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.'"

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Re:That's All?

[Dishevel]

To be fair they are losing the home they couldn't afford to pay for when they bought them hopping the market would go up and they could re-finance.

Re:That's All?

[QuantumRiff]

That was the case for the first few months. But the recession caused lots of layoffs. They shut down a GM plant near me, that had 1200 full time employees. I think you will find that most people used to be able to afford their homes, but now cannot.

But hey, welcome to 2010!