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Yes, I stupidly used today's hint to answer today's question and got it right. D'Oh. 

Fortunately I live in the UK and we have a National Health Service which is free at the point of delivery. It is paid for out of taxes on pay (both from employer and employee). When I had my major motorcycle accident (not my fault) I didn't have to worry about anything other than getting better. It was all taken care of. I…

I'm a big fan of change control but only when it is done properly. I've acted as a change manager and have been technical oversight for change control at several clients. In spite of this I was recently told that there was no point in me attending change control meetings as I probably wouldn't understand it. OK. I sat back…

Yes. He was sending the rocket up anyway and didn't have a payload so why not do something wacky to get the press' attention. Just marketing and self promotion. Hopefully all the money he is spending really does lead to improvements and benefits for society.

Old school way to hijack a car ...

The Matrix is the reality. Office Space is what we experience.

There are plenty of cloud providers all with their pros and cons (mostly cons). I'd suggest using the correct tool for the job. If something is cloud agnostic it just means it runs at the lowest common denominator and therefore isn't as good as it could be.

That isn't one of the possible answers. 4202vi-48G versus 4202vii-48G. Too many i's.

We are hoping the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will help to focus people's minds and they will start to get rid of data that they don't need or shouldn't be keeping. Should save some disk space on the SANs. If we also get the new Hyper-converged system with data-deduplication and compression as well then…

Why, it was the only correct answer.

Confirmed that it is now working for me too. Thanks whoever pressed the magic button.

Not a bad office view. Suddenly I don't like you any more

We have ISO27001 so security is right up there when any new system is being considered. ISO27001 is a pre-requisite for some of our client contracts. It does make life easier as we can wave the certification in front of people who want to bypass security and show how much money we would lose if they don't do things right.

OK. Maybe I'm misreading it (not enough coffee yet) but there may be two possible answers.

Broadband providers misleading us. No, I can't believe it. Oh wait, of course they do. I was promised 54Mbs at home. I know I can only get 4.5Mbs as that's all the line can take. I've tested it with the same kit the telecoms people use so know. Still they promise me the earth to get a sale. I'm now playing them off against…

Never mind 'No brand loyalty'. There's no loyalty at all. Comes from management and suppliers ignoring the technical guys who actually do the work and use the products. Management pick products and force them upon us even though the product won't do what is required and suppliers don't make products with the features we…

Yes. Management see AI as protrayed in the movies. We techies know better but it is hard to convince those whos IQ barely reaches double figures.

Microsoft's moon landing recreation. Maybe the aliens on the dark side stopped it or is it a government conspiracy.

I'm looking at the costings around bringing it in house as our current SaaS version is quite clunky and very slow to navigate. I'm also having difficulties configuring some aspects and they haven't upgraded the back end to allow Office365 monitoring (as recently announced as a part of SAM 6.5).

It's not in the manufacturers interest to make data transfer easy. If it is difficult you will just stay with the same manufacturer instead of moving and risk losing all that data.

Uber. I've never understood the grow or die model lots of business use. Surely it would be better to grow at a pace that you can sustain driven by profits not revenue or external investments. Their model is also self defeating because, as it said in the article, they have created an over provision. Too many taxis looking…

We could always send in the Sardaukar or Muad'Dib with the Fremen armed with weirding modules.

I know China is a bit behind the times but it looks like it has just got to 1984.

I've made an entire career from having a head full of nuggets of information. On their own they are largely useless but from time to time they gel together, cause the 40W bulb to dimly glow and allow me to fix something. It's usually something that lots of other people have tried and failed to fix so it makes me look good.…

I don't really need to use my phone to turn on my coffee machine remotely. I can just get up off my ***, walk into the kitchen and turn the bloody thing on by hand. I also get a very small amount of exercise. IoT is still in its infancy. Maybe when it grows up (and is made more secure) it might be useful. Until then I'll…

There's a restaurant in Toulouse with a cow like that showing the cuts of meat. I particularly liked the Araignée. Spider steak - heavily marbled.

Hubble Telescope. Surely that's the first thing you would try. Give it the three fingered salute (CTRL-ALT-DEL). It wouldn't be the first time NASA did that (think Apollo13).

Oh yes, and lots of SWAG.

Oh no. Microsoft and IOT. Just imagine how bad this will be. Bug fixes every week. Products that don't work. Products that don't talk to each other. Everyone will have to manage their own Active Directory system to allow management of their own devices. Windows mobile phones didn't work out so well. It'll probably be based…

Worked at a customer site where servers were named after Star Trek characters.