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No EZ Fix For The IRS
meltoast writes "Apparently the IRS is storing all of the taxpaying histories of 227 million individuals and corporations in a system that still runs code written in 1962. CIO Magazine is running a story on the IRS's nearly failed $8 billion modernization attempt that includes missed deadlines, cost overruns of over $200 million and four CIO's in seven years."
Look on the bright side. There's no way Windows worms can touch this.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
ACK!! Yoour strategy is much too simple and error-proof. There is no *way* our government would approve something with such a high probablity of success ;)
10% to the US Government
3% to the RIAA, to pay for the stuff they assume we've pirated in the last year.
3% to the MPAA, to pay for the stuff they assume we've pirated in the last year.
2% to Microsoft, as part of a "super-tough" DoJ settlement for Microsoft's wrongdoing.
2% to Halliburton, for no apparent reason, the government just likes to give them money.
I bet there are at least 1000 people right here on slashdot who could understand it just fine, and wouldn't mind putting a few "exceptions" in the tax code:
"We need a fourth law of Robotics: Stop Fingering My Wife"
Better yet, for the ultimate hack, work on this project, doing nothing illegal while you are there, but pay close attention to the code that processes people's tax forms, and look for any buffer overflow bugs in the code that reads the text of the fields on the form (I assume they have some massive OCR system for this, instead of a warehouse full of typists doing it by hand).
F root.exe"
Then, next year, submit a very carefully crafted 1040 form on April 15...
"Hey, this 1040 seems a bit odd. It's from a Mr "John Doe __________akjg908t9(%&@(dasaga9agajda(%(@Q@FAA062
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
That is complete garbage-speak. I will not kil another human being, not based on moral reasons, but because I don't want to die, or worse, be locked up for life. If it was only 10-20 years, guarenteed, there are a few people I would gladly put a few holes in, for that price.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
If it is truly from 1962, IBM 1401 assembly language would be the most likely candidate.
Now that's job security.
Why not publish the taxing rules and let someone
throw together a Postgresql/Apache software package?
Ahh, the refreshing enthusiasm of the naive. Or perhaps you ment it as a joke and the mods didn't get that?
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die