Millennium Bomber: A Story of Digital Revenge - Watson, David Harten
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Kevin is a senior programmer-analyst nearing retirement age after many years of excellent performance. His boss, knowing employee pensions are based on their final average salaries, shortchanges Kevin with a one-dollar raise for his final year, telling him it's because the company considers older programmers "obsolete" and not worth the money they're paid. Furious at such blatant age discrimination, Kevin vows revenge. It's December 1998, so Kevin comes up with a scheme to re-introduce the "millennium bug" into programs that were already fixed by Y2K consultants, creating a "millennium bomb"…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Kevin is a senior programmer-analyst nearing retirement age after many years of excellent performance. His boss, knowing employee pensions are based on their final average salaries, shortchanges Kevin with a one-dollar raise for his final year, telling him it's because the company considers older programmers "obsolete" and not worth the money they're paid. Furious at such blatant age discrimination, Kevin vows revenge. It's December 1998, so Kevin comes up with a scheme to re-introduce the "millennium bug" into programs that were already fixed by Y2K consultants, creating a "millennium bomb" that when the year 2000 rolls around, will destroy the company that discriminated against him.
Autorenporträt
David Harten Watson is the author of the young adult fantasy series MAGICIANS' GOLD, published by Pen-L Publishing, including MAGIC TEACHER'S SON (a 2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award winner, 2016 New Horizon Award finalist, and 2015 IAN Book of the Year Awards finalist) and its upcoming sequel, FORTRESS OF GOLD). He is a member of the U.S. Army Brotherhood of Tankers (USABOT) and the Mormon Church. David has worked in a wide variety of jobs including U.S. Army Armor officer at Fort Knox, camp counselor at Keewaydin Camps, teacher, tax preparer, car salesman, portrait photographer, track photographer, solar energy entrepreneur, and computer programmer. Raised in Buffalo, New York, he graduated from Calasanctius School and has degrees from Princeton University, Canisius College, and Buffalo State College. David is the Organizer of the Woodbridge Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Meetup, which he founded in 2008. In his free time, David enjoys kayaking, acting in a no-budget horror movie filmed in New Jersey, and participating in Cowboy Action Shooting under the alias "Derringer Dave." He lives with his wife (a native of Ecuador, not Eldor), their two sons, and two cats in New Jersey, where in his day job he's an IT Specialist like the protagonist of this story (but not at DMS).