That's why SSNs should never be used as primary keys. They are a lookup field to provide a pseudo-unique way of looking up a tied-to-a-individual record much like you might use a last name, an account number, or some other piece of information that can find an actual record entry tied to for transactional purposes.
Primary/Foreign keys should be used to establish a unique record for transactional purposes or to relate to another record for referential integrity. That's all they should be used for.
Social security numbers, loan numbers, account numbers...These kind of things shouldn't be used for this purpose, they should be used for filtration purposes. That way if any of them change (SSNs blocked out for testing purposes, person switches to a new account number for some reasons, etc. it has no impact on the integrity of the system.
No no...the real goal here is a multi-phased approach. It's quite brilliant if you think about it.
First, you associate smoking with being a "cure" for something, such as forms of mental illness, anxiety, depression, etc. You have to do this because in olden times, these people were thrown in rivers or left in the woods for wolves to eat and we don't do that kinda thing anymore apparently.
You then increase the taxes on smoking to 150% of the price, so the people with the "problem" (and these problems are incurable ones anyway) bear the brunt of the medical cost for dealing with their conditions.
The "cure" for the problem (cure == not being a bane to the existence of the rest of society) ALSO is used as a cure for their cost (cost == not being as big an expense for the rest of society) by having them all die off earlier (send them to the wolves).
Of course, the only way to do this would be to have some sort of centralized, nationalized health care system, so that the decision to offer curative care for smoking, mental illness, can be denied since the patients aren't "contributing as much to society" as other taxpaying "normals".
I use my OQO all the time. It was becoming irritating constantly hauling laptops and equipment all the time to client sits, and I decided to settle on the OQO due to its form factor. The extended battery gave me plenty of power for all day use, and since it could run any OS I wanted (linux, xp, etc.) I could run all the apps I needed.
I runn Visual Studio, SQL Server, IIS, all my dev tools without a problem and if I need a bigger design environment I either shrink the screen down, or (most of the time) just plug in a monitor and peripherals to it and used it as a portable desktop.
There are some negatives to it though. They hadn't added the ability to charge the battery through USB (would have been very useful), and their Bluetooth implementation could have been a bit more stable.
Although it doesn't compare to a desktop or high powered laptop, I found it had a longer battery life (at least 6 hours on mine), was more portable, and met my needs quite well. It's a shame they went under, or whatever happened to the company.
From an OS perspective, it was horrible to run Vista on, and no one can convince me it was a Vista capable machine; that's plain nonsense.
Because nothing says dignity and respect like working in a sweatshop and being paid pennies an hour...
Listen pal, I know you hippies live in fantasy world of employee unions and benefits, but how do you expect to get your brand new unlocked IPhone for only a few bucks, loaded with tons of free-to-download applications if they didn't have that kind of labor practice?
The overall problem is that the message still hasn't gotten out to people.
Stop believing everything you read on the internet; most of what you read is, at best, an opinion. The rest of it is entertainment and outright lies.
If you're watching a third rate cable channel a 3 a.m. and you see a "news style" interview with a doctor about a growing medical problem that can be solved with a supplement called "pomegranacai" extract or by using a "XTremeGazelle Exercycle" with testominials from other doctors in white coats and satisfied customers who lost 50 lbs, it is completely fake.
If you know that, why would you believe anything on the internet with testimonials, blogs, google ad links, myspace links and the like? Are you the first person who's never been flooded with SPAM?
If you are spending this much time and energy owning, emoting, or analyzing a canine or feline instead of using all that wasted emotional energy on an actual human being, you are the problem.
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I told you people the God-damned internet was going to be a problem when you bought it, and now you're messed it up real good.
Next time listen to Daddy. Your mother and I told you pr0n and dirty pictures would lead to nasty business. Now we can add this one to the list.
...and now in other news, a 38 year old housewife in Hoboken, NJ, reveals that no one reads Morgan Stanley reports, despite all the trees they cut down to publish them.
I think the $370 million must be in Imperial Units, because since this is all going to be done with money borrowed from China, maybe we should find out what measurement system they're using.
That way when we inevitably have to hock it to them when we default they won't have to change the plans.
