No IDE here, but if all what you want is discover new territories, you'll just need an editor. Apart from PowerShell, there is another decent scripting language on Windows, which is JScript. That's a Javascript implementation allowing to access system resources through "ActiveXObjects". Example:
var fso = new ActiveXObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
Have a look at MSDN for reference about this object and others, then browse it, and various blogs, while happily writing your scripts in whatever editor is present on your machine. By the way, they will run on any Windows system, even XP. The drawback is that interfacing to DLLs is often impossible when it hasn't been provided by MS.
Then, you might want to explore Javascript as a functional language - a usable Lisp in my opinion...
News sites usually answer on port 80, or 443, you know. 82 is highly unusual, so much that my corporate proxy won't let me connect. Who are these guys, whose site is on 82? Are they serious? I don't know, and couldn't read TFA, but this port does ring a bell in the "amateur news site" section.
See, they called Kader Arif a "Chief" when he's only the "rapporteur". From Techdirt on this subject, 'A rapporteur is a person "appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue."', far from a "Chief".
The cu command is used to call up another system and act as a dial in terminal. It can also do simple file transfers with no error checking. cu is part of the UUCP source but has been split into its own package because it can be useful even if you do not do uucp.
Another flat rate music distribution model (this one being voluntary) might be this one, where music files belong to the customer whose ID tags them.
First, flat rate is convenient. Flat rate is one of the reasons why IP took over - bye bye, X.25.
Then, trust the users. Even if some of them remove the ID3 tags. Even if many of them do. Piracy is part of the music ecosystem anyway. Give them ownership, give them responsibility.
Finally, you have to count the beans - how many downloads for which files from which artists. That implies centralization though a hub. There could be many distributors (think Google or your.national.isp or whoever), who would compete for the same basic service, and add additional services on top of that.
But that's sci-fi right now.
gqap
Reformats a paragraph. Think M-q.
Binds a key (q being a favorite of mine) to a macro. Knowing h, j, k, l, 0, $ commands is a requisite, C-v allows control chars like line feed and escape.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai