For the 2012 program, a new computer program was used to run the selection, and it failed to run a random process.
We opened it on May 1st and we realized it by, I think, May 5th, and we closed down the website at that time.
I think this year it was around 90- or a hundred thousand, yes.
QUESTION: And was the third - was the computer program produced by a third-party vendor? If so, who?
SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: It was done in-house.
We do test all of our systems. I don’t know the details of what testing was done on this program. It was a small coding error that we have - we know exactly what the coding error was, but it’s just very unfortunate. And it was only afterwards that we were able to see that it was not truly random.
а на чей вопрос я ответил “ДА”? НА ВАШ!
Vasha manera otvechat’ kratko i ne ochen’ estestvenno Da na slojnyi vopros i tut je prostranno otvetit’ na drugoi, kotoryi ia ne zadaval, vyzyvaet somnenie v tom, chto vy verno poniali vopros.
Esli vy deistvitel’no otvetli Da na moi vopros, ne skajete, kakoi byl smysl proveriat’ odno i to je 50 raz?
И я проверял для друзей и близких, заявок 7-8, каждую раз 10, не меньше. Один раз на всякий случай. Второй, чтобы удостовериться, вдруг неправильно вбил год рождения, потом фамилию. Еще пару раз помня, что иногда выигрыши появлялись позже. Потом еще несколько раз, когда пошла информация об ошибке отбора.
raevsky,
мне кажется если создать тему, “сколько раз вы проверяли одну и туже заявку”, не будет никого кто проверял бы её меньше раз эдак 5.
А 50 - с потолка цифра, может 20, может 80… 5 дней по многу раз. Почему? Да потому, что мне и без лишних чужих истерик было ясно, что что-то не так и не может быть столько выигрышей в один день и я думал, что сбой исправят вот-вот и мой выигрыш появится :)))
Я где-то по два-три раза проверял и свою и жены сразу не поверил, потом забыл распечатать баркод, да мало ли что да как… кто-то м.б. потом хвастал этим перед родственниками или друзьями…
1 мая не выиграл никто - был сбой в программе, который показал n количество “выигрышей”
15 июля +/- несколько дней проверяют все у кого остались номера. У кого номера нету - проверить не сможет. Хотя может быть они что-то по этому поводу придпримут (например будут по имейлам рассылку делать) в связи с данной ситуацией, т.к. многие всетаки свои номера поудаляли (даже судя по этому форуму)
QUESTION: Okay. And then regarding the software program itself, can you spell out what the reasons were for revising the selection process, for revising the software? Was it something that IT people said, “We have what we think might be a better way of doing it.” And then a program was written with an error or was there some congressional mandate that said you need to tweak the selection program? What happened here?
SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: Yeah. I think it was exactly what you said. We’ve been using the same program before. Our IT people suggested that they could do it this way, and someone made a programming error and that’s what happened. But there was - no, there was no mandate. I think it was just as you do; you’re always reviewing your systems and seeing if there’s a better way of doing this.
QUESTION: Were there any dry runs for the software since it’s - it was being rewritten? Was it tested before the program actually was brought online? Because I would imagine there are a lot of people out there who were thinking, oh, my goodness, I -
SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: Yeah.
QUESTION: – have a chance, and now I don’t have a chance and this is really nerve-wracking because there are people counting on me.
SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: Yeah. We’re very - again, we really regret the frustration. We understand the frustration that people feel, and we can - we understand that. We do test all of our systems. I don’t know the details of what testing was done on this program. It was a small coding error that we have - we know exactly what the coding error was, but it’s just very unfortunate. And it was only afterwards that we were able to see that it was not truly random.
QUESTION: Okay. So then are you now going to be using the old software program?
SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: No, we’re going to use the new one with - correcting that coding error.
НА ВАШ! 