Posts by Dante Alighieri

Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

Dictionary

Only place you will find sympathy.

Between Shit and Syphilis.

Your choice which is which.

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Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor

Re: he should have been able to sort that himself but was flustered.

I work in radiology. The pride some of my colleagues have in their technical incompetence with computers is breathtaking - not in a good way.

Radiology room colours

There is guidance on this. And specifications for lighting levels. Not that any hospital I work at has ever followed any of these.

Yes it is my day job.

And even wearing white clothes is stupid.

Failure to fulfil the imaging chain to the end point is potentially legally actionable - did you report this in a controlled environment meeting the international standards. One day a lawyer will learn this.

Greater Manchester says its NHS analytics stack is years ahead of Palantir wares

Re: Follow the brown envelopes or funny handshakes

GP practices have been private businesses since 1948 (start of the NHS) - nothing new.

Other privatisation is more problematic - like public health and occupational health.

DOI - in the business in secondary care.

Tech suppliers asked to support single electronic health record across England

EPR

I use Cerner daily. The amount of duplication and noise in a mostly unstructured record is appalling. And having been on the selection process and part of implementation (I'm clinical) they never bring any known solutions from other implementations in NHS.

I agree with others that this needs a open standards format up front and a proper data exchange schema. Decentralised with central pointers? Vendor neutral stores

Scotland did well in the early 2000s - tested several options for EPR/RIS/PACS/others and listed a couple of each type that were interoperable. Each site could have a local preference of a known integrate-able systems.

Solved problem for radiology - look up IHE and the connectathons.

People find amazing ways to break computers. Cats are even more creative

ahem

Win+L saves you from HECATE

FTFY

‘Infuriated’, ‘disappointed' ... Ex-VMware customers explain why they migrated to Nutanix

Re: Can we start IT revolution 100% devoid of USA in 10 years?

Technically what you want are open standards solutions with vendor neutral data stores. Front ends to a defined back end.

Radiology managed it with DICOM and IHE here

As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses

Bullshit on your final stat.

citation needed - xkcd passim

DOI did those exams.

Re: Less than perfect

I can assure you that is not true. Been there. Qualified.

Interesting views re MCQs - sometimes you have to test base knowledge. Other parts examine reasoning and interpretation.

I google daily to review/confirm/learn - without the core knowledge AND problem solving i would be a much poorer doctor (Attending MD to the left pondians).

I know where to look, how to balance data sources and critically review.

And I still stand by : I can teach a bright 18yo to do any part of my job. You just need a shitton to cover it all - and together they can't do what I do - I can switch taska and jump specialities and synthesise.

AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that

Re: Would you trust Clippypilot to diagnose your ailments?

USPO has verified this.

Saturn runs rings around Jupiter

Re: Should we Pluto some of them.

preceded by water balloons which is also apposite.

User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse

Re: Confused Mouse

Obligatory 1807

BOFH: HR's AI hiring tool is perfectly unbiased – as long as you're us

Re: HR's AI hiring tool

on vellum

Cybercrims now licking stamps and sending extortion demands in snail mail

Just posting back on behalf of [mail service] to the occupier mail is a start.

And all the rest of the junk mail - straight back into providers system - if enough do this the cost exceeds the marginal gain.

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

Fleeting Badges

Whilst your suggestion has merit, some badges come and go - like my bronze.

I also agree that there are times it is necessary if you are posting close to the employment knuckle. I've done that too.

Perhaps a % would work, with some absolute thresholds. It should be possible to register (no pun intended) and make a few topic relevant posts on a single/couple of threads. Beyond that, some accrual of kudos may be necessary - number of posts, up votes, down votes

[edit for spelling]

What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This...

Re: Not a free speech case

It is worth also including he (scientist) won

Re: First Amendment

your evidence that anyone is actually in the US is what?

Or do you mean Cloudflare (intermediary)

UK blogger, UK complainant.

litigated where you can get the best justice money can buy.

Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack

subset = all

No longer an issue = nothing left to lose

others have posted re ransom.

Has anyone mentioned "sophisticated" yet, I have a bingo card to complete.

SpaceX will try satellite deployment on next Starship test

Re: Important

It states no state can claim sovereignty.

Nothing about businesses or individuals. Bit of an oversight. icon---->

UNOOSA summary

25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then

Re: And for other reasons

Start of 1901 - end of 2000 = 0-99 or 1-100 either way it is 100 completed years.

Next period is 2001-3000.

If you prefer 1901-2001 = 100 (new century - old one)

HTH

NetAdmin learns that wooden chocks, unlike swipe cards, open doors when networks can't

MRI

New magnets - really do need access control.

Shown the kit by the lead and how it was all keypad access to the main doors etc.

So I asked what the two mains isolator switches above the door were for.

Don't know...

I demonstrated that they provided power to the door locks. Left door, right door. I was asked not to share. not 'til now.

Still there when I left a few years later. Whether they were still connected that way??

NHS major 'cyber incident' forces hospitals to use pen and paper

Re: It shouldn't make too much difference.

Fax has gone. Thankfully.

We are (nearly) paperless - revert to paper is a disaster.

Medical Royal Colleges are clear that internet access is a prerequisite to be able to work in some (most, and definitely my) speciality safely.

The days of departmental libraries of up to date references are long gone.

I research scientific papers daily in my day to day job in a district general hospital - to the benefit of the patients and referrers to diagnostics.

Re: Not the first

Scotland had a pragmatic plan in the 1990s.

They tested a bunch of systems and their interoperability. They then said these are your choices for Lab/diagnostics/EPR/pacs etc with 2or 3 preferred providers in each class.

Buy these systems - big support/discount. Roll your own, good luck.

Strangely lots came into line while providing the choice for best local fit.

I was there at the time.

Re: while scheduled procedures are canceled

As a Radiologist who would be in this situation, I can assure you this is untenable.

There is the problem of producing a written report and then having a mechanism to retrospectively enter it on hospital systems.

Worse still is some installations have a single screen/instance for the scanner so you are either scanning, or reporting. both in parallel may not be achievable.

At my NHS trust, we have 6 scanners across 3 sites and it is not possible to report at the rate scans are acquired during the day time and impossible "out of hours" with 1 radiologist available.

I am assuming that remote reporting is not possible - as where would the e-reports land?

The only mitigation is massively reducing scans to only those that are life-and-death.

The rules are changing despite management expectations.

http://thecodelesscode.com/case/154 seems apposite

Another 'major cyber incident' at a UK hospital, outpatients asked to stay away

Re: Who 'Owns' IT?

The "About us" does not list a Director or IT. Nor does it make clear which of the Execs is responsible. Many summaries skirt around the edges of systems.

In my local NHS trust there is a board level director of IT, who is not the director of finance, nor estates.

Andrew Tate's site ransacked, subscriber data stolen

Society of followers

L Ron.

Naval Captain. With crew.... (young and XX)

Sci Fi of dubious quality. Battlefield Earth.

Quoted as saying to make real money start a religion.

Original Scientologist.

Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks

Re: PITT

Yes, I did.

Pentagon has little to show for two decades of GPS modernization work

Re: I can see part of the problem ;)

Hmmm. GPS satellite gives you a time. the rest is in the client unit. Precision and encryption on top perhaps (decoders). The rest is all calculated on the ground in your device.

So you paid a ransom demand … and now the decryptor doesn't work

Re: Increase Profits at any Cost...

Sounds like biding your time and becoming a radiologist was an option. Just sayin'

--> best icon available.

DOI : FRCR

SpaceX set to surpass Gemini 11's altitude record with Polaris Dawn mission

Re: Bad choice of comparison

Indeed. Until you MAX it out.

City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle

Re: An unrequested comma surplus eats, shoots, and leaves.

Quoth the Raven "Nevermore"

If a cheesy '80s flick is a good metaphor for how you run projects, something is wrong

Origins...

