On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 02:18:07PM -0500, Harald Koch wrote: > On 6 December 2017 at 13:51, Stephen Satchell <l...@satchell.net> wrote: > > > What professional engineers you mentioned do can kill people. I have yet > > to hear of anyone dying from a sysadmin or netadmin screwing up. > > > > Oh c'mon. Now you're being deliberately obtuse. > > I work IT for a hospital. Everything I do has the potential to affect > patient safety, and we do have documented cases of patients dying from IT > mishaps. > > Perhaps do your research before spouting off more of these unsubstantiated > claims?
Like the famous case of the Therac-25 machine. Programmers, not sysadmins, but same idea.