This bounced from Michael E. From: Michael Eisenscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Planning to travel on Jan. 1, 1999? - FAA Systems: Serious Challenges Remain in Resolving Year 2000 and Computer Security Problems. T-AIMD-98-251. 19 pp. August 6, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ai98251t.pdf ======================================== How confident are you about the nation's air traffic control system? Before planning that New Year's Day airplane trip to grandma's house, ask yourself, "In the millions of lines of computer code that go into the programs in the FAA mainframe computers, am I confident that they have really caught all the potential glitches that will be caused by the Year 2000 problem?" Science literature refers to "normal accidents." These are accidents which are nearly inevitably and arise out of the sheer complexity of systems. Three Mile Island might be an example. At some point even with all the fail safe features, very complex systems go awry. Care to offer odds on the FAA computers' reliability? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