Speaking of knives, I had a vasectomy so condoms are a non-issue. Who wants a accidental bastard any way. You condom users are all a bunch of stinky crotched sailors.
Back in the day we had fire dick disease, and we liked it that way.
Any tax that is completely based on controlling people and not funding the operations of government is a good idea. I love it because by and large it screws young and/or poor people who are financially unable to take advantage of opportunities because gas is too expensive.
Especially when the prices will always rise and fall. The greatest profit maker off gas prices are government agencies, not oil companies. They aren't going to take a "loss" because the price of oil changes.
I appreciate using taxes, which should be used to fund government operations that the people want, to punishment methods to create general "funds" that can be used in any way the politicians want.
Anyone supporting taxation for the purpose of punishment, "social manipulation" or whatever the reason, is ideologically aligned with fascism. No matter "what about the children".
I've had similiar issues. Although I like bluetooth so I'm not taking up USB space, I have to say I've noticed my bluetooth devices use up the battery far quicker than the proprietary USB style ones, as well as the "lag" as mentioned earlier. I also haven't been able to narrow down whether it is a driver issue or a bad job of collision mitigation with multiple bluetooth devices or whatever causes the stop and jump phenomena.
My favorite was when I was running Visual Studio inside a Virtual PC environment. I was doing some PDA programming and was going to deploy it to the PDA/Phone emulator in Visual Studio. Apparently there's a problem (hard to believe) running a virtual environment inside a virtual environment. When trying to run it, it threw a visual studio exception followed by the message "You just had to try it didn't you".
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Natural red-heads are clinically insane, whereas fake redheads are just easy.
Does this mean Oswald's picture with the newspaper and rifle will contain a warning that it was altered?
*Puts on tinfoil hat*
You don't know how to define things. I'd correct you, but I'm a slacker.
Apparently you didn't bother to watch Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. When the mold can jump up and eat a plane at 30,000 feet I'll be more concerned.
That's why SSNs should never be used as primary keys. They are a lookup field to provide a pseudo-unique way of looking up a tied-to-a-individual record much like you might use a last name, an account number, or some other piece of information that can find an actual record entry tied to for transactional purposes.
Primary/Foreign keys should be used to establish a unique record for transactional purposes or to relate to another record for referential integrity. That's all they should be used for.
Social security numbers, loan numbers, account numbers...These kind of things shouldn't be used for this purpose, they should be used for filtration purposes. That way if any of them change (SSNs blocked out for testing purposes, person switches to a new account number for some reasons, etc. it has no impact on the integrity of the system.
No no...the real goal here is a multi-phased approach. It's quite brilliant if you think about it.
First, you associate smoking with being a "cure" for something, such as forms of mental illness, anxiety, depression, etc. You have to do this because in olden times, these people were thrown in rivers or left in the woods for wolves to eat and we don't do that kinda thing anymore apparently.
You then increase the taxes on smoking to 150% of the price, so the people with the "problem" (and these problems are incurable ones anyway) bear the brunt of the medical cost for dealing with their conditions.
The "cure" for the problem (cure == not being a bane to the existence of the rest of society) ALSO is used as a cure for their cost (cost == not being as big an expense for the rest of society) by having them all die off earlier (send them to the wolves).
Of course, the only way to do this would be to have some sort of centralized, nationalized health care system, so that the decision to offer curative care for smoking, mental illness, can be denied since the patients aren't "contributing as much to society" as other taxpaying "normals".
I use my OQO all the time. It was becoming irritating constantly hauling laptops and equipment all the time to client sits, and I decided to settle on the OQO due to its form factor. The extended battery gave me plenty of power for all day use, and since it could run any OS I wanted (linux, xp, etc.) I could run all the apps I needed.
I runn Visual Studio, SQL Server, IIS, all my dev tools without a problem and if I need a bigger design environment I either shrink the screen down, or (most of the time) just plug in a monitor and peripherals to it and used it as a portable desktop.
There are some negatives to it though. They hadn't added the ability to charge the battery through USB (would have been very useful), and their Bluetooth implementation could have been a bit more stable.
Although it doesn't compare to a desktop or high powered laptop, I found it had a longer battery life (at least 6 hours on mine), was more portable, and met my needs quite well. It's a shame they went under, or whatever happened to the company.
