Yes, for once the chinese have made a very clear and true statement, without a doubt their internet policies are open and clear:

"Whatever we don't like is banned"

Can't get clearer or more open than that

Yup, that's the big problem I see with those services.

By uploading your mp3s there, you're giving them recorded proof that you had all those songs, which can be subpoenaed at any time by copyright holder.

The problem is that *many* people won't have the original CDs that they ripped the music from, so if you do get sued by RIAA, such MP3s are for all practical purposes the same as pirated, since you can't prove you bought them.

I can see you're not familiar with the Japanese culture :-)

Let's say that there, regulatory capture is not just inevitable, it's part of the system. They even have a name for it: "amakudari", translates to "Descent from Heaven" ...

Yup, it's indeed like several posts mentioned, done for marketing reasons, as they can sell more units since clueless idiots will buy it because it looks nice and shiny :(

I've been looking for a new laptop for quite a while and never could find one with the specs I needed (high-end) with a matte screen, and only recently I managed to find one, the Eurocom Neptune.

http://www.ejbca.org

Open source, full featured

I've used the kinesis advantage for close to ten years now, and it's by far the best keyboard i've found out there.

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*ROTFLMAO*

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*Snif*

Ha, good joke, that was a really good one. *wipes tear of laughter from eye*

Well no doubt about, the pirated versions of ubi games will be ridiculously superior to the actually buying the game from ubi

However, i don't really like to download pirated software for security reasons, so I guess I'll just NEVER AGAIN BUY AN UBI SOFT GAME.

Between the choice of paying ubi to screw me and not playing their games, it's a no-brainer decision.

That's the most idiotic article i've seen in ages.

You've installed a JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE, which includes BROWSER APPLET SUPPORT.

So yes, it will off course install something on the browser to make it work... which is a plugin (as it's always done in the past, and pretty much what you'd expect), and now they've just added an addon to pre-load the VM to make things faster (and put it as an addon rather than a plugin so that you can disable it more easily).

What's wrong with that ? By installing it, you asked for JAVA SUPPORT on your OS and your WEB BROWSER.

That's what the addon is.

What next, let's complain that adobe secretely install a plugin on your browser without asking when you install flash ??