CVE-2025-27840. Severity 6.8 seems high for something that requires local privileged access, though.

I don't know if you were intentionally recalling Bill Watterson's comments on this, but as published in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes: The voluntary ending of successful comic strips is something new. More typically, a strip ceases production only when it's such an anachronistic, formulaic, and irrelevant shadow of itself that readers abandon it. Aiming for the widest possible audience, comics have traditionally relied on broad characters, stock situations, and fairly predictable gags and stories. Once established, these strips can run on autopilot for decades, often with nameless assistants doing much of the work. But the most interesting strips have always been those with a genuine sensibilityâ"a quirky, individual take on lifeâ"and this is something that cannot be duplicated or endlessly recycled.

Well, I haven't heard of most of those, but yeah, Greenpeace is at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to environmental organizations.

If you've ever wondered why an organization like Greenpeace is so against nuclear power, this is why. They get big bucks from the oil companies.

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You should probably see a doctor about that cough. You're coughing up HTML.

So what you're saying is... These fires were set by some pyro to check for spies?

I have a Motorola box from Comcast, and yeah, it does the same thing sometimes.

There IS a light on the LCD panel that lights up when you push a button. It stays lit until whatever that press did is processed. (Of course, if it does buffer the presses, the light doesn't light up.)

I've found that rebooting the box (i.e. unplugging, plugging back in) fixes it immediately. But you have to wait for it, and you lose the guide information.

You're confusing the Senate with Congress. Remember, Congress the both the House and Senate combined.

Democrats currently have the majority in the Senate. Since the Republicans have the majority in the House, this bill is highly unlikely to pass there.

There should be laws created to impose massive fines for sites storing plaintext passwords.

Be careful what you wish for--if that does happen, you should probably expect a whole lot of ROT13 implementations...

Cool. Glad to see they fixed it in short order. I am anxiously awaiting the time when these fixes are put in place. I'll set my clock for... 7 years. That should be enough.

US reaches plea deal in classified leaks case, Associated Press (as carried by Yahoo! News). From that story:

Thomas Drake will plead guilty to exceeding authorized use of a computer, a misdemeanor, and the government will drop 10 felony counts that could have sent him to prison for the rest of his life, according to court documents. In return, prosecutors say they won't oppose a sentence that spares the 54-year-old Maryland man a prison term.

In summation:

• Exceeding authorized use of a computer: guilty.
• All other charges: dropped.
• Jail time: unlikely.

I'd find a .gov source for you, but I don't know where to look.

You have to consider your demographic, though. The former you might see from your average Slashdot user, but for most people, the response might be "I need a new computer", because I doubt most people have the operating system and the physical machine separate in their minds.

Of course, I note you said "euros", so I assume you're in Europe. The general attitude may be different from here in the US.

But seriously, the poll is about work life

Hahaha whoops. >_>
Yeah, I see the word "work" now. Not sure how I missed that.
But yeah, I guess NaN would be a more accurate response. :P

0%.
I'm unemployed, you insensitive clod.

Have they found some type of middle ground of the IT landscape that makes them immune to bubbles and fluctuations in the market?

Well, they're certainly immune to bubbles and fluctuations in the consumer market--IBM mostly sells to corporations now. Microsoft is doing its darndest to target the "hip" consumer crowd (think Zune, Kin).