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Like "negligent" bad?
by sunchild 15y ago
Like "negligent" bad?
- jordan0day 15y agoIt might depend on your definition of negligent. Imagine building out a city, streets, alleyways, highways, etc. The imagine paying one guy to put up all the street signs, paint the lanes on the roads and highways, tow broken down cars, and handle street cleaning duties. When a wreck happens because a particular intersection was missing stop signs, would you consider that one guy negligent?
- Andrew_Quentin 15y agoYup. Him or her and his/her employer. That is according to the law. Negligence is merely falling below the standard of the reasonably competent sign poster/programmer/doctor/ etc.
- jordan0day 15y agoThat's my point -- a single reasonably competent sign poster couldn't be expected to handle the duties for an entire city. The responsibilities placed upon the sign poster in my example went way above and beyond anything reasonable. I'm not trying to defend the IT folks who do a terrible job of security for municipal/state governments, but in my experience there's a lot more work to be done than resources provided to do it.
- flyt 15y agoprobably "like every understaffed, underbudgeted IT department in the world" bad