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  1. So what do you call something which no longer has an owner?

  2. From what I gathered, the ROMs were developed in a dark room in 1830, lost around 1945 and then found again last week in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".

  3. There should be a law that if the original publisher no longer exists their titles should be released as public domain.

  4. They're read-only, but they're not classified as memory.

    Memory has data and address lines.

  5. Re: This article needs a minor fix. on 70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered In a 67GB Folder of ROMs On a Private Forum (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Hey you guys! Look at my name and do that!

  6. If it's abandonware, how can it still be copyright infringement?

    Abandonware means there's no owner anymore so there's nobody to "steal" from.

  7. Have you never seen any hollywood movie? Once the bad guys download your data, it's gone from yours!

  8. Re:It's an engineering problem on The World Set a New Record For Renewable Power in 2017, But Emissions Are Still Rising (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I've already adapted to using less energy by switching my display resolution to 1366x768 instead of 1920x1080, by never going over 4GB of RAM usage out of 8GB available and always leaving 50% of my SSD capacity free of data.

  9. What's the point of feeding 8 billion people if you're poisoning them at the same time?

  10. Re:How well is Uber doing in Japan? on Japan May Be First Country To Have Self-Driving Cars (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Japan is also the world leader in cheerleaders being raped by tentacles but it's also not in the news. What's your point?

  11. Yep, just as I thought. It's the "Monorail Song" from The Simpsons. In extremely low quality, I might add.

  12. Re:You know what's easier? on Japan May Be First Country To Have Self-Driving Cars (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but in the USA bullets are responsible for a lot of deaths. So I'm not sure how we're supposed to trust a bullet the size of a train.

  13. Re:Well sure on Japan May Be First Country To Have Self-Driving Cars (theoutline.com) · · Score: 0

    Why be RNG when you can be WHM or even BLM?

  14. Re:Learn walking before running on Japan May Be First Country To Have Self-Driving Cars (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    But those previous deaths were caused by humans, however imperfect we are.

    Deaths caused by computers just fuels hollywood-type fears about machines.

  15. Re:Predicted stipulation on Japan May Be First Country To Have Self-Driving Cars (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    What the hell is a takadanobaba?

  16. Re: Predicted stipulation on Japan May Be First Country To Have Self-Driving Cars (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    For many years Japanese censors banned the display of pubic hair in pornography.

    They don't allow pubic hair but they allow tentacle rape. Weird country.

  17. Re:Why not just include an emulator? on Apple Brings iOS Apps Into Mac, But Won't Merge Platforms (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's no guarantee the computer has a trackpad because of the Mac mini, iMac and Mac Pro.

  18. Re:Users on Apple Unveils iOS 12 (apple.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Android just copied this feature from iOS 15.

  19. Nobody is forcing you to use Dark Mode. But for those of us who want it, it's a nice option.

  20. Re:Sad day on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 2

    When you have as much money as Apple, Google or Microsoft, it's just "if you can't buy them, increase the offer."

  21. Re:Rebranding on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    #GitOutOfHere

  22. Re: The next disruption will be distributed. on American Tech Giants Are Making Life Tough For Startups (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, think about it for a minute. Almost everyone is running their own instance of communication programs. Wether it's iMessage or something else, once you remove the need for a centralized server and push that into torrents/blockchains then the client becomes the server. And to lower the bandwidth and requirements, simply flush data after a set time limit to keep things lean, clean and fast.

    So really, everyone using this new network would be a part of that network.

  23. Re:The next disruption will be distributed. on American Tech Giants Are Making Life Tough For Startups (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    And isn't "run your own server" basically just regular forums anyway?

  24. Re:The next disruption will be distributed. on American Tech Giants Are Making Life Tough For Startups (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that the next disruptor will be based on both torrent and blockchain.