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aesoteric writes
"A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."
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unixfan writes
"Georg Greve, developer of Open Document Format and active FOSS developer, has received a knighthood in Germany for his work. From the article: 'Some weeks ago I received news that the embassy in Berne had unsuccessfully been trying to contact me under FSFE's old office address in Zurich. This was a bit odd and unexpected. So you can probably understand my surprise to be told by the embassy upon contacting them that on 18 December 2009 I had been awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon (Verdienstkreuz am Bande) by the Federal Republic of Germany. As you might expect, my first reaction was one of disbelief. I was, in fact, rather shaken. You could also say shocked. Quick Wikipedia research revealed this to be part of the orders of knighthood, making this a Knight's Cross.'"
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Geminus writes:
TSA confiscated my toothpaste, inspected my shaving cream on two trips... but they let me carry onboard a police issue handcuff key and $200 lockpick set. WTF?
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Geminus writes:
Yahoo news reports that on Friday the 14th SCO finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. SCO CEO Daryl McBride blames Linux. Apparently, NOVELL's impending $25,000,000 award will finally sink this lead laden ship out of existence. Since we all saw it coming, anyone want their money back for buying a SCO license?
