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Re:Phobos May Have Come from Massive Impact on Mars on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @05:30PM (#18125878)
It would make sense that Phobos, like Earth's moon, was the result of an impacting object versus a captured asteroid. I would think that captured objects, such as D-class asteroids would eventually have an orbit degrade over the course of a few millennia.
I will wait, happy to read it!
I am very interested in reading as well. Is it handwritten?
Re:One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:17PM (#17375146)
Which 5 plants are you referring to?
Re:GDPR compliance as a service on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:12PM (#16997357)
Fines are up to $10 million or 2%, but it can go up to $20 million or 4% of annual global revenue, whichever is higher. That percent, whichever is higher is the key. Facebook's 2017 revenue was ~40.7 Billion. Four percent of that amount isis ~1.6 billion
Re:GDPR compliance as a service on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:02PM (#16991397)
If an EU citizen believes that their personally identifiable information was obtained without their consent, the EU GDPR allows firms to do an audit on the company. The citizen who filed the complaint would enlist help from a no-win-no-fee legal firm, meaning, if they don't win (with infractions being $10 million minimum), the citizen, who is now a client of the firm, would not be out any money. If they do win, most likely the firm would make a windfall after carving out their share of the proceeds.
Re:GDPR compliance as a service on Thursday May 03, 2018 @08:51PM (#16991346)
I can't tell if this is a fake service or not, but blocking users from EU IP address ranges (which I'm assuming how it works) will still not stop the EU from following a trail of data that could originate from your organization.

That's the biggest thing from the EU's GDPR rules - what is your organization's data inventory, how does it map outside of your organization, and how are you securing PII?

If a complaint is made from someone who is an EU citizen, and another organization shows logs that they got this information from your web app or service, that will trigger an audit from the EU. Blocking access to a subset of IP ranges will do absolutely nothing to stop this, and will not stop the sharks once they have smelled blood.

In a sense, the EU has plain rules that you can protect against, unlike the FTC/FDA (for HIPPA etc) who are vague and will not disclose how you can protect your own organization.

After doing a cursory image search on Google for "VHS Tape" leads to a high res image that is in the public domain on Wikipedia [1]. Why the designer didn't use that stock image to begin with doesn't make any sense to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VHS-Video-Tape-Top-Flat.j...

Can you elaborate on this? Are you saying replace therapists with a software product?
Great concept. I've never understood why there weren't pre-configured SaaS-based Rails templates out there. Thank you for your contribution to the community!
Re:Summary: $200B Broadband Scandal (2005) on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @10:34AM (#14804516)
The page mentioned that Verizon cut deployments in 13 states, and the deployments that were made were not doing equitably. What recourse is there for companies that made this commitment and still exist today? Could Verizon still be on the hook for providing these services, and if so, how can it be enforced?
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2017) on Monday July 03, 2017 @01:45PM (#14690079)
I'm not looking for a freelancer, however I wanted to comment that I appreciate you posting your rate and availability. This transparency allows potential employers to know what they're signing on for. Good luck with your project as well!
This is a great point. While reading this, I thought it was Miari 2.0, but was pleasantly surprised to read that the creator(s) works as a benevolent vigilante. If (one of) the botnet creator(s) decides to become malicious, it will have a large network at it's disposal.
Re:Ask HN: Good email host? on Saturday October 29, 2016 @10:21PM (#12827773)
They still have an office in Pleasanton, CA.
Re:Improving WordPress Password Security on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @05:21PM (#11206598)
Even still, default login attempts are set at 20. I've had a lot of recent bruteforce attacks, and set that delimiter to 5. On top of that, I try changing the wp-login location with 'rename wp-login'[1], and set it to something like http://www.site.com/hello . Doesn't stop everyone, but helps cut down attempts.

[1]https://wordpress.org/plugins/rename-wp-login/

Re:Sit/Stand Desk: IKEA Skarsta Review on Thursday January 28, 2016 @03:38PM (#10991106)
Uncaught Exception for me. Here's a mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:w-GWDIB...
Re:Ask HN: Are you programming on your holidays? on Monday December 28, 2015 @06:25PM (#10804099)
Definitely - only time I get to work on my personal projects in between the daily grind.
Re:What the hack? on Friday December 04, 2015 @01:03PM (#10677899)
If you run into a paywall like I did, click

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

Re:Ask HN: Starting a web project in 2015. What stack to use? on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @04:07PM (#10088095)
If you're comfortable or want to learn a new stack, there are plenty to choose from.

If you want to quickly build a web project, hire some engineers, charge for your service - why not build it in RoR? This will save you time troubleshooting and learning the ropes of a new web development framework.

Also, you could always hire remote workers if it is difficult to hire locally. See: https://weworkremotely.com/

Re:Sleeping Through a Revolution on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:12PM (#9971613)
While the article makes good points, I was wondering when I would see the smear campaign from the MPAA towards Google and the Silicon Valley:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150724/15501631756/smoki...