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Comment Re:Without remorse there is no rehabilitation. (Score 1) 161

This coward is right. He unequivocally states that he has no regrets. In his mind, it's the companies' faults for having security holes. It's the governments fault for overstating the effect of his actions. He says now there is little difference between what he does now, and what he did then, with one little difference - "authorization." As if that were a trivial difference.

Comment Re:Where does Light Peak fit? (Score 1) 311

I was going to attempt to refute your comment about bandwidth, but it appears that you are right and the summary/article are wrong. The summary says GB or gigabyte, but it looks like it's actually 10 Gigabit, scaling to 100 Gigabit by 2020. Note to anonymous submitter and editableapple.com: bandwidth is measured in bits.

Comment Re:Medium is appropriate... (Score 1) 325

This is such crap. Performance/Security should be an objective classification of the nature of the problem. By your metric, virtually any bug could be classified as performance.

"This app displays 'PONIES' instead of my user name. That's a performance issue because I have to remove that text before typing in my username."

"This app crashes everytime on startup. That's a performance issue because I won't be able to get my information until the issue is fixed."

I say this as someone who works in the Performance group at a software company. I prefer the less ambiguous "response time." Which means, it works, but it's slow.

Comment Re:Demographic Data (Score 1) 228

Google (and I assume Facebook as well) make it very easy for a company to evaluate the impact of their advertisements. It's called analytics. It only, requires a few variables, CPC (cost per click), conversion rate, revenue per transaction. Google is nice enough to provide a ROI in bold at the bottom of the page. I set this up at a retail website that I used to work for. The data makes a very convincing argument that Google advertising is worth it.

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