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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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44. These guys are unfortunately stuck with an earlier modernization

Mon Jun 19, 2017, 05:37 PM

Jun 2017

What seemed like a bullet-proof platform for the ages in 1994 was all but dead by 2004 and in 2006 they were directed to replace it with a high-availability Linux based platform. Now they're just trying to get the original vendor which is several mergers deep to just rebuild the original application for Intel based Linux which is what everyone wanted to do a decade ago but instead it was put out for bids and three successive vendors have failed at reinventing the wheel.

Meanwhile they're buying parts on eBay to keep the existing hardware running.

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Kuchner pushing to muck around in gov't computers.. Privatize it.. put it all in the cloud.. [View all] annabanana Jun 2017 OP

you mean his overlords, the Russians? WhiteTara Jun 2017 #1

Yeah... a nice dacha annabanana Jun 2017 #3

It is all but over, if we impeach tomorrow, put a patriot in the WH (democrat) Eliot Rosewater Jun 2017 #19

I wish us luck on that. WhiteTara Jun 2017 #22

Why doesn't Kushner's role violate federal nepotism laws? Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #2

Well, technically it DOES. annabanana Jun 2017 #4

In the meanwhile, Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #8

I do honestly think this is the plan. . . . n/t annabanana Jun 2017 #10

When all is said and done... Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #16

The goal by some of them is to destroy the federal government and turn everything RKP5637 Jun 2017 #31

I mean, didn't Bannon specifically state that this was his goal? Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #32

A fair number of Americans are clueless no matter what happens, and some just don't care. And a RKP5637 Jun 2017 #40

IOKIYAR WhiteTara Jun 2017 #5

I'm still waiting to see when Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #11

How old are you? WhiteTara Jun 2017 #20

I'm old, lol. Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #24

I'm so old, I've lost all hope WhiteTara Jun 2017 #26

For several months, I tuned out after the election... Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #28

But grind exceedingly fine... WhiteTara Jun 2017 #30

And, they call themselves patriots, love of the flag, their god and country and all of the RKP5637 Jun 2017 #38

well, donald made 19 million off his DC hotel....this alone would put Hillary Clinton in jail spanone Jun 2017 #9

Because his FiL is a Republican Retrograde Jun 2017 #23

Even the cloud is subject to all kinds of federal requirements... HipChick Jun 2017 #6

So after raising hell for years because HRC kept some gov't info on a private computer... Mister Ed Jun 2017 #7

Exactly. Iggo Jun 2017 #13

pretty much.. you know.. annabanana Jun 2017 #14

+1000 Freethinker65 Jun 2017 #29

Might as well use the computer experts who already know their way around dalton99a Jun 2017 #12

I'm in IT TBA Jun 2017 #15

+1 dalton99a Jun 2017 #17

Dosvedanya annabanana Jun 2017 #18

These fools probably think it's God. Dave Starsky Jun 2017 #25

Ah hahahahahahah. . .DUzy! . . . n/t annabanana Jun 2017 #27

Ha! I said the same thing below--before reading the comments! nt tblue37 Jun 2017 #37

He is a fucking moron. Kleveland Jun 2017 #21

Example of overt Quid Pro Quo: *45 owes Vlad Access to entire US Gov. Cyber Structure plus MedusaX Jun 2017 #33

This needs to be an OP! . . . .n/t annabanana Jun 2017 #34

Kushner as Technology Czar, one amongst his many other Czar roles. suffragette Jun 2017 #35

Storing files in the cloud is basically storing it on someone else's computer. nt tblue37 Jun 2017 #36

I think this little plan has been foiled. WinkyDink Jun 2017 #39

Go for it Kushie! Sen. Walter Sobchak Jun 2017 #41

Watched my dear late Mr. Banana annabanana Jun 2017 #43

These guys are unfortunately stuck with an earlier modernization Sen. Walter Sobchak Jun 2017 #44

yeah.. annabanana Jun 2017 #45

The same one that held the unsecured voter data base of 198 million people? sinkingfeeling Jun 2017 #42