Or you could just look at their code... Executable size... MFLOPS... Instead of doing some gay interview like google does "What's the most efficient way to sort a million 32 bit integers?"
More simply, take the sum of all computers running Linux and multiply by the average price of a proprietary OS. You could separate servers and desktops to get more accurate numbers. Additionally, you'd need to add the development cost it would take to make a proprietary OS on-par with Linux, say 1,000,000,000,000 man hours?
True, and the New York Stock Exchange runs on redhat. How much is NYSE worth? How about all the mobile phones? Embedded devices? I'm sure D-Link owes it's success to Linux.
I think the fact that is WAS spotted speaks for open source more than against it. The mere fact that so many people use and develop it almost guarantees eventual peer-reviewing of code. What this means is that if it can happen in an open peer-reviewed product, it can happen in a closed peer-reviewed project. I hate to keep bringing up the Micro$oft fiasco...
The only other backdoor that could be used without requiring a port is a hardware backdoor, such as in the Macs, NICs, certain processors, and certain routers. My personal favorite is the active jamming feature on the Motorola phones, hehe.
The whole point of the article is that they can (possibly)construct synthetic RNA that would regulate gene expression. The fact that they have linked computation to gene expression means they can use computer logic to synthesize RNA that would either express a gene or suppress it; and there is an exact method for doing that now.
Before this, it was a kind of guessing game where they could inhibit a gene but it would turn on expression of some other gene like "violent aggression". I assume this will eventually spin off into a device which takes a sample of your DNA and spits out some mRNA that will fix any genetic problems(or suppress it until you get your next injection). It's gene therapy for the masses... Now they just need a computational model which works for the entire human genome. I just hope they don't use.net to program it: "We're sorry, you'll have to wait 6 years for the calculation to complete".
1. Bloat:.Net does not allow you to include only the classes you want, which are embedded into the runtime executable.
2. Product lock-in
3. My own experience with.net apps has been they are buggy and perform slowly. Maybe it's the developer, maybe the framework, but when the software comes from HP or Microsoft, it's probably not the developer.
I don't see how.net costs any less to develop with than C++ once you factor in the full product lifecycle. If you have a suitable application framework for C++, you can crank out apps pretty quickly.Plus you need to factor the cost for the development tools in. How much is Visual Studio these days? Plus the OS? Plus the MSDN subscription? Do.Net developers cost more?
Seriously, for all the bloat you add with.Net you might as well just use Java unless your goal is to lock the user into a single platform and an endless cycle of upgrades...
There already is too much space. The rich are keeping landholding high by buying hundreds or thousands of acres at a time and sitting on them. I do agree that housing/land is overpriced at the moment and the prices need to come down by at least 50% to reach their true market value. If houses actually cost what they're worth, you'd get a decent house for $100,000. Assuming 20% down, your mortgage would be about $800/month. That's less than half as much money as you'd need in the current bubble market. You could make $5/hr and pay your mortgage. It used to be like that until this bubble took off.
I actually think that more people would be a good thing. Just imagine living 100 years, having 5 different wives and 10 kids... A little black baby-Negroid(or two), an Asian-Mongoloid(or two), a white-bread-Caucasoid(or two), well that's all 3 races. Grand-children, great-grand-children, it's all good.
Even after having lots of kids, working 3 different careers, and traveling all over the world, there'd still be plenty to do and lots to see. 100 years is not nearly long enough, my friend. The more people that come along the better.
Dude, the Earth can support tens of billions of people. There is no overpopulation. The US forces farmers not to grow because there is too much food, and they have barely started using hydroponics for mass-food-production...
The root of the problem is corruption. Let's deal with that. Kill the rich, problem solved. NEXT!
Just use tcpdump on a transparent firewall with stealth enabled. Combined with arpcop, you'll figure it out pretty fast. Then track the port down to a process/thread and see how it got started. For the "sneaking into unused bits on IP headers" version you'll have to look a little deeper into the packets and possibly verify source code and use signature verification.
The easier way is to just read the all the kernel header options and turn off the ones that say NSA_BACKDOOR or something similar(e.g. undocumented header options). Not guaranteed to work, but easy.
As far as the code-monkey you stuffed in the closet: He wrote your companies online financial system using.Net which is vulnerable to an SQL injection attack. Hackers discover this and download your customers' financial data and tell you to pay $10,000 or they'll sell it to the mafia. Instead, you publicly disclose it and inform all your customers. You then hire me at $150/hr to fix it and secure your servers. I figure it'll take a month->$24,000, spank you berry munch.
