Several years later than this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z...

The Z3 was the first electromechanical gp computer
The ABC was the first electronic non-gp computer
The Colossus was the first electronic gp computer
The ENIAC was the first American gp computer.

No, she was excited because that would likely be ammunition for another sexism rant.

At junk/antique stores. Those made in the 1960s and earlier, generally haven't been crippled for safety.

The set I had came with both lead strips, acids and a burner.

We cannot really accuse the woman who wrote this booklet of misogynism.
Of being of the same, ehrm, intelligence level as Barbie, no doubt. But not misogynism.
A little bit of sexism in how boys are portrayed, perhaps.

fsn (file system navigator) for IRIX was not universally known, but if the girl used IRIX at school, it is not unfeasible that she was familiar with it.

(Most people knowing fsn would have used it to start a real shell, instead of continuing to use the slowest file system navigator in existence, just because it was pretty. But her role in the movie was to be a Barbie, so pretty counts.)

Open Source depends on copyrights.
Public domain depends on there being no copyrights.

It's public domain, not open source.
End-to-end encryption is easy - you just need to send a courier with a one time pad.
And yes, there are telegraphs supporting multiple concurrent connections by using pitch shifting and filters so the receiver will only hear one set of beeps. But not more than a few.
Sure, there are desktop clients for all platforms - wooden, metal and marble top desktop can have clients, and there are even keys that mount on tilted desktops.

Indeed. Even Her Majesty The Queen stopped sending telegrams a few years ago. A shame, really.

Why would they have to? All they need to do is present Whatsapp with a hush order to hand over keys.
When Whatsapp generates and maintains the keys, there's no real security here.
I even think it's not unlikely that they have implemented this in cooperation with the three letter agencies, in order to lure people into thinking it is safe. And the great unwashed masses will be fooled, as always.

Don't forget storing conversation logs unencrypted.
Or requiring a personally identifiable marker (a phone number) in order to work, even when everything goes over IP and supporting anonymous users would be trivial.

True, but anyone sniffing the traffic can, if they have access to a decryption key. Not that we know of anyone who would possibly do that...

In my view, this encryption is not to be trusted unless and until it can accept keys that are generated outside the WhatsApp product. Otherwise, how much would you want to bet that the three letter agencies aren't getting a master key under a hush order?

You are so wrong you don't even know. What platform to use is my choice, and it has to be one that supports the software created by the developers working for the company and the environment they need to work in. RHEL7 is not it.
It is not my job to redesign in-house and 3rd party software so it will work with the peculiarities of systemd - it's my job to make sure I provide systems that work and stays working, 24/7, five nines.

The latter shouldn't amaze you. The credit card companies get a cut, I mean transaction fee.

It's rather telling that systemd introduces and relies on MSDOS .ini files from the 80s-90s era.
In ten years time, the systemd will probably introduce the registry too.

I don't think that's entirely true. People switched (and still switch) from Solaris to Red Hat, despite Red Hat not being exactly cheap.

I think compatibility and availability of software are the main reasons. The toolbox approach facilitates that, while the kitchen sink abstractions hinder it.

You'd be surprised. People bought expensive workstations with IRIX and changed them to run Linux. Primarily for compatibility reasons, but there were also people who did it because they liked Linux and the concept of a larger toolbox instead of larger tools.