I edited a story earlier today that's worth sharing as the U.S. income tax deadline nears. It describes how the IRS has been trying to upgrade its computers for 20 years, has spent $5 billion, and still pays people to keystroke paper tax returns by hand: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6175657.html This is part of our irregular series on the Feds' ailing computers. Here's one on the FBI's systems: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6094070.html And one about Homeland Security (love the photos of index card files): http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5995856.html -Declan _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE