It is not technically a computer bug but a limitation of the computers original programming.
Y2K computer bug had distracted it for years, as it spent heavily to avoid trouble.
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The prime minister will also chair a European Union conference on the computer bug next month.
The site also has an entertaining humor section, with links to all those bad-joke pages about the Y2K computer bug.
The companies taking their insurers to court argue that the insurance industry lobbied actively for extensive preparations to avoid being bitten by the computer bug.
That seems to be the case with the hype that is portraying the Year 2000 computer bug as the biggest threat to civilization since Godzilla destroyed Tokyo.
For anyone who has been in seclusion in the High Sierras for the last several years and missed the hype, the Year 2000 computer bug, or Y2K as acronym-enamored technologists like to call it, is the result of a computer programming convention that represents dates with only two digits for the year.
Anyone controlling your PC with administrator access can turn on a microphone or camera to convert a computer into a convenient bug.
Some 13%, however, claimed that they would be spending some of the holiday fiddling with their video or home computer to beat the bug.
The millennium bug is a computer glitch which results from dates being stored in two-digit form on older computers.
In a separate statement also aimed at improving consumer confidence, the Commission said it was looking at ways of fighting computer crime following the damage caused by Thursday's Love Bug virus.
The bug revolves around the way that IE manages a computer's memory when processing Cascading Style Sheets - a widely used technology that defines the look and feel of pages on a website.
The Department is apparently way behind in getting its computer hardware and software fortified against the so-called Millennium Bug: Unless replaced or adjusted, computers at the turn of the century will behave as if the numerals 00 are 1900 rather than 2000 and may possibly crash.
When you find out that your Kryptonite bike lock can be opened with a Bic pen or that a bug in Java lets malicious websites take over your computer, the fix is in your hands: You send in your lock for a replacement or disable Java in your browser.
If exploited by a booby-trapped webpage the bug would allow attackers to take control of an unprotected computer.
Many companies - both computer suppliers and their customers - have long been aware of the bug and have been working on solutions.
We must not lose sight, however, of the larger problem: The Millennium Bug's potential for devastation of an advanced, computer-dependent society like that of the late 20th Century United States is not confined to its national security apparatuses.
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Google cofounder Sergey Brin said only half-jokingly back in 2002 that his company aimed to create the equivalent of the intelligent computer HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but without the bug that resulted in it, you know, killing people.
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Only then did she catch the computing bug, enrolling in 1986 at the University of California at Berkeley to study computer science.
If all you do with your computer is blast pixelated zombies and print out letters to friends, you might not notice the bug even if it does inhabit your machine.
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