30 years? Wow, IT has its price.

I think this also highlights the need for built in 'sanity checks' for all code, especially critical stuff, to take emergency action and notification. The sanity check should have nothing...

TheFault (7/7/2016)

Or this 😛

https://archive.google.com/pigeonrank/

We really need a lot more research into that area, because strict algorithmic approaches are slow and can be error prone.

Thousands of species of animals from insects up through birds...

Through most of our evolutionary history, the vast majority of humans on the planet primarily had to worry about their next meal. People who had the resources and the wisdom...

Great developer is a bit vague. Fast? Accurate? Into arcane algorithmics? How about dependable? works with others? not ego driven?

There are great musicians that are impossible to work with, others...

It's important to keep the horse before the cart.

In an egalitarian organization diversity will naturally occur, and be healthy. Diversity that's created, however, as a target goal is likely to...

When you have a lot of third party stuff (as we do) there's a real black box problem. It's hard to even know if you've tested adequately.

This is one reason...

The basic issue was that tempdb files were sized unequally, discovered after "months of investigation."

Frequently when one sees an 'explanation' like this, there's a whole lot that's not...

It depends largely on the organization. Sometimes we wear a number of database related hats, in some organizations it would be highly siloed.

Interestingly in our organization we have one largish...

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." - Robert Frost

Offsite versioning is definitely a plus.

But for high profile attacks on high profile targets, there is another targeting approach: silently decrypt files each time they are accessed, re encrypt when...

An anonymous removal technique could possibly be a disguised vector.

[One thing that puzzles me (not that I have all the details) about the hospital incident is that patient records were...

We know that humans are bad at being consistent and reliable, and those are the places we should use computers. Even if the time savings don't directly add up,

Basically this...

Many years ago as a teenager I worked at a camera store that carried a large variety of models. In my inexperience and enthusiasm I would attempt to discuss the...