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Co-Host: Charles Thomas
News of the Bogus:- 2:55 - Court: 'Falsely' Accused 'Movie Pirate' Deserves $17K Compensation https://torrentfreak.com/court-falsely-accused-movie-pirate-deserves-17k-compensation-161206/
- 7:39 - UN rules for Wikileaks' Julian Assange to be freed http://www.geopolmonitor.com/breaking-un-rules-julian-assange-freed/
- 10:53 - Phone encryption: Police 'mug' suspect to get data http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38183819
15:16 -
Biggest Bogon Emitter: Accomack County (Virginia) Public Schools http://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-now/virginia-schools-ban-to-kill-a-mockingbird-huckleberry-finn-for-racial-slurs/472065070
- Classic novels pulled from Accomack County Public Schools http://wavy.com/2016/11/30/classic-novels-pulled-from-accomack-county-public-schools/
- Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009
23:02 -
Idiot Extraordinaire: The US Copyright Office https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161201/18084736170/every-website-needs-to-re-register-with-copyright-office-who-cant-build-functioning-system.shtml
This Week's Quote: "Take the addition, the changes, the copyright's turn, take the changes to copyright's scope, put it against the background of an extraordinarily concentrated structure of media, and you produce the fact that never in our history have fewer people controlled more of the evolution of our culture. Never." —Lawrence Lessig
Do you suppose the Copyright Office hired CGI, the same outfit that made the completely useless Federal Obamacare website? (You know, the one that couldn't read back in the cookies it created.)
Not that up here in Canada, where CGI is based, we do any better.
Canada.ca is the Canadian government's second crack at creating a single, unified government web site. (The first started out as the now-deleted long gun registry. It was supposed to cost $28 million, and cost over $2 billion, before it accepted a single registration.) Adobe got the contract, and is, as of now, a year behind schedule, costing 6 times the original budget, and has approximately 0.5% of the intended web pages up. Oh, and it was originally supposed to be done by about two weeks from now At this rate, it will take 200 years and cost about $3 billion.
Quote from: evensgrey on December 13, 2016, 11:30:32 AM
Do you suppose the Copyright Office hired CGI, the same outfit that made the completely useless Federal Obamacare website? (You know, the one that couldn't read back in the cookies it created.)
Not that up here in Canada, where CGI is based, we do any better.
Canada.ca is the Canadian government's second crack at creating a single, unified government web site. (The first started out as the now-deleted long gun registry. It was supposed to cost $28 million, and cost over $2 billion, before it accepted a single registration.) Adobe got the contract, and is, as of now, a year behind schedule, costing 6 times the original budget, and has approximately 0.5% of the intended web pages up. Oh, and it was originally supposed to be done by about two weeks from now At this rate, it will take 200 years and cost about $3 billion.
I suspect they did. Then again, governments aren't normally famed for high standards.