Steel produced before 1944 is valued because it isn't contaminated with radioactive isotopes from atom bombs. Pre 2022 literature will be valued the same way due to the lack of AI contamination.

I prefer not to remember them since they were slow and notoriously unreliable. Having lived through that period time dealt with all the old computer problems I have NO nostalgia for 486 or pentium motherboards, 8MB RAM, windows 95, 3dfx voodoo cards, floppy discs, etc. But I wish I kept all that junk hardware to sell it to the suckers on eBay today.

If Sam could get away with it he would turn people into Soylent Green to power his data centers.

Using this logic Ron Jeremy would have been a world class ski jumper in his day. Such a waste of talent...

I for one will be welcoming our Skynet overlords and will be looking forward to their administration.

Cool technology, too bad Hooli already invented it about 6 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is just another case of if you don't have the physical media in your hands or stored locally in an unencrypted format then you don't actually own it. For that reason if a movie is worth watching again I will make a point of buying the 4k disc and ripping it. Streaming services have their place, but anyone 'buying' movies or content from streaming services is a fool.

This is exactly why I still buy bluray and UHD discs for the movies and shows that are worth watching again. That way I actually own the digital content and not beholden to some streaming service who pulls crap like this.

More importantly how far can this thing chunk a punkin'? Can it cross the 1 mile barrier without making pie?

No doubt, it's good to see this old gear gaining value and not being recycled. May have to dig out my Sinclair ZX80 and C64 and see if they still work.

It's easy to make executive orders like this when you don't factor everything else need to support a wholesale switch to electric cars. The electric grid will need billions of dollars of upgrades and where are all the power plants to supply the grid coming from? You still have to get the energy to power the cars from somewhere even if you're not putting dino juice in the cars.

To quote Nolan Sorrento from Ready Player One "We have determined that we’ll be able to fill 80% of the user’s display with advertising before inducing seizures". This is where Facebook is going with this.

I'm right there with you. I've never had a Facebook account nor will I EVER. I was going to buy an Oculus Rift S headset this fall but not now. Screw Oculus and their pointless Facebook integration.

I, for one, welcome our new lunar tardigrade overlords and look forward to their administration.

CDDB only went by track lengths and the total length of the disc. Gracenote has evolved the CDDB recognition service to also do acoustical fingerprinting which is probably why these tracks showed up as somebody else's.