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Picture credit: camera slayer I celebrate the fifth of November as Trillion Dollar Bonfire Night, in the hope that everyone seeks better ways of managing and organising their undertakings. For centuries the United Kingdom has celebrated the fifth as Bonfire Night, in memory of the foiled Gunpowder Plot, where Guy Fawkes and his associates set out to cause catastrophic The devil’s guide to iT is for people who want to make iT simpler. Here you will find valuable insights and amusements to ease your iT pain. The guide caters for everyone, expert and novice alike, regardless of whether you: use, run, buy, sell or make iT. Hard times call for hard thinking, supplemented by effective action. Achieving and sustaining our future relevance in the currently turbulent economic context will need a radical new approach to the way we deliver value to our enterprise stakeholders. Picture credit: alicepopkorn A good first step would be to scrap the role of Chief Information Officer and create Much effort has been put into getting machines to pass the so-called Turing Test. But, conversely, how does a machine know it’s talking to a human? Picture credit: Loz Flowers Turing Test corollary: a human knowingly talking to a [telephone answering] machine often loses coherence and language skills, ergo machine knows  Picture credit: h.koppdelaney Information has played a vital role in the raging furore over MPs expenses. The whole thing began a few years ago, with newspaper attempts to obtain details of expenses by using the Freedom of Information Act; an initiative that did not go down well with many of our elected representatives. They [MPs] subsequently fought tooth and nail to preserve their privacy about how they spend large sums of our money. Eventually, though, the legal system prevailed and MPs faced the prospect of greater transparency – and the potential embarrassment over their past behaviour. |
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