I just perused dkmarsh's linked articles, and they reinforced my reasons for selecting options 5 & 8.
As it has with people's private lives, Apple is becoming insidiously invasive into their computing lives, and I prefer to keep the beast at as looong an arm's distance as I'm able...to retain whatever control over my deuced Mac(hina) Apple has left me after Snow Leopard's "improvements."
The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.
In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
