An Age of AI?
The age of artificial intelligence seems to be here, but it's a little different to what we were promised.
2019-07-22 (first published: 2016-02-15)
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2016-10-17
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2016-04-18
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SQL Injection - The Revenge
As yet more personal details are spilled by preventable security lapses, what's
2015-11-02
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Who Cares About Your Data?
The observation that people hear what they want to hear is not a new one, and yet the extent to which people will go out of their way to ignore or misinterpret evidence can still surprise.
2015-06-01
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Email In The Bathroom: Not A Universal Good
Here are some fine, affordable products to completely destroy your work-life balance.
2015-04-27
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2015-02-16
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Fine Products for the Modern Drudge
As working hours in tech trend upwards, we look at some ways to make life easier.
2014-10-13
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The Broad View
An ingenuous use of existing data leads to the thought - when are we so deep in our work that we can't see how to improve?
2014-08-18
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Running With The Red Queen
Trying to take the time to fix sub-par processes has some surprising parallels in nature.
2014-04-28
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Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers