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The FBI Software Upgrade That Wasn't
Davemania writes "Washington Post reports that the FBI's attempt to modernize their department has once again failed. The 170 million dollar Virtual case File system, the agency's second attempt to go paperless is reported to be useless. The finger seems to be pointing at the FBI leadership, greedy contractors and bad software management." From the article: "It appeared to work beautifully. Until Azmi, now the FBI's technology chief, asked about the error rate. Software problem reports, or SPRs, numbered in the hundreds, Azmi recalled in an interview. The problems were multiplying as engineers continued to run tests. Scores of basic functions had yet to be analyzed. 'A month before delivery, you don't have SPRs,' Azmi said. 'You're making things pretty. . . . You're changing colors.'"
That's funny, I'll give you that. Now, if it ran under linux nobody in their office would have figued out how to install it so the reports would have been zero. They would have asked the vendor for help and would have gotten "rtfm phukn nOOb".
You're why I have the modifier for ACs set to -6.
The Apollo Program
For the millions they spent, they should have sent people to the moon for real.
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