.. much like gTalk's "Off the record"

my coworkers have posited that it means "revoke my access to" and that status makes it generally more interesting for NSA, or google's AI,...

Why wasn't this failure mode disclosed? It seems obvious to me that properly designed software could have allowed retrieval without allowing storage after the license expiration. It is...

I think the value of random move is for illustrative purposes.

I think the value of "wall at center" also illustrates a full permutation test. That we can observe the...

Consider what the data ON the server is worth. Desktop hardware is so cheap its marginal cost is almost irrelevant compared to the software licenses for the OS, MS...

"awesome" - you did an excellent job of making genetic algorithms approachable

I would like to implement this kind of problem solver to our real world situation. What I...

Yeah, we all know errors are generated by users

Lest anyone think...

Are OLAP cubes considered database? Is OODBMS a database? I think we can protect our concept of RDBMS using exact terminology for exact meaning. Let's accept that...

also a typical response to this question is "don't ask the DB to format strings"

... meaning the consumer of this content should be responsible for display/output.

I'm not sure there is...

This still feels to me like it's violating a basic principle of normalization by creating a dependency of multiple (possibly unrelated) points of data on a single field. It's...

If participation is important at work, then it should be at least as important in school. I'm back to school with 20 year olds who seem to think education...

We went with the premise that people would rather find what they're looking for than be prompted with spelling corrections, so we wrote the search feature to join the product...

yeah... I didn't want...

We recently dealt with this exploit.

One very useful tip that I did not find anywhere else: Revoke access to the meta-data tables this attack uses to find every character...

We implemented a passive log while trying to audit SQL injection attempts from our website. We couldn't even begin to consider server-based solutions because the command batch itself was...

If we're looking for obscure/inefficient ways to produce the requested output:

select *

from stud_mast o

where

(select month( dob ) from stud_mast i where i.pk = o.pk) != 1

and

...