For some reason, I always hate it when people choose an explicit

if (boolean == true)

rather than just

if (boolean)

I'm glad those people have to hunt for extra bugs ;)

Pfft. A single checkbox is all that's needed:

"Reduce effectiveness to comply with US Government standards."

It's so cute that you think a 3D FPS is "old school"!

That's just where our opinions differ.

(just to be clear, I am joking... mostly)

X11. Also there's Java.

It's at the bottom of every reply window.

Allowed HTML
<b> <i> <p> <br> <a> <ol> <ul> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <em> <strong> <tt> <blockquote> <div> <ecode> <quote>

<ecode> looks reasonable:

def make_adder(n):
    def adder(x):
        return x + n
    return adder
 
def make_adder(n):
    return lambda x: x + n

The article is not wrong; the slashdot summary and lame-ass editing are to blame, once again.

The article says:

Time for TCPvAngrySlashdot!

C: SYNCHRONIZE
C: Start-Sequence: 484725
C: Source-Port: 7742
C: Destination-Port: 80

S: SYNCHRONIZE
S: ACKNOWLEDGE: 484726
S: Start-Sequence: 95823
S: Source-Port: 80
S: Destination-Port: 7742

C: ACKNOWLEDGE: 95824
C: Sequence-Number: 484726
C: Source-Port: 7742
C: Destination-Port: 80
C: Payload-length: 1033
C: -- BEGIN PAYLOAD --
C: <bytes>

"The Android and WinPhone8 fanboys lose their minds online."

This sudden switch from speculative future to factual description is a bit of a jolt.

I have never seen this - my downloads resume just fine (and I know they do, because my connection sucks). Maybe the linux client is still having teething problems?

I have noticed that the downloads page is bloody useless, often giving the wrong information. A few times it has even appeared as if it restarted the download from scratch, only to complete the "whole thing" a minute later.

That's too small a market for Microsoft to care about. They're more likely aiming for the barely functioning humans...

So you are a Black Panther Neo-nazi, self-hating homeopath and unenlightened Buddhist? You're also in the KKK but you wish they'd stick to bake sales. I think you must be one of the most interesting humans in the world!

I don't think you're familiar with the stereotypes. You'd only need to secure your ass if you were going to OS X.

Sorry, Slashdot ate the umlaut and turned it into a dash for some reason, so the link is broken. Type your own o-umlaut (alt-u, o on OS X, alt-0214 on Windows with the numeric keypad, *wave hands* on other systems).

That's acceptable in some languages, but not Finnish.

This page on Wikipedia explains.