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Yes, that's the list I referred to. The question referred to the Sarbanes Oxley Act not the "Final Rule".

Facebook upset because someone else beat them to it.

I'm currently tuning solarwinds (I'm new here) to remove the noise storm they get. We have the metrics but really need to focus on what's important when alerting and reporting. Too many irrelevant alerts and people stop responding or miss the really important stuff. Too few and some really important stuff doesn't get…

Spot on. I usually ignore the 1 & 5 start reviews and look at the rest with a cynical eye. Like you say, most bad reviews are from people who don't know what they are doing or have bought something that wasn't what they thought it was. I've seen some give a 1 star review for a product that they said was excellent but the…

Nordstrom. Nice of them to hide their fault by blaming a contractor. Surely they should have had processes and procedures in place to prevent this happening. After all, it is their data and therefore their responsibility. You'll probably find the contractor was far more aware of data security than they were. 

I don't think there was any need for that. If you can't be polite then it might be best to say nothing. I did get the correct answer. I was just pointing out that the question setter has made assumptions that are not valid for all corporate environments.

Self driving cars and people recognition. Yet another reason for why they just aren't ready. You would think motion would be a key here. Maybe just try to avoid the moving thing that they are about to hit and stay off the footpaths / pavements / sidewalks.

Why print them when we could be materialising them as in Star Trek. 

Why would you trust anything to do with hire car companies. They have been rip off merchants for years. Stealing your data to sell on would just be a logical extension of CDW insurance, exorbitant fuel surcharges, false damage claims etc.

You could extend this a bit. If you clone the digital twin when it is showing a problem you could potentially test fixes against the clone to see what works before actually sending spare parts and getting a spanner out. This would lead to first time fixes every time in the field.

Yes, that's annoying. I don't need any information but have to select something just to complete. Seems a complete waste of someone's time and I'll probably get bombarded with sales calls. I recently asked for a small piece of information about a ManageEngine product and they started calling me every day. Eventually I told…

I wouldn't bother. It doesn't work in Firefox or Opera either.

Cory Doctorow - When Sysadmins ruled the earth. http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth-A4.pdf

Yes, the Boston Dynamics folks are doing some really impressive stuff but I still have a soft spot for Honda's Azimo. ASIMO by Honda | The World's Most Advanced Humanoid Robot

As a SysAdmin I resemble that remark.

@"rschroeder" I feel your pain. I'm the SysAdmin here. We currently have free Nagios . However, after a year of badgering manglement I'm getting SAM, NPM, Patch Manager and IPAM . Just installed the two physical servers I will be running it on into the server racks and am waiting until we get the Business Continuity…

Yes, there must be a way for users to get software that isn't currently supplied by IT. We ask them to log ticket so that IT can check out the software first then package it and install via SCCM if the effort justifies the time or just install manually. Anyone caught installing software without IT consent is liable to…

AWS taking something and then charging for it. Sounds familiar. Maybe Microsoft have become a role model.

Nice to have but imagine you were out of town, received an alert and then spent several days worrying about it until you got back and either found burst pipes or no issue. If you hadn't had the alert you would have enjoyed your time away then came back to what you would have found anyway (unless you cut short your trip or…

Linear Regression. Bah. I wait until the orange light comes on and I know I have 30 miles of reserve to find a fuel station. Put it on a card and worry about paying for it later. I'm going to Vegas and, as you all know. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Hopefully I'll win enough to pay for the fuel.

Don't bother changing your Twitter password. Just delete yourself and use all the newly created time for beer and bacon.

@"rob.collins" Does my pet tapeworm count Not a great conversationalist and eats a lot but it is companionship.

When I got here I found a Win2k3 syslog server running Kiwi but no one was using it. It's now a Win2k8 server still running Kiwi and no one using it. Baby steps.

Home DNA testing data being leveraged. No surprise there. It was only a matter of time. I did think the police would have been there first though. What a great way to get a DNA database without having to do the testing or getting a law change to allow it. Get people to pay for and test themselves.

Yep. IBM buying Red Hat. Time to move to a new distro. I can't see this being anything other than bad. That said, we are still running some Red Hat 4 servers and can't upgrade due to the applications not working on newer versions. Something will have to be done however as we have just implemented a new backup solution…

I want to be Bacon certified.

I monitor as much as I can. It is the alerting that is key. I try to only alert when something needs to be fixed and I only alert those people who can either fix the problem or who are management who NEED to know about the issue. That way we have all the information gathered but there is no blizzard of useless information.

The best tool for the job irrespective of cost. That includes staff. The one extra is - get the best monitoring solution you can afford. It will save you lots in the long term.

Blockchain. Still a solution looking for a problem.

You needed to listen to the audio. It very clearly gave the answer. It nearly caught me out.