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AndrewDucker on Oct 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Comparing Hacker News & the Slashdot Effect

I'm curious - do they check the user agent? Or something more complex?

chuinard on Oct 4, 2011 | [–]

It could be a Windows domain policy. Active Directory is a really powerful management tool.

xorglorb on Oct 4, 2011 | [–]

It's possibly they just locked down the work stations to disallow anything but IE, then don't have WiFi for laptops.

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