Maybe it’s a false memory or my age but I remember there was a Chrome Box in this list of coloured boxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the purpose of that box was to hack the sensors that gave priority to emergency vehicles. Am I making this up or was this a thing?

The news for nerds angle of course is that they are taking away our current limiting devices: https://pravdasocial.net/@bor/...

How are we supposed to safely test old electronics without an incandescent bulb in series to act as a current limiting device?

GPS denial can be done in several ways: 1) Jamming - GPS signals are very weak to begin with and can be jammed by various techniques 2) Restricting the civilian codes (there are separate transmissions for military use but the US can deny/degrade access to the civilian ones)

But you do it for the miles... https://youtu.be/zCnkxpFJXVI

The old ReCaptcha was more fun with the Long-S https://blog.ambor.com/2013/07...

Looking forward to not needing to look for the "Long S" character on my keyboard anymore http://blog.ambor.com/2013/07/an-unexpected-risk-of-using-re-captcha.html - I'm always worried that my employer is filtering on words like goatfucker when I mean to write goat(Long-S)ucker.

And here is another solution http://blog.ambor.com/2009/02/remote-control-by-sms-with-gsm-phone.html which gives a bit more granularity in your control.

I run 5 small sites on a single Fit-PC (http://www.fit-pc.com/) running Tunrkey Linux (http://www.turnkeylinux.org/). Instead of a HD, I've installed a CF card using a CF to IDE adapter, so the setup is completely solid state. The server has no fan, is not much bigger than a deck of cards and has been quietly working away at 3W for the past year.

This will be very useful for functional fonts such as Harvey Balls or Dice - up until now they needed to be drawn. By embedding a font you can start to use the fonts in online applications such as games or dashboards, etc.

Here are a couple of proof-of-concepts... (obviously you need a compliant browser to view this)

http://www.ambor.com/hb/webdice.html

http://www.ambor.com/hb/webharveyballs.html

My old 2006 vintage Mac Mini still seems to be the fastest in the land. I did the infamous Merom Upgrade to it almost 3 years ago and it's still alive and kicking. The Geekbench on my machine comes out to 3060.. you can see the full details here: http://www.ambor.com/public/meromswap/meromswap.html

After having successfully rescued some 1929-era shellac 78rpm records, I tried to migrate some late 1990s era CD-Rs to a hard drive and most of them had already deteriorated enough to corrupt data. There are tools to overcome some of this, but don't count on any media lasting in an "archive" - you must have plan in place to regularly migrate the data to newer media. You can read more about it here: http://blog.ambor.com/2009/01/rescuing-corrupted-files-from-old-media.html

The reason that the 12C / 12C Platinum is allowed on exams (e.g. CFP and CFA Certification Exams, and the GARP FRM Exam) is precisely because they are deemed "not hackable" by the people running the exams.

I guess professors today are a bit more savvy, but when the HP28 first came out and I asked my history professor if I could "bring a calculator" he couldn't see why not :)