[LINK] "We need an Information Engineering Safety Board" (IESB)

[Roger Clarke]

Continuing the 'it must be Friday already' theme ...

In order for old people to convey that they're still relevant, they have 
to invoke modern-sounding things;  and people of a certain age think 
Google is still hip.  Oh dear, that choice of word did rather give it 
away, didn't it.

Declaration:  I think Paul's about my age, Nick's a little younger, 
Christine maybe a little younger again.

However, cutting to the chase, there *is* an argument in there.  Some of 
us are bemused about how QA disappeared from the ICT vernacular, and was 
replaced by QAD.  (Some people glorify it as RAD, but those of us in the 
know refer to it to be Quick And Dirty).

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On 21/12/23 17:26, Scott Howard wrote:
>>
>>
>> By:  Paul Bailes,  Christine Cornish,  Dr Nick Tate  December 21 2023
>>
>> [...]– a Google search for “computer information communication system
>> failure” yields 1,530,000,000 results
> 
> 
> No, it doesn't.  If you include the quotes as shown there it returns
> exactly 1 result -  this very article.
> 
> Yes, if you leave off the quotes you get more hits - about 900 million for
> me, less than the 1.5 billion stated.  That's slightly less than if you
> search for (without quotes) "computer information green car", but around 3
> times as many as if you search for "computer information green dog". It's
> also roughly the same number as if you search for "the world will end
> tomorrow", so I guess if the number of Google results from any particular
> search is relevant to absolutely anything, then we're all in trouble
> tomorrow - including our computerized green dogs!
> 
> Perhaps training in how Google search results work could be an early goal
> of this new safety board?
> 
>    Scott
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