Well you're not in the clear yet... You still have to ride out the housing bubble, hyperinflation, and a global financial meltdown. So let's assume you get the American dream and become an HR Manager making half what they do today. $50,000 sounds like a lot. Now, let's take 7% inflation for 5 years... You'll be making $34784.4185 in 2008 dollars. Suppose the feds stabilize housing prices by buying defaulted mortgages: The average home price is $200,000 today. Your mortgage payments will be roughly $2,000/month, or $24,000/year. That leaves you with $10,784.42/year. Take off $300/month for electric/sewer/trash/gas and now you've got $7184.42. I assume you'll want to eat and are modest so $200/month- $4,784.42. I guess if you don't drive and live like a monk, you would break even after taxes and be on the way to owning a home. Just hope you don't wind up with a kid or wife to support or get cancer...Oh, and no vacations for you...
That plan sounds a little better, however there is just one problem: when the H1-B worker gets his green card, he quits his job and opens a business right next door to yours. He brings his friends over from China who will work for $2/hr on a tourist visa. He also gets everything half-price from the other Chinese in the neighborhood so his costs are lower. Eventually all your business dries up, he's driving a Lexus, while excluding you because you're white/brown/black.
As for the ridiculous $80,000 salary, let me put this into perspective with an analogy: Cars vs Computers. In cars, you have several different jobs which require different skills and experience levels. The lowest paid would be the guy who changes oil and tires, sort of like the Geek Squad or help Desk. They make about $10/hr. Next up would be the guy who oversees all the tire/oil changers and knows every tire, filter and car, sort of like Tier 2 Help Desk. They make about $15-20/hr. $20/hr=$41,600/yr. Going further up you get the Mechanics, sort of like a System, Database or Network Administrator. They make about $30/hr->$62,400. Seriously, go ask your mechanic how much he/she makes...Next you have the Engineers that design the cars, sort of like a Programmer, Systems Analyst, or Database Developer. These guys all have advanced degrees and 5+ years experience. They make $40/hr->$82,300.
What has happened, thanks to the H1-B program, is that these $40/hr jobs are under attack and the system is rife with fraud. So now the going rate is $20/hr->$40,000 for a programmer because 3rd-worlders will work for that low in order to obtain a green card or have a 2 year working holiday in the states. It's very insulting to the people who played by the rules, earned their degrees, and worked their butts off their whole lives. While we welcome the diversity and talent from abroad, as well the reduction in our workloads, this program has done more harm than good.
To put it in Economics terms, imagine you finish your degree and get an MBA. You go work as a manager for a couple years to get experience. After a while, you run a whole department, after 10 years you run a whole company(CEO). Through the H1-B program, they get a new CEO from Malaysia who will work for $40,000. You laugh at them and go to the next job. And then the next job. Finally you quit looking for work and open your own company. You learn you can't compete due to the Chinese example above.
I'll give you an example: HP printer/scanner/fax drivers/software. You pop in a CD, click next, and then wait for 2 hours while it installs. It sorta works but runs really slow, often hangs or crashes, and has to be reinstalled from time to time for no apparent reason. This is repeatable on 200 different machines.
While I'm sure.net is a dream for programmers, the.net result is buggy programs with barely passable performance and a poor user experience. Java may be poor in performance but it's portable and the performance gets a little better with each release, though I still get hangs and crashes with Java... sigh
I'm not sure what heisenbugs are and haven't seen too many bugs because I use error/exception handlers properly in C++. If you look at the IDEs and libraries available for C++, you'll find you can do anything.net does and more, with speed, reliability, and a positive user experience.
Why would an American business hire an American MBA when they can hire a Philipino MBA from the University of Manila for half the price? Or even a Chinese with a PhD from DingDong U? Everybody knows Chinese people are smarter because they have squinty eyes and they're ethnically superior to whites/blacks/browns? and some study at some university showed they(rich, upper-class Asians in America) scored higher than whites(middle+lower-class, gov't schooled) on intelligence tests... lol
Seriously though, bend over and have your vaseline ready. You are about to be ass-raped by hordes of fake-degree, fake-experience, no-talent losers who will lie, cheat, and steal or do whatever it takes to get your precious job and secure a green card. IT was just the beginning and they already wiped out the nursing profession long ago. Accounting will be next, I suppose, followed by most service-sector jobs that require a degree.
In this day and age, you'd be better off spending your money on cosmetic surgery and going into sales rather than going to college and pursuing the American dream. It's over. Good luck Justin. Maybe Wal-Mart needs an economist but they pay $12.50/hr and no benefits.
