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The span of technological growth that JCD chronicled is hard to match. His body of work is a singular thread to the early days of personal computing all the way through commercialization of the internet and up to artificial intelligence. One career covering such an arc is pretty incredible.

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.

Can't wait to buy one of these!

No word on their site, just a tweet from @pulsepad that indicates that they are back with a link to the App Store.

I'm glad it's back - I didn't get to grab it this morning and just got it.

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.

Correct. That is exactly the reason. The revenue protection is a happy coincidence.

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.