interrupted telephone lines, disconnected services, and misdirected and eavesdropped on calls. Their attempt was geared more toward learning about the intricate phone systems through curiosity rather than trying to steal personal information
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 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 ...
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...
$1000 face value bags of silver coins had a melt value well over $35,000, but were selling between dealers at about $30-32,000 a bag – reportedly due to a backlog at smelters. Conversely, as the Y2K scare heated up in 1998-99, the premiums on bags reached nearly 50%, even thoug...
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 ...
But the recession of 2001 was caused by irrational exuberance in high tech. In 1999, there was an economic boom in computer and software sales caused by the Y2K scare. After the companies all buying the computer system, the stock price of those companies with high technology started to increa...
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...
earthquake badly damaged the dam, forcing the evacuation of eighty thousand people. Fortunately, the dam held and no more lives were lost, but there were many very scary days for the residents who lived near the dam. Who was responsible for all of this construction on sites so poorly chosen...
The second point I made was the only time information became constrained by physical laws was when it was encoded onto matter/energy for the purposes of communication and storage in a way that humans can use. It can be realised from this that there are issues to do with nonlocality, effect...