Those people want both Windows and Open Source. Maybe ReactOS would be a better match.

If their bulbs emit beta radiation, they indeed should replace them immediately. ;-)

You clearly don't know Usenet rules. A more specific group for comp.misc would be comp.slashdot. Which could then be split up into comp.slashdot.developers, comp.slashdot.ask, etc. with comp.slashdot.misc for the stuff that doesn't go into one of the more specific groups.

However given the group creation rules (assuming they are still enforced), it would be easier to create alt.slashdot instead of comp.slashdot (alt.ALL is a hierarchy with much more relaxed group creation rules).

Measurements will reveal that the emitted frequency is actually 666 MHz, pointing to a less divine source. ;-)

Next in: "We couldn't detect this attack because it was performed over the internet. If the attacker had tried to enter the building physically, we surely would have caught him before he could do any damage."

I don't think at the current point you could even define inflation rates for bitcoin. There's up to now no genuine bitcoin market of measurable size. Bitcoins are typically used as transaction medium, where the price is based on another currency, and as investment, where bitcoins are treated as asset instead of currency. Since inflation is defined as price growth (the price of goods sold in the currency, not the price of the currency in other currencies), and AFAICT virtually no goods are genuinely priced in bitcoins (what's the current price of butter in bitcoins, for example? Note that getting the price in dollars, and converting the value according to current exchange rates doesn't count), an inflation rate cannot be meaningfully defined.

Now if that's true, that's a deviation from classic Slashdot that's a few orders of magnitude more worrying than the beta redesign.

Wait, they are Borg? That means, resistance is futile?

If this is the average quality of future stories, I don't need a beta to keep me away.

Yes I know that he or she is posting as AC

Which should never influence your moderation.

I've seen Star Trek, and thus I know that in an Enterprise environment, keys are always spoken aloud, for everyone to hear. ;-)

It's the equivalent to a text-on-one-page link for multipage stories. I've never seen any of those modded down.

Now I understand the fear about the GPL being contagious. People just fear that he didn't wash his hands before writing it, and therefore it is full of pathogens! ;-)

Nice ad hominem. Which is usually the last resort if you have no further factual arguments. I leave the conclusion to the reader.

They may not even be able to take a patch.

If the patch comes from the original developer of the fix, they certainly can take it, because the original developer owns the copyright of the patch and therefore is not bound by the GPL (other than if he patches GCC, he must distribute that patched version of GCC under the GPL; but a patch for LLVM obviously is not a derived work of GCC).