I hate to say RTFA, and maybe click on some of the links inside, but you should. One of the links is this one describing how they determine what is an active site.

TL/DR, it says that your 10,000 websites running IIS would be completely ignored by the Netcraft survey of "active" sites, they have an algorithm in there to completely ignore templated "parking" pages and the like.

I am pretty sure you just defined the No true scotsman falacy

That the new combo OS, WebDroid, will be upon us?

This is the best I could find on the ICRC site. The Daily Mail is being a bit obnoxious, but the reality on the ICRC site is pretty stupid.

I play video games to do things I can't (shouldn't, wouldn't couldn't) do in real life, is this so surprising?

Maybe the response from .net developers is more rooted in the fact that a JS/HTML5 based application development language brings a whole lot more developers to the party with less of a learning curve.

Coders write text files for a living, all these programs (vi, emacs, textmate, even notepad.exe, hell, why not?) are, at their core, text editors. Beyond that...

I love watching religious arguments, sanity leaves otherwise rational people :)

Use what works for you and gets you paid.

Your point is valid, but they do not deny this. It is sometimes intended as a political statement:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/carter-awarded-nobel-peace-prize-while-chairman-attacks-bush-policies-607982.html

You know why I love topics like this one? The inevitable Slash-Dot geek off. This is how I learn about a lot of subjects, like here, I don't know astronomy too well, but I know SD has the people with the skills. The trolls are just comic relief.

I would think that any contest for assembling a computer would involve actually turning the computer on to test if you did it right.