Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

Luvs2spooge89 t1_jd3qo8w wrote

I remember they’d also sort of be hush-hush about their daily specials. Like I’d hear from a friend that they’d have 1/2 off pizza on Sunday’s. So my wife and I went on a Sunday. Didn’t see this mentioned anywhere on the menu, and the server didn’t mention it, so we had to ask if that was in fact a promotion in order to get the deal.

Then a few years later we went back on a Sunday (would make trips to state college for Trader Joe’s and to have the wife’s ring cleaned at Kranichs etc..) and they said they no longer did that because “they were losing too much money”.

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Zenith2017 t1_jd3kai5 wrote

I have respect for hackers who stick it to giant behemoth companies, who pursue an agenda of conscientious hacking and target shitheads and bad guys, and who do it for fun more than harm.

But people who hack a hospital? Straight to the boiler room of hell. What level of shit head do you really have to be? And I know these are just schmucks employed by a state actor but God damn have some spine to you

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ho_merjpimpson t1_jd3k1w6 wrote

i cant comment on that, but I do know that there are a million more reasons to not feed the wild deer than genetics.

In many areas its illegal. Particularly with CWD popping up.

Whats ironic is these old ladies probably vilify hunters. Meanwhile, in their ignorance, they are doing more damage to wildlife than a hunter ever could.

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Zenith2017 t1_jd3jo50 wrote

Nobody can be fully protected, but I think it might shock you to see the reality out here. I have Fortune 50 customers whose security programs are woeful. Seriously, that bad. Cringeworthy, nail biters. Hell, my mom worked for a top 3 insurance company for years and from day 1 she was an admin on her laptop, handling HIPAA compliant data locally. It is often that bad, and a lot of companies are hardly trying.

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susinpgh t1_jd3j79f wrote

Good for you. I was told that what I had thought was my birth certificate, wasn't. I had the same issue with my marriage certificate. I had to pay to have the originating counties send me the documents. It took me a total of 6 weeks. But hey, I did post that already, didn't I?

It is still a hurdle for some, it is still gatekeeping. I'm about 12 years older than you. It is more difficult for seniors to get this paperwork together, and for low income people, it can be an issue too.

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Zenith2017 t1_jd3j6xb wrote

Cyber guy here. I totally agree that protections and consequences need to be heavier, and I'd like to see that extend to organizations that get breached due to negligence and poor practices. The patients are the victims here 100%, but this medical org also has potential culpability based on what they did or didn't do to prevent and contain a breach

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Hazel1928 t1_jd3h69l wrote

Way back in the 1980s, a medical college where I was a student had “stacks” This is where all the previous editions of all the medical journals were stored. There was a way to search by topic, but it didn’t pull up the whole article, just the journal and date of publication. So for research papers, you had to go and dig through these stacks. It was all very tight, minimal space to move around. The stairs were narrow. A couple male med students were caught placing 2-3 chairs at the top of the stacks area, so that if someone opened the door to enter the stacks, these chairs would tumble down, possibly injuring someone on their way up the stairs. Noone was seriously injured. When these guys were caught, there was a lot of debate about the appropriate punishment. Finally it was decided that the guys would lose a year. So if this happened during the spring of their third year of med school, they were out for the rest of spring semester, all of fall semester, then they could join in the class a year behind them when the following spring semester began. During their time out of school, they had to do community service, including tutoring undergrads in biology. I thought that was a fair punishment. Severe enough that they really paid for their youthful indiscretion, but not as severe as expulsion.

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