My Failed Attempt to Create An Obamacare Account: Can Site Really Be This Stupid?

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Interesting! Wonder why it gives the error response about distinct answers rather than caps.

[SMARTY]

“They were probably running around like chickens with their heads cut off desperately trying to meet the established deadline...”

“O’CARE” was like this from the start... it’s like they couldn’t believe their own good luck at, first, being elected at all... THEN, succeeding at actually forcing the whole piece of BS past the Republicans, SO easily...

They were stunned, unprepared and still REELING!

[mom.mom]

I really hate being terrorized by these anarchist extremist hostage taking deadbeat democrats who threaten to burn down my house and nuke me for a ransom.

[Covenantor]

The author has to seriously rethink his own intelligence. Why would anyone sign in to a system that they know is flawed, every hacker in the world wants to have a go of it, and asks you to trust them with the highest degree of personal, medical and financial information?

Just what I was thinking the other day. After the initial reports of lockups after entering personal data, how could any functional adult think that accessing this site would be a good idea.

Every one with a computer, from grand dads to the 'invincibles' is presented on a daily basis with security update warnings by Windows, ant-virus, anti-malware software not to mention all the warnings about phishing and other identity stealing schemes.

Just boggles the mind, until I recall the number that voted for the bath house clown.

[Starstruck]

If he would have put down Linoleum instead of Sunbeam he would have gotten in.

[JediJones]

If a hacker really wants to show off his skills, he’d actually make the web site work correctly and create an account. That would get him some street cred.

[JediJones]

[JediJones]

[JediJones]

[patriotspride]

I’ve worked for a multinational corporation with websites garnering over 1M hits a day, and this never happened

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And you know that the company would have never launched a new system without in some way stress testing it before launch.

Thanks for pointing out what a good system can handle. The MSM won’t
dare reference this type of valid comparison

[Ingtar]

Are you accusing me of being the monkey on the keyboard, or is that supposed to be the developer?

[tomkat]

Rhetorical question, right ?

[grania]

If a hacker really wants to show off his skills, he'd actually make the website work correctly and create an account. That would get him some street cred

You make a point. Ya' think there are any hackers who want to make it work?

[JediJones]

That was the developer team that put in the lowest bid.

[Ingtar]

Ahh, the one that had to meet all the diversity goals regardless of ability?

[JimRed]

...this one smacks of intentionally creating frustration to drive people to use the conveniently placed phone number instead.

By Jove, I think 'e's got it!

[ELS]

what is S/W?

It's shorthand for software.

[ELS]

For the money the government spent, they should have multiple websites running geographically distributed and load balanced web front ends feeding a central database.

Absolutely. I wonder who they got to run this project. It is an epic failure.

[ELS]

Wonder why it gives the error response about distinct answers rather than caps.

One likely explanation given that the project wasn't ready to go - the programmer had copied and pasted code from a different input validation and didn't go back to change the error message.

[informavoracious]

Sunbeam will be better off if she moves to Vladivistoc.