Yes poorly programmed software still does exist unfortunately. 

However I would be truly shocked if your 'apps team' was actually correct in stating 'there is no other way'.   I have presided over the structuring and/or management of many small and mid-sized entities in my time and have never come up against a situation that couldn't be solved by drilling deeper into privileges, user account rights and environments, changing problematic software service privileges/rights and/or modifying/forcing registry component changes via policies etc.  Sometimes the amount of effort/work required to come up with the 'work-around' is just not deemed worth it to IT or to their management.

One of my peers always used to say:  "upfront time is meaningless........it's all about how much time is or isn't required to maintain it later" whenever we had to plan for a new project.  It took him a while to convince upper management of that, but he was absolutely correct and I live by that mantra even today.

Oh, believe me, I know.  I know exactly which registry access they "need" and quite frankly I think it's Bull.

Probably was just Wikileaks going commercial....

Seems the Chinese government have embraced cyber warfare. Well, when Taiwans computersystems goes down we know who to blame 

About user priviligies. I was a computertechnician student and the townships computernetwork had a goddamn filter so we couldn't get to gamesites (and other sites). The filter was only active for all the computers belonging to the township so with your own computer at home you could do whatever you wanted.

The townships filter could be easily circumvented by proxyservers though.

Also, the boss of the computertechnicians wanted to be local Admin on his workcomputer but he finally let go of that after a long persuasion campaign from one of his trusted coworkers. Shows that people want power, which is natural.

I would also like to point out a very important detail that I should have brought in from the start..

DrJBHL.. IS an upstanding and ethical man.

HE gets it, and in NO MANNER at all should be lumped in with the cesspool of pond scums that I mentioned earlier.

If you've been hurt by this post Seth, take heed.. you are outside the scope of these rants!!

Please, Lord, if you are listening at all, please make it that one of these fucking hackers stole MY files and can figure out what the fuck is the proper course of treatment to end my fucking pain and depression and I will eat Chinese Take-Out and support the preservation of Giant Pandas for the rest of my life.

We're cool, Duane. Always. I can understand why those two groups you mentioned were bad...comes from a G-d Complex. I actually met a Cardiac Surgeon who wore a button with that written on it. He didn't understand why I spoke Hebrew to him...until I explained it was Kaddish (the prayer for the dead), and why he should have understood it...for both reasons.

As for you Po'...with your luck, don't be surprised if Shiatsu and a Shih Tzu puppy are involved.

lol, aw.. although your sense of humor is certainly quite healthy, i empathize with you Po.  i wish you well

My 'sense of humor' is not much these days and when I see someone like Robin Williams with a REAL sense of humor decide that HE's too lonely and that HE hurts too much, it scares the crap out of me. Sometimes the only thing that gets me through the day is telling myself that someone else is worse off than I am, in more pain, feeling more alone or isolated and then someone who you think has everything throws in the towel.....it's all so confusing and not very hopeful.

But thank you for the empathy and the well wishes. Sometimes they are all I have to get through a moment or a day, so I'll take em when they come.

well you made me laugh.

something i keep in mind as i spend thousands of dollars trying to fix my body is that organisms do heal naturally of their own volition.  the universe tends towards symmetry, balance, and harmony; and it takes a strong impediment to hinder this process.  just around the corner from every winter is a spring.  if i receive a cut, it will heal, with no outside influence whatsoever.  it may take a while; but our bodies have a good idea of what healthy is, and they struggle towards it constantly.  trusting in this phenomenon helps me immensely as i suffer through it.

cardinaldirection: Give a read to the Third Law of Thermodynamics.

While the body strives to homeostasis, it ultimately fails. Time and age are not friends of the human body. Nothing but wine and cheese get better with time...and them? Only to a certain point, after which vinegar and a moldy, fermented mess.

Our spirits (non-alcoholic) may strive for wholeness and harmony, but the Universe is remarkably uncooperative.

i am quite familiar with entropy, and having studied physics and the world around me for decades i couldnt disagree with you more.  however this is not the place for that discussion.

regarding homeostasis, aging and death are hardly enemies, any more than sleep is.  they are character building exercises ; natural cusps on the cycle of life: contractions and transferences of energy.  homeostasis IS a quite apparent phenomenon of life.  organisms constantly yearn for harmony; death is merely one method of reuniting with the whole.  it is not the universe and its ways that are uncooperative, but us with them.

the death of cheese is the birth of mold - the symbiosis between life and death: cusps on a very balanced and harmonious cycle.

out of curiosity, does this community have a voip server?

I think I get it.........Chinese hackers breaking into hospital records (death of privacy/security) gives birth to identity theft/fraud etc.    It's all just a harmonious cycle......hehe  

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I think I get it.........Chinese hackers breaking into hospital records (death of privacy/security) gives birth to identity theft/fraud etc.    It's all just a harmonious cycle......hehe  

There ya go... 

Pond scum comment from the cesspool.

EHR's are garbage and mostly unusable in any meaningful sense, save for a few time-saving components (e.g., electronic prescription writing).  They exist primarily to mine data for third parties, particularly the government, not to help doctors better care for patients or make the delivery of healthcare more efficient.  The tighter the security, the more cumbersome and unusable the system.  However, so many people of unknown integrity have access to them, well outside the circle of people immediately responsible for care, as to make technical security safeguards meaningless.  Protected Health Information, as a concept, is a joke.  You can't get a thing done in the healthcare system without giving access to everything to everybody.  The ability to share the important narrative information with people who need to know it in a timely fashion has been completely hamstrung by EHR's.  They generate stream-of-consciousness documents with multiply redundant and mostly useless minutiae so dense as to make ferreting out clinically useful information orders of magnitude more difficult.  A 10-page report of an ER visit for a laceration serves only to waste electronic storage and bandwidth.  And makes my brain hurt.  Patients ultimately suffer when the stuff that matters to their well-being gets buried in a blizzard of useless bullshit.  They haven't been able to separate the stuff that should just be metadata from the substantive stuff (Do I really need to have a listing of hourly vital signs for the duration of a 4 day hospital stay in the discharge 'summary'?).  The means have become the ends, totally divorced from reality.

Other than that, I love EHR's.