Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Rub a dub dub, how many IDs does one profile need?

An anonymous tipster points out that the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of Illinois has gone through some amazing contortions maintaining a single database record for a retired attorney named Barack Obama.

Google the IARDC site and you come up with a record ID ending in 136.

Now that record is blank.

In 2008 a CNN website showed Obama's record with an ID ending in 456.

Now that record is blank.


On April 25th, 2008, a screen-shot showed Obama's record possessing an ID ending in 935.

Now that record is blank.

Same for Obama's old record that ended in 852.

And 960.

And 456.

Here is the active record today. Its ID is 387.

For all the claims that he runs the most transparent administration ever, this is one man who seems to give databases fits.


Related:
"To be (a lawyer) or not to be."
Most Transparent President Ever Has Bar Records Redacted This Week, Leaving Only Traces of His Existence Some Betamax Videos and a Fraternity Pin

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:39 PM

    I thought this is standard procedure for anyone with nothing to hide. Besides it prevents nosy people from wasting their life on asking questions that are none of their business. True journalistic endeavor would be something like investigating average citizens like say.......Oh I know, Sarah Palin, did you know she got medical care at age 5 in Canada. There has to be some hypocrisy in this fact especially if some of the actual facts that provide the proper perspective are deliberately left out. Isn't the New Journalism great?

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  2. Anonymous3:43 PM

    Sarah Palin, did you know she got medical care at age 5 in Canada.

    Omg! Well, you'd think a five years old would know better, wouldn't you? I mean, how could she not know what that would do to her political career?

    Oh, wait, that's because she was five years old at the time and she didn't seek medical care for herself; her parents took care of that.

    What was it Obamao said when asked about working side-by-side with terrorist Bill Ayers? Oh, yes...He said that he was only nine years old when Ayers was plotting murders and planting bombs. And Obamao was only 40-something years old when Ayers told the NYT that back in his Weathermen days,
    ''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.'' (from No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives, New York Times, September 11, 2001)

    So, tell me, lefturd, why do your people expect more from average citizens like say...Oh I know, Sarah Palin than you do of your prezdint? Could it be because average citizens like say...Oh I know, Sarah Palin are more intelligent and morally superior than Obamao? Or is it because your hypocrisy knows no bounds?

    AuntieMadder

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  3. Anonymous5:24 AM

    This info is completely worthless without further info on the ARDC database.

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  4. Once again, ignorance dictates conspiracy theory.

    The numbers you are freaking out about are the identifying numbers for dynamically-generated web pages. ASP stands for Active Server Pages and indicates they installed a server-side script-engine to dynamically extract data from their database and display it on a web page. The web page itself is generated at the time you, or anyone else, initiates a search of their database, so of course those numbers will almost ALWAYS be different. That page you're looking at is essentially a data snapshot of their database, you're not actually touching their database.

    Wow, I bet you must feel kinda foolish now for having jumped the gun. I mean, for over 2 years now, every server manager / database analyst that fumbled into your post has been having a private little chuckle at your expense.

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  5. @Damian - look up the word "Primary Key" and get back to me.

    Last time I read Codd & Date, primary keys didn't change at the drop of a hat.

    Gawd, your elite level of tech knowledge is awesome.

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  6. It's definitely far more awesome than your level of tech knowledge. ;)

    The ASP IDs are not their database's primary keys. Care to dance some more?

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