their internet usage, their laziness and the approaching new year, which has brought with it the Y2K scare that threatens to wipe him and his family off the plan...
Like many firms in the outsourcing business, its happiest days came during the Y2K scare. That gold rush sadly came to an end, unlike the world's electronic systems. To replace it, Cognicase chairman and CEO Ronald Brisebois (now the winner of a $3.8-million buyout) accelerated his ...
At the time, which was the early days of the internet, the Y2K scare—or the Millennium bug as it was also called—had many plausible reasons for concern. For instance, for much of financial history, financial institutions have not generally been considered cutting edge technology-wise. Knowing...