Actually I don't code for $8/hr, I teach Asian kids math for about $20/hr and have 8 weeks holiday each year. Muahahaha
If they want to compete with me they're going to have to make it through atomic and molecular physics first. To compete with you they'll just have to make it through algebra and accounting classes... Do you know how many people are getting business degrees? They're like elbows, everybody has 2(well almost everybody).
Yeah I was on an Airbus recently and it was horrible to use the Microsoft system interface for the games and movies. I doubt anyone would be stupid enough to out-source avionics software or run an airplane on Windows...
LIKE WHOT EVAHR! Did you RTFA? Competent people are explicity excluded and NOT hired! I wonder who is paying all these spammers to defend the H1-B visa program or if these are all just H1-B'ers posting on here. There is nothing competitive at all with the H1-B program. It's all about replacing highly skilled workers with liars and louts from 3rd world countries who want green cards.
I've been to Asia and seen their "Universities". A PhD from Asia is like an Undergrad from the US. There are a few exceptions, but not many. Most schools even let you buy off the professors, you can retake exams 50 times, bribe the deans, etc. It's a system which is rife with corruption, plagiarism, incompetence, nepotism, and cronyism. If you think you can just hire any Philipino or Chinese person to program your back-end corporate systems, think again. Hey didn't the London stock exchange crash recently due to outsourced software?
OK, so everybody wants competition. How about this: We just have a big who-for-all. You know, programmers sell their skills to the highest bidder. Free market competition, may the best programmers win! Oh and if your Vista box gets compromised or Microsoft and RIAA sue you for piracy, you're on your own. I'll compete at $8/hr for programming dollars and eat at the Mexican burrito-stands that charge $0.25 for a meal. I'll have my house build by slaves at $3/hr, and I'll even be able to afford the $15/hr prositute.
I got muscled out of a job by some H1-B India mafiosos. It's not just recruiting companies, but the workers themselves who know the system and exploit it to get their friends/family over here and create a workplace mafia.
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Vista was about $6.8 billion.
Or you could just look at their code... Executable size... MFLOPS... Instead of doing some gay interview like google does "What's the most efficient way to sort a million 32 bit integers?"
More simply, take the sum of all computers running Linux and multiply by the average price of a proprietary OS. You could separate servers and desktops to get more accurate numbers. Additionally, you'd need to add the development cost it would take to make a proprietary OS on-par with Linux, say 1,000,000,000,000 man hours?
True, and the New York Stock Exchange runs on redhat. How much is NYSE worth? How about all the mobile phones? Embedded devices? I'm sure D-Link owes it's success to Linux.
I think the fact that is WAS spotted speaks for open source more than against it. The mere fact that so many people use and develop it almost guarantees eventual peer-reviewing of code. What this means is that if it can happen in an open peer-reviewed product, it can happen in a closed peer-reviewed project. I hate to keep bringing up the Micro$oft fiasco...
The only other backdoor that could be used without requiring a port is a hardware backdoor, such as in the Macs, NICs, certain processors, and certain routers. My personal favorite is the active jamming feature on the Motorola phones, hehe.
The whole point of the article is that they can (possibly)construct synthetic RNA that would regulate gene expression. The fact that they have linked computation to gene expression means they can use computer logic to synthesize RNA that would either express a gene or suppress it; and there is an exact method for doing that now.
.net to program it: "We're sorry, you'll have to wait 6 years for the calculation to complete".
Before this, it was a kind of guessing game where they could inhibit a gene but it would turn on expression of some other gene like "violent aggression". I assume this will eventually spin off into a device which takes a sample of your DNA and spits out some mRNA that will fix any genetic problems(or suppress it until you get your next injection). It's gene therapy for the masses... Now they just need a computational model which works for the entire human genome. I just hope they don't use
1. Bloat: .Net does not allow you to include only the classes you want, which are embedded into the runtime executable. .net apps has been they are buggy and perform slowly. Maybe it's the developer, maybe the framework, but when the software comes from HP or Microsoft, it's probably not the developer.
.net costs any less to develop with than C++ once you factor in the full product lifecycle. If you have a suitable application framework for C++, you can crank out apps pretty quickly.Plus you need to factor the cost for the development tools in. How much is Visual Studio these days? Plus the OS? Plus the MSDN subscription? Do .Net developers cost more?
.Net you might as well just use Java unless your goal is to lock the user into a single platform and an endless cycle of upgrades...
