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swatkaton India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

Are kids committing suicide while using Alibaba website?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/bengaluru...

https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/people/story/tiktok-star...

https://www.kernelmode.info/forum/viewtopic6f46.html?f=11&t=...

https://swapcontext.blogspot.com/2019/12/is-reactos-great-ag...

Looks similar to PatchGuard[0] in Windows. PatchGuard simply ended the whole rootkit mess, and rootkit vs anti-rootkit wars on Windows.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Patch_Protection

swatkaton John Carmack and Amazon's $30 1TB thumb drives

>> I should have bought a $45 1TB hard drive.

He should be careful about hard drives too. Reminds me of this: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/198-chinese-magical-hard-dri...

swatkaton Stuxnet

Stuxnet was discovered by Belarusian antivirus expert Sergey Ulasen, who was working for Belarusian antivirus company VirusBlokAda. Later, he moved to Kaspersky. This is how it was discovered:

"It all started when the technical support guys informed me about a rather unusual case: a customer in Iran reported arbitrary BSODs and computer reboots. They forwarded me the help-request together with info about their preliminary scanning reports."

Read the amazing interview here: https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/the-man-who-found-st...

swatkaton Chandrayaan-2 Moon landing live stream [video]

T-32 minutes to land.

Alternate live stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iqNTeZAq-c

Few more links:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=20324.840

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/09/isro-first-lunar-lan...

Mission page:

https://www.isro.gov.in/chandrayaan2-home-0

swatkaton Chandrayaan-2 Update: Lunar Orbit Insertion

>> Does anyone know what the teleportation glitch is right at Lunar capture?

Not sure! Author of this tool is here: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=20324.msg1...

He might visit HN if notices traffic from here :)

swatkaton Chandrayaan-2 Update: Lunar Orbit Insertion

Here's a nice orbit simulation for Chandrayaan-2 mission: https://sankara.net/chandrayaan2.html

swatkaton NEC shows ‘flying car’ hovering steadily for minute

Reminds me of vaporware Moller Skycar[0] and Gyrocopters[1] from yesteryear.

[0] https://moller.com/ [1] https://i.imgur.com/JisWKOR.jpg

swatkaton ISRO – Orbital Platform for in-orbit scientific experiments

ISRO plans to use 4th stage of PSLV launch vehicle as a platform for in-orbit science experiments. Announce of opportunity for submitting proposals: https://www.isro.gov.in/sites/default/files/orbital_platform...

swatkaton Ukrainian Billionaires Allegedly Laundered Money in the US

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-20/vancouver...

https://globalnews.ca/news/5259196/home-prices-in-metro-vanc...

https://business.financialpost.com/news/fp-street/dirty-cash...

swatkaton India Plans to Launch Moon Mission in July

Moonshine.. maybe.

swatkaton India Plans to Launch Moon Mission in July

How is this parent comment getting upvotes? Stop spreading false information. This mission was approved in 2008 by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2

swatkaton India Plans to Launch Moon Mission in July

Chandrayaan-2 homepage: https://www.isro.gov.in/chandrayaan2-home

swatkaton Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning

Check out Nasadiya sukta[0] in Rigveda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasadiya_Sukta

swatkaton Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning

Nasadiya sukta[0] in Rigveda ponders about creation of Universe and what existed before that. Last two paragraphs (6 and 7 in wiki) are the hard-hitting ones.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasadiya_Sukta

swatkaton Ultra-Time-Efficient Exercise Lowers Blood Pressure, Boosts Brain Function

Looks similar to Kapalabhati and Bhastrika pranayama breathing exercises.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapalabhati

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhastrika

swatkaton So Long, MSDN Blog

Microsoft completely messed up the awesome Sysinternals forums when it was migrated to Technet.

swatkaton An entrepreneur has built a one-metre-long stretch of motorway in Romania

https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/transnistria/

swatkaton American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island

The 27-year-old American, identified as John Allen Chau, came to India on a tourist visa but came to the Andaman and Nicobar islands in October with the express purpose of proselytizing, Dependra Pathak, Director General of Police of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, told CNN. "We refuse to call him a tourist. Yes, he came on a tourist visa but he came with a specific purpose to preach on a prohibited island," Pathak said. Chau did not inform the police of his intentions to travel to the island to attempt to convert its inhabitants.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21/asia/andaman-nicobar-us-missi...

swatkaton American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island

A techie might teach Rails to a homeless person if that person wants to learn Rails.

swatkaton American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island

>>>but this man died in a misguided and naive attempt to do good, not to exploit or harm anyone.

May be he wasn't doing anything good from islanders' perspective.

swatkaton American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island

What he did was illegal. Access to the island is restricted for a reason.

>>> But Mr. Chau pushed ahead in his kayak, which he had packed with a Bible. After that, it is a bit of a mystery what happened.

Also, can these evangelists take a break? It's not 1600s anymore.

swatkaton LTE Base Station Software

Source isn't available; software has been commercialized: https://www.amarisoft.com/products-lte-ue-ots-sdr-pcie/#netw...

swatkaton Old Concept Cars

SEAT concept cars from late 90s and early 2000s were impeccably designed. They don't look dated at all.

http://oldconceptcars.com/category/1930-2004/seat/

swatkaton India's first RISC-V based Chip is Here: Linux boots on Shakti processor

Project page: http://rise.cse.iitm.ac.in/shakti.html

swatkaton As the SpaceX steamroller surges, European rocket industry vows to resist

>>> “Are you buying a Mercedes because it is cheap?”

>>> Ranzo, sitting nearby, chimed in and referenced the India-based maker of the world’s least expensive car. As he put it, “We don’t sell a Tata.”

Not with that attitude ;) There's nothing wrong with cheap spaceflight, as long as they're human-rated for crewed missions. I hope they also know that Tata owns Jaguar Land Rover.

swatkaton India's ISRO conducts key crew escape test for human space mission

Another detailed article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/07/isro-pad-abort-test-...

swatkaton Archive of Operating Systems

http://cpcdososx.wixsite.com/craftyos

swatkaton Fukushima nuclear disaster: did the evacuation raise the death toll?

https://archive.is/20180311091756/https://www.ft.com/content...