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- The Senate Finance Committee's website is optimized for Netscape 4 or Internet
Explorer 4.
[Netscape 4 was introduced in 1997]
- The Secret Service's computers work only 60 percent of the time and many
programs run on a 1980s-style mainframe.
- When State Department employees complained that they couldn't
download Firefox, they
were told it was because of the "expense"...of the free program.
And, from the hearing on government oversight of car problems, which
was meant to catch a problem like the one with Toyota's brake system:
- Rockefeller
said that federal investigators seemed to be reluctant to investigate
whether vehicle electronics were to blame for problems with cars
speeding out of control because it is harder to detect electronic
problems.
NHTSA “would rather focus on floor mats than
microchips because they understand floor mats,” Rockefeller said.
But don't worry about medical innovation. It'll be just fine.
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