From an OS perspective, it was horrible to run Vista on, and no one can convince me it was a Vista capable machine; that's plain nonsense.
Because nothing says dignity and respect like working in a sweatshop and being paid pennies an hour...
Listen pal, I know you hippies live in fantasy world of employee unions and benefits, but how do you expect to get your brand new unlocked IPhone for only a few bucks, loaded with tons of free-to-download applications if they didn't have that kind of labor practice?
Sheesh.
Although I award you first prize for the simple brilliance of that joke, I still feel you should be shot for having made it.
Kudos.
The overall problem is that the message still hasn't gotten out to people.
Stop believing everything you read on the internet; most of what you read is, at best, an opinion. The rest of it is entertainment and outright lies.
If you're watching a third rate cable channel a 3 a.m. and you see a "news style" interview with a doctor about a growing medical problem that can be solved with a supplement called "pomegranacai" extract or by using a "XTremeGazelle Exercycle" with testominials from other doctors in white coats and satisfied customers who lost 50 lbs, it is completely fake.
If you know that, why would you believe anything on the internet with testimonials, blogs, google ad links, myspace links and the like? Are you the first person who's never been flooded with SPAM?
If you are spending this much time and energy owning, emoting, or analyzing a canine or feline instead of using all that wasted emotional energy on an actual human being, you are the problem.
I told you people the God-damned internet was going to be a problem when you bought it, and now you're messed it up real good.
Next time listen to Daddy. Your mother and I told you pr0n and dirty pictures would lead to nasty business. Now we can add this one to the list.
...and now in other news, a 38 year old housewife in Hoboken, NJ, reveals that no one reads Morgan Stanley reports, despite all the trees they cut down to publish them.
I think the $370 million must be in Imperial Units, because since this is all going to be done with money borrowed from China, maybe we should find out what measurement system they're using.
That way when we inevitably have to hock it to them when we default they won't have to change the plans.
I don't know who you are but referencing sports metaphors proves you're an imposter.
Countries that don't speak English are, by default, terrorists. Don't you watch the news?
Speaking of knives, I had a vasectomy so condoms are a non-issue. Who wants a accidental bastard any way. You condom users are all a bunch of stinky crotched sailors.
Back in the day we had fire dick disease, and we liked it that way.
Any tax that is completely based on controlling people and not funding the operations of government is a good idea. I love it because by and large it screws young and/or poor people who are financially unable to take advantage of opportunities because gas is too expensive.
Especially when the prices will always rise and fall. The greatest profit maker off gas prices are government agencies, not oil companies. They aren't going to take a "loss" because the price of oil changes.
I appreciate using taxes, which should be used to fund government operations that the people want, to punishment methods to create general "funds" that can be used in any way the politicians want.
Anyone supporting taxation for the purpose of punishment, "social manipulation" or whatever the reason, is ideologically aligned with fascism. No matter "what about the children".
I consider commuting to be billable time to the client so I make money no matter how I get there or the "costs" to do so. I always come out ahead.
Get an OQO. Fits in a pocket, full windows xp/vista. Mobile broadband built right in. Extended batteries for hours of use.
http://www.oqo.com/
I've had similiar issues. Although I like bluetooth so I'm not taking up USB space, I have to say I've noticed my bluetooth devices use up the battery far quicker than the proprietary USB style ones, as well as the "lag" as mentioned earlier. I also haven't been able to narrow down whether it is a driver issue or a bad job of collision mitigation with multiple bluetooth devices or whatever causes the stop and jump phenomena.
Yeah but it's British porn.
I don't know about you, but after their fifth DVD about men prancing around in women's clothes, I get bored.
Try coding for an 8 hour day in rubber gloves and a face mask!
German porn stars act for 8 hours a day under the same conditions. And you think you're special.
My favorite was when I was running Visual Studio inside a Virtual PC environment. I was doing some PDA programming and was going to deploy it to the PDA/Phone emulator in Visual Studio. Apparently there's a problem (hard to believe) running a virtual environment inside a virtual environment. When trying to run it, it threw a visual studio exception followed by the message "You just had to try it didn't you".