Not entirely accurate, the sysadmins are on the side of following HIPAA regulations and not being personally liable for million dollar lawsuits, fines, and criminal charges, while the lusers are on the side of venting their frustrations with people who they feel should be like a McDonalds clerk, subserviently taking and delivering their orders.
Mr. jddorian ignores (in the sense that he doesn't know about it) HIPAA and IT had not mentioned it at any time. Since IT didn't help and didn't explain why, he goes on to solve his problem. When he finally does it, he requests something that on his perspective seems trivial: access to his solution.
Mr. jddorian is a division head at a teaching hospital. If Mr. jddorian does not know about HIPAA then Mr. jddorian needs to be let go from his position immediately.
I see the problem. You read "IT" and think "MCSE Monkeys." Trust me, the head of IT for a teaching hospital is NOT an MCSE monkey, he is a highly trained professional who probably has more job experience in his field than the 'division head' does.
Highly trained professionals in careers that also require a lot of native intelligence tend to develop delusions of grandeur. Medical professionals are among the worst offenders. They tend to think they are smarter than everyone else at everything.
Oddly enough, I've found that developers are generally far less competent than IT in general, and consultants are the worst of all. Our developers (if you can call them that) treat a relational database engine as a flat file and do all data integrity checks manually. I work at New Mexico Child, Youth and Family Development Department, we have this batch process called the "orphan run." For the longest time, I thought it had something to do with actual human orphans. No. It collects and deletes orphaned records in the database.
I do see where you are coming from and I have seen my share of incompetence too. I sometimes forget how lucky I am to work with actual skilled professionals, and at a state agency no less!
In many situations, you are absolutely correct. A teaching hospital is not one of those situations. In depth knowledge of HIPAA and other regulations governing patient privacy requires a great deal of training, and failure to comply can result in massive liabilities and criminal charges.
The guy asking the original question IS management. Tenured management, in case you don't know what 'division head of a teaching hospital' means. So yeah, in case it wasn't clear, I blame management too, specifically, the guy who installed the server.
How do you know IT failed to provide anything? All this luser said is that "IT does not offer any iPhone compatible calendaring tool." Did you catch that? Not iPhone compatible, whatever THAT means. Did he even ask? Did he ask if they would provide such a thing? Did he go through proper channels, put in a request, get buy in from other department heads? No, he thought to himself, "this is simple, I can do this, why should I wait for IT?" He doesn't seem to understand that there are LAWS regarding these things. Not hospital regulations, FEDERAL LAWS. Hospital IT staff are paid to understand these federal laws, and ensure that the hospital complies with said laws. Division Heads of "a clinical division at an academic hospital (not Radiology, but similarly tech oriented)." absolutely need to understand and comply with HIPAA regulations, in fact, hospitals spend a great deal of money sending guys like that to classes so they can understand and comply with the law, and teach said compliance to their students.
Yes, I am shocked that he is surprised by a request to comply with federal law. He is a division head of a teaching hospital! If he does not understand HIPAA, what hope is there for his students?
Nothing in the article indicates IT not doing their job. Nowhere does Mr. PHB Division Head say he asked IT first. No, he has used Ubuntu once and therefore he is an expert on computers and networking and does not need the help of the obviously untrained buffoons in IT, I mean, do THEY have a PhD.? No! He says they don't offer any iPhone compatible tool, which probably means they DO offer a tool, just not one that integrates into his iPhone the way he'd like, and he is willing to go around IT's back and install an unauthorized server, violating HIPAA and risking multi-million dollar fines and lawsuits.
Oh my fucking GOD, read up on HIPAA, this is not some heavy handed IT decision, this is a fucking Federal Regulation with HUGE penalties for non-compliance, but then, why should I expect you to understand that? You aren't in IT, and it is not your job to understand those things.
Given that we have already been vetted by your company's HR, and by other IT staff at your place of employment, the default assumption should be that we know our craft. Would you take offense if I simply assumed that you are unqualified to do the job you were hired to do?
Actually, I will assume you are unqualified at your job, as you see fit to complain about your tools (computers) and we all know, it is a poor workman who blames his tools. I'm guessing YOU are the reason you have difficulty with your job, not your IT department.
Hospital IT departments rule with an iron fist because failures in hospital IT result in, AT BEST, multi-million dollar lawsuits, and, at worst, death, and possible criminal liability.
Who says we have a bad reputation? I'd say PHB tenured Division Heads of teaching hospitals have a worse reputation on Slashdot. Don't get me wrong, I've seen good IT and bad, but your experience probably says more about you than it does about IT as a profession.
And, just a friendly reminder, this is a technology site catering to IT professionals, you most likely won't get a lot of sympathy for your anti-IT bitch-fest here.
