chkiss's recent activity

  1. Comment on After releasing full database of LGBTQ dating website, Black Shadow hackers leak medical records of 290,000 Israeli patients in ~tech

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    It's very low. I know it's not a direct comparison, but in the US, HIPAA violations cost something like $50 per record up to $1.5m for a violation of a single provision and there's a good number...

    It's very low. I know it's not a direct comparison, but in the US, HIPAA violations cost something like $50 per record up to $1.5m for a violation of a single provision and there's a good number of multi-million-dollar fines. I wonder if a judge would be willing to lower a fine/settlement for a company for agreeing to pay a ransom; obviously that wouldn't be ideal because it would encourage companies to pay ransoms, something the government has been fighting hard to discourage.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~news

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    This is a political document using religion to claim legitimacy, not a religious document.

    This is a political document using religion to claim legitimacy, not a religious document.

  3. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~news

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    I'm not familiar with any part of Islam that says "they" need 100% control, can you point me in the right direction? I know the Mecca/Medina region is supposed to be reserved for Muslims. Never...

    I'm not familiar with any part of Islam that says "they" need 100% control, can you point me in the right direction? I know the Mecca/Medina region is supposed to be reserved for Muslims. Never heard someone extend that to Jerusalem, which Muslims ruled for centuries with major Jewish and Christian presences (which wouldn't be allowed in Mecca).

    4 votes

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  5. Comment on Need a laptop for school, budget $2000, details inside in ~tech

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    I love the X1 Carbon series. Lightweight ✅️ Long battery life ✅️ caveat, I'm on Linux Good build quality ✅️ basically indestructible, fantastic keyboard and trackpad, touchscreen if you want it...

    I love the X1 Carbon series.
    Lightweight ✅️
    Long battery life ✅️ caveat, I'm on Linux
    Good build quality ✅️ basically indestructible, fantastic keyboard and trackpad, touchscreen if you want it

    Searching here may help you evaluate pros and cons that matter to you: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Aleksei Navalny protests: Live updates as mass rallies sweep across Russia in ~news

  7. Comment on Aleksei Navalny protests: Live updates as mass rallies sweep across Russia in ~news

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    That's -60 Fahrenheit. Scared me for a minute.

    That's -60 Fahrenheit. Scared me for a minute.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on What’s something you have an unusually strong fondness for? in ~talk

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    What do you do with all of it?

    What do you do with all of it?

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Reddit now suspends accounts for upvoting content that violates its policies in ~tech

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    Well I'm sad to see the discussion mostly confined to an alt-right subreddit but I guess I'll have to follow it there! I get that it's a three-month-old policy so no hard feelings about the...

    Well I'm sad to see the discussion mostly confined to an alt-right subreddit but I guess I'll have to follow it there! I get that it's a three-month-old policy so no hard feelings about the removal here.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Reddit now suspends accounts for upvoting content that violates its policies in ~tech

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    Fair enough. It's news to me and was on my HN front page, although I would have rather heard the discussion from Tildes users than that of HN users.

    Fair enough. It's news to me and was on my HN front page, although I would have rather heard the discussion from Tildes users than that of HN users.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on "Weird Al" Yankovic - Foil (2014) in ~music

  12. Comment on YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks in ~tech

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    I agree on flexibility too! Nothing about establishing transparent procedures with accountability means "remove all videos that have nipples in them." People are the solution to this problem, no...

    I agree on flexibility too! Nothing about establishing transparent procedures with accountability means "remove all videos that have nipples in them." People are the solution to this problem, no matter how much computers will be able to aid them.Those people can even make mistakes by missing videos or accidentally pulling down good ones. But without transparency, we're worse off with the censorship than without it.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks in ~tech

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    I agree. I also think that content hosts should have to establish clear structures of authority, transparent processes, and have accountability at the individual level. Simply announcing a policy...

    I agree. I also think that content hosts should have to establish clear structures of authority, transparent processes, and have accountability at the individual level.

    Simply announcing a policy related to one topic (COVID-19) and pulling down videos after the BBC flags them does not inspire confidence that this power is established in a thoughtful way that cannot be easily abused.

    9 votes

  15. Comment on Prompted by Brexit, Google will move UK users' data out of Irish jurisdiction so they are no longer covered by EU privacy rules in ~tech

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    GDPR is implemented state-by-state. If the UK laws continue to follow the GDPR guidelines, Google will still have to comply with those. For that reason, I'm not a big fan of the title change you...

    GDPR is implemented state-by-state. If the UK laws continue to follow the GDPR guidelines, Google will still have to comply with those. For that reason, I'm not a big fan of the title change you made here, @Deimos.

    See this article: https://www.cnet.com/news/uk-google-users-to-lose-eu-data-protection-due-to-brexit-gdpr/

    3 votes

  16. Comment on US FCC forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not in ~tech

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    Freakonomics podcast recently made an episode centered around an interview with Ajit Pai. I found it insightful in terms of presenting the FCC's argument for the rule change.

    Freakonomics podcast recently made an episode centered around an interview with Ajit Pai. I found it insightful in terms of presenting the FCC's argument for the rule change.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    That's actually the exact reason they developed the bracelet.

    That's actually the exact reason they developed the bracelet.

    In 2018, two designers created Project Alias, an appendage that can be placed over a smart speaker to deafen it. But Ms. Zheng argues that a jammer should be portable to protect people as they move through different environments, given that you don’t always know where a microphone is lurking.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Brandless shuts down operations, becoming SoftBank Vision Fund's first failure in ~finance

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    Is a $4.2+ bn writedown not enough to consider WeWork a failure? Just because they didn't completely shut down? The article later specifies "first to shutter its business operations entirely" so I...

    Is a $4.2+ bn writedown not enough to consider WeWork a failure? Just because they didn't completely shut down? The article later specifies "first to shutter its business operations entirely" so I would just call this a poor title.

    Brandless board — which includes the CEO Price, Brandless co-founder Ido Leffler, SoftBank's Jeff Housenbold, Redpoint's Jeff Brody and NEA's Colin Bryant — decided it was better to shutter the company's business operations while it still had time to give employees severance packages, according to a spokesperson.

    Good for them.

    2 votes