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Logical and I guess most major companies would have main data centres in the main cities. NY, LA and probably SF are the most likely to have major data centres.

Also looks like everything I post is being moderated. Not cool.

Not seeing the problem. You picked an answer that was incorrect and were given a green check mark. I think you should consider yourself lucky.

There's more to the world than the USA. We in the UK keep turkey until Christmas.

That's my Saturday morning breakfast and tomorrow is Saturday.

Good article. We have an annual CBT with an exam for everyone (staff and agency). It is compulsory and the top level management enforce it. No excuses. I sit next to the IT Security Manager who did my job (SysAdmin) before I took over when he moved roles so he understands how the systems work. I think we make a good team.…

Can't imagine why this wouldn't be important. I know I'd really find this useful where I am now and it would have been really good in my last several places. I'm currently using an outlook calendar which isn't great.

Good article on photocopiers. I've been insisting for years that when a photocopier or printer with a hard disk is replaced, we remove the disk and trash it (properly). If the copier is rented I make the external company either prove beyond doubt that the disk is wiped or replaced and we get the original disk (even if we…

Yes, we have every system ranked and all the dependencies within systems also ranked so we know which servers need to be started first. We also know which ones are vital to the organisation and which ones are important but can be done without for a day or two. With this information we can also arrange patching cycles and…

Still make more sense than management.

What a complete and utter waste of time . Thanks for helping me fill the day and have a bit of a laugh doing so.

An interesting experiment. I'm not sure how I would even start trying to do this. In my 20's I started to track who had my address (before e-mail) by using an old CIA trick. Every time I gave someone my postal address I would make a small error. The post office would be able to cope with the error but if I ever received…

Amazon and Microsoft. Microsoft was bad because they dominated the market and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Amazon dominating the cloud can only go the same way. We can only speculate what a Novell managed cloud would have been like. Utopia possibly. 

It's not irrelevant. I want it last week.

Surely if a company with that much influence on our lives fails to keep data secure they should be shut down. Pour l'encouragement des autres

Yes. I found that too but the question asks about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and that gives several different retention periods for different records (which covers three of the four answers). The HINT just points at some third party website and shouldn't be taken as gospel. I could guess at the answer that I suspect is the…

I think they would be very concerned if you started to install Chinese or Russian routers etc. and you were a military or government site.

Elon Musk. He could be a project manager here. Loads of projects that never get completed because he gets sidetracked. And he would only have to work 5 hours a week (judging by how often we see them).

I'm not so worried about g-forces on a Chinese hyper-sonic plane. I'm more worried about their appalling safety record.

I've worked for far too many managers who's approach to management was just bullying people. Funny how that doesn't work. Productivity and team moral just drop. I've also worked for some managers who give out far too much praise (usually for people just doing what they are supposed to do instead of something a bit above).…

I can think of several departments that would like this feature but we currently can't help them. 

You mean yours came with an operating system. Some didn't. 

We have just had an external "expert" come in to "teach" us Customer Service. What a waste of time and money. I've got a very successful 30 year career in over 20 different clients providing excellent customer service (some permanent and most as a contractor). She tried to teach us that we should always meet the customers…

I was a programmer a very long time ago. I used to do things correctly because I was given time to do so. That's why all my code was Y2K compliant. Nowadays the pressure is on to get things done yesterday and that only leads to things like this. That and the fact that most programmers these days seem to have the attention…

Same here. Got the red X even though I selected the two answers that correspond to the correct answer.

Orion maps in HCO

I'm guessing you ARE able to enter this competition then.

It's still AI, just not very bright. I was going to say not very human but I know a lot of not very bright humans. It is AI because it is artificial but the Intelligence part is just what someone programmed. Once it becomes self learning there will be issues. There's still a need for human oversight though. We have over…

Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You Liked that. Have used very similar techniques to get refunds and compensation for service disruption. Always fun to deal with the Chief Executive's Office.

Half ? Show some ambition man !!!!