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No ones asking you to stick some shiny thing up your ass and walk around to see how it fits. If you don't like these services don't use them, for most of us the convinience of an Internet connected device that let's you stream content published to the Internet is a value.

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You'll take that effort for what? Just to troll someone you know just via a few comments?

That could be useful... Find more X person/stuff....

Safari is the new IE?

Or, you say "i am the google web crawler", which they let past the paywall so it can be added to google.

If I'm not wrong, Google has a set range of IP addresses for their crawlers, so not all sites will let you through just because your UA claims to be Googlebot

There are people who are in favor of capital punishment. Not all may be in favor of slow, drawn out executions. Focusing on the execution being performed poorly convinces them.

Think different, but stay the same, In Apple's world, that's the game. A touch of irony, don't you think? In a sea of similar, we all sink.

Fast, quiet, big touch pad. What'd fascinating or out of the world here? These are just kind of things most people want, not everyone wants to manually update their kernel or whatever.

This thread should be renamed to 101 reasons why business give Windows or Macs to their employees.

It may be reasonable to block all logins for a time if they detect an attack like this

That would be a P1 incident and probably violate SLAs depending on the duration.

You're buying... A temporary permission to access certain content.