Given sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.

This is a classic

If a conglomorate offers you a six+ figure salary to do what you essentially do for fun, are you really going to say no?

Last year I DJ'd for the CanSecWest dinner party, and I was kinda amused to see that a lot of the people who were at the conference were ex-blackhats anyway. A good number of them had criminal records and were now raking in hella money working on the legit side (a shitload more than they made during their blackhat careers). I even met a couple of them at a 2600 meeting once.

Hackers are hackers, regardless of which side of the legal coin they fall on. The exploits used are known to anybody with the resources to find them. In fact, last year nobody took home the Linux box not because they couldn't find any exploits, but because there was so much more effort and time involved in breaking the linux systems that everybody just went for the OSX or Windows machines. Versions of this contest probably exist in the blackhat world, but are a lot less publicized because they don't have industry heavyweights like Cisco or Microsoft sponsoring it.

I probably have to reboot every month or two. Or have you forgotten of the concept of a kernel update?

Am I the only one who read that and understood he was worried about chafing?

There are also scores & times to back them up.

When you watch gymnastics, and after the competitor does their routine, you hear a bunch of numbers being rattled off like "5.1, 5.4, 5.3, 5.3, 4.0" (fucking Russian judge). Those are the numbers backing up the results, so people can discern for themselves who came in first, second and third. This does not exist in the article, you're basically just taking their word for it.

It also keeps the reader from performing their own benchmarks and comparing their results with those of the article, meaning that this article really can't be looked at in any scrutiny, meaning that the conclusions that they make are about as reliable as the theory of Intelligent Design (that is to say, sure they're possible, but there's no way that we can verify that - hence why ID isn't considered a science).