Mod up parent - excellent point

Also China called, and as one of the world's largest economies and one of the fastest growing over recent decades, they would like to know how you justify saying Communism hasn't "worked" anywhere in the world.

I personally wouldn't want to see communism implemented in my country, but I don't see how you can say Communism (of any description) hasn't worked anywhere in the world unless your definition of worked means something like "fits inside my personal current paradigm / comfort zone".

"Warns in the ToS..."

That's no excuse - deleting my stuff should require explicit permission at time of deletion for the specific files it wants to delete.

Otherwise we're heading for the era of the HumaniCentiPad:
htps://youtu.be/sglZGSwK6ow

"I'm pretty confident it's covered by the EULA..." I'm afraid that's no excuse for deleting someone's property. EULA should never be sufficient to bind someone to this kind of agreement in practice. Explicit consent to this specific provision should be required, or better yet deletion should require end-user authorisation at time of deletion (so the user knows what is being deleted). It freaks me out when real life starts heading towards parody to this extent: https://youtu.be/sglZGSwK6ow

If that is true, mod parent up!

Just to back up CanHasDIY:
"In recent years we have seen a variety of measures introduced that undermine the right to protest and freedom of speech.
Laws intended to combat anti-social behaviour, terrorism and serious crime are routinely used against legitimate protesters.
Broadly drafted anti-terrorism offences of 'encouragement' and 'glorification' of terrorism threaten to make careless talk a crime.
Membership of certain organisations can be banned under anti-terror laws even if the organisation is non-violent and political.
Hate speech laws have been extended in a piecemeal way to ban ever-expanding categories of speech.
Broad anti-terrorism powers of stop and search have been used to harass and stifle peaceful protesters.
Protest around Parliament has been severely restricted by laws limiting and overly regulating the right to assemble and protest around Parliament."
Source: http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/free-speech/

It's really quite scary...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

I suspect the (very valid) reason they have withdrawal limits on exchanges is to provide some level of security; with withdrawal limits, they can limit the damage that a nefarious user can inflict upon the rest of the exchange's users by rolling back transactions. See https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20224998-Huge-Bitcoin-sell-off-due-to-a-compromised-account-rollback

I disagree.

In the UK, it is illegal to share internet without mandatory log in (registration can be free, but it *must* be required for the operator to stay out of trouble).

If registration were not required by law, I would be sharing my access already. Given that registration is "required to be required", and given that it is complex for a part-time geek such as myself to set up a registration system, I don't make the extra effort to share.

I do think, though, that there are plenty of people like myself who would be happy to share without setting up registration if they weren't then subject to prosecution.

90% of tablets not having features isn't trying to imply that they will have 90% market share

Aside from that, it could well end up with 10% share if they get it right. Business users. Microsoft office won't run on any other OS, and the tablet alternatives suck (I know, it's probably MS's fault they suck due to ever-changing standards, but that doesn't change the fact that for a business user, they suck).

Like your kids, I almost exclusively use cheap or very old PSUs. Sure, sometimes they blow up or cause instability, but when they work it's beautifully cheap. Same with RAM. Sometimes you get unlucky, but a lot of the time you don't need to spend a fortune. As long as you don't go *rock* bottom, they tend to work fine.

Like hard drives though, they should be viewed as a "consumable" item.