How come Apple missed all the other i's, like iRiver (mp3 player), iRobot (Roomba vacuum cleaner), iGoogle (personalized homepage made by Apple's major nemesis) et al?

Ask that question of the dozens of people selling camrips and illegal copies of dvd's whom I see in the streets all the time. I guess people (customers) figure that this way they are breaking much less laws than the guys who actually bring camcorders to the cinema, burn the dvd's, or put them online for streaming - and do that with hundreds of titles instead of a couple. Which means they would be less likely of a target. And this articles proves them right.

Well first they will torture out all the sources. After that - sure

I tried Mac. I tried Linux. Hated them as much as Windows. I'm a sysadmin too. And the software is just as counter-intuitive, buggy, opaque etc. regardless of the system.
And I'm sorry, but installing stuff on Linux is not the cute story in the blog but an archaic pain of entering lines upon lines of commands into a terminal. Neither is uninstalling - I tried removing Firefox and had to click through more things that cleaning registry and folders on Windows would have. Oh, and it took down the UI with it.

Is it just me or holding right hands like this would make the people whose feet/legs we see bend over forward quite far for this angle

Next they'll archive 4chan

Ugh the writers of the article (and, consequently, the slashdot user) wrote a badly worded description. I was surprised as I never heard of any particularly strong allotrope of boron. If you actually read the whole thing, it's boron nanowires that give the strength. Key word: nanowires. Researchers used boron, but there are plenty of different materials to make nanowires out of. And it is the particular properties resulting from reinforcing materials with nanowires that give the 'bulletproof' strength.

No, really, I do care. Safari and Chrome, that covers both Mac and Windows users fully, right? That's like 99.99% of the market, right?

You can't be serious that those browsers put together include only about 10% of users?

Why use the word "digitalize", they have CD's, pretty sure those aren't recorded in analog.
Oh, and I'm sure all the die-hard Beatles fans have complete discographies in "digital" as it is and wouldn't really care about a new way of downloading it.