zennyboy - Slashdot User

Comment Re:getpaint.net (Score 1) 114

by zennyboy on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @06:56PM (#58479914) Attached to: Microsoft Paint To Remain Part of Windows 10 After All

Except you can load, paste, crop, save and exit in Paint before you can load Paint.net and its plugins...

Comment Re:I'll just chew tobacco instead (Score 1) 198

by zennyboy on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:23PM (#58462620) Attached to: Why Juul and Republican Lawmakers Want To Raise the Minimum Vaping Age To 21

I think you should do a quick [internet search] before you reply. It's not that hard.

Comment Re:Real Reason (Score 1) 198

by zennyboy on Thursday April 18, 2019 @11:28PM (#58457922) Attached to: Why Juul and Republican Lawmakers Want To Raise the Minimum Vaping Age To 21

Yet the rest of the world (I'm from the UK, so I speak from there) is 18, or (UK) no age limit, under supervision. Do we not have full development?

Comment Re:I'll just chew tobacco instead (Score 4, Informative) 198

by zennyboy on Thursday April 18, 2019 @11:22PM (#58457906) Attached to: Why Juul and Republican Lawmakers Want To Raise the Minimum Vaping Age To 21

https://www.google.co.uk/searc... "Nicotine is the primary substance in cigarettes that causes addiction, but most experts agree that it does not directly cause cancer" It's the delivery method, not the nicotine.

Comment Re:I'll just chew tobacco instead (Score 1) 198

by zennyboy on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:29PM (#58457632) Attached to: Why Juul and Republican Lawmakers Want To Raise the Minimum Vaping Age To 21

There*fore

Comment Re:I'll just chew tobacco instead (Score 4, Insightful) 198

by zennyboy on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:27PM (#58457626) Attached to: Why Juul and Republican Lawmakers Want To Raise the Minimum Vaping Age To 21

Juul is indicative of the statistically likely outcome of most attempts to quit smoking: the substitution of one nicotine delivery device for another.

There almost completely negating any further risk of cancer.

Comment Re:Yup. (Score 2) 109

by zennyboy on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:40PM (#58081926) Attached to: Google Now Pays More Money in EU Fines Than it Pays in Taxes

https://www.businessinsider.co...

Comment Only upgrades (Score 3, Interesting) 271

by zennyboy on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:46AM (#57612112) Attached to: Some Windows 10 Pro Users Say Their PCs Are No Longer Activated And Are Been Prompted To Downgrade To Windows 10 Home

"Only users who had upgraded their computers to Windows 10 by using product keys of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 appear to be impacted."

I bought a Win 10 Pro non-upgrade key. Was activated. Today I am not activated. Worth reporting to MS?

Comment Re:European Localization (Score 1) 66

by zennyboy on Thursday September 20, 2018 @02:08PM (#57349686) Attached to: Equifax Slapped With UK's Maximum Penalty Over 2017 Data Breach

No, that's just the editor. It should be $662,000

Comment As a European, (Score 4, Insightful) 342

by zennyboy on Saturday August 18, 2018 @10:45AM (#57149598) Attached to: EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair

I say About Bloody Time.

Comment Re:Meanwhile in Finland... (Score 4, Interesting) 217

by zennyboy on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:22AM (#57061822) Attached to: How AT&T and Verizon Rip Off DSL Customers

Also Spain: €65 for 5Mb down, 0.65 up...

Comment Re: Area (Score 1) 143

by zennyboy on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:19AM (#57005362) Attached to: Government Spells Out Plans For UK-Wide Full Fibre By 2033

And yeah, internet was through coax

Comment Re: Area (Score 1) 143

by zennyboy on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:18AM (#57005360) Attached to: Government Spells Out Plans For UK-Wide Full Fibre By 2033

At least, when I lived in Portsmouth (UK), we were on Nynex cable. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYNEX)

Dunno how widespread in the UK they were, but they were there. (Proof: http://www.m2.com/m2/web/story..., https://www.independent.co.uk/...).

Comment Re:Will it (finally) prioritise the user ? (Score 1) 245

by zennyboy on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @09:09PM (#56421457) Attached to: 'Fuchsia Is Not Linux': Google Publishes Documentation Explaining Their New OS

Funny, as an ex Amigan, how often it comes up when Future, Faster, Better is mentioned, the Amiga comes up.

Comment Re:interesting (Score 1) 245

by zennyboy on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @09:03PM (#56421429) Attached to: 'Fuchsia Is Not Linux': Google Publishes Documentation Explaining Their New OS

Gosh, I remember when Commodore suggested that the next Amiga might use QNX, before they fell over and died....

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