DOGE Catch-All

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Geisterfahrer said:
Just playing devils advocate in broad strokes, but you could probably learn a lot about tax fraud if you could run analytics on all this data. Similar to all the other data they’ve been reviewing - if you grant DOGE any legitimacy then you would want to crunch as much of the income and outflow data as possible.
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You could also expose every US taxpayer to levels of fraud never known in the history of man.

There isn't one single thing that couldn't be stolen, seized, or otherwise compromised with that information in the wrong hands.
 
It’s really amazing how quiet our house Republicans have become over the last few days. This won’t be popular here but I bet calla is anti-Trump within six months. HeelYeah won’t ever seriously engage. Ramrouser will never give up on his Gone With The Wind dream. And Zen willl troll endlessly and forever. But calla is a smart guy, and I genuinely think we’ll be reaching the point soon where he won’t be able to continue to defend this absolute train wreck of an authoritarian presidency.
 
lawtig02 said:
It’s really amazing how quiet our house Republicans have become over the last few days. This won’t be popular here but I bet calla is anti-Trump within six months. HeelYeah won’t ever seriously engage. Ramrouser will never give up on his Gone With The Wind dream. And Zen willl troll endlessly and forever. But calla is a smart guy, and I genuinely think we’ll be reaching the point soon where he won’t be able to continue to defend this absolute train wreck of an authoritarian presidency.
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I've said it elsewhere and I'll repeat it here. Like the rest of the Republican Party, he is in far too deep to turn back. You think folks like Lindsey Graham don't know exactly how bad Trump is? Once you mount that dragon, there is no going back.
 
DiehardHeelFan said:
No, it wasn’t fact. It was the fact they couldn’t understand a specific ISO coding for a date format.

Besides that, 150 year old?? You honestly think a payment was sent to a 150 year old?? Let’s say it’s a random glitch. Who cashes it? With what ID?
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How is the date coding so complicated that engineers who catch rockets and self drive cars can’t interpret?
 
DiehardHeelFan said:
www.dailykos.com

Nope. There are no 150-year-olds on Social Security. It's COBOL!--UPDATED Feb 17

Elon Musk claimed that his team found 150-year-old people collecting Social Security! He implied there were dead people being sent benefits, with checks cashed by someone else. But no—the people getting paid are very much alive. They are collecting...
www.dailykos.com
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If true, raises more questions. Why so many social security numbers without birth dates? Many different versions of COBOL? Undocumented workers with fake SSNs?
 
ColdBlueSteel said:
So how

If true, raises more questions. Why so many social security numbers without birth dates?
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Where do you get “so many” from? I didn’t see that from the article. Just an explanation of how it happened. Are you saying 10’s or 100’s or 1000’s or even 10000’s??
 
DiehardHeelFan said:
Where do you get “so many” from? I didn’t see that from the article. Just an explanation of how it happened. Are you saying 10’s or 100’s or 1000’s or even 10000’s??
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Implied - “You’d think that those bright MAGAheads would notice that ALL those 150 year olds have THE SAME BIRTHDAY: May 20, 1875. ”
 
ColdBlueSteel said:
If true, raises more questions. Why so many social security numbers without birth dates? Many different versions of COBOL? Undocumented workers with fake SSNs?
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1. Data files are never clean. It used to do database work and every single data file I ever saw had missing entries or fields. I don't know how or why, and I'm not sure anyone really does -- not in general at least. It's just the way the world is. Maybe newer systems don't have that problem, but these systems are not new.

2. Very well could be fake SSNs, but not necessarily. Could also be employer IDs that were mistakenly input into the system.
 
superrific said:
1. Data files are never clean. It used to do database work and every single data file I ever saw had missing entries or fields. I don't know how or why, and I'm not sure anyone really does -- not in general at least. It's just the way the world is. Maybe newer systems don't have that problem, but these systems are not new.

2. Very well could be fake SSNs, but not necessarily. Could also be employer IDs that were mistakenly input into the system.
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1. Why aren’t these systems new and as capable as the HR and payroll systems at my 1,500 employee company?

15 years ago American Express was calling me about a potential fraudulent transaction within a day of the charge being made.

Not like SSNs are all that important I guess
 
ColdBlueSteel said:
1. Why aren’t these systems new and as capable as the HR and payroll systems at my 1,500 employee company?

15 years ago American Express was calling me about a potential fraudulent transaction within a day of the charge being made.

Not like SSNs are all that important I guess
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Why do you continue to ask diversionary questions?
 
ColdBlueSteel said:
1. Why aren’t these systems new and as capable as the HR and payroll systems at my 1,500 employee company?

15 years ago American Express was calling me about a potential fraudulent transaction within a day of the charge being made.

Not like SSNs are all that important I guess
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Why can’t rocket scientists (teenage hackers) understand coding date formats?
 
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