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  1. The vast majority of push notifications were useless and annoying from the very beginning. That's why I disable all of them by default.

  2. Re:Uh... on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my experience is the same. The snipping tool seems pretty inferior to PrntScrn->MS Paint

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

    I would argue that both Notepad and Calc are, in fact, the best tool for their jobs if you consider their jobs to be simple text editing or basic calculations.

    Paint doesn't quite fall into the category of "best tool for the job", but it is the best one that is part of the standard Windows install.

  4. Re:Forced in what way? on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A million times this. Anything that lets me avoid using IT services is a godsend.

  5. Re:Deluxe Paint on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I do miss Deluxe Paint!

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

    Yes, you're correct. But Windows 10 is not truly "SaaS" (yet). And even if it were, it's the only one that I am essentially forced to use.

  7. Re:32 years, godawful from start to finish on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm glad they never improved it. It was the perfect thing for doing single, simple tasks like cropping screenshots.

    If they "improved" it, they would inevitably have made it worse at that sort of thing.

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

    The fact that it's a "modern app"?

  9. Re:Paint 3D *Will* Still Exist You Know... on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Paint 3D is not an adequate replacement for Paint.

  10. Re:Uh... on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh. I'd never heard of this until now, but apparently it's been around since Win 7? Live and learn!

  11. Re:NO! on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I have worked for a few companies with whom attaching any unapproved flash drive was a firing offense.

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

    Then you don`t like Windows 10, Don`t buy it. I know I don`t buy things I don`t like.

    If only that were always an option.

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

    Welcome to the unstable and always-shifting world of WIndows 10, where you can't trust that anything in it will still be there or that the workflow you've developed will continue to be applicable when you show up at work the next day.

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

    I use and deeply love GIMP, but it is not an adequate replacement for MS Paint in a lot of use cases. Far too large and featureful when all you want to do is perform a single simple task.

  15. This is sad news on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    MS Paint ranks third on my list of "most frequently used MS tools", behind Visual Studio and Notepad. For many use cases, the simple spartan tools are the best tools.

    Ah well, I'm sure there's a third-party equivalent somewhere.

  16. That's because they're lying on FCC Says It Has No Documentation of Cyberattack That It Claims Happened (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    They know they're throwing everyone under the bus in order to give a huge payday to their masters at AT&T, Comcast, etc. They're just trying desperately to keep people from realizing that.

  17. Ideally that would be done by voting in rational people, but it seems that Americans are reluctant to vote for anyone who isn't already part of the establishment which they seem to despise. It really is baffling to an outsider to watch.

    I think the problem is that rational people don't tend to run for office.

  18. The privacy concerns are normally about what people can do without judicial oversight and the need for a warrant, and don't apply here.

    In the legal world, you may be correct. But generally when people talk about "privacy concerns", they are talking about privacy concerns in a more general sense, not about what the law thinks of as "privacy concerns".

    If someone (government or otherwise) legally obtains information about me against my will, my privacy has still been violated. That violation may or may not be ethically or morally justifiable, but it's a violation nonetheless.

  19. Glassdoor does not allow anonymous users

    How do they prevent anonymous users? Do they require you to send in a copy of your ID when you sign up?

  20. You cannot expect that any identifying information you provide to any website (or any business, online or not) will be kept confidential.

    It's the law.

  21. Re:Ask Slashdot: on EU Court to Rule On 'Right to Be Forgotten' Outside Europe (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    First off, it only applies to search engines. It doesn't apply to content.

    Why do people always say this as if it's a defense of RTBF? I think it's one of the largest things condemning it.

  22. Re:PLease explain difference between QOS and fastl on Why is Comcast Using Self-driving Cars To Justify Abolishing Net Neutrality? (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    No, "QoS" is about prioritizing traffic. Period. Doesn't matter whether you applied the tags based on the type of service, or on the identity of the sender or the receiver, or for any other reason you felt like it.

    That's the point of net neutrality -- it's an attempt to keep ISPs from abusing QoS controls. Net neutrality does not prevent legitimate uses of QoS controls.

  23. I can't think of a single secret. I have always reported anything and everything that I think is important for management to know. Particularly the bad stuff.

  24. Because Comcast is a scummy company filled with lying liars who will say or do anything that they think will make them more money.

  25. Re:PLease explain difference between QOS and fastl on Why is Comcast Using Self-driving Cars To Justify Abolishing Net Neutrality? (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem with net neutrality is that there is a legitimate argument to be made against it.

    Perhaps there is, but I honestly have yet to hear such an argument.