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Article #631re: Sponsorship scandal
From: Eliminator
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:11
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:11
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> Tell you what, come back once you have graduated grade school. I happen to have a Masters Degree in Computer Science, so I could be good judge between Better Defender and Defender of Enormous Manhood. Here is my judgement: Better Defender is indeed better and Defender of Enormous Manhood should rename himself into a Defender of Crooked Politician or in a stupid Defender of Crooked Politician. > One database yes, but it has a few elements you completely dismissied... For your information, there is no database which is absolutely static. Even a dictionary has to incorporate some change from time to time. Microsoft Access allows any tracking you can imagine. Better Defender is right when he says that one personal computer is enough to keep the whole gun registry. Here is a simple calculation: a single record for a gun will not contain more than 1000 bytes. Generally, when someone buys a gun, he keeps it for the rest of his life. But we presume that gun changes hands ten times. So, you will need 10,000 bytes to track one gun. At present, there are about 5 million guns in Canada. I make registry for 10 million. Now 10 million guns X 10,000 bytes gives 100 Gigabytes. Contemporary micro-computer hard disk has 500 megabytes, so you can place 5 gun registries on one hard disk, and if it is not enough, you can install second hard disk. Got it? >but there is no legislation covering the government or protecting it. > It's buyer beware. And who makes the laws? Isn't it the Government? Presume that you are crooked politician and you want to steal several billion dollars. Now, how do you do it? Here is how. You sign a contract with a company and in this contract, you give them card blanche. You agree to pay them regardless if they do job or not, they send you bills for hundreds of millions of dollars without doing any job. You pay them and get half quietly returned into your pocket. And when the whole thing is being exposed in the press, you hide behind ignorance of public servants. Isn't it what usually happens? Can you imagine another scenario? >No, this is called incompetent mis-management, lack of controls over the spending of public funds, inadequate >procurement processes and oversight by the Ministry of Justice Come on, you are not really that stupid. It was stealing. Nobody is that dumb to have an estimated cost of $2 million and sign a contract for $350 million just for the software. I am sure in the original estimation, the price of necessary programming was given and it was certainly less than $1,000,000. Shouldn't a normal person ask a question: how come initial estimation was 1000 times less than what the contract estimates now? Shouldn't they ask the guy who did the original estimation whether he made 1000 times mistake?
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