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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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I agree with you. The difference here, as I think the EU sees it, is that Google is also promoting itself as an ad service for third parties, some of whom are direct competitors to Google. So when Google gives higher priority and visibility to its own services and products than to those of paying customers (i.e. those competitors), that can be seen as being anti-competitive (not that I agree since said competitors probably knew this would be the case).
It's sort of like running a toll road and also having your own taxis but giving a free pass and faster service to your own taxis and transport vehicles. Of course, everyone will want to take your taxis rather than those of your competitors.
#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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I can see the next story now:
"The EU fined Google 5 billion for not promoting its own shopping service in search results, saying that Google was irresponsible in its fiduciary responsibilities as a corporation."
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As more vendors come to market with low-code platforms, it can be tempting to dismiss these as “dumbed down” or amateur app development. It can also mean fixup work for the pros as well
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Interesting: the author is an "evangelist" for FileMaker ... what ? I thought the last running version of FileMaker was on display in the software fossil section of the Smithsonian. Okay, that's too harsh; I just haven't orbited the Cult of Mac in too many years to have a clue.Quote: Maybe your customer only needs an app for a year, or maybe just a few months.
Reading this, the phrase "scratch-and-sniff" came to me mind, although it does resonate (feebly) with one of the golden rules of software development: "make sure your code creates continuous compensation over time ... for you, the programmer."
More seriously, the article doesn't discuss one single real-world example of what it calls "low-code/no code." I'm sure there are some.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Unless I'm missing something aren't these "low-code/no-code" platforms just 4GL platforms? Why bother renaming them when they've been around since the 80s.
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Because everyone "knows" 4GL failed, so you need to give it a new label to sell? 
TTFN - Kent
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I know 5GL tripped on a doorstep, crashed into a table, had a lamp fall on its head, and got summarily executed, but I was actually unaware that 4GL suffered the same fate. I occasionally see 4GL-ish projects pop up here and there and figured it had found its niche. A couple months ago I even saw a posting here in the states for a developer familiar with 4GL languages to build some app.
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SQL is a pretty successful 4GL language I'd say.
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Yeah, and I'd say Excel+VBA/VB.NET/VSTO/C#-interop was/is, too.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Very true. Giving it more thought I suppose 4GL did find its niche in "data languages" like query and report languages.
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Other examples would be Stata, Simulink and Wolfram.
I believe niche or specialized is the word here. I don't think 4GL will ever have a breakthrough among generic use.
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Only because 4GL was redefined. Originally, 4GL was "programming just like Legos!" (AI is also constantly doing the redefinition thing.)
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I've never heard SQL described as a 4GL.
The Wikipedia article provides (as usual) a good overview of different things considered 4GL.
Fourth-generation programming language - Wikipedia[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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And SQL is in the list of examples if you follow your own link.
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Fair enough, my bad.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The latest release from the division’s AI experiments series is a new web app that lets you collaborate with a neural network to draw doodles of everyday objects. It still looks like a poorly drawn circle and a non-straight line
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A Pennsylvania judge has sentenced Adam Flanagan, 42, of Bala Cynwyd, PA to one year and one day in prison for hacking and damaging the IT networks of several water utility providers across the US East Coast. Is it just me, or does there seem to be a lot of this going around?
Yeah, I know. It was done in 2014, but there seem to be a lot of news about these kind of hacks recently.
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Maybe they are trying to infer fear in possible hackers after the big leak of Windows sources
Just as: Ok... We maybe have no idea, but if you do anything you will pay for it anyways.
Was it in the states that if you leave your door unlocked, then a stranger is not "doing" trespass? Why is in other way with software? If vendors leave the doors opened, is not the same?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Researchers have built an electrocaloric refrigerator the size of a beverage coaster that can generate a temperature difference of about 2 K between the hot and cold ends of the device. Because 'electrocaloric' is my new favourite word
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We need stuff like this. 
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Cool. Literally.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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