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Nah, even with more-or-less universal healthcare in Australia, personal injury & workers comp lawyers exist. They just sue for damages, irrespective of actual costs incurred. They're rather unpopular, even when taking into account the fact that they're lawyers to begin with.

This, and the fact that toll roads and petrol pumps ("gas stations") have had this kind of technology for years means this should be a total non-story. The only innovation is that they're admitting the police might use the data.

Hence the title "Global Mall Operator..."

Just because there's a technology which winds back the ability to be "lost in the crowd" doesn't mean that you have/had an automatic assumption to privacy. It's like saying that the police shouldn't be able to track a fugitive on the run logging in to his facebook account because that technology to find someone 2 states away didn't exist when we first established the FBI.

a) now.
b) never.

What's a parking attendant?

(haven't seen one in a Westfield mall in Australia since early 2000s)

The DMCA would only be relevant if you're routing around copy prevention measures. I don't know for a first-hand fact, but I wouldn't think that an emulator running a ROM from the 80s or early 90s is going to be dealing with much by way of copy prevention, software or hardware.

Patents would relate to the method of rendering the game; it is likely the patent would refer to hardware and specific hardware-based techniques, so a pure software emulator may be able to route around that.

Too bad Visual Studio 6 was the last VS before .NET.

"Uh sir, I can see through my night vision a line of cows coming towards us at 40mph..."

I think the classic was the Windows Add New Font dialog in Vista. That was a freaking zombie from 1991.

Goto is bad because of the bad code it enables - even though fundamentally, assembler is all about goto (jmp, etc). A useful technique that enables code to be hacked to death and made unmaintainable deserves to lie in its shallow grave.

Well, at least you've got lots of chickens.

AC was replying to the implication that crowdsourcing is analogous to slavery, or that this involves child labor, without any evidence or data to substantiate the claim. AC's point was that these guys are getting paid for a job they signed up for - Blair1q seemed to imply this was not the case.

Say wha...? If anything, Apple's increasing its use of bonjour. It's baked into iOS and certainly still being pushed in the latest OS X.