[AccessD] Web Project

Sorry Marty that didn't make it under the moderation radar. Please everyone
keep to the technical aspect of the thread not the rightness/wrongness of
HIV registers etc. I shudder to thibk where that could lead.

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> MartyConnelly
> Sent: 10 June 2004 05:42
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Web Project
> 
> 
> Gasp. Only now is Germany starting to register HIV as an STD, 
>  are they 
> as stupid  as Canada
> where they still don't do it due to progressive politics. 
> This disease 
> could have been  slowed
> dramatically if it it wasn't for political interference.  
> Someone accidentally exposed as a homosexual  is worth a thousand 
> deaths elsewhere,
> is this the rational they use? I didn't care if the guy was a raging 
> queen as long as he admitted it, he was immune to blackmail.
> if the guy had five wives illegally he was open to blackmail.
> 
>  The security  of  the database unless exposed to public 
> access is only 
> limited to those who have access.
> I guess you will just have duplicated data, unless you have 
> some means 
> to differentiate names.
> Groups like WHO will just toss the data. The data obtained will be 
> worthless.
> I still believe in the Duke of Wellington's remark on being 
> exposed for 
> sexual peccadilloes
> "Publish and be dammed"
> 
> 
> Gustav Brock wrote:
> 
> >Hi Marty et all
> >
> >There is some discussion here on a national HIV register. 
> Info kept in 
> >this will, of course, be quite sensible, thus it is suggested that 
> >entries are kept under anonymous Soundex code.
> >
> >But I don't quite get what the purpose should be? Why not 
> just apply a 
> >random key for each entry? Why would you wish some simple level of 
> >grouping which is all the Soundex code can offer?
> >
> >And indeed if only the surname is used for the code - that 
> will create 
> >bizarre results as your example. Why are first and middle names 
> >excluded?
> >
> >/gustav
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Here is an article I came across on name transliteration.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> >>http://www.itworld.ca/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgm
l-a8d2a7b7
>>-7a56-43c8-87c5-2742527f8f14&Portal=E-Government
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
>>I like the bit
>>For example, internationally sought-after terrorist mastermind Osama 
>>Bin
>>Laden has the same Soundex code (L350) as Johnny "Rotten" Lydon, former 
>>lead singer of British punk rock group The Sex Pistols
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
>>There is a company named Language Analysis Systems at 
>>http://www.las-inc.com/
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
>>Their price may be out of your league since they do FBI and homeland
>>security work but they have some white papers that may be of use.
>>    
>>
>
>  
>

-- 
Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada



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