Larger power suppliers in developed nations are said to be mostly prepared for the date rollover, but some officials remain worried about how the industry overall will cope with the year 2000 computer problem.

CNN: Utilities pose biggest worldwide Y2K threat

In this high-tech age -- when computer programmers are in short supply (don't forget the Year 2000 problem) and when Congress may liberalize immigration laws to lure foreign programmers to our shores -- this ban on programmers' becoming individual entrepreneurs is absurd.

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