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Having a different typo in every copy of a document is an old CIA trick. It caught an awful lot of people.

Yep, that was my thinking. The legs would just crisp up. Might be a good idea to singe the hair off first too.

We use Solarwinds as a managed service through a 3rd party. As such I don't have a login to the Solarwinds Customer Portal. I have asked the vendor who said no. I have asked Solarwinds who say they are looking into it. Until then I'd love to take advantage of all the free training but am unable to log in. We do take…

SF bans facial recognition systems. It's been around a lot longer than people think. I put one in in the early 90s that monitored live CCTV and tracked known players in Belfast.

Conditional formatting for quite a lot of stuff would be great. Disk space available % would be nice in a report if you could highlight those where something should be done rather than allow some numptie to decide if extra disk space should be added or not. They seem to not understand the trend analysis graphs.

We've just done that too with Microsoft. Funny they recommended the same. Must be a push on to promote WEF. Not played yet. They found enough other issues to keep us busy for a long time.

AT&T. Lets make something up, wrap it in science sounding techno-babble and sell it to the unsuspecting public (allegedly).

GDPR is a right pain in the ***. There are some very serious fines for non compliance and no one here, where I work, seems to care. They have done nothing even though they have had two years to get ready and we have been telling them non stop that something MUST be done. They have just now come to us and asked us what we…

I'm going to try out that tool and advice for detecting hidden cameras. Great find.

Still shown in GBP (£) in the UK though so not that useful when the answers are given in USD ($).

I have nothing in my house that is internet enabled except for the router and that has a very good firewall built in (and fully configured). I don't see the point. The only things I have at home that need to be internet connected are the computers and the TV. All hidden behind the firewall.

240 minutes. I do spend time every day relaxing. Sometimes I'm as relaxed as a newt.

Yep, it did both strike a chord and make me chuckle.

They are gotchas if you consider for the last year questions with one answer have had radio buttons and questions with multiple answers have had check boxes. By having check boxes we have been lulled into thinking there may be more than one answer. The ITIL one was easy for me as I have been working in ITIL environments…

Yes. A good way for the police to compile a DNA database that they don't have to admit to.

I wouldn't mind my own Cylon though. I'd settle for the Number 6 version.

Demon Seed is one of my favourite movies of it's generation. It's a mixture of horror, sci fi and unintentional humour. Definitely worth watching just to see what people then thought of AI. Not much has changed.

I couldn't agree more. You have nailed it. That's what happened to me 20 years ago so I left and went contracting. It was great for about 12 years. People listened (as I was technically the external guy). Then things changed. Management started to become even worse. They were mostly business management people instead of…

Yes, don't annoy your System Administrator. We know how to get even.

Really ? £2,275 converted to USD at the current exchange rate of $1.40 to the pound (£) equates to $3,185. If that's close enough please send me the extra $195 I was more concerned that we, in the UK, could be changed $5,995. It's not unknown.

Yes and I have passed this to our 'network security' peeps. We are a university and every student wants BYOD access. The WiFi is locked down to only people with AD credentials so the internal data access is restricted. PCs and laptops are checked for anti-virus software and patches before they get past the VPN and will be…

Why would anyone want to join a country club and why would a country club want millennials ?

Emoji number plates. No thanks. The plates are there for a reason and anything that makes them harder to read is a bad thing. Also, I'm not too sure I'd like to see a smiley face looking at me as I bounce down the road after being knocked down. (Yes emoji added as irony). 

We are operating a skeleton staff at work and the rest from home. The users are mostly working from home. We had just put in Zoom for everyone so that will help and we have tested our business continuity plan just last week (wonder what prompted that). I'm at home today and just waiting for a zoom conference with my IT…

Now if only management would give us the money to get the latest software / updates and pay for the overtime to install / apply updates and patches. Unbelievably management want us to patch the Meltdown and Spectre issues between 08:00 and 09:00 on Tuesday morning. Yes, every affected system (1000+).

Don't be evil. It's probably best to assume they are all tracking everything. It's probably true and you won't be surprised.

Make them sign away any rights to medical care first then allow them to do whatever they want to themselves. Problem should mostly die away.

Olympics. I live in London. Londoners were taxed extra to fund the Olympics in 2012. I haven't seen any benefits as all the new build sporting venues are on the far side of London and take well over an hour to get to. Also, who wants to go to Stratford anyway. It did mean a large area of London was knocked down to build…

Training is the first thing to be cut. I can't remember the last training I had.

@"undesired_result" Well done. Wrong again. I'm not a boomer.