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  • RE: The Security Payoff

    If you are so much concerned about security you should start setting an example by using httpS always for sqlservercentral.com site.

    Every time I come to this site it prompts me...

  • RE: Is Skynet Coming?

    If AI becomes as intelligent as or more intelligent than humans it(they?) can learn to value life and cooperation as well as a human. Though not all humans are...

  • RE: Trust People

    "However by 200 years later, the Roman army was the strongest in the ancient world."

    This is a western centric viewpoint. The eastern view point is that the persian army...

  • RE: The Reading Poll

    Both 1984 and Animal Farm are out of copyright and in the public domain in many countries. Copyright is not infinite. It is a restricted privilege granted to...

  • RE: Most important DBA Skill?

    Let me take the contrary view here.

    Hypothetical Question: You are about to have a brain aneurysm operated on. Who would you pick?

    1) A brain surgeon with little less technical skills...

  • RE: The Memory Cube

    Using the third dimension can also boost the capacity of the chips immensely. For example using 16 bits to a dimension. 2^16*2^16*2^16 will give 256 terabytes of ram for the...

  • RE: Algorithm Secrecy is not Security

    Not so many with SHA-1 or one of the SHA-2 family with 100 rounds, either. You're not arguing for encryption vs. hashing, you're arguing for enough rounds to take more...

  • RE: Algorithm Secrecy is not Security

    Not sure I agree. Plenty of people recommend using one-way hashes for passwords: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2549988/whats-the-recommended-hashing-algorithm-to-use-for-stored-passwords

    One way hashing can be done using encryption algorithms instead of hashing algorithms. ...

  • RE: Algorithm Secrecy is not Security

    "SHA2 is recommended. Unfortunately you would have to upgrade to SQL Server 2012 in order to use this algorithm. "

    You should never use hashing algorithms to store password. If...

  • RE: Patent Stupidity

    One solution is to make the government participate in the greed.

    If the government starts charging a lot for each patent granted something like a million $ per patent all the...

  • RE: Don't Share Passwords Across Sites

    Actually it is the sites fault for not storing passwords as one way encrypted hashes. On my site I store all user passwords as twofish encrypted a hundred times...

  • RE: The Robot DBA

    Man I wish someone will automate my Jobs. Seems to me, I have enough work to last several lifetimes.

  • RE: The Talent Crunch

    However, some years ago you could get 4 or more people for the price of one Swede and now you get maybe 3 or less. In China the salaries has...

  • RE: Hardware Hacking

    We want our own countries to grow and do well, and our companies to grow inside of our own borders.

    I don't see why we we have to be that narrow...

  • RE: Sharing Code

    I always put all my articles, codes, ideas in the public domain and specifically disclaim copyright. So you can't plagiarize my works because I have put them in the...

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