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Oracle Donates Software for Big Brother Database

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the replication-is-most-popular-feature dept.

8onal writes: "C|Net is reporting that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has followed through with his threat, I mean promise, to assist with Uncle Sam's crimefighting efforts. "...Ellison said he has delivered Oracle's 9i database management software to a U.S. government agency for national security, but he declined to give further details, such as which agency or for what usage." Seeing as how he has already supplied the CIA with software, I bet it went to another 3-letter group."

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  1. Ellison's interests by mwillems · · Score: 4, Flamebait

    Seems to me Larry Ellison is being rather opportunistic here, plus, this fits in well with his world vision, which has always been centralistic and in favour of control - I remember Oracle giving me a presentation once about their expense system at Oracle: all expense reports worldwide! go to (and are approved in) one central database in the US head office. Not for good database reasons but for control reasons. See also the NIC (thin client)- central control, again.

    Having said that, opportunism in the light of Sep 11 is not restricted to Oracle. Companies like Siebel, MS, and many others have also tried to gain market share. I am sure we all see through this.

    Michael

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  2. Question, what's so wrong with this? by snatchitup · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Question, we have the right to privacy, but do we also have the right to anonymity?

    I think it's too much fuss about the inevitable.

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  3. Don't worry your lil peabrains by cryofan2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The rich folks aint gonna let that mean ol Big Brother take over. You know why? No, you don't, but I'll tell you why: because if everything were known (transparent society, such as would be provided by Big Brother, and national IDs), then the rich folks would not be able to exploit our jointly owned property (the USA) as they have been doing. And then do you know what would happen? You. the little guy (with the lil peabrain) would actually get more of the beenfits accruing from your share of the joint ownership of the USA. The rich folks would have to pay more for nannies, dishwashers, programmers, etc. But like I said, don't worry, cuz the rich uns pay the TV people to keep you lil guys all stirred up about "Big Brother". That way they can keep ripping you off. So like I said don't worry your lil pea brain, just turn on the TV. There ya go...

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  4. Clueless In SlashdotLand by duralexsedlex · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, once remarked: "If I wanted to punish a province, I would give it to philosophers to govern.". Would he be living today, he might have added geeks to his list of pathetic utopians.

    What is supposed to be so outrageous about these news? I guess that the media-crazed Ellison is being a bit opportunistic here, but his move will certainly save the CIA and NSA loads of money. Anywhere but in SlashdotLand or the pages of Le Monde, especially since 9-11 has shown us that the NSA isn't so omniscient after all, this would be good news.

    Ah, but yes.

    Michael and his co-paranoids think that the NSA, CIA and the rest of the "military-industrial complex" have nothing better to do than snooping on their PGP- (oh sorry, GPG-) encrypted mail, or hacking into their computers to scan their porn and mp3 collections for copyright infringements. Ergo, let's abolish the CIA and the NSA!

    Don't you guys know that there's a war going on and that the intelligence agencies are actually quite busy now finding and precision-bomb terrorists? And that, if they have some spare time, they might prefer to try to find out what the Chinese, Saudi, or Iraqi governments are up to?

    Oh well. September 11 didn't changed everything.