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Re:How a software glitch kept thousands from reaching 911 by fromanator on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:12PM (#8489179)
Haven't they ever heard of a UUID? Or if they are worried about potential collisions at least make the number 128bit (since you have an obscenely large max value to increment to).
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