No, it's more like saying "the author put it up in a site designed first and foremost to share stuff, so it must've been his intention to actually share it".

Biggest difference is that RIAA doesn't have solid data that solidly explains where the missing sales should have come from. Mozilla does know that the missing downloads were from the EU Ballot (there's a channel parameter in the download url).

We're talking about downloads, it's all about grabbing the users when they first use a computer. The ballot shows up once, when you first boot the computer fresh out of the box (It might have a "ask me again later" button, can't recall). While computers shipped with Win7 pre-SP1, all users were asked if they wanted some other browser than IE. Once computers started shipping with Win7 SP1, the ballot stopped showing up for new purchases. After the fix, new computers started showing the ballot again, and downloads started pouring.

They're not interpolating two data points. Have you looked at the charts? There's clearly a strong drop off around the time where the ballot was removed, and a big re-uptake when it was reinstated.

Or that the winning scientist figured out how to create instantaneous, full-grown, mind controlled clones.

If I rob a bank, out of my own initiative and without the consent of the owners, there's no reason why I should go to prison if my only purpose was to show the owners they had some security flaws. Right?

They're the copyright owners, they don't need to follow this license.

At which point you go to the dropbox website and undelete it.

Well, you're still paying for the engineering that went into the car, which is also intellectual property.

I don't think it's a matter of drinking the kool-aid. It's more a matter of looking at it from Apple's perspective. The platform lock-in would be good for Apple, so he's arguing that not only is this change bad for consumers and developers, in harming the chances of that lock-in happening the change also harms apple's bottom line.

You've got it subtly wrong: It's not that "by process of elimination that must be the Higgs". Rather, it's a matter of "We expect the Higgs to be in one of these places" (or, rather, be within this mass range), and then exhaustively looking at all those places for it. In one of those places, they found an unknown particle. By Occam's Razor, it being the Higgs is a more reasonable assumption than it being some other particle that's in the same mass range as the Higgs, but we hadn't actually predicted. Also, from what I gather (I have a few physicist friends, including a guy that was until recently working in CERN), the particle they found is pretty "boring", in that it behaves pretty much as it ought to, no weird stuff. So that also helps towards the conclusion that it must indeed be the Higgs.

Installing Linux already has a reputation for being technically challenging (even if it actually isn't, these days, but whatever). What you're saying is that, unless distros jump in on the secure boot ship, then they'll have to add to their installation instructions something like "depending on the make of your motherboard, you'll need to open the computer and perform one of flipping a DIP switch, placing/pulling a jumper, or entering a 32-character code that's written on the motherboard".

That, alone, will desktop kill Linux for non-techies. And if that isn't worthy of anti-trust investigation, I don't know what is.

One particular case I know works is Apple displays over thunderbolt. You can connect one display to your computer's thunderbolt port, then a second display to the first display's TB port and it'll daisy chain.

Because many of the prefixed CSS properties have not actually been fully standardised, so having vendors support them with prefixes and varying (possibly incomplete!) implementations/syntaxes means we actually get to try the various approaches being proposed, and only pick one to standardise on once the dust has settled and people have made up their minds as to which one is better.

An average of 15 minutes on your mobile per day? How the hell is that medium usage? I have a 100-minute contract and never spend all of it.