As I said below, this is turning into a cage match, Sysadmins VS. Lusers, Let's Get Ready to Rumble! It's nice that the non-professionals are self identifying, so we can safely ignore their advice in the future.
Hilarious. This story has polarized Slashdot into the "I actually work in IT in a systems administration capacity" camp and the "I tinker with computers as a hobby" camp. The tinkerers are actually taking offense that the "so called experts" won't immediately recognize their superior genius. The experts, for their part, seem used to this crap. Here's the deal, tinkerers: we will respect your mad skillz only after you have demonstrated them several times and jumped through all the proper hoops. Until then, you are just like any other Little User. No insult intended, but this is our job, and our butts on the line, not yours.
A good IT manager would get their users what they need so that they don't have to attempt to do it themselves.
It shouldn't be hard to get some shared calendar services running on an extra box somewhere...so I think we have already determined that this hospital does not have a "good IT manager"
No, we have determined nothing of the sort. For example, "The Division Head is an obstreperous ass" is an equally likely explanation. Note that he did not say that IT refused his request, just that they did not currently offer such a service. Likely scenario, PHB thinks he knows more than IT, sets up own server without asking them, then takes umbrage at a request for a login because he is the Division Head and a Certified Genius at All Things.
Yes, you are being an ass. He insulted a fucking WEBSITE, not YOU. You then turned around and insult the guy for pointing out legitimate problems with the site, making you, IMHO, an ass. Separate issue? Reread his post, he mentions the links issue. And what's to excuse? "Fuck you Slashdot" needs an excuse to YOU now, does it, Mr. Arbiter of Language and Morality on the Intertubez?
That explains a lot. Guess what, Head of the Division: just because you are smart, and well trained in YOUR field, does not make you a computer or network expert. As the head of a division at an academic hospital, you have a responsibility to not only follow HIPPA (or your country's equivalent) requirements yourself, but to set an example for the medical professionals training at your facility.
Do you simply not understand that plugging unauthorized and unaudited equipment into a hospital's network is not only a very bad idea, but against the law in most places? As the head of a division, you should understand that.
The fact that you were "taken aback" by a request to follow policy indicates that you most likely view this as a dick waving contest. It is not. Your dick will not shrink if you allow the computer professionals to audit your work and comply with hospital policy and the law. No one expects you to be a network expert, that is your hobby, not your profession.
In short, stop being a condescending ass and let the professionals do their job. If I knew an untrained "division head' was setting up unauthorized networking equipment, I would avoid that hospital like the plague, as I don't want hacked equipment broadcasting my medical history to the world, understand?
We won, you lost, despite your side outspending ours 4 to 1. And Prosser was a shoe in! He got 99.54% of the vote last time! You can keep on whining and spinning, I will let you keep doing that as it must provide you with some small comfort. In short, be prepared to lose your majority in the house next election, as well as most of the governor's seats you picked up. We won't let you traitors fuck up our country.
Me: +5 Insightful. You: -1 Redundant. So..... why do YOU think you were modded down, and I was modded up, hmmm, asshole?
Don't be pedantic about the meaning of the word natural. You know as well as I and everyone else here what the author meant. You look like a prick when you argue semantics.
If you read the article, you would understand that the appearance of seamlessness can be achieved through overlapping prime-number repetition of patterns, as demonstrated by the photos. The point being, these images are meant to be tiled. The idea is NOT to use a random process to generate a non-repeating texture to cover the entire background. The idea is to create a small texture that can be tiled to cover a background without appearing to repeat. Do you simply not understand why a random process will fail? No, don't answer that, it was rhetorical, I KNOW you don't get it, you SAID as much.
Using prime numbers, the assure that visible components of a pattern, like the knot, do not repeat. It is not trying to achieve "random." Again, you are arguing semantics without understanding meaning. You argue the meaning of individual words taken out of context. You clearly do not understand what the article is trying to demonstrate.
Now fuck off, I said you were dismissed, that means I am done with you. Buh bye. Good day, sir. Respond all you like, your comments will be ignored by me, and most likely modded down some more by readers who DO understand what the article was saying. So please, by all means, respond, get modded down, and lose karma, hopefully to the point where you post at -1 and people don't have to even notice your existence.
In short, Me: +5 insightful. You: -1 redundant. 'nuff said. But maybe you could tell yourself a nice make-believe story about why all the mean people like me and hate you. Then you could continue to believe you are intelligent, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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Not entirely accurate, the sysadmins are on the side of following HIPAA regulations and not being personally liable for million dollar lawsuits, fines, and criminal charges, while the lusers are on the side of venting their frustrations with people who they feel should be like a McDonalds clerk, subserviently taking and delivering their orders.
