Weren't they required to stop that in the settlement?

This was where ImpulseDriven (Steam competitor started by Stardock) was nice, it would show the DRM used prior to purchase. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be case since GameStop bought them out.

Personally I don't buy DRM'd games, which unfortunately means most PC games.

The irony of course being they had nothing to do with Arab Spring, when net access was actually available in the countries under revolt Facebook was the site of choice.

for ReadWriteWeb to find a new editor, one that doesn't pander to fanboys

Steve Jobs was also in part responsible for a lot of bad, remember the Foxconn worker 'suicide'? Or how about suing journalists? Or hiring security that pretended to be police? Or requiring employees submit to searches or be fired?

Browser plugins ares automatically installed with the JRE, and maybe the SDK too so you may be using it and not be aware of it.

I've been disabling / removing the browser plugins for years, there just aren't any relevant sites that rely on it anymore and for reference I write Java developer tools for my day job.