Re: TIDE, Railhead, and Oracle

I'm only suggesting they store the picture you send them to put on your passport and run facial recognition software to validate the personage using the passport with the photo. Didn't mention fingerprints, blood samples, hair follicles and the like. They can make the recognition as tight or fuzzy as they'd like. If you pass, you can go get your bag. If you fail, stand in line (which will be much reduced). Could even randomly select for personal attention. I came in through Miami and spent 55 minutes in line just to check my passport. I could have crawled across the border in Tijuana in less time.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com
> wrote:

> Interesting to me that you propose that. Here in the UK we have the
> same idea - government gets to store our biological identities in at
> least 2 databases - I'm pretty sure that's a bad idea. I certainly
> don't wish to trade it for faster check in. Especially as no-one wants
> to use the same tech for better health care. Still if you want every
> border guard and cop to have access to core identity data for legal
> citizens, I imagine that faster airports will be only one advantage.
>
> On 08/09/2008, David Barbour <david.barbour1_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've no idea why this could possibly be allowed to happen. Coming back
> > through Immigration from a recent scuba diving trip, I marveled at the
> total
> > inefficiency of the passport control process. Why (I thought) for US
> > passport holders couldn't we just walk up to a kiosk, swipe or scan our
> > passports and have some type of visual recognition software match our mug
> > with the photo on file?
> >
> > I guess if they can't manage 500,000 names, they couldn't possibly do
> > anything this horribly complex.
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Bill Ferguson <wbfergus_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I sure hope nobody on this list is working on these projects. This was
> >> just forwarded to me by my Project Chief.
> >>
> >> Apparently the House Science and Technology Committee finds SQL lacking.
> >> Laying off 800 contractors? - be careful who you hire. Good thing it
> only
> >> cost half a billion dollars.
> >> It's the 4th story down here.
> >> http://news.cnet.com/the-iconoclast/?categoryId=9756918
> >>
> >> Sounds like it was originally written in Oracle/XML. Railhead team
> wanted
> >> to convert it into Oracle proper. It cannot do Boolean keyword searches?
> >>
> >>
> http://mobile.eweek.com/device/html_article.php?id=1&CALL_URL=http%3A%2F%2Fw
> >> ww.eweek.com
> >> %2Fc%2Fa%2FGovernment-IT%2FKey-US-Terrorist-Database-Program-Mir
> >> ed-in-Controversy%2F
> >>
> >> Poor oversite to blame in this article. 463 tables, 295 of which are
> >> undocumented.
> >> http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=995
> >>
> >> <rant on>
> >> If anybody on here is on either of these two projects, use Oracle Text
> >> for the searches. Send me an email and I'll send you a Word document I
> >> created for my Project Chief that shows how I created a little (3200
> >> line) PL/SQL program to loop through each table gathering all the info
> >> for each 'parent' record and write this into a CLOB field in XML
> >> format. I also have triggers on all my tables so every time a record
> >> is added or modified, the XML/CLOB field gets ceated/updated, and then
> >> all searches get performed against that XML/CLOB field with Oracle
> >> Text. After setup (which took several days on my database), the
> >> searches are done in a matter of seconds. I have it designed for a
> >> simple Google-type search, or you can even specify which fields (XML
> >> 'tags') to search within.
> >>
> >> It ain't that dang hard! Why can't I get one of those jobs? Oh yeah,
> >> I'm already in the government. Maybe I can use these articles to
> >> justify a promotion?
> >>
> >> </rant off>
> >>
> >> --
> >> -- Bill Ferguson
> >> --
> >> http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.orawin.info
>

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