Although the Sean Connery character is Egyptian, working for the King of Spain, having previously visited Japan (sword origin story).

Nuns. No sense of humour. (see handle)

Former Fujitsu engineer apologizes for role in Post Office IT scandal

Re: Distinguished engineer got trapped into doing things :o

NO.

An expert witness has a duty to the court and no other entity.

They are required to provide unbiased evidenced to the court, regardless of their employer

And I have done this for a coroner

Voyager 1 makes stellar comeback to science operations

Voyager Ping

On the info in the article I calculate that as a 0.162 Ms ping. So yes...

BOFH: An 'AI PC' for an Acutely Ignorant user

Re: Virtual coloured penclis?

I've always used non-permanaent over permanent - it also works.

Forget feet and inches, latest UK units of measurement are thinking bigger

Re: Incommensurate units

Although a helical Darrieus might be better

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrieus_wind_turbine linky

Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council's estimates in SAP rip-'n-replace

Penalty clauses?

Quote 2(K/M/B)

when it is >2X quote - full refund and all additional costs at the companies expense - including any competitor that needs to remediate.

Doesn't cover scope change (cf catbert)

Not understanding the problem is too common as posted above x lots.

Councils never setting action thresholds (ok different from initial point above if needed - direction of travel not a destination) is stupid.

I do NHS and we are shit at changing process.

Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again'

Re: Is this their final 'footgun' moment?

I do

Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors

Vicky Pollard

yeah but, no but..

meta data

content isn't that important. for proper policing.

right pondians can look up title and first line.

Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation

Re: Photo ID in UK

Obligatory

Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear

Re: Job well done

boiling off into a vacuum?

ESA Article suggested you need to move it somewhere else to then disappear into space

And the ESA article said if we did the initial thing it would be up to -3 in places for the craft, which would be no good - so they did something different.

Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB

Re: "Journey of Improvement"

NMC is a QUANGO.

It is NOT a union.

The quango is funded by the registrants rather than the controlling organisation...

Tech support done bad sure makes it hard to do tech support good

Re: Its always DNS except when its configured with an IP address :)

One shelf down is actually more profitable

Systemd 255 is here with improved UKI support

Re: QR Codes are not the answer to anything

Strict liability

Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970

Re: Time...

Where I work, the parts of diagnostics on the vlan (10*) have no access to the hospital LAN or NTP or elsewhere. Running 5 minutes or more adrift (flagged x lots to IT) meant I managed to time travel such that I issued a report on an image that had yet to be taken. According to the time stamps.

Love the NHS.

And our CT scanners will only do NTP with Japan.

I run my own NTP across the few computers at home. It just makes sense.

Re: Priorities

Take the call - can't work as there are no lights - can you sort it?

I'll phone back when they are on....

Give them (at least one) job.

And I have done the "longer since you interrupted me" to some martinet.

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

Re: Makes you proud

Codeless code nails it

http://thecodelesscode.com/case/116

Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'

I object to this on the idea that GP is a lesser role.

They are Consultants in Primary Care - which is an incredibly hard job to do well.

I frequently remind people I work with of this.

Qudos to your daughter.

Remind her to sign up to DNUK

Re: The UK can no longer afford nor staff a viable health service.

NHS England is a government body

GMC is a government QUANGO - it s not a professional body - it is a regulator controlled by the government

AoMRC is run by those awaiting an honour (CBE/Knighthood etc)

RCoA is an independent body and nothing to do with the NHS. It deals with anaesthetists who work IN the NHS.

It fucked up

Almost as badly as the COVID excel shit.

Not my College (RCR)

And I am geek/nerd enough to do a decent job with excel.

And currently managing better SQL searches on local productivity than the flailing efforts of medical management.

Inclusive Naming Initiative limps towards release of dangerous digital dictionary

Disambiguation

But as they had to be physically removed from early ring magnet memory cores, there is precedent for "de-bugging"