Your ISP can still spoof the DNS responses. That's what hotels do.

But assuming they don't, no reason not to just run your own cacheing DNS resolver on your local network. It's very easy to do and might even be faster than third parties like GOOG, OpenDNS or Nominum. Certainly faster for people who determine your location via DNS resolver address.

(That Hiroku article is bizarre. Tip: "root domain" means something different. You can put a CNAME on any name. And why would one sort require hard coding your IP address???)

The prison had such good spammer filtering in place that they couldn't even see him leave....

Back when I was a pre-computing history undergraduate [*] I did hear some people express the opinion that it was a feature that so much old info was _lost_ — so what was left was managable. For example, it’s quite reasonable to read 100% of the surviving literature in old French — I’ve done it, as have many others — because there’s so little. And so that “language” (really a language in transition over centuries) is super frozen, far more than Latin is. Its grammar is relatively simple because we don’t have examples of several possible tenses.

But fortunately that kind of thinking is fading out. I am sure we will get to the point where programs will simply read the libraries for us, and hardly any (or no) primary sources will be consulted, a la Asimov’s Empire in decline. These tools are already in their nascence, whether they are the google n-gram tool, the facebook, or shotgun sequencing of DNA.

[*] by which I don’t mean that computer science didn’t exist, only that computing had not yet affected the study of history.

In the 1970s, the PDP-8 (plus Decwriter) in Three Days of the Condor was important to the plot, and seemed to be used in a realistic way.

In the 1980s Real Genius featured Symbolics 3600 (Lisp machines) which cult favorites at the time.

Because it had a front panel, so it would "look like a computer". Hardly anyone had any home computer so they could have simply used a mockup (like the WOPR) and nobody would have commented, even us nerds.

Conversation is simply a different kind of "intercourse". The scriptwriters simply became confused, that's all.

RSA was an independent company at the time, and quite small. This was probably a significant deal, especially for the government division.

Plus I believe TFA (can't reload it now) said it was handled by the executives directly; the technical team was not involved. So Jim Bizdos may not even have understood what he was getting into. For if he had I would bet he would have asked for more....

Oh for mod points: I would mod this "Informative"

The vaccine didn't exist 40 years ago!

Strange that that is considered bizarre enough for south park. My mum is an M.D. and when I was a kid she had me go play with one of her patients (a kid) who had chicken pox, so I would get it. (In the 60s, in a small town, there wasn’t much medical privacy...or many doctors).

Why yes, now you ask: I assume she did this to help me, but perhaps my judgement isn't good.

...which is kinda the point of sporulation, or for becoming multicellular for that matter!!

You appear to subscribe to the idea (going back most famously to Burke) that "the people" will just vote more of others' money to themselves until everything breaks down. Apart from the subtle reasons why that end is not guaranteed, there are perfectly rational reasons not to simply vote the party that offers the most of other peoples' money:

1. You may believe that taxes are unattainably high (or close thereto), so that you would prefer not to make thinks worse and ultimately lose what benefits you will get.
2. You believe that you are only temporarily on the receiving end and that you will soon be out of that, so you don't want to support making things worse for you in the future.
3. You think support is bad, even though you get it yourself (this was the case, for example, of Ayn Rand who happily collected social security etc).
4. You think most of the benefits are going to people you don't like/don't deserve it (unlike you)/are different and/or you support cuts that affect others.

Variants of these are used by the republicans, and for that matter the democrats too.

My personal experience is only in France, Germany, Australia and the US but I think this distinction you describe is clear only in France, if anywhere at all.

Well, everyone needs a hobby. My other is the Missing Children -- I have quite a collection!

His father and grandfather died in the saddle of natural causes.

And actually, unfortunately, plenty of others do too, e.g. Franco, Salazar, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot... And if you include the ones ousted but not killed (e.g. Duvalier, Amin, Pinochet) the list gets even longer.

(not killing dictators is actually important because if killing them is the only way to get rid of them they will hold on more tightly. The means of bribing them by letting them keep some ill-gotten gains is justified by the ends).

I think the key is the word "printer". Look what happened with printing. "Printer" used to be the name of a job (as was "computer") and being a printer was a respectable and valuable trade. Computer printers used to be terrible chain or belt devices. Later they were replaced by the cheaper and about as bad dot matrix systems. But over time they improved, until now the print shops that all big companies and government departments had down in the basement are gone. The printing businesses downtown are mostly gone -- the few that stay in business do specialized tasks.

Cheap, ubiquitous assembly will become common, just as cheap word processing became common. And like word processing I expect more custom and on-demand parts -- perhaps to start just phone cases and replacement parts for that umbrella (the 3D equivalent of early Word Perfect documents with lots of italics). But soon enough we'll print out plenty of stuff that we today would buy, if it is even available, just as we generate all sorts of documents.

And just as with printing, where we print less and less, perhaps we'll use less and less when we can fix or reuse things instead of throwing them all away.

(and to think I used to consider "3D printer" a terminological overreach...at least I can learn from the past)