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WATCH: Man Builds TSA's "$1.4 Million App" in 10 Minutes (Taxpayer is the sucker)
Townhall.com ^ | April 5, 2016 | Christine Rousselle

Posted on 04/05/2016 6:36:00 PM PDT by Kaslin

On Monday, it was revealed that the TSA had paid $1.4 million for an app that points an arrow either to the left or to the right. Chris Pacia, a programmer, posted a video on YouTube showing how it's possible to code an identical app in 10 minutes for about $10 worth of labor.

Watch for yourself here:

Creating the $1.4 million TSA app

While it's almost certain that a sizeable chunk of the $1.4 million went to hardware and training, it's still absurd that at least $300,000 was spent on an app that virtually any basic programmer could have come up with in less than an hour. Something isn't adding up.


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1 posted on 04/05/2016 6:36:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Who got the kickback?


2 posted on 04/05/2016 6:37:28 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Yeah, who?


3 posted on 04/05/2016 6:38:53 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

A shuffled deck of cards will give you 52! or about 8 x 10^67 combinations.


4 posted on 04/05/2016 6:39:07 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Kaslin
From "Independence Day":

President Thomas Whitmore: I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?

Julius Levinson: You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?

5 posted on 04/05/2016 6:39:52 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: Kaslin

Yes, but he didn’t have to fly to DC 11 times with 8 staffers for the required meetings and briefings. And he didn’t have to wine and dine the purchasing staff at the strip club.

He didn’t have to have 7 different versions ready for higher approval, or pay 10% to the “Lobbyist” that connected him with the right purchasing agent.

And, he didn’t have to give a 5-10% skim to certain Democrat “Social Justice Orgs” to be eligible for the contract.


6 posted on 04/05/2016 6:41:42 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: P.O.E.

Flip a penny. Heads is left and tails is right.


7 posted on 04/05/2016 6:42:19 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kaslin

Who needs an app to point left or right? Just play spin the bottle and save a load of cash.


8 posted on 04/05/2016 6:42:46 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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9 posted on 04/05/2016 6:47:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Kaslin

And then you need to train some dolt to stand and hold an iPad that has a random arrow. How random can it get when it can only point left or right?

I guess they need extra surly attitude training.


10 posted on 04/05/2016 6:51:22 PM PDT by cyclotic (Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
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To: Kaslin

Back when my office crew had a hard time deciding where to go for lunch each day, I wrote a VB app we called the “Random Lunch Generator”.

Click the Button and a random number generator selected a restaurant from the list of our favorites.

Easy-peasy!

(maybe I can sell it to Uncle Sam for big bucks!)


11 posted on 04/05/2016 6:51:32 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: BwanaNdege

IOW, any idiot could write an app like this!


12 posted on 04/05/2016 6:55:31 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: tcrlaf

Sounds like you’ve been there.


13 posted on 04/05/2016 6:55:48 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Kaslin

Well look at the Obama-scam-O-care non-affordable health care crock website, what did that cost? $600 million and it was programmed in Canada? By foreigners? I was on that site a few weeks ago and it was down


14 posted on 04/05/2016 7:01:02 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: Kaslin

Nobody ever got fired buying IBM, even if they got ripped off...


15 posted on 04/05/2016 7:17:04 PM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: Kaslin

Ok, where are the documents that were created for the app?

Requirements document.
User’s guide.
Test procedure.
Test results.
Version Description.
Security guide.

Govt contracts usually require these at least.


16 posted on 04/05/2016 7:24:53 PM PDT by Herosmith ("Hindsight alone is not wisdom, And second-guessing is not a strategy." - GWB)
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To: Kaslin

Many people could have built an app to actually profile passengers for half of that.


17 posted on 04/05/2016 7:41:16 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: Kaslin

Your tax dollars at play.


18 posted on 04/05/2016 7:42:48 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Kaslin

Ummm...why do we even need some idiot pointing people left and right? How have we managed without this is the past?


19 posted on 04/05/2016 8:14:05 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: TigerClaws
Who got the kickback?

Someone's crony became an instant millionaire.

20 posted on 04/05/2016 8:14:14 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Ted Cruz was the man!)
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