On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:05:41 -0400, Jared Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Back to the original question, how well could you cope for such
> an event? It's always challenging to think about what would happen
> as sometimes it includes the unexpected.
>
Quite. One case of bird flu in a major city and you won't need government
intervention to make people telecommute -- large numbers will
independently and spontaneously decide to do so. (Back in the days of
dial-up, I had a lot of trouble connecting to Bell Labs on snow days. No
rule, and the place was officially open for business. But everyone just
did the rational thing.)
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
