Second, even if the database were accessed improperly, there's nothing in it other than those 13 DNA markers.
Even if the new database could be reasonably secured against outsiders, many Japanese are hardly willing to entrust the system to the insiders who will be allowed to use it every day.
While a traditional database, even a very big one, allows for only the simplest, most repetitive queries, a data warehouse is multidimensional, allowing for data to be analyzed using hundreds of variables simultaneously.
Mr Cooper told the jury his anger at the country's authorities had intensified when his father Clive was unable to have DNA samples removed from the police database, even though he had been cleared in 2003 of assault.
Since smart cards retain transaction records, they could be accessed if even a well-protected database is destroyed.
That site not only described the restaurant and its story, but even offered, in its database, a timeline on the history of the place.
Still, the companies did even more analyses of the database, and say they did not actually begin the process of "unblinding" the data until Dec. 31, 2007.
"This has made things more difficult but there were duplicate passports and widespread abuse of the system even when the national equine database was around, " he said.
The company has already done this with 1, 700 available Android devices, so it has a massive comparative database to form an even clearer picture of the strengths and weaknesses of a new device.
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Google and its competitors save copies of Web pages in a database that makes the pages accessible even when links to the site have been taken down.
The information gleaned from supporters' online habits or from canvassers' visits and calls is fed back into the campaign's database, to hone its sales pitch even more.
Supporting this infrastructure the company offers cloud-based database, social networking, analytics, and even a new social networking analysis service.
But even these come into play as we start thinking seriously about database architecture.
Using a large database of known suspicious or bad source IP addresses, even URLs, has made dramatic improvements to spam filters and web security gateways.
With these finely honed tools, reliance upon a blunt instrument like a database of payments to physicians appears unwarranted, and perhaps even risks doing more harm than good.
Consolidation has its fans, even within IBM, which is out there selling its own big-database product, DB2.
High profile cases have made even liberal-minded folk think twice about limiting the size of the database.
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Since 1998 Icann, a policy-making group, has controlled domain registration on the Net, logging new sites in an open database called Whois, but the data isn't verified, and even gobbledygook triggers no alarms.
But Meyer still hadn't trained the clinical staff or even determined what information they would collect, or how they would enter it into the database.
And even more on the upside, FINRA recently announced the launch of a new disciplinary actions database that will make disciplinary information more accessible to the general public.
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In an IoE world, every ambulance and fire truck, every medical device, even clothing people wear, could talk to the network, sending information back to a database that can then interact with other databases.
Thus, unless one views every single benefit given to and received by a physician or hospital as part of a cynical effort to influence the independent judgment of physicians, it is impossible to gauge whether any payments in the database are problematic, or instead appear to be reasonable, justified, and even beneficial for society as a whole.
The prospect of even a handful of killers evading justice will make it hard for any government to cut the database back much more.
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On whatever occasion I fire off a question about anybody, even far down the rankings, she seems to have a ready answer. (Our database, managed by Mitchel Rand, helps a lot.) Allison, meantime, also specializes in our antipodean 40 wealthiest list.
Mr. SOBEL: Meaning that any odd piece of information, even if not arguably relevant to some legitimate law enforcement purpose, could find its way into this database.
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In fact, Dash is so confident that the Express experience will get even better over time that they suggested that we test it again in three months, just to note the database improvements.
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