It's an asymptotic type of thing. You gain a lot in the first few hours, but becoming really proficient can take quite a bit longer, particularly in languages that introduce...

However it seems that even smaller efforts aren't worth making if there is a little more profit to be squeezed out. At least, that's what managers seem to think.

In...

Excellent article and video about this, including a session by a hacker who reverse engineered an engine control unit.

The incredible smoking gun here was how EXACTLY the parameters matched the...

This is the real problem. Components on cars are no longer...

Agreed. There is little or no practical use for...

I don't do much Powershell, but years ago while I was experimenting with Lisp.... it started making its way into my writing and thinking processes.

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No encryption or additional protection beyond the windows password, but really no need to. Aside from still being bitter about the loss of the hardware, no impact. I never worried...

david.gugg (11/6/2015)

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This is one of the reasons I don't take my work laptop home. I carry it around the office for internal meetings, but to work at home I...

The government is quick to fine, and even civilly charge private companies and individuals for data loss. And here (as in many cases before this) their screw up is among...

We're faced with this.

MS comes out with new version.

1-3 years till all our 3rd party applications are available for the new SQL

Aother couple years before all the allocations for all...

PAH-440118 (8/28/2015)

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.. I understood was when a woman tells a man a problem she doesn't necessarily want it fixed she wants him to understand what she has to put up...

updating...

After we demonstrated that the db from the previous version was much faster on the same server, now suddenly, the vendor stopped saying "it must be your server" and started...

Eric M Russell (8/17/2015)

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I hope that mission critical software for things like airplanes and nuclear reactors don't run on Windows or Linux. I'd expect something like an embedded chip that...

Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach ranks at the top of my book list. Entertaining and inter-related dissertations on logic,...

In many fields, the difference between the textbook exercises in school and the real world is exactly that: you have no good information to go by. There are gaps, uncertainties...