With practically every industry becomming ever more driven by data and analytics, consumers need to reevaluate their brand loyalty. For example, that auto insurance company you've been using since...

A perfect example of this are data modeling tools, which are excellent for logical modeling, but much less useful when it comes to physical modeling and generating DLL scripts.

Here is another website hosting 10,688 public datasets.

https://datahub.io/dataset

The NetFlix Prize database is no longer available, but here is something similar.

http://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/20m/

Even if the data I lost was important to me, I would not pay the ransom, because there it's entirely plausible that it's part of a scheme to raise money...

During a recent family road trip, my kids asked to keep the iPhone with them in back seat so they could watch NetFlix. Over the course of two days the...

Steven.Grzybowski (2/25/2016)

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Eric M Russell (2/25/2016)

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If we divide 1.5 PB (15,000,000,000,000,000) by the total number of global NetFlix accounts (60,000,000), that equals ~ 250 MB (250,000,000) of event data gathered daily...

If we divide 1.5 PB (15,000,000,000,000,000) by the total number of global NetFlix accounts (60,000,000), that equals ~ 250 MB (250,000,000) of event data gathered daily per account. Also, if...

Kyrilluk (2/25/2016)

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The reason why Netflix needs to conserve all this data is to be able to use some data mining algorithms to predict future movie selection. So the more data,...

etl2016 (2/21/2016)

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Hi,

I am willing to go for a All-in-One Desktop, for home computing/educational purpose, mostly having Microsoft development apps such as below.

Could you please suggest if 8GB RAM and Core...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/23/2016)

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Eric M Russell (2/23/2016)

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Assuming you could load GB of disk storage, GB of RAM, Windows, and SQL Server, a Raspberry PI would be severely under...

Sean Lange (2/23/2016)

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Eric M Russell (2/23/2016)

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Regardless of how or where the T-SQL is stored at rest, it must be decrypted before SQL Server can compile and execute it. Any user...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/24/2016)

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David.Poole (2/23/2016)

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My 6 year old niece managed to download some ransomware onto her mother's tablet in an app aimed at children. That's just vile.

Going...

Rod at work (2/24/2016)

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WOW, Eric! That's pretty bad. Up to this point we've been talking about corporate systems. Now you're mentioning a personal computer. I've heard of people being stung...

David.Poole (2/23/2016)

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My 6 year old niece managed to download some ransomware onto her mother's tablet in an app aimed at children. That's just vile.

Going after hospital records is beyond...