(Reply to Walter's post) Oddly enough, probably because criminals have to be "honest" about their threats.

If the victim didn't get the key there would be no impetus for anyone to...

My life is complete. I came into computers on punched cards and watched "programmers" use them to create images of Lincoln made with Xes and Oes on 1100 line...

I'll toss in my two cents. Date values in excel are stored as "serial numbers", not as dates per se. The integer portion can be considered the...

OK, I will now show the level of my ignorance. (someone has to do it.)

My first thought was "Ah, the characters 'CP1' exist in one instance and not in...

I just confirmed this by attempting to do a an "alter column" on a column that does not exist in a table.

As expected, I got the following error: "Msg...

On the macro scale it is all just noise or pretty pictures. Rather like looking out into the cluster of galaxies at the center of the Milky Way. ...

U.S.A.F. Instructors pounded it into my head many years ago to never use "negative logic". To this day I find it offensive when having to deal with a language...