I guess this goes in the 'Money down the drain" forum...

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Post #223,861 by dmcarls 9/9/05 10:29:53 AM Reply	I guess this goes in the 'Money down the drain" forum... [link\|http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/sep05/0905fbi.html\|http://www.spectrum....ep05/0905fbi.html] How the FBI blew more than $100 million on case-management software it will never use . . . "Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), in San Diego, delivered 700 000 lines of code so bug-ridden and functionally off target that this past April, the bureau had to scrap the US $170 million project, including $105 million worth of unusable code. " "I would guess that it would be closer to 2010 or 2011 before they have the complete system up and running," Orr said. "That's assuming that you have a match between the software and the underlying requirements, which we know are subject to change." A long article, detailing a sad history of really bad project decisions, etc etc etc. It's only tax dollars - more where they came from.
Post #223,863 by Yendor 9/9/05 10:31:18 AM Reply	Add another zero and you're suddenly talking about real $$$ Until then, it's all under the radar. -YendorMike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #223,894 by ben_tilly 9/9/05 12:11:18 PM Reply	Two zeros with this misadministration. I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #223,909 by tuberculosis 9/9/05 12:55:53 PM 8/21/07 12:43:17 PM Reply	What's the difference between a 7 year old and FBI? The 7 year old can send email. Thankyouverymuch! "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 12:43:17 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #223,931 by boxley 9/9/05 1:25:57 PM Reply	also the 7yo can find his ass with either hand "the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #224,072 by pwhysall 9/10/05 5:30:34 AM Reply	Must have been written in Java. sprints for the hills Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #224,141 by altmann 9/10/05 4:28:01 PM Reply	It's funny because he says what we're thinking And it does appear that the Virtual Case File system uses Java: [link\|http://appropriations.senate.gov/subcommittees/record.cfm?id=231460\|http://appropriation...ord.cfm?id=231460] -- Chris Altmann
Post #224,168 by mmoffitt 9/10/05 7:04:29 PM Reply	Hey, didn't you just flame me for saying something similar? bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #224,240 by pwhysall 9/11/05 6:13:30 AM Reply	Yep I was parodying you and co. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #224,291 by mmoffitt 9/11/05 1:17:03 PM Reply	I'll bite again. Wanna bet it wasn' done in Java? bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #224,495 by a6l6e6x 9/12/05 8:30:40 PM Reply	:) ! Alex The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell

I guess this goes in the 'Money down the drain" forum... - (dmcarls) - (10) - Sept. 9, 2005, 10:29:53 AM EDT

Add another zero and you're suddenly talking about real $$$ - (Yendor) - (1) - Sept. 9, 2005, 10:31:18 AM EDT

Two zeros with this misadministration. -NT - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 9, 2005, 12:11:18 PM EDT

What's the difference between a 7 year old and FBI? - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:43:17 PM EDT

also the 7yo can find his ass with either hand -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 9, 2005, 01:25:57 PM EDT

Must have been written in Java. - (pwhysall) - (5) - Sept. 10, 2005, 05:30:34 AM EDT

It's funny because he says what we're thinking - (altmann) - Sept. 10, 2005, 04:28:01 PM EDT

Hey, didn't you just flame me for saying something similar? -NT - (mmoffitt) - (3) - Sept. 10, 2005, 07:04:29 PM EDT

Yep - (pwhysall) - (2) - Sept. 11, 2005, 06:13:30 AM EDT

I'll bite again. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Sept. 11, 2005, 01:17:03 PM EDT

:) ! -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Sept. 12, 2005, 08:30:40 PM EDT

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