{"id":618,"date":"2005-09-08T11:37:22","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T15:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=618"},"modified":"2009-04-12T21:02:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:02:14","slug":"fema-demands-use-of-ie-to-file-online-katrina-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/09\/08\/fema-demands-use-of-ie-to-file-online-katrina-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slashdot | FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims<\/a><\/p>\n

As reported by MSNBC, if you survived the hurricane and are a Mac, Linux or Firefox user<\/a> you cannot file a claim online<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This sort of crap really pisses me off. To quote one Slashdot user’s comment:<\/p>\n

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As reported by MSNBC, if you survived the hurricane and are a Mac, Linux or Firefox user you cannot file a claim online. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-9Y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":213,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/08\/10\/mozilla-2-firefox-thunderbird\/","url_meta":{"origin":618,"position":0},"title":"Mozilla \/2 = Firefox + Thunderbird","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 10, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"As a strong supporter of open-source thingies, I've been using Mozilla pretty much ever since it went to version 1.0 way back when. 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