This kind of exploit, a local privilege escalation exploit, used to be very significant, but is significant in a declining number of cases, as old-style Unix multiuser systems are a smaller and smaller proportion of systems. In all likelihood anyone with a user account on a North Korean computer is pretty heavily monitored, and ensuring nobody violates policy can be enforced by "other means" than Unix permissions.

That isn't the case in other countries with free college education (i.e. most of Europe).

In this case it appears to actually be a firm hired by the porn company in question. The complaint was sent by Takedown Piracy LLC, which is one of those fly-by-night operations that sends out mass incompetently drafted DMCA requests on behalf of clients (it's important not to do any competent lawyering, because that would reduce the profit margin). In this case they were hired by a company called Adam & Eve (NSFW, obviously) and sent the letters on that company's behalf.

In theory submitting a false DMCA request is illegal. And there are theoretically plausible civil suits as well, if someone submits a false or reckless DMCA request that damages your business. But has anyone in history actually suffered any repercussions from submitting false DMCA requests? It seems people submit false ones all the time, and not only borderline mistakes but things ranging from reckless disregard for the truth to outright maliciously false requests (e.g. for SEO purposes). Yet I have never heard of anyone being prosecuted or sued for it.

You could call it that, sure, but in practice many people studying the possibility of life on other planets refer to their specialty as "astrobiology". For example, the University of Washington has an astrobiology program.

Some are less sci-fi than others though. An astrobiologist studying the possibility of life on Mars at least has some pretty concrete work they can do: there is new data coming in, there are experiments that can be performed with probes to confirm or rule out some theories, etc. An astrobiologist studying the possibility of star-eating lifeforms in deep space has... less concrete work to do.

Yeah, the FCC has a bit of a garbage-in, garbage-out problem with the whole complaint system. The proportion of knowledgeable complaints about things like signal interference or fraudulent business practices is pretty low. Lots more people use the FCC complaint system to file a complaint about curse words or a flash of a breast on network TV.

Slashdot uses a more insidious form of "soft-blocking" where rather than being outright blocked, certain users are redirected to beta.slashdot.org.

That's Google's play, with the Chromebooks...

It looks like a judgment was actually entered for $80m, so saying that you got an $80m judgment is accurate. Now whether you can collect on that judgment is another story. It's possible that they should have informed shareholders of the low likelihood of the judgment being paid, via an SEC filing.

Especially considering that the NKVD was disbanded in 1946...

Yes, it's visible from most of the earth, with the only exception being really far north, north of the Arctic Circle. In the northern hemisphere it's considered part of the Winter Hexagon.

But then how would you run it in a browser?

It's not required, no. At least not anymore, not sure if it used to be. The self-contained installer is sufficient to develop with.

His skills in filming exciting race scenes will allow this incarnation of Star Trek to really do justice to the pod-racing scenes.