You're right that artists invest time to produce a product. Where the remuneration-via-IP argument falls down, however, is in the proportion of sales their agents rob them of in practice - see http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online/

I have two suggestions:

1) Counter-sue the RIAA for the fraction of broadband spent upstreaming free publicity for them.

2) {Jamendo, etc} {stumbleupon, etc}

I'm not surprised the species is evolving. However, humanity isn't doing very well given the tenor of news in the YRO section on here, for starters.

Three key words: You have the *right* to leave your house doors open, but if you do, you'll find your *insurers* take a dim view of your sense of *responsibility*.

The analogy may or may not apply well to wifi.

It's a simple case of majority-ism. Most facebook users will be on Windows and probably IE, so if you're going to make a trojan, to make your job easy that's who you target.

Security isn't limited to exploits in the scope of a user's OS; it's all about privacy, and messing in their web-identified spaces also counts as a security violation.

Those of us who own a toyota have been to their website and checked the system that tells us whether our cars are affected.

I'm lucky - my Rav4 is a particular vintage that claims not to have the problem.

The greater majority of other Toyota owners probably do have the problem, if a check of the affected models (most) and vintages (most) is anything to go by.

The fact that they have a webpage addressing the problem tells me (a) it's got big publicity (b) they sort of care (c) their investigations have led them to find some criteria whereby they can tell a particular car is susceptible or not. That tells me maybe they know what it is, and that talk of cosmic radiation is just speculative BS.

Scary anecdote, although the plural of anecdote is not data(TM).

There may still be the effect of brakes failing "suddenly" - in this past winter, I left the car for 3 days, probably with damp brakes and it froze overnight etc. Sure enough, setting off, the first couple of corners had no brakes (insert scared yelling here) but they came back with increased use just fine.

So you'd need a bad coincidence: wet/damp/frozen brakes, not burnt in, *and* a runaway accelerator. That reduces the chances some.

We once had a honda civic in the family that flipped half its valves off as it felt the urge.

Cruising at 70mph along a flat bit of motorway: suddenly it decided it needed more valves and sidled up to 85mph, all without moving my foot at all.
Same journey, trying to overtake up the middle of a motorway, going uphill: it decided it didn't need the "power" and halved the valves, killing the speed to barely 50mph forcing an apologetic swerve back into the slow lane.

Never driving one of *those* again.