News: 0000837538

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Security updates for Tuesday

([Security] Nov 17, 2020 16:00 UTC (Tue) (ris))


Dist.

ID

Release

Package

Date

Debian

[1]DLA-2452-2

LTS

libdatetime-timezone-perl

2020-11-17

Debian

[2]DSA-4792-1

stable

openldap

2020-11-17

Debian

[3]DLA-2447-2

LTS

pacemaker

2020-11-17

Debian

[4]DLA-2453-1

LTS

restic

2020-11-17

Fedora

[5]FEDORA-2020-dec3658f55

F32

libmediainfo

2020-11-17

Fedora

[6]FEDORA-2020-dec3658f55

F32

mediainfo

2020-11-17

Fedora

[7]FEDORA-2020-d42cb01973

F32

mingw-python3

2020-11-17

Fedora

[8]FEDORA-2020-68ef4b6bc5

F33

seamonkey

2020-11-17

Gentoo

[9]202011-19

libexif

2020-11-16

openSUSE

[10]openSUSE-SU-2020:1949-1

15.2

raptor

2020-11-17

Oracle

[11]ELSA-2020-5936

OL5

kernel

2020-11-16

Oracle

[12]ELSA-2020-5936

OL6

kernel

2020-11-16

Oracle

[13]ELSA-2020-5084

OL6

microcode_ctl

2020-11-17

Oracle

[14]ELSA-2020-5083

OL7

microcode_ctl

2020-11-17

Scientific Linux

[15]SLSA-2020:5104-1

SL6

firefox

2020-11-17

SUSE

[16]SUSE-SU-2020:3354-1

OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5

kernel-firmware

2020-11-17

SUSE

[17]SUSE-SU-2020:3353-1

OS9 SLE12

kernel-firmware

2020-11-17

SUSE

[18]SUSE-SU-2020:3349-1

SLE15

kernel-firmware

2020-11-16

SUSE

[19]SUSE-SU-2020:3343-1

OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5

postgresql, postgresql96, postgresql10 and postgresql12

2020-11-16

SUSE

[20]SUSE-SU-2020:3351-1

OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5

raptor

2020-11-17

SUSE

[21]SUSE-SU-2020:3352-1

SLE15

raptor

2020-11-17

SUSE

[22]SUSE-SU-2020:3350-1

SLE15

raptor

2020-11-17

Ubuntu

[23]USN-4634-1

16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10

openldap

2020-11-17

Ubuntu

[24]USN-4633-1

16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10

postgresql-10, postgresql-12, postgresql-9.5

2020-11-17



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/837512/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/837513/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/837514/

[4] https://lwn.net/Articles/837515/

[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/837516/

[6] https://lwn.net/Articles/837517/

[7] https://lwn.net/Articles/837518/

[8] https://lwn.net/Articles/837519/

[9] https://lwn.net/Articles/837520/

[10] https://lwn.net/Articles/837521/

[11] https://lwn.net/Articles/837522/

[12] https://lwn.net/Articles/837523/

[13] https://lwn.net/Articles/837525/

[14] https://lwn.net/Articles/837524/

[15] https://lwn.net/Articles/837526/

[16] https://lwn.net/Articles/837529/

[17] https://lwn.net/Articles/837528/

[18] https://lwn.net/Articles/837527/

[19] https://lwn.net/Articles/837530/

[20] https://lwn.net/Articles/837532/

[21] https://lwn.net/Articles/837533/

[22] https://lwn.net/Articles/837531/

[23] https://lwn.net/Articles/837534/

[24] https://lwn.net/Articles/837535/

But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a
brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and
lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the
phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where
it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented. But Edison's
greatest achievement came in 1879, when he invented the electric company.
Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit:
the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then
immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is
the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again.

This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of
electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few
customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact the
last year any new electricity was generated in the United States was 1937;
the electric companies have been merely re-selling it ever since, which is
why they have so much free time to apply for rate increases.
-- Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?"