Most users who need to be admins are software engineers who are the least likely to update the OS. They need admin rights to install and sometimes run dev tool esoterica, the kind of tools that are the first to break in a new OS.

This neglects high liability areas like embedded medical or vehicles or military, where tools must be re-qualified on each new major OS release.

Sounds like a computer terminal, invented in the 1950s.

Both are running scare -- little political downside to approving it, massive political downside if an attack happens and it isn't wasn't passed.

Makes no matter if it would have helped or not, those looking to knock out incumbents will scream the incumbent should have done more.

We may predict this will happen now when, not if, the next attack occurs.

So another computer guy is getting fat on chips?

When I was a kid, 250k was considered a "millionaire". These were the Dr. Evil "One...million...dollars" / Six Million Dollar Man days.

My how things have changed. I need to move to a place with rent control, apparently.

I wonder if it can affect stress. There is some evidence gut bacteria feed stress-inducing whatever back up to the brain via this nerve, and that stress promotes abdominal (inside it) belly fat deposition, as opposed to more distributed body fat deposition, which in turn releases chemicals which cause insulin resistance, which is the main cause of Type II diabetes.

And article authors and site editors follow that religiously.

I was at +50 back when they showed karma, then got body slammed to -20. Never did find out why. I just dug back out of it.

Thanks. Also, it is rational to do a run-around of dictators and their laws.

Next up on Slashdot: Cool new system detects people hiding from police in attics!

I am bothered by technical capabilities being copyrighted instead of patented, and thus never expiring. Apple's Macintosh "look and feel", anyone? Most of that isn't a particular style of horizontal line thru a window bar at the top, something that might be a legitimate copyrightable thing.

I understand what you are saying, but the public are not the rightful owners, either. After the patent or copyright expires, nobody is, and hence anyone is free to use it.

This is a philosophical difference, and I refuse to participate in some The Glory Of The People rhetoric. You don't get to own something simply by pure numbers.

Looks like taxing the shit out of yourselves is the way to go!

No, I am Poor-ticus!

Whitebox testing would point to exercising an ellipsis if treated specially. But good old blackbox billions of random strings should stumble across an ellipsis surrounded by non-Latin script characters, and fairly quickly.

For complicated c9mbos, perhaps. But random string generators should relatively quickly stumble across an elipsis in the middle of Latin or Arabic characters.

I wouldn't a priori suspect a string display routine to have a problem, but the guy who wrote it to do some gymnastics switching character sets should, and should have run such a test in a debugger ready to trap bad memory accesses.