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Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws
imac.usr writes "A story in today's Washington Post calls to light the utter failure of the nation's most sacred final resting place to modernize its pen-and-paper record system. According to the story, the cemetery's administrators have spent $5 million without managing to accomplish the seemingly simple task of creating a database record of the site's graves. As Virginia senator Mark Warner points out, 'We are one fire, or one flood, or one spilled Starbucks coffee away from some of those records being lost or spoiled.'"
At the VERY least they should have been able to enter all of the names into an Excel spreadsheet by this point, just for the sake of having SOME sort of digital record. Am I the only one who thinks of US government bureaucrats as a bunch of fumbling retards ripe for all kinds of scams? Give me $5 million and I'll pay some fucking wetbacks to hand-enter every single name. I'm sure that work would be more enjoyable to them than mowing politicians' lawns or wiping the asses of their spoiled fucktard kids.