That's not the change I want in Snipping tool. It already has a keyboard shortcut.
What they NEED to do is allow it to bypass the notifications silencing in Focus Mode.

I want to be able to turn on Focus Mode for a meeting and still be able to use Snipping tool the same way as I usually do.
The fact that it uses the notification method to so it's pop-up means you can screen cap, but you don't get the ability to mark up that screen cap before saving/pasting it.

Seems to be popular among the folks who used to use YouTube to stream TV shows. I think that YouTube is much more aggressive in taking down copyrighted content.

I disagree, XP, to be useful with all of the fixes and service packs applied, running software that has also had fixes and service packs applied does NOT run on 11 year old machines. It needs at minimum 768MB of RAM, 1GB to be comfortable. Not many machines had that 11 years ago.

To run it on an 11 year old machine you need to either disable some functionality or upgrade the machine. You can do the same with Ubuntu. ...in fact there is probably more leeway to do that in Ubuntu as there are more things that can be safely disabled and still have a functional machine

I have not seen an out of the box XP SP3 system running in less than 512MB without major complaints from the user. Microsoft can claim 64MB minimum requirement still applies, but reality shows it is simply not true anymore.

Most password safe programs have an export button.
The real question is why are your facebook account and e-mail account(s) using the same password?

It's not just MegaUpload, MegaVideo is also part of the takedown, I'm not sure how legal that was. The charges are not strictly related to piracy either. Money laundering and racketeering are also in there. I think that they had a lot more on these guys than just hosting pirated content and not taking it down when asked via DMCA takedown letters.

At first I thought that it was Sony's revenge on me for this: http://slashdot.org/submission/1535196/Why-doesnt-SONY-like-Canadians

Then, when I realized that no one else could log in either I relaxed a bit.
I am still concerned about whether my Credit Card is safe.

Just wait till they start enforcing the new one:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1535196/Why-doesnt-SONY-like-Canadians

I think that's a BS reason for keeping a 140 character limit on twitter.
Let SMS's character limit limit only the SMS user's messages. Twitter can break up longer tweets into 140 character segments and send them as "part1" "part2" "part3"... to people receiving tweets via SMS.

I think that while that was a legitimate argument when twitter started, it's evolved into a different kind of service these days and most folks using their phone for twitter are probably using something like twitterberry as a client anyway.

People stare at me as if I'm crazy when I say I use firefox as my twitter client, just like I do for other websites.

Living? It could still be called Colbert and named after Stephen's great-grandfather.

Of course, they would not be sued if they bothered to negotiate world wide distribution instead of only negotiating "domestic" distribution Limiting who they can accept money from to a tiny fraction of their possible customers, and instead paying loads of money for technology to make that possible.

See that's the good thing to come out of this. Now wireless router manufacturers will have to provide those features if they want to sell in the US.

"some cops will be pissed that he didn't find any weapon, drug or libertarian literature while reading your house"

Libertarian graffiti? That's something I haven't seen yet.

You are right that in desktop use scenario with over 1GB of RAM you will likely never use the swap.

If you run something very memory intensive like photo/video editing, VMware, etc. you may, but with today's standard RAM allotments most desktop users never touch swap in Linux.