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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.

Yes. I had a slight wobble over that too. I guess it is the difference between English and American. Latest would have been a better word as, I agree, Last wouldn't be the latest one. It would be the one before. Date was still wrong though. I just picked the nearest one.

Please don't install those happy or not buttons here. I know how bad the responses would be but I'm sure the people who implemented it would get rewards and promotions even though they would be the same people who cause the unhappiness in the first place.

Marvin the paranoid android. Wins every time as he bores everyone to death.

Bloody VMWare. We have some 'experts' from VMWare in at present helping us the design, install and configure NSX. I think they are making it more complicated than it needs to be. Hope you didn't get caught up in VMWare's heavy handedness. VMware 'pressured' hotel to shut down tech event close to VMworld, IGEL sues resort…

Just what we need. More crap in low Earth orbit. It will soon be impossible to actually launch the spaceships we will need to escape Earth and explore the stars.

Good v Evil Love v Hate Marathon v Snickers

For joepoutre Nope, we just buy it at Christmas -d'oh. Given the Turkey was first domesticated in Mexico, it is one of those immigrants that Trump wants to send back. I guess the 'wall' wouldn't keep them out though.

Yep, requirements are certainly changing. Old school SANs are being replaced everywhere. 

Not puzzling at all. The date and time of your original posting have changed. How else would you explain this.

Missed it too and they even spelled Whiskey correctly.

Data is just data. A database is just one way of storing it. What is important is that you gather the correct data in the first place and then you process it in a suitable manner to create INFORMATION. That's the real trick.

ASUS. Worrying when an IT company can't secure it's servers.

Only if you haven't got Total Recall.

Great. I've always wondered what some of these terms actually mean.

Yes, a carrot not a stick approach. It has been proven many times that incentives work better than punishments. People will strive towards an incentive but will hope to avoid a punishment.

Wow, today's question (4th April) took several reads for me to understand. I'm not complaining or saying it is wrong. I'm just commenting on my lack of coffee and a very long week so far. Thanks for all the hard work creating these quizzes. 

I'd say employees are more dangerous. They already have access whereas the criminals have to break in first.

I think VMWare will be around for quite some time. We are planning an Infrastructure refresh and are going to stay on HP pizza box servers running VMWare as we all know it and it works. We don't need cutting edge stuff and we don't need to expose our data to the cloud and all the insecurities it brings.

Very true. If the open source tools have been around for a while and have a good market take-up then they may be OK. Linux seems to have taken hold. Otherwise I tend to stay away. Enterprise support needs enterprise tools and the business is usually very reticent about using 'free' stuff. I think they have the "Where's the…

To be fair, all of the above would be useful.