Now that wasn't so bad, was it?

Come on Steve, 'fess up to what lead to YOU losing your wife's purse! After all, while it may be fodder for many dinner parties to come, most of us...

As Cees points out, there are definite areas where snooping may not only be necessary but could, in the long term, save a company from embarrassment, legal action or other.

But,...

I guess I don't understand the security argument. We do not grant anything but execute access to stored procedures. No table, view or any other access. What part of that...

Well, I don't know if DIYer exactly applies, but perhaps so.

My laptop drive recently began its trip to the great bit bucket in the sky. I'm certainly not going to...

I used to play trumpet, but never made the correlation between the 2 skills. But in retrospect I believe there is a great deal of similarity between musical skills and...

Thanks. I NEEDED this today. This one will be making the rounds in IT here.

Perhaps the support for duplicate indexes is a insidious plot by those who sell processors, memory, drives and SAN trays to help us grow our data and performance needs beyond...

Relative to the question regarding tidal power, there is a test scenario set up off Maui to test the viability of wave forces below the surface. Those forces are thought...

As noted in the InfoWorld article comments and referenced here, what about anti-virus, anti-spyware, etc? Granted, a home broadband user probably has some experience there, but at worst they expose...

I once had a manager who had pawned a system off on me, being unable to deal with the users, the system or its problems. Some time later I received...

I would venture that if it were not for informal networks, many companies would fail. Think about what we are describing (and I realize this analogy will be lost on...

When I first started working at this company, ISS was the traditional ivory tower from the 1950s. Analysts analyzed, programmers never saw the light of day and outside of the...

SQLSkills.com has a great idea but they could have simply borrowed the Omega-13 device from Galaxy Quest. Granted, that was only good for rewinding 13 seconds of time, but if...

Given the original question, I also come down on the side of biometric data. And while I agree that using a credit card online is safer than handing it to...