Quest for the Whistler Button
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Quest for the Whistler Button
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#2As someone who has never seen Sneakers, I would have loved a clip of the button press that spawned this journey. What did it sound like?
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#3As someone who has never seen Sneakers, I would have loved a clip of the button press that spawned this journey. What did it sound like?
Do yourself a favour and go watch that movie. There is a huge Hollywood sized grain of salt needed any time you deal with: Hacking, Computers, Internet, etc.. but this movie is EXCELLENT at showing 'Red Team' activities, social engineering, physical bypasses, and true historical hacking (debugging an IC to see what it does).
There is great comedy, action, and intrigue in this film and should be in the top 3 of any nerd movie list.
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#4Where I did my phd, we had nmr spectrometers that had to be shimmed using a console with these exact switches. I loved interacting with that console..: It was at the same futuristic and absurdly old fashioned. Futuretro.
Edit: oh sweet lord they're listed on ebay. Imagine gutting this things' innards and turning it into a usb input device...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bruker-BSMS-Boss-Keyboard-Z012706-1...
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#5Ha! The buttons in the movie were braille-labelled and had a red led when active. Why the LED? It reminds me of the braille on drive-thru ATMs.
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#6Ha! The buttons in the movie were braille-labelled and had a red led when active . Why the LED? It reminds me of the braille on drive-thru ATMs.
Devices can have multiple users. A blind passenger in the rear seat can use a drive-through ATM.
Re: Quest for the Whistler Button
#7As someone who has never seen Sneakers, I would have loved a clip of the button press that spawned this journey. What did it sound like?
Re: Quest for the Whistler Button
#8Ha! The buttons in the movie were braille-labelled and had a red led when active . Why the LED? It reminds me of the braille on drive-thru ATMs.
People with "disabilities" often have to buy off the shelf equipment made for the mass population, and then adapt it for their needs since most products aren't designed with them in mind.
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#9Where I did my phd, we had nmr spectrometers that had to be shimmed using a console with these exact switches. I loved interacting with that console..: It was at the same futuristic and absurdly old fashioned. Futuretro. Edit: oh sweet lord they're listed on ebay. Imagine gutting this things' innards and turning it into a usb input device... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bruker-BSMS-Boss-Keyboard-Z012706-1...
.. or bury a rpi-zero in it, and turn the thing into a battle station ..
Re: Quest for the Whistler Button
#10Ha! The buttons in the movie were braille-labelled and had a red led when active . Why the LED? It reminds me of the braille on drive-thru ATMs.
People with "disabilities" often have to buy off the shelf equipment made for the mass population, and then adapt it for their needs since most products aren't designed with them in mind.
But ... braille buttons!