Proto Build Bar, the unique hackerspace/bar announced that it will be closing on December 21. It was a great resource for the Dayton area and we will be sad to see it go. Proto not only offered the typical hackerspace services and classes, but also had a full service bar, a self-service and assisted 3D printing capability, and the world's largest claw machine.
I immediately embraced the 20 sources. I can't honestly pay attention to any more than that. This keeps me focused - I have to choose what feeds I'm going to watch. I looked at my google reader feed and honestly I had over 100 feeds in there but I really only ever read about 10 or so. I've found that for me, information overload causes productivity paralysis. So I like the limitation of 20.
The item titles lack padding so it all looks a bit clumsy.
The gray in the top bar is way too light compared to the source-bars. The source titles are stripped off so I can't see the full title of my source altho it's only 20 characters.
and when you click on an item the 'option' bar in the bottom right corner you get with aA, share options etc. looks cramped in the little tab as well.
"... The revelation of the loss only came two years ago. Dr O'Brien says there is no indication as to when exactly the tapes were lost, but he guesses that it was "way, way back". When Dr O'Brien learnt of the tape loss, he was contacted by Guy Holmes from data recovery company SpectrumData, who offered to try and get hold of the information. Mr Holmes has kept the tapes in a climate-controlled room since then, and it was only when he stumbled upon a 1960s IBM729 Mark 5 tape drive at the Australian Computer Museum Society that his company had the ability to unlock the information. ..."
A more detailed article here, "Fridge-sized tape recorder could crack lunar mysteries", ABC News, Nic MacBean ~ http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/10/2415393.htm There is a point made in the article by Dr. Harrison (Jack) Schmitt - last astronaut on the moon - that the "dust detector" data collected by Dr. O'Brian is the most significant environmental problem that has to be investigated. Finding the vision tapes while historically significant isn't as important as the data for future missions.
Absolutely. The article glosses over the other security features that are required to create a card number that would pass the extensive authorization process in the card networks. The information in the article is already in the public domain, so the 'exposure' doesn't increase fraud risk to anyone other than the companies offering 'free trials' for merely providing a number that passes a checksum test.
The amount of security in a particular system is typically proportional to the value of what is being secured. If the companies using a mere checksum test thought the process needed to be more secure they could do a real authorization against the number.
Rental period is similar to iTunes, but distribution model targets Redbox (kiosks will eventually be in other retail stores). I wonder how long it will take someone to break their DRM?
The most recent page(s) that I visited. I almost never shut down the browser, so it usually has a half dozen tabs with my commonly-visited sites already up.
It would probably violate the TOS, but it seems like it would be pretty simple to circumvent the location restriction.
Very few companies produce GPS chips. Most devices that include GPS capability do not bother to reinvent the wheel, but instead elect to integrate an existing GPS processing chip.
GPS chips usually output various location sentences over standard RS232 (or I2C) a rate of around 1 Hz. It is unlikely that AT&T went through the trouble to design their own GPS processor into the Femtocell ASIC--it's likely connected but separate.
So, if the GPS data line could be isolated, it would be well within the capability of a microcontroller to feed fake GPS NMEA sentences [1] to the Femtocell ASIC using that line. Maintaining an updated time field in the NMEA sentences might require a separate real-time clock chip, but the Femtocell may not even examine the time given by the GPS.
A PIC microcontroller could cost less than $5, not including the cost of a compiler and hardware programmer.
Program a microcontroller to output an artificial location, cut a trace, solder a few leads, and you could make a Femtocell think it is Topeka, even if it is connected to the Internet in Turin.
From what I can gather it is only during initial setup and it didn't bug me when I moved it afterwards.. but I have to imagine that if it's unplugged for some period of time (ie if you are traveling with it somewhere..) it will try to get another GPS lock before proceeding.
Another friend had to use an external GPS antenna to get it to lock appropriately, so I'm not surprised that you had to put it by the window. I would say this is common in multi-tenant buildings, especially concrete ones.