2. Product lock-in
3. My own experience with
I don't see how
Seriously, for all the bloat you add with
No, a weakness in the RNG or an encryption weakness would be spotted quickly. One can make a quick $10,000 just for spotting those...
There already is too much space. The rich are keeping landholding high by buying hundreds or thousands of acres at a time and sitting on them. I do agree that housing/land is overpriced at the moment and the prices need to come down by at least 50% to reach their true market value. If houses actually cost what they're worth, you'd get a decent house for $100,000. Assuming 20% down, your mortgage would be about $800/month. That's less than half as much money as you'd need in the current bubble market. You could make $5/hr and pay your mortgage. It used to be like that until this bubble took off.
I actually think that more people would be a good thing. Just imagine living 100 years, having 5 different wives and 10 kids... A little black baby-Negroid(or two), an Asian-Mongoloid(or two), a white-bread-Caucasoid(or two), well that's all 3 races. Grand-children, great-grand-children, it's all good.
Even after having lots of kids, working 3 different careers, and traveling all over the world, there'd still be plenty to do and lots to see. 100 years is not nearly long enough, my friend. The more people that come along the better.
Dude, the Earth can support tens of billions of people. There is no overpopulation. The US forces farmers not to grow because there is too much food, and they have barely started using hydroponics for mass-food-production...
The root of the problem is corruption. Let's deal with that. Kill the rich, problem solved. NEXT!
If you've got an Apple, the backdoor is in the hardware so yer screwed.
Just use tcpdump on a transparent firewall with stealth enabled. Combined with arpcop, you'll figure it out pretty fast. Then track the port down to a process/thread and see how it got started. For the "sneaking into unused bits on IP headers" version you'll have to look a little deeper into the packets and possibly verify source code and use signature verification.
The easier way is to just read the all the kernel header options and turn off the ones that say NSA_BACKDOOR or something similar(e.g. undocumented header options). Not guaranteed to work, but easy.
That would be FreeBSD... Just compile your own kernel and remove their backdoors.
As far as the code-monkey you stuffed in the closet: He wrote your companies online financial system using .Net which is vulnerable to an SQL injection attack. Hackers discover this and download your customers' financial data and tell you to pay $10,000 or they'll sell it to the mafia. Instead, you publicly disclose it and inform all your customers. You then hire me at $150/hr to fix it and secure your servers. I figure it'll take a month->$24,000, spank you berry munch.
Well you're not in the clear yet... You still have to ride out the housing bubble, hyperinflation, and a global financial meltdown. So let's assume you get the American dream and become an HR Manager making half what they do today. $50,000 sounds like a lot. Now, let's take 7% inflation for 5 years... You'll be making $34784.4185 in 2008 dollars. Suppose the feds stabilize housing prices by buying defaulted mortgages: The average home price is $200,000 today. Your mortgage payments will be roughly $2,000/month, or $24,000/year. That leaves you with $10,784.42/year. Take off $300/month for electric/sewer/trash/gas and now you've got $7184.42. I assume you'll want to eat and are modest so $200/month- $4,784.42. I guess if you don't drive and live like a monk, you would break even after taxes and be on the way to owning a home. Just hope you don't wind up with a kid or wife to support or get cancer...Oh, and no vacations for you...
That plan sounds a little better, however there is just one problem: when the H1-B worker gets his green card, he quits his job and opens a business right next door to yours. He brings his friends over from China who will work for $2/hr on a tourist visa. He also gets everything half-price from the other Chinese in the neighborhood so his costs are lower. Eventually all your business dries up, he's driving a Lexus, while excluding you because you're white/brown/black.
As for the ridiculous $80,000 salary, let me put this into perspective with an analogy: Cars vs Computers. In cars, you have several different jobs which require different skills and experience levels. The lowest paid would be the guy who changes oil and tires, sort of like the Geek Squad or help Desk. They make about $10/hr. Next up would be the guy who oversees all the tire/oil changers and knows every tire, filter and car, sort of like Tier 2 Help Desk. They make about $15-20/hr. $20/hr=$41,600/yr. Going further up you get the Mechanics, sort of like a System, Database or Network Administrator. They make about $30/hr->$62,400. Seriously, go ask your mechanic how much he/she makes...Next you have the Engineers that design the cars, sort of like a Programmer, Systems Analyst, or Database Developer. These guys all have advanced degrees and 5+ years experience. They make $40/hr->$82,300.
