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Snowflake

Stop the madness revisited

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Snowflake    0

Snowflake
I try for the most part to keep my political views to myself but this is truly scaring me. The last time I posted something about this people took exception to the organization that was sponsering this initiative so I will offer another link and if you don't like that organization then write your senator yourself.

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The Senate is poised ON TUESDAY to pass a version of the "Homeland Security
>Act" that would create a single database to round up personal information
>on
>every American. If the Senate passes this bill, the government will bring
>together in one grand database all the public and private information they
>can
>get their hands on including your credit history, the magazines you
>subscribe
>to, your banking, travel information, etc. Even conservative columnist and
>former Nixon administration official William Safire is frightened by the
>prospect -- see his column below

The New York Times William Safire Piece:
>
>You Are a Suspect
>By WILLIAM SAFIRE
>
>WASHINGTON - If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage,
>here
>is what will happen to you:
>
>Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you
>buy
>and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you
>send
>or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make,
>every trip you book and every event you attend - all these transactions and
>communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a
>virtual, centralized grand database."
>
>To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources,
>add
>every piece of information that government has about you - passport
>application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce
>records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper
>trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance - and you have the
>supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S.
>citizen.
>
>This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your
>personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the
>unprecedented power he seeks.
>
>Remember Poindexter? Brilliant man, first in his class at the Naval
>Academy,
>later earned a doctorate in physics, rose to national security adviser
>under
>President Ronald Reagan. He had this brilliant idea of secretly selling
>missiles to Iran to pay ransom for hostages, and with the illicit proceeds
>to
>illegally support contras in Nicaragua.
>
>A jury convicted Poindexter in 1990 on five felony counts of misleading
>Congress and making false statements, but an appeals court overturned the
>verdict because Congress had given him immunity for his testimony. He
>famously
>asserted, "The buck stops here," arguing that the White House staff, and
>not
>the president, was responsible for fateful decisions that might prove
>embarrassing.
>
>This ring-knocking master of deceit is back again with a plan even more
>scandalous than Iran-contra. He heads the "Information Awareness Office" in
>the
>otherwise excellent Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which
>spawned
>the Internet and stealth aircraft technology. Poindexter is now realizing
>his
>20-year dream: getting the "data-mining" power to snoop on every public and
>private act of every American.
>
>Even the hastily passed U.S.A. Patriot Act, which widened the scope of the
>Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and weakened 15 privacy laws, raised
>requirements for the government to report secret eavesdropping to Congress
>and
>the courts. But Poindexter's assault on individual privacy rides roughshod
>over
>such oversight.
>
>He is determined to break down the wall between commercial snooping and
>secret
>government intrusion. The disgraced admiral dismisses such necessary
>differentiation as bureaucratic "stovepiping." And he has been given a $200
>million budget to create computer dossiers on 300 million Americans.
>
>When George W. Bush was running for president, he stood foursquare in
>defense
>of each person's medical, financial and communications privacy. But
>Poindexter,
>whose contempt for the restraints of oversight drew the Reagan
>administration
>into its most serious blunder, is still operating on the presumption that
>on
>such a sweeping theft of privacy rights, the buck ends with him and not
>with
>the president.
>
>This time, however, he has been seizing power in the open. In the past week
>John Markoff of The Times, followed by Robert O'Harrow of The Washington
>Post,
>have revealed the extent of Poindexter's operation, but editorialists have
>not
>grasped its undermining of the Freedom of Information Act.
>
>Political awareness can overcome "Total Information Awareness," the
>combined
>force of commercial and government snooping. In a similar overreach,
>Attorney
>General Ashcroft tried his Terrorism Information and Prevention System
>(TIPS),
>but public outrage at the use of gossips and postal workers as snoops
>caused
>the House to shoot it down. The Senate should now do the same to this other
>exploitation of fear.
>
>The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads "Scientia Est
>Potentia" - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite
>knowledge
>about you is its power over you. "We're just as concerned as the next
>person
>with protecting privacy," this brilliant mind blandly assured The Post. A
>jury
>found he spoke falsely before.



The link

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If you are a member of Truemajority you can just click REPLY and SEND to
>this
>email and the following letter will be faxed to your Senators on your
>behalf.
>If this message was forwarded to you or you would like to customize this
>letter, visit the TrueMajority Action Center. Just click this link:
>
>http://www.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=2291&ms=priv1&ref=76060
>
>Dear Senator:
>
>I write as a constituent of yours to urge you to oppose any bill that would
>create the kind of centralized database of information about every American
>currently included in the version of the Homeland Security Act passed by
>the
>House. This massive invasion of privacy is frightening and Un-American. We
>can
>not hope to protect our freedoms by surrendering them.
>
>Thank you for your attention.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++



I usually don't even vote but I find that this kind power in the governments hands really scary and so I have to try to do my part however insignificant that maybe

PEACE!!!!

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SudsyFist    0

SudsyFist
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Don't lie, it'll be run on a single Access database. It'll crash everytime a query is made due to the size.


GREAT POINT! not only due to size, but because of the ingenious architecture behind the $olution!

i mean, think about it! they'll obviously write the app in vb, so the "compiled" code'll have to go thru the vb virtual machine, right? yeah!!! wooHOO!!!

then they can use com to use a library that wraps other libraries ad nauseum to access the data. bitchin! ado, here we come!!!

ok, so they'll obviously need a datasource. hmm. well, that's what odbc is for, right? i mean, it's super efficient in the way that it wraps oledb with a thick layer of worthless gobbledygook... yeah, that's it!!!

vb to ado to odbc to mdb file!!! who woulda thought... talk about n-tier architecture! and once you get a few users trying to hit the database at the same time... POOF! yeeehaw! :S

steve

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christoofar    0

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Remind me to buy Oracle stock soon... I havea feeling there will be a large order coming in soon.



DB2 still hosts the world's largest OLTP databases (source: TPC). But this is a massive (and I mean truly massive) data warehousing thing the government wants to do.

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