Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, March 19, 2010

If the FBI Upgraded Cars and Firearms the Way That They Upgrade Computers

They would still be driving to crime scenes in Model A Fords


and carrying Cold Official Police revolvers.


That is because the FBI has been spending over ten years (and two contractors) trying to upgrade their computers with little success.

No surprise that LockMart is involved. They've done such a bang-up job at "fixing" the Flight Service Stations (they do the telephone weather briefings) that more and more pilots that I know have been using computerized weather briefings to avoid having to wait on hold in order to talk to the LockMart dudes.

What is it with these guys? Why is it so hard to install a computer network with decent security? Or is it that the FBI has so fucked up the specs to make it impossible?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

At Lockheed Martin, they never forget whose money they're stealing!

SkinnyDennis said...

I seem to recall the IRS going thru the same upgrade shenanigans a few decades ago.

Um...maybe they never finished the upgrade?

And the DMV, Sexual Predator tracking, child support...the list goes on.

Anonymous said...

Heck! The gov agencies can't even write a spec for a hammer without a major clusterfu*k. Why would anyone think they could write a workable spec for an agency-wide computer system?
The latest balls-up I saw was the report on the F-35 - that one'll curl your hair and cross your eyes.