Mr. jddorian ignores (in the sense that he doesn't know about it) HIPAA and IT had not mentioned it at any time. Since IT didn't help and didn't explain why, he goes on to solve his problem. When he finally does it, he requests something that on his perspective seems trivial: access to his solution.
Mr. jddorian is a division head at a teaching hospital. If Mr. jddorian does not know about HIPAA then Mr. jddorian needs to be let go from his position immediately.
I see the problem. You read "IT" and think "MCSE Monkeys." Trust me, the head of IT for a teaching hospital is NOT an MCSE monkey, he is a highly trained professional who probably has more job experience in his field than the 'division head' does.
Highly trained professionals in careers that also require a lot of native intelligence tend to develop delusions of grandeur. Medical professionals are among the worst offenders. They tend to think they are smarter than everyone else at everything.
Oddly enough, I've found that developers are generally far less competent than IT in general, and consultants are the worst of all. Our developers (if you can call them that) treat a relational database engine as a flat file and do all data integrity checks manually. I work at New Mexico Child, Youth and Family Development Department, we have this batch process called the "orphan run." For the longest time, I thought it had something to do with actual human orphans. No. It collects and deletes orphaned records in the database.
I do see where you are coming from and I have seen my share of incompetence too. I sometimes forget how lucky I am to work with actual skilled professionals, and at a state agency no less!
In many situations, you are absolutely correct. A teaching hospital is not one of those situations. In depth knowledge of HIPAA and other regulations governing patient privacy requires a great deal of training, and failure to comply can result in massive liabilities and criminal charges.
The guy asking the original question IS management. Tenured management, in case you don't know what 'division head of a teaching hospital' means. So yeah, in case it wasn't clear, I blame management too, specifically, the guy who installed the server.
How do you know IT failed to provide anything? All this luser said is that "IT does not offer any iPhone compatible calendaring tool." Did you catch that? Not iPhone compatible, whatever THAT means. Did he even ask? Did he ask if they would provide such a thing? Did he go through proper channels, put in a request, get buy in from other department heads? No, he thought to himself, "this is simple, I can do this, why should I wait for IT?" He doesn't seem to understand that there are LAWS regarding these things. Not hospital regulations, FEDERAL LAWS. Hospital IT staff are paid to understand these federal laws, and ensure that the hospital complies with said laws. Division Heads of "a clinical division at an academic hospital (not Radiology, but similarly tech oriented)." absolutely need to understand and comply with HIPAA regulations, in fact, hospitals spend a great deal of money sending guys like that to classes so they can understand and comply with the law, and teach said compliance to their students.
Yes, I am shocked that he is surprised by a request to comply with federal law. He is a division head of a teaching hospital! If he does not understand HIPAA, what hope is there for his students?
Did the PHB Division Head state ANYWHERE in the article that he asked IT for the service first?
Nothing in the article indicates IT not doing their job. Nowhere does Mr. PHB Division Head say he asked IT first. No, he has used Ubuntu once and therefore he is an expert on computers and networking and does not need the help of the obviously untrained buffoons in IT, I mean, do THEY have a PhD.? No! He says they don't offer any iPhone compatible tool, which probably means they DO offer a tool, just not one that integrates into his iPhone the way he'd like, and he is willing to go around IT's back and install an unauthorized server, violating HIPAA and risking multi-million dollar fines and lawsuits.
Oh my fucking GOD, read up on HIPAA, this is not some heavy handed IT decision, this is a fucking Federal Regulation with HUGE penalties for non-compliance, but then, why should I expect you to understand that? You aren't in IT, and it is not your job to understand those things.
Given that we have already been vetted by your company's HR, and by other IT staff at your place of employment, the default assumption should be that we know our craft. Would you take offense if I simply assumed that you are unqualified to do the job you were hired to do?
Actually, I will assume you are unqualified at your job, as you see fit to complain about your tools (computers) and we all know, it is a poor workman who blames his tools. I'm guessing YOU are the reason you have difficulty with your job, not your IT department.
Hospital IT departments rule with an iron fist because failures in hospital IT result in, AT BEST, multi-million dollar lawsuits, and, at worst, death, and possible criminal liability.
Who says we have a bad reputation? I'd say PHB tenured Division Heads of teaching hospitals have a worse reputation on Slashdot. Don't get me wrong, I've seen good IT and bad, but your experience probably says more about you than it does about IT as a profession.
And, just a friendly reminder, this is a technology site catering to IT professionals, you most likely won't get a lot of sympathy for your anti-IT bitch-fest here.
As I said below, this is turning into a cage match, Sysadmins VS. Lusers, Let's Get Ready to Rumble! It's nice that the non-professionals are self identifying, so we can safely ignore their advice in the future.
