If you're graduating in May and have ANY job offers in this economy in Comp Sci, you should be ecstatic... There's plenty of experienced people who can't get an interview, much less a job. Stop whining and get over it. Maybe 4-5 years ago you could make 45-55k with a Comp Sci bachelors and no experience, but not today.
C# innovated this, and already has this in the spec
-- You got to be kidding me, try AdA 25 years ago, much less C++ if you want to talk about an OO language that had it first.
syntactic sugar for loops
"foreach": C# innovated and already has this, implemented years ago
-- Innovated? had been in scripting languages for umm, well since scripting languages existed.
enumerated types
Java didn't have this before? LOL
-- Heh yeah it's not really a horribly useful programming construct. In truth, I've seen way too many bad programmers abuse enumerated types to make thier code hard to maintain and difficult to modify. So woopde do dah.
C# is/was just a glorified MS copy of Java to begin with. I'd hope they would have added something on to an idea they ripped off that someone else already figured out the difficult solutions for.
I don't really see anything diabolical here. Someone write a virus(s) that cost MS a lot of money and time. They want them to be caught, and so put up a substantially lesser ammount of money as a reward.
It boils down one way or another that distributing a virus is a crime, whether it's against windows or not, and whether or not it causes them to fix a vulnerability. If you're really that worried about it i'm sure they wouldn't mind you simply telling them about it instead of costing thousands of completely innocent people hundred of thousands , if not millions, of dollars of non-MS money just to "get a point accross".
It's not like I can call up the FBI, turn in some guy I don't like with no evidence whatsover, collect $250,000 and viola, he goes to jail and I get rich.
There are rewards posted all the time by government as well as private organizations for info leading to the arrest of criminals. The only new thing about this is that it happens to be cybercrime instead of murder / kidnapping / burglary / etc etc etc...
I'm sure i'll get flamed to hell for seeming to support an MS position, so flame on!
After reading his blog and the bbc article, it's fairly misleading to say he quit his job. He is a hack writer who has obviously been writing similar subjects(online worlds, etc) for a while. This "project" is simply an extension of that job. More likely he'll write an article or whatnot and sell it to some publisher/magazine somewhere. Might even get a book out of it.
Read between the lines.
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If you're graduating in May and have ANY job offers in this economy in Comp Sci, you should be ecstatic... There's plenty of experienced people who can't get an interview, much less a job. Stop whining and get over it. Maybe 4-5 years ago you could make 45-55k with a Comp Sci bachelors and no experience, but not today.
I hope that he's not using thier technology to stop(read land) after going 250kph, cause he'll prolly hit something and never be heard from again.
We would all be fish.
generics support
C# innovated this, and already has this in the spec
-- You got to be kidding me, try AdA 25 years ago, much less C++ if you want to talk about an OO language that had it first.
syntactic sugar for loops
"foreach": C# innovated and already has this, implemented years ago
-- Innovated? had been in scripting languages for umm, well since scripting languages existed.
enumerated types
Java didn't have this before? LOL
-- Heh yeah it's not really a horribly useful programming construct. In truth, I've seen way too many bad programmers abuse enumerated types to make thier code hard to maintain and difficult to modify. So woopde do dah.
C# is/was just a glorified MS copy of Java to begin with. I'd hope they would have added something on to an idea they ripped off that someone else already figured out the difficult solutions for.
I don't really see anything diabolical here. Someone write a virus(s) that cost MS a lot of money and time. They want them to be caught, and so put up a substantially lesser ammount of money as a reward. It boils down one way or another that distributing a virus is a crime, whether it's against windows or not, and whether or not it causes them to fix a vulnerability. If you're really that worried about it i'm sure they wouldn't mind you simply telling them about it instead of costing thousands of completely innocent people hundred of thousands , if not millions, of dollars of non-MS money just to "get a point accross". It's not like I can call up the FBI, turn in some guy I don't like with no evidence whatsover, collect $250,000 and viola, he goes to jail and I get rich. There are rewards posted all the time by government as well as private organizations for info leading to the arrest of criminals. The only new thing about this is that it happens to be cybercrime instead of murder / kidnapping / burglary / etc etc etc... I'm sure i'll get flamed to hell for seeming to support an MS position, so flame on!
After reading his blog and the bbc article, it's fairly misleading to say he quit his job. He is a hack writer who has obviously been writing similar subjects(online worlds, etc) for a while. This "project" is simply an extension of that job. More likely he'll write an article or whatnot and sell it to some publisher/magazine somewhere. Might even get a book out of it. Read between the lines.