A lot of the books were garbage and put out scenarios that couldn't actually happen. Microwave ovens showed time but didn't know dates so those couldn't be affected, same with most cars at the time.

Surveys for all vendors asking if they were going to be Y2K compliant.

Product lines with CPU were checked. Many didn't have any time functions, and the ones that did passed.

Every piece of software was checked. One database system was going to roll over to 1980 and the problem was client side and was installed on most machines and the software had no tech support. I looked at the executable and the math for date calculation and modified it to calculate correctly on every client.

About 2001Q3 I got a note there was one client that I didn't know because it was only used once every 5 years on a strange circumstance..

Then you have to get the fire alarm system beeps, security system beeps, various manufacturers of medical gear to all be able to interface their alarms together, from an administration staff trying to cut costs as much as possible.

I work on equipment that uses CenturyLink that stopped working today. I am told the issue is someone ran a backhoe which damaged their main fiber optics to their management system. CenturyLink offices have no internet to other offices, main databases are out.....

Having famous people promote the cars is a sign
to me that the cars are not reliable.

US sells software at $200 because if GDP, but it is $30 in Latveria. People will go to Latveria, buy all the copies and ship to USA to resell for a $150 profit each.

little troubling how? Really not that much more troubling than your neighbor saying it is his mower now. May be bad example.

But for this scenario, the museum should have done an inventory and told the police the bag was part of the museum and should be returned to the museum. If there would have been conflict from police, museum should have asked for backup from NASA on talking to police. I would hope that NASA would schedule asking museums if the items were still being shown or needed repair or would be better returned to NASA. NASA cared enough to try to get it back.

I removed a series of updates that someone else posted. The next day I was called from Microsoft saying I am missing important updates. I was out of town and they didn't call back. Next week, did a couple more, then day after that saying I was missing important updates.

I removed several Windows (7) updates that were doing data collection.
THE NEXT DAY, I received a call from someone (from India) claiming to be from Microsoft saying that I was missing some updates. No transaction requested, just a request to update Windows.

Two weeks later I removed another update, and received another call the next day.

It sounds like he just made an average and called it that. That's bad math. Standard deviation shows how far your average can vary.

For those of you who don't do math.
Values of 90,91,92,93,94 brings a standard deviation of 1.58 and values of 88,90,92,94,96 brings a standard deviation of 3.16. Same average of both groups, but the standard deviation shows how far out your variances go from average.

Same.

We go all out. Spent considerable money on candy. Kids get to the street, look at it and scream how good it is. Four parents come by to day we made their kids entire night.

Just wondering.
If the key is listed as pirated, a good thing would be to auto download and install.

The main problem with this idea, assuming it could work at all, is classification.

Who/what classifies ads as "No video", "No audio", "digital camera" or such? Nobody wants to spend the time/expense to put classifications on ads, and the classifications are going to be terribly subjective anyway.

I'm familiar with the security business.

What you really want is for police to be called if your home is broken into, even if you can't be called. For this you need a monitoring contract, which can only be done through a security company (cannot be done as an individual).

You can use the other posts here to maybe find good open-source hardware. Security companies will generally not let you purchase hardware/software that you can modify. If there are any issues with anything, you have to prove you didn't have anything to do with the problem.

We don't even let customers have keys to the box with circuit board (called a panel) to change batteries.

First of all, this question comes up every 4-6 months "How to store data long term?".

Take the best pictures, get them printed on quality material, and laminate that and make a photo album. It can now easily be shown to anyone who visits and will survive past the lifespan of your children. I have family pictures from 130 years ago in non-digital format.

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