Long gone. The toy industry has been consolidated into just a few giant players. Lego, Mattel and Hasbro are the largest.

I can't think of a single case where I use both a website and mobile app, and the mobile app isn't hamstrung, limited and just basically more unpleasant to use than the web site. Yelp, Facebook and Meetup.com are the ones I use most often. In every case the experience is better on the desktop. The meetup app recently got a major revamp that made it much less functional than the web site, and especially annoying.

Or selling a car named Nova in Spain.

I am not a security expert and can't tell you whether Veracrypt is 100% secure, but I've been using it and I'm reasonably convinced that at least nobody short of a 'state actor' is likely to get at my data, and they're not the people I'm securing data from. It's the petty thieves who might steal my backup drives, or somebody who finds a USB stick I accidentally drop on the ground, that I'm protecting myself from.

I've been to the support forums for Veracrypt and my impression is the developer is trying hard to be transparent and responsive and make the product as secure as possible.

I realize it's a pain, but print something once a week whether you need it or not. I print some coupons from a local discount store. One sheet a week will keep things working. And I only have black ink in my printer (miraculously it complains that the cartridges need alignment but it prints anyway).

I basically grew up in the time just after TOS aired (I was only 3 in 1967 so I wasn't watching then, and I barely remember the series being on first run TV at all). However, I do remember a number of TV pilots that Roddenberry created after Star Trek, that unfortunately were never picked up by the networks as regular series. I'm talking about made-for-TV-movies like Genesis II, Strange New World and Planet Earth (which were all attempts to boot up a series set in the same post apocalyptic future), as well as The Questor Tapes, and Spectre (a really weird supernatural series I didn't know about until recently). It's interesting to look at those shows now and see the familiar face of Majel Barrett in nearly all of them. She also had a small role in the movie Westworld, one of my favorite SF films of the 70s.

This has already been posted to reddit, ripped to shreds, and pulled down. Hardly newsworthy.

for giving large amounts of data (like photo albums) to friends, especially since I have a spindle of DVD-Rs bought years ago that rarely get touched. Also as a backup to my backup (which is encrypted hard drives I can take offsite).

And, the reliability of optical is still pretty damn good in my experience. I just had reason to pull data from a CD-R burned in 2003. One file out of several hundred failed to read, which I ascribe to bad handling (this was a music collection for my kids to play on vacation), more than degraded media. For any data I really want to keep forever, I would replace my DVD backups every few years with fresh burns from primary storage. I have looked into upgrading to BD-R but the cost is too great (for drives and media). I suspect my optical use cases will eventually switch to flash, but that hasn't happened yet.

I assume the computer name is Theseus.

It tells their doctor to reconsider the diagnosis and order new tests if need be. It's not as if every single illness on earth gets resolved in two years or less.

nope, small crystal baubles. I saw Michael Garibaldi using these to watch Looney Tunes in his quarters on Babylon 5.

One word: voicemail. Any call that matters (including 'Hey this is the school, your kid is seriously injured') will leave a message. Telemarketers usually won't. There's no good reason to pick up any unknown call.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was launched in 2009 and as far as I can tell it is still orbiting the moon. Its science mission may be finished though. In any case, keeping satellites in permanent orbit near the moon isn't simple, because of gravitational anomalies of the moon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Are you aware that the three Russian robotic sample missions returned just a few hundred -grams- of lunar soil, while the Apollo manned flights returned hundreds of -kilograms-? The later lunar astronauts were also able to study geology before their flights and actually make intelligent decisions about -what- samples to return. Hardly the same level of achievement or the same scientific value. It would be really sad if all we had were the 326 grams of lunar soil returned by the Luna missions.

... by it's 'Space ___' theme. Here we go:

• Space Hippies
• Space Nazis
• Space Romans
• Space Gangsters
• Space Liberace