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On Monday the White House announced the creation of a team of digital experts tasked with upgrading the government's technology infrastructure and making its websites more consumer friendly.
The move is aimed at avoiding a repeat of the website debacle that marred the rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health care legislation last year. While the administration ultimately surpassed its enrollment targets, the opening weeks of sign-ups were riddled with website troubles that raised questions about the administration's competence.
The new digital team will be overseen by Mikey Dickerson, an engineer who took leave from Google in order to oversee fixes to the HealthCare.gov site.
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: -1) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13 2014, @11:01AM
If the experts are any good, 1 and 2 are likely to be much better options than whatever is currently being done, even if they're not optimal, so it's still a net win. If furthermore the experts actually have any self-respect for what they do, 3, 4, and 5 are unlikely to happen to any significant degree.
Of course, this being the government, the "experts" are statistically unlikely to be any good in the first place, so the rest of the arguments are kind of moot.