And I don't mean the Fortran version, but the original MDL code (aka, Muddle) which is a much weirder variant of Lisp than ZIL.

ZIL is basically a subset of MDL, so most of the weirdness you've seen in MDL is also there in ZIL. Check out the "maze" files in Bureaucracy, for example - the game reads a text file at compile time and generates pages of gibberish that have to be combined in the right order to solve a puzzle.

The MDL version is included in the same source dump: https://github.com/historicals...

Infocom's compiler hasn't resurfaced, but ZILF works well enough to hack on these games: http://zilf.io/

The linked article does say illegal sales have gone down, and gets into some reasons why they haven't gone away completely:

Business has fallen since the law passed, but enough people think they can score a bargain, or simply donâ(TM)t trust the shiny new stores, to keep things moving.

These are temporary problems, and they don't translate well to other industries. For example, high quality, low tax medical marijuana resold on the black market can easily undercut legal recreational sales. But a black-market brothel can't undercut the legitimate ones as easily, or offer the same level of service -- lower prices tend to mean lower quality, and operating in the open gives the legal ones extra advantages (marketing, health inspection, integration with other businesses).

Last time I took a maths class, 6 was not "hundreds". If 6 billion isn't a typo, then the article is way out of whack, and the economics are actually heavily stacked in the hyperloop's favour, as 2 airports with terminals and a dozen 747s to shuttle between them would end up costing more than 6 billion.

Readvertise with stricter requirements. If you're getting 1000 resumes, your person specification is way too vague.

If the FBI 'joins the dots' by connecting Pirate Bay uploader 'sharkmp4' and porn producer Ingenuity13 to Prenda (which seems pretty likely), then Prenda's whole business model looks very different.

They claim to be acting on behalf of Ingenuity13 to defend Ingenuity13 against copyright infringement started by sharkmp4... which would be legal, if they were not taking a blunderbuss approach to sending out accusations to people who are innocent but would rather pay up than go to court.

If however, Prenda, Ingenuity13 and sharkmp4 are one entity, they actually set just up a honeypot on their own behalf, and all the downloads were actually legal (because the copyright holder chose to share the files), all the accusations were false (and actionable), every penny of revenue they made was fraud, and they have been lying to more courts than most other corrupt or racketeering organisations even get to see the inside of. This is so illegal on so many levels that they'll pretty much end up not being sentenced by a court to life imprisonment, but simply dying of old age standing in the dock while the list of charges is still being read out.

This isn't about getting 'the latest games ported to Mac', this is about getting iOS games ported to Mac.

The iPhone/iPad platform has a hell of a lot of exclusive games, and if Apple can make the process of also offering those games to Mac owners sufficiently easy for developers, they might just end up with more games being available on Mac than there are on Windows.

Please put the polls back to the way they were, and while you're at it get rid of 'video bytes'.

Never mind 2038, it's 2048 when the Y2K bug hits us that we'll really be in trouble.

The letter to PA was sent on behalf of "Phi Sigma Sigma, Inc.", and there has to be some mechanism in place to pay for all those blue and gold* robes so they probably do count as a business.

* Just a wild guess based on those being their official colours according to Wikipedia, the colours of their logo, and the colours of practically everything on their website... wouldn't it be funny if those really were the colours they claim are "secret"!

Isn't Derek Khanna the only Republican Slashdot likes?

Why does the US have jurisdiction here?

If you're going to spend $30Bn on a pipe to Seattle, build a Hyperloop instead!