You can twist anything to be undesirable by asking questions like that. What's a car, besides a horse needing gasoline and which can't be eaten after it dies of old age? What's a hoover, besides a brush needing electricity? What's a house, besides a tent which cannot be moved as necessary?

But occassionally there some real malice, which is then easy to explain away with the rush. The FBI has a history of hiring cybercriminals as undercover agents (e.g. Kevin Poulsen, or the operators of DarkMarket, a cybercrime forum where the FBI had admin rights after getting the forum head to co-operate).

Pizza is eaten everywhere in the world, what's weird about that?

What is a "simple wipe"? Is there a "complex wipe"? There's no such thing - a wipe is a wipe, and if the software survived, there was no wipe.

Or the Insurance Companies may not give me the discounts I would deserve to have being a member of a gender causing less accidents.

Exaggeration. Many companies provide 30 days of paid holidays but AFAIK only 25 is legally required. Of course there are several public holidays on top of the normal holiday (relating to Christianity) which do not exist in USA or many other, especially non-European, countries. 35 hours a week is also not a standard, I think 38-40 hours is more common in white-collar professions.

It is entirley possible that the 93 % are right, if the worst 7 % are REALLY BAD drivers.

If you work in a big corporation and have to implement a feature for web site and have to support only a certain browser, for example IE 8 and get something done until 5 p.m in the allocated time., do you think that

a) what about the the users who have installed the other browsers? Should I spend the next four hours doing unpaid work to support those as well?
b) go home and spend time with my family/watch a movie/drink a beer/go to a bar

I think the answer is pretty clear.

Only for a very short time.

Interesting is that Simons says

"I only had maybe five to ten T-shirts, a pair of jeans, and a pair of shorts (...)"

This means that he had several at least a couple of hours' periods when he was wearing just his underpants, waiting for his jeans to be washed or dried.

I think that's more an emotional factor. Like most people care more about a child murdered in the neighbourhood than thousands of children starving in some far-away land. If you combine the suffering of all those people deprived of their £10, the suffering may amount to the same level as depriving one person of £750000. Of course there's no way to know.

I don't think there's a moral difference between scamming 10 pounds (or whatever unit of currency) from 75000 people and scamming one person 750000 pound. The damage is the same, just distributed differently.

The frontpage of CSIRO says "Wireless LAN, CSIRO's #1 invention, is estimated to be in more than three billion devices worldwide.". That doesn't sound like they just invented some clever algorithms.