Comments on: FBI database error results in firing http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/10/31/fbi-database-error-results-in-firing/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:40:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Sheilahttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/10/31/fbi-database-error-results-in-firing/#comment-67125 Sheila Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:12:59 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=2138#comment-67125 This happened to my husband. I worry that it will take forever to clear the mistake up on the FBI database. He is a trained government auditor. I wonder how many opportunities this mistake has cost him.What I really want to see is an agency willing to provide the fingerprint kits and fingerprinting for free. The government made a mistake - they should pay to clean it up! We had to pay a fee for the privilege of proving his innocence. For a struggling family, these costs can become yet one more barrier to employment.I'm hoping some politician stands up and sees that these mistakes create real problems for real families. This happened to my husband. I worry that it will take forever to clear the mistake up on the FBI database. He is a trained government auditor. I wonder how many opportunities this mistake has cost him.

What I really want to see is an agency willing to provide the fingerprint kits and fingerprinting for free. The government made a mistake – they should pay to clean it up! We had to pay a fee for the privilege of proving his innocence. For a struggling family, these costs can become yet one more barrier to employment.

I’m hoping some politician stands up and sees that these mistakes create real problems for real families.

]]> By: Dumb fuckshttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/10/31/fbi-database-error-results-in-firing/#comment-66666 Dumb fucks Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:42:58 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=2138#comment-66666 Those damn retards. They need to get it together now!!! Those damn retards. They need to get it together now!!!

]]> By: Links 02/11/2009: New Distros Benchmark, Firefox 3.6 Beta | Boycott Novellhttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/10/31/fbi-database-error-results-in-firing/#comment-66665 Links 02/11/2009: New Distros Benchmark, Firefox 3.6 Beta | Boycott Novell Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:27:37 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=2138#comment-66665 [...] FBI database error results in firing An error in a national criminal record database cost Eschol Amelia Studnitz her job. [...] [...] FBI database error results in firing An error in a national criminal record database cost Eschol Amelia Studnitz her job. [...]

]]> By: Highlanderhttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/10/31/fbi-database-error-results-in-firing/#comment-66663 Highlander Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:49:22 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=2138#comment-66663 The remark was: ------------- Computers are only as accurate as the data they’re given, and that’s done by people — who, as we all know, make mistakes. Third, correcting a mistake in a computer database is easy; far easier, in fact, than the bureaucracy required to convince the people in charge of the database to fix the mistake, and far easier even than navigating the corporate bureaucracy required to get one’s job back, if that can be done at all. ------------- . In consonant fashion, intentionally making a discrepancy in a computer database is easy; far easier, in fact, than the bureaucracy required to convince the people in charge of the database to fix the discrepancy, and far easier even than navigating the corporate bureaucracy required to get one’s job back, if that can be done at all. . In short, lying has become so easy, that just anyone can do it. All you have to do is payoff the right people, or tick-off the right people and the deed is done! . The appropriate term here? Plausible deniability. . The remark was:
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Computers are only as accurate as the data they’re given, and that’s done by people — who, as we all know, make mistakes. Third, correcting a mistake in a computer database is easy; far easier, in fact, than the bureaucracy required to convince the people in charge of the database to fix the mistake, and far easier even than navigating the corporate bureaucracy required to get one’s job back, if that can be done at all.
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In consonant fashion, intentionally making a discrepancy in a computer database is easy; far easier, in fact, than the bureaucracy required to convince the people in charge of the database to fix the discrepancy, and far easier even than navigating the corporate bureaucracy required to get one’s job back, if that can be done at all.
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In short, lying has become so easy, that just anyone can do it. All you have to do is payoff the right people, or tick-off the right people and the deed is done!
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The appropriate term here? Plausible deniability.
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]]> By: notamobsterhttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/10/31/fbi-database-error-results-in-firing/#comment-66660 notamobster Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:31:01 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=2138#comment-66660 Your name would be Bob Stud... unless you're into men, bobbing studs, doesn't sound like good times to me! I'd be cool with Studnutz! That's like being named "toughnuts!" Your name would be Bob Stud… unless you’re into men, bobbing studs, doesn’t sound like good times to me! I’d be cool with Studnutz! That’s like being named “toughnuts!”

]]> By: Bobhttp://www.homelandstupidity.us/2009/10/31/fbi-database-error-results-in-firing/#comment-66659 Bob Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:22:08 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/?p=2138#comment-66659 I wish my name was Studnitz. Bob Studnitz. Then I'd apply to have the "nitz" legally removed. I wouldn't need my job back with a name like that. I'd have lots of offers. Maybe. I think the beer has me in la la land. Happy Halloween everybody. I wish my name was Studnitz. Bob Studnitz. Then I’d apply to have the “nitz” legally removed.
I wouldn’t need my job back with a name like that. I’d have lots of offers. Maybe.
I think the beer has me in la la land.
Happy Halloween everybody.

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