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US & UK Issue Y2k Travel Warnings

Posted by Hemos on from the where-to-not-go-for-vacation dept.

In a coordinated release, both the UK and US have issued their worldfwide Y2k preparedness reports. No real suprises here - Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, and the heartland of China. The strongest warnings were given in reference to the Ukraine, which the US State Department has recommended not traveling to around the end of 1999. More interesting was the UK's warning about the US, citing potential failures in "limited disruption to the water supply; to internal travel using small airports; and to small health facilities" as an ongoing concern.

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  1. Larry Wall sez.... by Chip+Salzenberg · · Score: 3

    ``It should be illegal to yell `Y2K' in a crowded economy.''

  2. Ok, this is silly... by Ami+Ganguli · · Score: 4

    I was in rural India in March. Scheduled rotating blackouts were normal (due to power shortages). We heated water with a little wood stove. The motor-rickshaws are not computerized. The planes are the old-fashioned kind flown by people, not computers. Exactly how is the Y2K bug going to hurt you there?

    The reality is that people in remote areas are used to living without a high-tech infrastructure. If the rest of the world self-destructs they'll be the ones left to pick up the pieces.

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  3. Re:FUD from .uk, .us by lordsutch · · Score: 3

    The really interesting part here is that the actual report on the U.S. doesn't really say any of the things that the CNET article attributes to it. So it's closer to journalist FUD (an all-to-common phenomenon) than government FUD... but FUD nonetheless.

    Waiting to be moderated down...

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