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A German email provider has closed the account of a hacker behind the new ransomware outbreak, meaning victims can't get decryption keys. Poor guy, maybe he could switch to Yahoo mail or something?
Sorry, humour-challenged today, expect delays/poor comments
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As the name implies, the program encourages companies to set aside time at the end of the week for their employees to work on open source projects. No, posting your company's source code to Usenet doesn't count
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While I think that's a great idea, especially for companies (don't ask and I won't tell) that are using 20 year old technologies and the devs are lifers because their knowledge of the latest flash-bang tech and practices is non-existent, making them completely unmarketable, thus the idea gives them the opportunity to explore new ideas, I seriously doubt the majority of companies will want to "pay back" all the open source code that they use on their own dime.
Marc
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"and by open source, we mean GitHub."
Snark aside, I'd rather work at a company where the employees are trying to maximize its value, so I can get raises and other benefits.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: raises and other benefits
Yeah, that'd be nice. We can always dream.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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NASA scientist Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen took to Twitter in an attempt to set the record straight on the rumor that the government was about to announce the discovery of alien life. "They" must have got to them
Or "gotten" to them if you'd prefer that word 
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The built-in exploit mitigations are getting stronger and easier to configure. I'm sure the AV vendors will be delighted
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Company X announced that it would counter Microsoft's initiative by increasing the number of pop-up Nag screens in its product and would use more CAPITALIZATION! to stress their importance.
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I like the idea of Application Guard that will run Edge in a VM-like container. We should be able to that with any application.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Dynamic Import expressions, improved inference for generics, and of course, even more! Well timed for the Dart release date
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By analysing data from the London riots in 2011, researchers at Cardiff University showed that computer systems could automatically scan through Twitter and identify potentially dangerous occurrences, such as windows being broken and cars being set on fire, long before they were reported to the Metropolitan Police Service. "I'm placing you under arrest for the future murder of Sarah Marks and Donald Dubin that was to take place today, April 22 at 0800 hours and four minutes."
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The crux of the problem is that the Twitter Twits Tweet before notifying the emergency services. The weakness in the system is the armies of the inane roaming the streets.
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Threats found on Twitter are not "crime", they are social experiments. Who takes Twitter, Facebook or any other social network seriously? I wonder how much desperate law enforcers are, to actually believe in such nonsense.
Personally, I would emphasize the importance of "real world" tackling, because crimes happen in real world, our cyber teams are already working on social experiments. No need to sit and relax thinking Twitter can help, it can never.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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All they showed is that you can write Confirmation Bias software.
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We believe that a critical part of the answer to this question is to make strong mode – a sound static type system for Dart – the standard for all Dart developers. They're still working on that language?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They're still working on that language?
They keep missing the bullseye. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They're still working on that language?
I believe its an important part of their Fuschia O/S plans, so we may yet have to come to terms with it (if Fuschia is not just a skunkworks project - hard to tell so far).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It's a biometric ring that can be used to open house doors, start cars, make credit card transactions and sign in to your computer. Uhm. "One ring"? No thanks. I saw those movies.
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I liked this comment: Quote: Token = Tolkien. I rest my case.
Seems of like mind to yours.
Personally think a bracelet would be better and safer, but combined with a thumb/fingerprint or a retina scan...
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Cute, but I don't wear jewelry.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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The results are in. The Java Community Process executive committee (EC) has voted a second time on the Java Platform Module System, known as JSR 376, and it has been approved. They finally found the last piece of the jigsaw?
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Like earlier ransomware worm, PetyaWrap attacks use potent exploit stolen from the NSA. Incoming!!!
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Quote: ... uses the same potent National Security Agency exploit that allowed WCry to ...
What, you mean the exploit that was patched back in March?
The one where Microsoft even went the extra mile, and released patches for ancient unsupported versions of Windows?
Six weeks after the last massive ransomware attack that exploited that patched vulnerability, you'd think people might have got around to installing the patch that would have prevented this attack! 
Now we wait for the usual suspects to explain how Microsoft is "evil", and why Windows Update must be disabled on every computer they own. 
Troy Hunt: Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update, just don't[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Google hit with record EU fine over Shopping service - BBC News[^]
Quote: The commission said it was leaving it to Google to determine what alterations should be made to its Shopping service rather than specifying a remedy.
Leaving the door open for further extortion at a later date. 
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Preface: I'm definitely no expert on EU anti-trust laws or ad laws in general so correct me if I'm wrong.
So Google's success means it can't promote its own products? I would understand the anti-trust argument if Google had purposefully forced competitors out of the market but that isn't the argument here. If I search "Shopping" Google doesn't give me an entire page of nothing but its own shopping app. It's mentioned once.
Should Amazon be sued because they don't also sell their competitors products? In fact they don't even list them. When I think "online shopping" I think Amazon just like when I think "search engine" I think Google. Becoming the best at something because your competitors suck shouldn't be punished. I'm pretty sure anti-trust laws were only designed to prevent under-handed practices used to forcibly push competitors out of the market in order to gain a monopoly. That isn't the case here.
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