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  1. Re: Obvious troll should have been obvious on Microsoft Makes 'Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino' Open Source (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You actually took that seriously. I know, Poe's law and all, but still, this is Slashdot here... Unless you are playing a deep game yourself.

  2. Re: Donald Trump makes treason closed source. on Microsoft Makes 'Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino' Open Source (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    You can't be a sellout when you already own the farm.

  3. Re: Also illegal to sell? on Oregon Raises the Smoking Age (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    And in other news, Barney Fife was made an honorary Slashdot editor. Nip it in the bud, indeed!

  4. And I wonder what control, if any, Microsoft still has over re QuickBASIC language.

  5. The problem with any license is that it can be revoked. Use Microsoft code and it would be a pity if they decided to revoke that nice MIT license they gave you. Same with any patents they have though, too. But Microsoft is probably not that way anymore. Probably.

  6. Re: It's not like they risk anything. on Federal Appeals Court: You Have a Constitutional Right to Film Police Officers in Public (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    I read the situation. I disobeyed an initial unlawful order but peacefully allowed myself to be taken into custody spent the day in jail and kept myself entertained.

  7. Re: It's not like they risk anything. on Federal Appeals Court: You Have a Constitutional Right to Film Police Officers in Public (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because they declare themselves an opposition militia. I declare myself military without official government sanction all the time.

  8. Re: It's not like they risk anything. on Federal Appeals Court: You Have a Constitutional Right to Film Police Officers in Public (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't allow that expensive police robot to get damaged, now can we? Gotta protect the city's investment. The move to robots is already being promoted to departments as saving police lives more than any other benefit.

  9. Let's see them try doing that to QB64, which does what Visual Studio can't.

  10. Re: West Virginia? on Britain Set For First Coal-Free Day Since Industrial Revolution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    West Virginians work for almost peanuts, though and we have plenty of plants already/still. They just shuttered existing ones.

  11. (bad phone situ, on computer now) Mimic race who procreates by copying another being, except replacing the propagation info with its own and then killing the original. The "Same" race get its name by the fact that they inject a child member of its species into another culture to learn from it. Samu was destined for Human Space Pirates originally, but The Identity detected Mimic among the space pirates and swooped in.
    This game is tailor made to toe the line but not cross it. It shares elements with Metroid and Star Trek. My dad's side's got a lot of lawyers and my dad's with the Ohio bar. Your move, Nintendo.

  12. Re:West Virginia? on Britain Set For First Coal-Free Day Since Industrial Revolution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Because you're stupid! West Virginia is the state whose coal-mining industry was crippled by Obama's policies, so the claim of Western coal exhaustion is false. Whether they deserve to be crippled is another argument altoghether.

  13. Re: "Destroyed" is such a harsh term... on Developer of BrickerBot Malware Claims He Destroyed Over Two Million Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And the group it is established among is the sensationalizers.

  14. Wait 'til they get a load of my "anti-Mimic Rescue" game with an ex-Human Federation military officer, "Samu" Japanization for "Same" of the "Same" Shapeshifter race, raised by a cult, "The Identity" out to destroy a "Mimic" race, that be

  15. Re: Can't know without examples (which is an examp on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    No. Merely that he has observed his ideas get shot down by people with no clear interest in the project. I have observed similarly.

  16. Re: Becaue you aren't offering to do the work. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    It's a way of saying almost but not completely wrong.

  17. Re: Becaue you aren't offering to do the work. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    For me, 8 was a major trade off; 8.1 fixed most of the problems; 10 largely added Cortana- I still want 'switch user' back and miss 98s floating toolbars. Man, was that a great feature! You could write batch files to put shortcuts close at hand! Stability issues is what moved me to XP. 'Cept for that, 98 had everything, almost.

  18. Re: Do you code? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    he meant users without any real degree of depth.

  19. Because you did the opposite and analyzed the submitter, not the code.

  20. Re: Winning the Internet on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    You haven't seen my entry in this thread, where someone with little to do with QuickBASIC dissuaded a QB64 developer from features.

  21. Re: Becaue you aren't offering to do the work. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    A gadfly actually paid Steve not to improve QB64 for regular regularâ users, including myself, so your argument doesn't make sense.

  22. Oh, but you wouldn't know anything about that, would you? Can't say about other situations, offhand, but aren't you late finding some other imaginary oppressionâ to exploit? Does it make sense to anyone else that the first world goes around continuallyâ just for its amusement?

  23. "Destroyed" is such a harsh term... on Developer of BrickerBot Malware Claims He Destroyed Over Two Million Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    ... Why, I bet one firmware replacement and they're good as new. Getting one on the other hand... I marked this "slow news day".

  24. Re: Oops on Diet Sodas May Be Tied To Stroke, Dementia Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We'll have to disagree, agreeing to or otherwise... unless you can put on a really convincing argument for it, and who has time for that, amirite?

  25. Re:Oops on Diet Sodas May Be Tied To Stroke, Dementia Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    But maybe not neccessarily for being in fashion, perhaps? Can't be bothered to look up the date for a friendly jibe. https://www.bing.com/search?q=...