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Re: An Audible Data Privacy Breach

datachick — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:08:41 -0000

I think they need wider reporting. It's time that customers understand just how poorly their data is being cared for.

Re: An Audible Data Privacy Breach

ThomasLaRock — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:08:34 -0000

I'm certain the number of data breaches aren't really increasing, just the reporting of them. Kinda like shark attacks.

Re: It’s Reorg Season…

datachick — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:37:36 -0000

They want CHANGE. So perhaps we should give them Sharepoint projects to work on?

Re: It’s Reorg Season…

datachick — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:37:08 -0000

But it helps grow the economy, right?

Re: It’s Reorg Season…

datachick — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:36:52 -0000

It's always good to have a up-to-date resume. Having said, that, I think my CV is so out of date I wouldn't recognize it as being about me.

Re: It’s Reorg Season…

Justin Dearing — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:11:47 -0000

Solyent Middle Management!

Re: It’s Reorg Season…

Robert L Davis — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:10:09 -0000

What a coincidence. I just updated my resume for this very reason.

Re: It’s Reorg Season…

Robert L Davis — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:09:20 -0000

Target practice?

Re: It’s Reorg Season…

ThomasLaRock — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:06:36 -0000

Agreed, I've heard about how some companies pay to have reorgs done on a regular basis. And, since a reorg can take up to 18 months to fully complete, by the time one finishes it is often time to start up a new cycle.

Re: It’s Reorg Season…

Justin Dearing — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:43:05 -0000

Occupational Behavior question. If reorgs are caused by bored middle management, whats the best way to utilize middle management do they don't get bored?

Re: 5 Things to Do to Help Your Family’s Tech Ecosystem over the Holidays. With Pairings.

Karel Vetrovsky — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:36:45 -0000

I had a glowing review of your post written up - and than the @#$% social-connect-with-us BS kicked in and wiped it all off. Well, in short, a VERY GOOD post. Thanks.

Re: 5 Things to Do to Help Your Family’s Tech Ecosystem over the Holidays. With Pairings.

datachick — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:18:48 -0000

Um...to help out a family member...or to quench your thirst?

Re: 5 Things to Do to Help Your Family’s Tech Ecosystem over the Holidays. With Pairings.

Chuck Rummel — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:08:02 -0000

Truly inspired.

Re: Friday Fun Contest: How Many TLAs Can You Fit In a Sentence?

John Tulloch — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:34:31 -0000

Has our illustrious panel of judges come to a decision yet?

Re: Friday Fun Contest: How Many TLAs Can You Fit In a Sentence?

Lance Tidwell — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:48:17 -0000

ROFL @ DB 4 LBS /w I/O BNs BTBB but smaller than USADA file on LA IMO.

Re: Friday Fun Contest: How Many TLAs Can You Fit In a Sentence?

Rob Drysdale — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:17:43 -0000

Here's one from a process flow where I used to work - WMC CSR creates NG SL WR for OOB date.

Re: Friday Fun Contest: How Many TLAs Can You Fit In a Sentence?

Secmoose — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:00:48 -0000

YKYBHTLW TLA, LTS, etc. (tlgo) GWOS, YABA's TL;DR AAMOI.

"You Know You've Been Hacking too long when three letter acronyms, leaning tree syndrome, rt cetera (the list goes on) go without saying, yet another bloody acronym's too long; didn't read as another matter of interest.

Re: Friday Fun Contest: How Many TLAs Can You Fit In a Sentence?

datachick — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:29:54 -0000

Cool. Didn't know about that contest.

Re: Friday Fun Contest: How Many TLAs Can You Fit In a Sentence?

datachick — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:49:01 -0000

Wow. No real words. That's going to be high on the list.

Re: Friday Fun Contest: How Many TLAs Can You Fit In a Sentence?

John Tulloch — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:46:50 -0000

This sentence was developed for a similar contest at the STS-132 JSC #NASATweetup

Re: Friday Fun Contest: How Many TLAs Can You Fit In a Sentence?

John Tulloch — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:44:43 -0000

ET TLM I/F BIT REOD

Re: Friday Fun Contest: How Many TLAs Can You Fit In a Sentence?

GoldGal — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:43:31 -0000

IDK who FEd this ERD, but it isn't BCNF.

Re: Metadata Stuffing: Why I Hate tbl_ for Table Names

Alan Dykes — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:31:21 -0000

We do mostly read-only queries on a static set of data for data validation. Sometimes we have to change views to a table (by renaming the view, re-creating the structure as a table, and then copying the view to the new table) due to performance reasons. It would be a nightmare to then go modify all other code to deal with the object type switch. Instead, it takes about 2 minutes to set up.

Re: Metadata Stuffing: Why I Hate tbl_ for Table Names

datachick — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:31:55 -0000

I don't that's physically possible - not a direct change. Logically, of course it is. In other words, you can't ALTER a Table to be View.

Re: Metadata Stuffing: Why I Hate tbl_ for Table Names

Paul — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:10:06 -0000

You are probably not a fan of Hungarian notation naming conventions for columns or is that entirely unrelated?