So why shouldn't there be a CTO? It's unreasonable to expect that all Congresscritters can be knowledgeable techies. They should have a non partisan agency to advise them about these issues -- then perhaps stuff like this wouldn't be overlooked.
There was. It was called the Office of Technology Assessment. It was shut down in 1995 after the Republicans' success in the 1994 elections.
Jack Campbell, who is behind this, has been behind a number of rather dubious projects. There's a page about him at Macintouch http://www.macintouch.com/mactable.html.
My wife's (former) tech support person told her that her Windows 98 machine was crashing because it had DOS on it, and that the two were incompatible. He kindly reformatted the hard disk over lunch and reinstalled everything, supposedly without DOS, but didn't think it was necessary to back up her work. Then he yelled at her because he thought she should have noticed that he had been failing to back up her machine overnight, as required as part of his job description.
So, to make sure that the people use the button in the places they need to, it's easier to leave the buttons on all the intersections. Otherwise, people might not think to use the button when it's necessary, at least not without a lot of time and prompting.
This strikes me as backward. Having thousands of buttons that don't work hardly seems like good conditioning for the intersections where the light won't change unless you press the button. (I also don't think the article implied what the parent inferred--it sounded to me like the nonworking buttons are there because it's too much time and money to remove them.)
I know of a genetic depository that was scolded for messing up the records when a sample from an individual didn't match an earlier sample from the same individual. Turns out the individual had gotten a bone marrow transplant in the meantime.
No word on whether the individual was fleeing from or planning a life of crime, though.
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Jack Campbell, who is behind this, has been behind a number of rather dubious projects. There's a page about him at Macintouch http://www.macintouch.com/mactable.html.
My wife's (former) tech support person told her that her Windows 98 machine was crashing because it had DOS on it, and that the two were incompatible. He kindly reformatted the hard disk over lunch and reinstalled everything, supposedly without DOS, but didn't think it was necessary to back up her work. Then he yelled at her because he thought she should have noticed that he had been failing to back up her machine overnight, as required as part of his job description.
The rights to it were bought by SCO.
I know of a genetic depository that was scolded for messing up the records when a sample from an individual didn't match an earlier sample from the same individual. Turns out the individual had gotten a bone marrow transplant in the meantime.
No word on whether the individual was fleeing from or planning a life of crime, though.