Carolyn Lawson has apparently never worked a large IT development for government before.

This is a total trolling comment.

First, Oracle **is** a large IT development company and they screwed the site up....they have a (well earned) reputation for screwing up projects

IT experience? You mean has she ever hooked up a router?

She knew enough to ask questions that got her fired...and she was told to help in the cover up!

2nd, Lawson was & still is one of the few who speak out about the **actual** problems of the exchange

In theory, as a contractor you could say "I'm not taking this job unless there is a decent set of requirements". But that will leave you with a very small set of potential employers.

In practice, most people need the money and try to manage somehow.

And then there are the unscrupulous contractors (usually companies, not individuals) who make big promises, knowing that those are not realistic. Or knowing that the requirements are incomplete and fulfilling them will not be sufficient to make a succesful project. I strongly suspect that this is what happened with Toll Collect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll_Collect) in Germany. Just for instance.

so why would they be any more honest here?

The only way to make them more honest is if Congress actually decided to throw the people who lied to them into jail.

We'll just end up with a committee that isn't allowed to know about the things they should be monitoring, wouldn't be told if they were allowed to know, and can't actually do anything about any abuses they do find beyond politely reminding the NSA that their actions are probably illegal.

Wait, isn't that what we have now?

Something with a little more teeth needs to be in charge of this. Of course, then they themselves would just become the next step in the chain of lying bastards anyway.

If we had a functioning justice system, they would have been rounded up, tried for treason, and executed as traitors. They are levying war against the entire populace and are aiding our enemies with spy-back agreements. The banksters, the clowns at BP, the Enron dicks, etc. all knowingly, willingly, and intentionally fucked shit up on such a grand scale that I would consider them to be waging war on Americans as well, thus making them traitors and earning them the death penalty.

But the law doesn't apply to the rich and powerful in this nation.

Bitch is often applied to males as well. For example: Male or female, you are a bitch.

American Journalism sucks because rather than being unbiased, they have an agenda to promote. This is why nation wide targeting of certain groups by the IRS, or NSA spying on Americans is less important than a lane closure on a NJ bridge.

And why is Lois Learner talking to DOJ investigators (not taking the 5th) while taking the 5th in front of congress.

I almost puke this morning when I heard over BBC's news interviewing that female reporter from Newsweek.

She seems to be enjoying basking in her 15-second fame - and during the interview, she actually said that her action on "revealing the true identity of the founder of bitcoin" is not wrong, as it would not harm that Japanese guy in anyway.

We all know that journalism in America sucks, and this is one heck of a prime example how sucks American journalism can be.

Microsoft's list of reasons to upgrade include:

* Designed with the new mobile lifestyle in mind * More background designs and colors * Enhanced Bing search * A beautifully redesigned store. * Deep cloud integration with OneDrive.

With reasons like that I can't imagine why XP users aren't rushing out to drop $500 on a new PC, $100 on a new monitor and another $300 on a new printer/scanner then replacing/reinstalling all their software and trying to get everything working like it already was...

This is a Man-in-the-Middle if the end-user is not notified of it.

Yet... Now is probably a good time to start a Flexcoin exchange which you can then "rob" and shut down in a years time for some easy $500,000.

Don't they need a reason to deny it?

I have no idea where this fascination of making windows boot 5 seconds faster and load up paint lighting fast comes into play, its often weeks if not months between times I reboot, and its all my space hungry big ass applications that are slow, not calculator

NSA brought gchq in on. This because the y couldn't do it themselves (5th amendment etc.). So they have gchq do the dirty work and then gchq shares the intelligence. Welcome to the new USA.

Blizzard didn't listen to its customers. It listened to Bob Kotick and the need to cash more. When WoW was released, the Devs clearly stated that there would never be any paid extras to migrate, change class, change race, etc. Then Burning Crusade came, WoW was reset, and all previously existing content was nullified and underrated. At the initial Devs started to move on... and Blizzard was acquired by Activision... and more Devs moved on. The game is pretty dead since the second extension and most of the initial Devs left an empty shell Blizzard.

Dear WoW players. Do you remember when the DKs came to be? And how everyone was moaning how, by definition, everyone who had no idea what to do seemed to play a DK?

The reason was simply that DKs started out at level 55. These people did not, like everyone else, start out small with a handful of skills, then get a few new ones every couple levels, with plenty of time to get to know them and get comfortable with them. No, they got everything dumped on their head at once with almost no time to find out what to do and how to play because, well, how would they?

Remember those raids in BRD (for the non-players, that's the first place where those DKs would get to play with the other kids in earnest) were a bit like, as a well known person put it, "a toddler driving a Leopard II tank with a faulty differential lock into a bicycle race of bi-polars"? They had no, zero, zilch, idea how to play their character.

And now, kids, it's like that all over again. Only much, much WORSE. Remember those moans you breathed whenever someone acted like he had no idea what to do, the comment "fuck, did you buy your char on EBay?" in chat? What used to be mostly unlikely will now be very likely: Someone dropped some coin to get a char they have no idea how to play with.

The group finder just got much, much more fun. To watch. Certainly not to play.