Let me put it this way: I'm "taken aback" that he would be taken aback by a request to comply with hospital policy and federal law.
Doing our jobs and complying with Federal regulations does not make us dickwads, it makes us professionals.
Being the head of IT or an employee thereof doesn't make you a computer or network expert either.
Then your organization has a SERIOUS human resources problem that needs to be addressed pronto.
Hilarious. This story has polarized Slashdot into the "I actually work in IT in a systems administration capacity" camp and the "I tinker with computers as a hobby" camp. The tinkerers are actually taking offense that the "so called experts" won't immediately recognize their superior genius. The experts, for their part, seem used to this crap. Here's the deal, tinkerers: we will respect your mad skillz only after you have demonstrated them several times and jumped through all the proper hoops. Until then, you are just like any other Little User. No insult intended, but this is our job, and our butts on the line, not yours.
Touche.
A good IT manager would get their users what they need so that they don't have to attempt to do it themselves.
It shouldn't be hard to get some shared calendar services running on an extra box somewhere...so I think we have already determined that this hospital does not have a "good IT manager"
No, we have determined nothing of the sort. For example, "The Division Head is an obstreperous ass" is an equally likely explanation. Note that he did not say that IT refused his request, just that they did not currently offer such a service. Likely scenario, PHB thinks he knows more than IT, sets up own server without asking them, then takes umbrage at a request for a login because he is the Division Head and a Certified Genius at All Things.
Yes, you are being an ass. He insulted a fucking WEBSITE, not YOU. You then turned around and insult the guy for pointing out legitimate problems with the site, making you, IMHO, an ass. Separate issue? Reread his post, he mentions the links issue. And what's to excuse? "Fuck you Slashdot" needs an excuse to YOU now, does it, Mr. Arbiter of Language and Morality on the Intertubez?
That explains a lot. Guess what, Head of the Division: just because you are smart, and well trained in YOUR field, does not make you a computer or network expert. As the head of a division at an academic hospital, you have a responsibility to not only follow HIPPA (or your country's equivalent) requirements yourself, but to set an example for the medical professionals training at your facility.
Do you simply not understand that plugging unauthorized and unaudited equipment into a hospital's network is not only a very bad idea, but against the law in most places? As the head of a division, you should understand that.
The fact that you were "taken aback" by a request to follow policy indicates that you most likely view this as a dick waving contest. It is not. Your dick will not shrink if you allow the computer professionals to audit your work and comply with hospital policy and the law. No one expects you to be a network expert, that is your hobby, not your profession.
In short, stop being a condescending ass and let the professionals do their job. If I knew an untrained "division head' was setting up unauthorized networking equipment, I would avoid that hospital like the plague, as I don't want hacked equipment broadcasting my medical history to the world, understand?
We won, you lost, despite your side outspending ours 4 to 1. And Prosser was a shoe in! He got 99.54% of the vote last time! You can keep on whining and spinning, I will let you keep doing that as it must provide you with some small comfort. In short, be prepared to lose your majority in the house next election, as well as most of the governor's seats you picked up. We won't let you traitors fuck up our country.
Me: +5 Insightful.
You: -1 Redundant.
So..... why do YOU think you were modded down, and I was modded up, hmmm, asshole?
Don't be pedantic about the meaning of the word natural. You know as well as I and everyone else here what the author meant. You look like a prick when you argue semantics.
If you read the article, you would understand that the appearance of seamlessness can be achieved through overlapping prime-number repetition of patterns, as demonstrated by the photos. The point being, these images are meant to be tiled. The idea is NOT to use a random process to generate a non-repeating texture to cover the entire background. The idea is to create a small texture that can be tiled to cover a background without appearing to repeat. Do you simply not understand why a random process will fail? No, don't answer that, it was rhetorical, I KNOW you don't get it, you SAID as much.
Using prime numbers, the assure that visible components of a pattern, like the knot, do not repeat. It is not trying to achieve "random." Again, you are arguing semantics without understanding meaning. You argue the meaning of individual words taken out of context. You clearly do not understand what the article is trying to demonstrate.
Now fuck off, I said you were dismissed, that means I am done with you. Buh bye. Good day, sir. Respond all you like, your comments will be ignored by me, and most likely modded down some more by readers who DO understand what the article was saying. So please, by all means, respond, get modded down, and lose karma, hopefully to the point where you post at -1 and people don't have to even notice your existence.
In short,
Me: +5 insightful.
You: -1 redundant.
'nuff said. But maybe you could tell yourself a nice make-believe story about why all the mean people like me and hate you. Then you could continue to believe you are intelligent, despite all the evidence to the contrary.