It's not about how much money someone needs. It's about how much money someone is worth to a company.

CEOs are much harder to replace than tellers. And the loss of a CEO is much more detrimental to a bank than the loss of a teller. This is what makes CEOs worth more than tellers (to a bank) and why it makes sense for banks to pay CEOs much more.

Are some CEO's overpaid? Yes, of course. But should CEOs make less money just because tellers make less money? No.

There are security concerns in every company, without exception. Obviously, even the NSA itself had inadequate security!

Yes, many times security concerns are brought up, and brushed off. But this is not necessarily an indication of a problem. Every security risk must be weighed based on the likelihood of occurrence, and the severity of the impact, should it occur. Many of these calculations are inexact, and must be based on incomplete information.

Should Target have protected themselves better? Probably. But hindsight is 20/20. The difficult part is to anticipate the problems that might occur, without crippling your organization through impossibly tight security.

After watching the healthcare.gov debacle, it would seem that surpassing nation-state-created software is a very low hurdle!

Which is it, dollars or bitcoin???

Seems the concept is so new that the language hasn't caught up yet.

10. When I reply to a post, show my reply in place, under the comment I replied to. Currently in beta, my reply doesn't show up until I re-load the whole page.

9. Let me edit my post after I've submitted it...please!

I see a lot of complaints here, but not a lot of specifics. Here are a few items that could use improvement:

1. The Comment Threshold doesn't stick. I don't want to read all the 0 and -1 comments. I can switch it to what I want, but I have to re-set it each time I select a new story.
2. The "Load More" button should go away. I want to be able to scan quickly through the comments, without having to click to load more when there are lots of them. That's what broadband is for!
3. The "Parent" link is gone from the bottom of each comment. When my threshold is set to, say, 2, I might still want to read the parent of a comment that catches my eye.
4. Too much white space.
5. Too much WHITE.
6. The Moderate link isn't as easy to use, too spread apart.
7. The comments don't appear below the survey results, even though it says there are comments about the survey.
8. When posting, pressing the Enter key twice to double-line-space between paragraphs...quadruple-spaces instead of just double.

What makes a language good?

French is a language that is kept pure by the tight control exercised by the French Academy. It has a unique, pleasant sound. It does have weaknesses, such as the lack of phonetic spelling. But is it good? By many measures, yes. Is it successful? Well, it's not dying, but it's not exactly taking over the world, either.

English is nearly the opposite of French. English is promiscuous, allowing in words from any language that is convenient at the time, and even new made-up words. New words and syntaxes become standard just by being used by enough people. Is it good? Well, it does the job. Is it successful? Yes, certainly, it is a language considered essential in many countries. It may be that the very lack of purity of English is what has made it so successful.

JavaScript is more like English than French. It's not pretty, but it works, and it's everywhere. Many people are trying different things with it, different ways to construct useful software. The very lack of enforcement of structure and looseness of the language may be what accounts for its success.

So is JavaScript good? There is already a massive amount of JavaScript software out there. Much of it is shoddy, but there is a steadily growing amount of high-quality software as well. Measured by that standard of how useful it is, I'd say it certainly is good.

Bing!

The programmers contributing to Webkit from Apple, Google, and Nokia have probably never met, or spoken to, any member of the legal departments of those companies. The lawyers do their thing, and the programmers do their thing. The programmers don't care about the lawsuit, they just want to make a great rendering engine! It's not at all far-fetched for big companies to sue each other, and cooperate with each other, all at the same time.

You're assuming he knew it was a Chrome extension. If he wiped the OS, he would have done that because he didn't know.

Every computer science student for decades was taught how to write a bubble sort, as an example of sorting algorithms. Never mind that it is hard to imagine a more inefficient algorithm. And never mind that it isn't even a very intuitive way to sort a list of objects. Every student learned it anyway, and many of them probably took it with them to their future employers.

The author was about to try wiping the OS and reinstalling. But when he installed Chrome, it would have auto-installed the extension on the clean new OS. Just lovely.

Parents might not be experts at dentistry, but somehow we expect them to choose a good dentist anyway. And they often manage to do so, if they care enough to do the research. I'm certainly glad to have a choice of dentists, rather than having to go to the one YOU tell me I must go to!

I'm lucky enough to be able to choose a private education for my children. They received an excellent education. I wish everyone could have the same choice. Charter schools are a welcome step in that direction.

If public schools become better because of charter schools, that's great! But that's not the main point.

The main point of charter schools is to give parents a CHOICE when it comes to their children's education. Different parents value different aspects of education more highly than others. There is no one-size-fits-all model!

There are lots of choices when it comes to cars. Even with all that choice, there are some really bad car models out there! But with all that diversity, everybody can find something they like. Some value reliability, some focus on crash-worthiness, some on gas mileage, some on towing capacity. Which customers are right?

With choices in education, there will be good charter schools and bad ones, and there will be good public schools and bad ones. But charter schools give parents options without necessarily having to move to a different school district with features they like!