Databases

Data-sharing: Many terror suspects have U.S. records (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

6 Jul 2008

By ELLEN NAKASHIMA WASHINGTON — In the 6  1/2 years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States. There was the suspected militant fleeing Somalia who had ...

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Sep 2005 13:21 UTC, submitted by Jan (OS News)

6 Jul 2008

Open-source databases will not succeed without commercial support , says Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle. "One of the myths of open-source is that it's built by a bunch of guys who work at RadioShack."

Feds want employers to voluntarily check Social Security numbers (Austin American-Statesman)

6 Jul 2008

The last sweeping immigration measure passed by Congress — the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 — ordered employers to maintain a record, called an I-9 form, demonstrating that they examined specific documents to check their workers' identity and work authorization.