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McNealy Calls for National ID Card Too

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sun-monitors-actually-telescreens dept.

Syre writes: "Well McNealy's at it again calling for a national ID card (a smart card powered by Java, anyone?)." So let's get this straight: Oracle wants a national ID card powered by Oracle. Sun wants a national ID card powered by Java. (Even though the U.S. already has a national ID card, since the states are in the process of linking their driver's license databases together.) Is there any company that doesn't want to exploit a tragedy for financial gain? And didn't each and every one of the hijackers present valid ID?

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  1. Re:Oracle ID - the price of freedom? by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Oracle ID card would have an initial cost of $100,000 and require a fulltime DBA to administer.

    It would also require 2387 separate patches upon receipt of the card, BEFORE it is placed in your wallet to keep it from spontaneously collapsing in upon itself on first use.

    Also, that $100,000 is per pocket in your wallet: 2 bill pockets and 8 card pockets such as my wallet has would cost $1,000,000 up front.

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  2. A Poem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    The mark of the beast is a primary key
    a poem by Drew

    --///--

    Ellison's motives come from below.
    Look in his eyes. What do they show?
    You may think that smile is for the stockholders,
    but his home is Hades, where all evil smoulders.

    His Chief DBA is the Dark Prince of Lies,
    His unholy power is version 9i.
    You thought that this baby ate up RAM before?
    For version 9i, you'll buy six times more!

    What violence will come of these columns and rows?
    SQL*plus is the reaper of souls!
    To commit is sure folly; to roll-back, calamity.
    A cartesian join will doom all of humanity!

    Constraints are forged of titanium chains,
    and triggers are hardwired into your brain.
    A single long int marks your identity --
    The mark of the beast is a primary key.

    The language of Satan? PL/SQL --
    How else would he store his procedures in Hell?
    You'll live in dread fear of the keyword DELETE.
    The mark of the beast is a primary key.

    Oracle 9i is a harbinger of Dark!
    (But I cannot say more; nor publish benchmarks.)
    But you value your soul, so my words you will heed:
    The mark of the beast is a primary key.

    --///--

    Thank you.