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  1. Re:This isn't new -- or particular burdensome. on FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes As Equals (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand what you mean because I live there. But specifically for drone offenses, the punishments aren't that harsh.

  2. Low-cost power? on Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about that. We don't have renewable energy sources (no dams, wind turbines, or solar plants), we don't have fossil fuels (no crude oil, gas, or coal), and no nuclear power stations too.

  3. Re:Singapore on Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You meant "Good choice lah!" :-)

  4. It definitely happened because I had to do something about it.

    I'm not sure if it will work, but you could try setting your DNS server to a Singapore one, and then surf to thepiratebay.org. You'll get a basic HTML error page.

    Here are DNS servers from the top 3 Singapore ISPs: 203.211.152.66, 202.156.1.68, 165.21.83.88

  5. Re:How are they blocked? on Singapore ISPs Block 53 Pirate Sites Following MPAA Legal Action (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. But I prefer to add the blocked hostnames to my local host file, to bypass the web-surfing restrictions implemented by IMDA.

    By the way, porn sites like PornHub, can also be unblocked the same way. :)

  6. Yes, pirated CDs and DVDs were rampant in Sim Lim Square, back in the 90s. But they had been all wiped out. Now, we can find android boxes pirating TV content.

  7. Re:A Legit Use Of The Cell Phone on Singapore Airport May Use Facial Recognition Systems To Find Late Passengers (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    One problem - some travellers may not have cellular phone services that work in the foreign country. Some travellers buy travel SIM cards in the foreign country, and they only know their assigned numbers upon purchase, so they can't register their number with the airline. Also, the travel SIM card may be expired on the day or the day before the flight, so they are uncontactable via the travel SIM card.

  8. Lightning Bug is Firefly on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? · · Score: 1

    I have never heard of the term Lightning Bug, and I just found out it was just Firefly. Learned something new today.

  9. URL to download the FREE Upgrade installer on Microsoft Quietly Announces End of Last Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Here is the link to download the installer:

    Customers who use assistive technologies can upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade

  10. Re:NoScript on Pirate Bay is Mining Cryptocurrency Again, No Opt Out (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    ... I have yet to see anything that pirate bay has to offer that a carefully worded google search won't fine.

    That might have been an appropriate typo "error". :)

  11. Regret registering a Gmail acct with my Firstname! on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    I was very early and lucky to have registered my firstname@gmail.com. But I get an insane amount of spams, account activations, emails, chats, legal threats, anything you can name it! It was so bad that I stopped using it.

  12. Re:Capacity planning on Disastrous 'Pokemon Go' Event Leads To Mass Refunds (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    VERY few players GPS spoof to get monsters. It's extremely rare, because your account can absolutely be banned for any type of spoofing. Many, many, accounts have been permanently shut down just for this. I'm sure you can find a spoofer one ownedcore who hasn't had any problems, but they are the exception, not the rule- and being a spoofer at all is very rare in this game anyway.

    I'm not sure how you derive that. I certainly can't say for all, but over at the gated parks in my area, which closes at night, you get crazy amount of activities at the 4 gyms everyday after midnight. The same for shopping malls that are closed everyday after 10pm. In one particular mall with at least 3 gyms, every late night, the gyms are alive with activities, with different teams taking over each gym very quickly, and each filling them up by 6 unique players.

    You cannot get caught by GPS spoofing if you play like a legit player. You use a legit device, and you don't appear miles away in the matter of seconds. I have been spoofing since the game was launched, and along with my friends, we were never caught or banned.

  13. Re:Business VPNs on China Tells Carriers To Block Access to Personal VPNs By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We get many such scam calls from China, but all of them are in Mandarin. I'm just wondering they have upgraded themselves to speak to you in English.

  14. That may not be easy to do. How many people have the ability to write their own DroneOS?

    By using existing open-source firmware such as Ardupilot for open-source hardware such as PixHawk?

  15. Re:Why they are slow? on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 1

    Adblock Plus, really? You should check out uBlock Origin.

  16. How bout building a Hackintosh? Build your ideal PC, then install OS X.

  17. From his Facebook post on his Sudoku solver on Singapore's Prime Minister Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Code · · Score: 5, Interesting
    He posted this on his Facebook.

    For techies: the program does a backtrack search, choosing the next cell to guess which minimises the fanout.

    Here’s a question for those reading the source code: if x is an (binary) integer, what does (x & -x) compute?

    Hope you have fun playing with this. Please tell me if you find any bugs! – LHL

    ===========

    As several of you noted, (x & –x) returns the least significant ‘1’ bit of x, i.e. the highest power of two that divides x. This assumes two’s complement notation for negative numbers, as some of you also pointed out. e.g. if x=12 (binary 1100), then (x & -x) = 4 (binary 100). I didn’t invent this; it is an old programming trick.

    Nice!

  18. The FAA letter to Jayson Hanes on FAA Says Ad-Bearing YouTube Drone Videos Constitute "Commercial Use" · · Score: 2

    Read it here.

  19. Re:A bird carying a grenade? on Heathrow Plane In Near Miss With Drone · · Score: 1

    Just want to highlight that RC models such as multirotors do not use lithium ion batteries. They use lithium polymer batteries (LiPo / Li-Po). The two have different chemistries and that makes LiPos suitable for "drones" instead of Li-On.

  20. Re:It's a reference to an obscenity on Chinese Government Moves To Crack Down On Puns · · Score: 1

    You gave a detailed explanation of "ni" and "ma" but the most important word "cao" was briefly explained. Whoever's interested, check out the etymology of "cao". :)

  21. Human *FLESH* Search is correct! on China Bans "Human Flesh Searching" · · Score: 1

    No, "flesh" is NOT a racist typo! That is the direct translation of the actual Chinese phrase "ren rou sou suo".

    ren rou: human flesh
    sou suo: search

    The idea is simply to leverage on the wide viewership of Internet communities (i.e.g forums and BBSes) to search or identify the actual "human flesh" responsible for the atrocities depicted in viral videos.

  22. The title is correct! on China Bans "Human Flesh Searching" · · Score: 1

    No, that is NOT a racist typo! That is the direct translation of the actual Chinese phrase "ren rou sou suo".

    ren rou: human flesh
    sou suo: search

  23. the VIRUS... what?! on Synolocker 0-Day Ransomware Puts NAS Files At Risk · · Score: 0

    The Virus is currently exploiting an unknown vulnerability to spread.

    Are all the security geeks busy at Blackhat such that nobody realized this mistake?

  24. It was quite good but I had to upgrade on Linksys Resurrects WRT54G In a New Router · · Score: 1

    I was upgraded to TP-Link WR1043ND because I needed a wireless router that supports Gigabit Ethernet and has a USB port. The USB port lets me to extend the available storage space allowing the router to serves as a simple web server as well as a NAS.

  25. Skyjack only works for WiFi drones! on How To Hijack a Drone For $400 In Less Than an Hour · · Score: 4, Informative

    While pro-grade multicopters like those to be deployed by Amazon operate at 2.4GHz, they do not use WiFi as their radio system! Typically, these multicopters are fitted radio systems such as Futaba, JR, Spektrum or 9X, and therefore Skyjack will not be able to take them down.