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Voters News Service: What Went Wrong
ddtstudio writes "Baseline Magazine has a pretty good recounting of how even the national TV networks can have a computer network go wrong -- in this case the night of the last U.S. election. From the article: "VNS had been trying to rewrite and retool the system for years. This was just the most recent attempt and it failed miserably."
Oracle, IBM, BEA Systems -- all crashed."
They used Linux.
Cunning linguists
half the users here probably aren't even old enough to vote, and the other half probably couldn't because they're convicted child molesters.
slashdot is also a miserable failure and embarassment to the computing commnunity. It too should shut down. Slashdot, please shutdown now, please stop embarrasing us!
GOD HELP US if Gore was in office during 9/11.
We would be paying off Al Queda.
Peace thru appeasement....
in the 'next' election, should there be a need for won, uid knead to be .connectdead buy va.msn.?net? (VAST), in ordered to be abull to 'vote'. then, after much whirring, george et AL, would be re-'elected' buy a LANdsLIEde.
.asp, his pockets (& all other form of asset/identity) will be picked, for years to come.
meanwhile, the 'news', would cullame yet another great victorIE, knot only for US, but for yOUR legacIE.
there's still good gnus, but no mention of IT here.
buy the time J. get's his head out of bill's
VNS wasn't off in predicting Florida for Gore based on exit polling.
It certainly appears that most voters in FL *meant* to vote for Gore but goofy ballets (not unique to FL) and Democrats blowing the recount (there weren't enough votes for Gore in the recount of the few counties they asked for but there *were* if the whole state had been recounted.
That said, it's probably a good thing that VNS is gone. In this last election, it was less stressful and not as annoying watching the network coverage that night.
Amazing how many lies you can fit into such a short message. Did you make those up yourself, or did you just lift them from the AM radio Rush-clone of your choice?
Clinton and Gore could both speak with command off the cuff on any aspect of their administration. Dubya has to use cue cards just to remember what his own policies are, and half the time can't even read them.
P.S. Grow a pair, log in.