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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 !!!!

You could just ignore it and collect your P45 (get fired for our non UK readers).when it all goes wrong. I know some people who are doing this.

Yes. I never patch immediately. Given Microsoft's past performance I will always wait until others have done so and hit problems. Once those have been fixed I will look at patching. The risk associated with the reason for the patch has always been there. The patch itself poses a much greater potential risk.

The other problem I have is, just when I am getting up to speed with something, management will throw something else at me and make it the most important task. I have to drop what I was doing, focus on the new and make that work. This keeps repeating and nothing ever gets done. If I do manage to get something done and go…

Agree. We moved 50,000 student accounts from on prem exchange to O365 and are now looking to move 5000 staff accounts. Fortunately it is all free (Higher Education pricing) but I am just waiting for them to start charging. I will need to start monitoring the performance and have watched the Solarwinds Webinar.…

Oh this is so true and the bane of my life. I've just been landed a new project. Circa 30 people on a new site around the corner. They need two server racks full of stuff to support the 30 users, three radio studios and 1 TV studio. They want a minimum of two hours on battery in the event of a power failure. I worked out…

Mine does as well. It sends an e-mail to the ticketing system which automatically generates a ticket. However I don't think that is what they mean. I think they mean does it cut a ticket natively.

A customer DBA who doesn't understand databases and keeps "fixing" things that we then need to revert.

I did have one instance where the technical discussion about a change would happen on Tuesday with a project manager present. He would then attend the change advisory board meeting to present the change (I know, very odd). We weren't getting any changes approved and all sorts of odd stuff was happening until one day when…

Done

Hopefully there isn't a 'correct' answer for Q19