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  1. Re:Who isn't using paint.net? on Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It also opens plain text files as editable rich text. Meaning that just opening and hitting save may not be bit-for-bit the same. And it would probably replace LF with CRLF, though I haven't tried.

  2. Re:The incandecent bulbs are back, but the ratings on Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    60 will always mean 840 lumens to me. They still list how many lumens, which is much more important than the wattage.

  3. Re:They still don't get it on Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is as if they wanted to make Windows hip by presenting it as a touch-first OS

    Still better than Windows 8 that was designed more as a touch-only OS.

  4. Re:They miss the point. on Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft prefers that if someone has windows, they also will have Microsoft account and the Surfaces to display ads.

    FTFY

  5. Re:Who isn't using paint.net? on Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Notepad still handles CRLF just fine. Just because you happen to have a lot of LF-only text files doesn't mean that they should comply with your odd format.

  6. Re:Who isn't using paint.net? on Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    MS Paint launches in less than one but the loss of the extra 1-2 seconds for the extra capabilities isn't going ruin my life.

    It breaks flow to wait here. I'm already waiting to hit CTRL+V. Do you remember when a slow computer would make your keyboard buffer fill up momentarily and you would have to stop typing until it catches up? It's like that. It's a short, but incredibly frustrating delay.

  7. Re:Who isn't using paint.net? on Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    it being available for free on the Windows Store or wherever does little to help

    Same here. It's the second major troubleshooting tool to be removed from a default Windows install. Telnet.exe was extremely valuable in verifying accessible TCP/IP ports from a workstation. So easy you could talk almost anyone through typing the commands.

  8. Re: camel camel camel on Amazon Jacked Up Prime Day Prices, Misleading Consumers, Says Vendor (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    You can use it to see if the current price is actually low compared to its average price. You can't use it to track Lightning deals, and part of that might be how limited of a time the price is valid - but probably more because the sale price doesn't change.

  9. Kids love those games and won't accept PC's without them.

    Not if they've never seen the game before. I assure you that if you had the original .fla, the game would compile to HTML5/JS just fine in Adobe Animate. Or a reasonable facsimile could be recreated.

    Childhood is deprecated and by the time current kids reach 2020, they'll have otherwise the game.

  10. Re:Dangerous Behaviours, Predictable Results on Adobe Announces that in 2020, Flash Player Will Reach Its 'End-of-Life' in Light of Newer Technologies (webkit.org) · · Score: 1

    standardized video or dynamic UI for the internet better than we are now.

    Ethics watchdogs need to step up and start really trying hard to break the current push for more javascript.

    Dynamic UI = JavaScript. Anything else is static. You talk about flashy graphics, but on web applications, the real bandwidth hog would be reloading the entire web page every time the UI needs to update.

  11. Re:Fishy smell around a business giving up its mar on Adobe Announces that in 2020, Flash Player Will Reach Its 'End-of-Life' in Light of Newer Technologies (webkit.org) · · Score: 1

    Their production tool already supports HTML5/JS. Hardware acceleration and security are both a huge cross-platform headache that browser vendors have already taken on. And they still haven't been allowed on the iPhone with Flash.

    They're only dragging their feet because of complaints of content producers.

  12. No. They renamed the production suite to Animate because Flash wasn't the only supported output format, and they were already (almost certainly) planning to deprecate SWF.

  13. Re:NO! on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Press CTRL+ESC?

  14. Re:Watch this get retracted on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I was quoting the parent post. Point is, MS doesn't want any .exe bundled in the base OS at all. It's the next step in locking down the OS.

  15. Re:READ: Both methods = complimentary on Company Gets 45,000 Bad Facebook Reviews After Teenaged Hacker's Unjust Arrest (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not attacking you with DNS amplification attacks. I'm talking about the end-users you advertise to. Stop conflating these two things.

    Hosts file engine does nothing against DNS amplification attacks.

  16. Re:NO! on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3

    I'm sure it'll be a souped up Wordpad-equivalent / Word lite with a ribbon. Plain text support will be there, but you'll have to dig for it and you can't set it as default.

  17. Re:Good luck with that... on Apple Sued By State Farm Over Alleged iPhone Fire (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That lightning wouldn't have happened if it weren't for static charge between particulates in the air. State Farm should really go after power plants and industrial centers for lightning strikes.

  18. Re: Discontinued in Sep 2013. on Apple Sued By State Farm Over Alleged iPhone Fire (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A completely dead Li-on cell also shorts when charging, right? So wouldn't there already be a short detector in the cell?

  19. Re:Then what good's your so-called 'point'? on Company Gets 45,000 Bad Facebook Reviews After Teenaged Hacker's Unjust Arrest (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you're advertising your software as something that can stop DNS amplification attacks. https://science.slashdot.org/c...

    And when someone calls you out on it, you stick out your tongue and say that you can change your IP address. Only a politician would think that's an answer.

  20. Re:NO! on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also an .exe - it will be up for killing soon enough if this and the card games are any indication.

    Win+R mspaint is much faster than WIN+R and typing snippingtool. When every second counts, I don't want to mistype a name that long. It's a fine tool, but I doubt I'll use it until it's the only thing I find on a stranger's computer I find myself in front of.

  21. Re:NO! on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Since that's an .exe it won't be long before it's on the chopping block too. They'll be coming for notepad.exe soon.

  22. Re:Your DNS AMP attack can't affect me on Company Gets 45,000 Bad Facebook Reviews After Teenaged Hacker's Unjust Arrest (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care if the DNS amplification attack affects you - that wasn't the issue. You claimed that your HOSTS file engine itself protects against that. That's not true.

  23. If we're on the subject of what's wrong with this hostname, I'll add that they put "ipv6" in the hostname itself and yet it can resolve to an ipv4 address.

  24. Re:Can I copy the EXE file? on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That works for the Windows 7 card games. It might continue to work. Or Windows will just pop up a "the version of this file is not compatible with the version of windows you're running" error like they've done for some programs in the past.

  25. Re:ISP assigned IP (not local one) of course on Company Gets 45,000 Bad Facebook Reviews After Teenaged Hacker's Unjust Arrest (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And your HOSTS tool still does nothing to protect against DNS amplification attacks. Seems that you can't just address the main point of my post.