POLITICAL: Can’t even print money correctly!

Monday, December 6, 2010

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40521684

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But the production process is so complex, it has instead foiled the government printers tasked with producing billions of the new notes.

An official familiar with the situation told CNBC that 1.1 billion of the new bills have been printed, but they are unusable because of a creasing problem in which paper folds over during production, revealing a blank unlinked portion of the bill face.

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I thought that now bankrupt New York State Off Track Betting (a Gooferment gambling operation) was the “best” example of Gooferment operational expertise. But here we have the Gooferment can’t even print money profitably. No one noticed that a grazillion bucks was NG? No one tested this great idea. And, of course, no one will suffer for this stupidity. No one except the taxpayer that is. Argh!

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OPERATINGSYSTEM: Cloud-centric OS? The ultimate Thin Client?

Monday, December 6, 2010

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/11/chrome-os-poll.php

Poll: Do You Want to Use Chrome OS?

By Klint Finley / November 30, 2010 11:00 AM

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We recently covered five cloud-centric OSes available today. Some of them have been around for years, and can run on old desktop computers. None of them has yet to catch fire in the enterprise or anywhere else – not even Meego, which is sponsored by Intel and Nokia. It seems that people are more excited about Android than Chrome OS.

Is Chrome OS, or one of the alternatives, something YOU would want to use?

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The question, with “cloud computing”, with “cloud operating systems”, or even with Windoze with it’s Update “Service” that can change the underlying OS without User or Administrator permission, is “change control”.

How do I know that it works and works in a functionally identical manner when I can’t have “change control”?

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