Plastic frames hide the lens thickness and support the weight of glass lenses. They require more care in the choosing stage as they are less easy to shape. Personally, I go for optical quality over pure vanity and plastic frames allow me to have large area, low aberration lenses. Having said that, they have to look acceptable and I always had a problem with thick lenses in metal frames looking like glass bottle bottoms. Plastic frames+glass comfortably hide a 4-5mm edge thickness. As for the strength the pairs I have now have metal running through the arms.

The vast majority of Sony's customers have no idea of the company's moral and ethical standing. They buy a PS3 because it plays games or a TV because it got the best reviews. Those who oppose Sony should spend their time educating Sony's customers of the company's ill will rather than create problems for them. The crackers are the ones who will get the bad name and the public baying for their blood meanwhile Sony play the victim. Comparing Sony to the Mafia is a bad analogy too - Sony haven't killed anyone, they don't extort money with menace. If people don't agree with Sony's practices they don't need to spend their money with them.

Tar pit them if you FTP server supports it. When someone attempts to log in using one of these accounts set to the timeout between username being submitted and the password request to be long. Then set the password acknowledgement to be long. It won't stop them but it'll slow them up a little and every little counts.

The 'cloud' in this case is the LastPass database where the levels of security are far higher than a desktop users PC or a general file storage service. Sure, there is an increased exposure due to all of those passwords being in the same place, but even if the entire LastPass database was stolen if users have strong passwords it is unlike their data would be exposed, especially now they've introduced PBKDF2 with 100,000 rounds of 256 bit salting. That's at least as good as KeePass with password only encryption with a suitable number of rounds. In addition to a password, LastPass support OTP, single use passwords and other secondary mechanisms. They also noticed a potential issue and acted immediately. If someone stole a password file off a users desktop would they even notice?

So you store you password encrypted file in the cloud on a service that isn't quite so security sensitive and therefore heavily protect as LastPass? Unless you're using a large key file I'd say your password security is worse, not better, than the LastPass solution.

Ok I'm replying to myself I should have read the parent. Regarding the maximum bandwidth rules, I see what you're saying. Strategies for that are either more expensive MB units or increasing costs per MB depending on usage. Back to the original story and what is being shown is that some (all?) providers cannot provide the service at a price point palatable to the general user. A different approach may prove more sustainable.