What has happened, thanks to the H1-B program, is that these $40/hr jobs are under attack and the system is rife with fraud. So now the going rate is $20/hr->$40,000 for a programmer because 3rd-worlders will work for that low in order to obtain a green card or have a 2 year working holiday in the states. It's very insulting to the people who played by the rules, earned their degrees, and worked their butts off their whole lives. While we welcome the diversity and talent from abroad, as well the reduction in our workloads, this program has done more harm than good.
To put it in Economics terms, imagine you finish your degree and get an MBA. You go work as a manager for a couple years to get experience. After a while, you run a whole department, after 10 years you run a whole company(CEO). Through the H1-B program, they get a new CEO from Malaysia who will work for $40,000. You laugh at them and go to the next job. And then the next job. Finally you quit looking for work and open your own company. You learn you can't compete due to the Chinese example above.
I'll give you an example: HP printer/scanner/fax drivers/software. You pop in a CD, click next, and then wait for 2 hours while it installs. It sorta works but runs really slow, often hangs or crashes, and has to be reinstalled from time to time for no apparent reason. This is repeatable on 200 different machines.
.net is a dream for programmers, the .net result is buggy programs with barely passable performance and a poor user experience. Java may be poor in performance but it's portable and the performance gets a little better with each release, though I still get hangs and crashes with Java... sigh
.net does and more, with speed, reliability, and a positive user experience.
While I'm sure
I'm not sure what heisenbugs are and haven't seen too many bugs because I use error/exception handlers properly in C++. If you look at the IDEs and libraries available for C++, you'll find you can do anything
Why would an American business hire an American MBA when they can hire a Philipino MBA from the University of Manila for half the price? Or even a Chinese with a PhD from DingDong U? Everybody knows Chinese people are smarter because they have squinty eyes and they're ethnically superior to whites/blacks/browns? and some study at some university showed they(rich, upper-class Asians in America) scored higher than whites(middle+lower-class, gov't schooled) on intelligence tests... lol
Seriously though, bend over and have your vaseline ready. You are about to be ass-raped by hordes of fake-degree, fake-experience, no-talent losers who will lie, cheat, and steal or do whatever it takes to get your precious job and secure a green card. IT was just the beginning and they already wiped out the nursing profession long ago. Accounting will be next, I suppose, followed by most service-sector jobs that require a degree.
In this day and age, you'd be better off spending your money on cosmetic surgery and going into sales rather than going to college and pursuing the American dream. It's over. Good luck Justin. Maybe Wal-Mart needs an economist but they pay $12.50/hr and no benefits.
Actually I don't code for $8/hr, I teach Asian kids math for about $20/hr and have 8 weeks holiday each year. Muahahaha If they want to compete with me they're going to have to make it through atomic and molecular physics first. To compete with you they'll just have to make it through algebra and accounting classes... Do you know how many people are getting business degrees? They're like elbows, everybody has 2(well almost everybody).
Yeah I was on an Airbus recently and it was horrible to use the Microsoft system interface for the games and movies. I doubt anyone would be stupid enough to out-source avionics software or run an airplane on Windows...
LIKE WHOT EVAHR! Did you RTFA? Competent people are explicity excluded and NOT hired! I wonder who is paying all these spammers to defend the H1-B visa program or if these are all just H1-B'ers posting on here. There is nothing competitive at all with the H1-B program. It's all about replacing highly skilled workers with liars and louts from 3rd world countries who want green cards.
I've been to Asia and seen their "Universities". A PhD from Asia is like an Undergrad from the US. There are a few exceptions, but not many. Most schools even let you buy off the professors, you can retake exams 50 times, bribe the deans, etc. It's a system which is rife with corruption, plagiarism, incompetence, nepotism, and cronyism. If you think you can just hire any Philipino or Chinese person to program your back-end corporate systems, think again. Hey didn't the London stock exchange crash recently due to outsourced software?
OK, so everybody wants competition. How about this: We just have a big who-for-all. You know, programmers sell their skills to the highest bidder. Free market competition, may the best programmers win! Oh and if your Vista box gets compromised or Microsoft and RIAA sue you for piracy, you're on your own. I'll compete at $8/hr for programming dollars and eat at the Mexican burrito-stands that charge $0.25 for a meal. I'll have my house build by slaves at $3/hr, and I'll even be able to afford the $15/hr prositute.
I got muscled out of a job by some H1-B India mafiosos. It's not just recruiting companies, but the workers themselves who know the system and exploit it to get their friends/family over here and create a workplace mafia.
Exactly! That's about how much teachers make and they get way better benefits and job security than IT slaves.