Steve posted: "Why? Because it is a big fat bloated pig with 500 Million
Lines of code. Ok I'm no techno weenie so just how big is 500 million lines
of code? Keep reading and you will find out. (Hey Boss I need to
requisition a new laptop. Umm, my dog ate it.) " Respond to this post by
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Why? Because it is a big fat bloated pig with 500 Million Lines of
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*Ok I'm no techno weenie so just how big is 500 million lines of code? Keep
reading and you will find out. *
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Opp's there goes another one.
(Hey Boss <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-employment> I need to
requisition a new laptop. Umm, my dog ate it.)
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OK, the dog did not eat it.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney <http://money.cnn.com/> First Published: October 23,
2013: 7:04 AM ET
Experts say the major
problems<http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2013/10/14/n-obamacare-website-errors-exchange-enroll-affordable-care-act.cnnmoney/index.html?iid=EL>
with
the
Obamacare<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act>website
can't reasonably be solved before the end of 2013, and the best fix
would be to start over from scratch.
[image: Yeah, what he said. Uh
Huh!]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/ssig_agree_i_100-100.gif>
Yeah, what he said. Uh Huh!
After assessing the website, Dave Kennedy, the CEO of information-security
companyTrusted Sec <https://www.trustedsec.com/news-and-events/>, estimates
that about 20% of Healthcare.gov <http://www.healthcare.gov/> needs to be
rewritten. *With a whopping 500 million line*s of code, according to a
recent *New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/us/insurance-site-seen-needing-weeks-to-fix.html>*report,
Kennedy believes fixing the site would probably* take six months to a year.*
But would-be Obamacare enrollees only have until Dec. 15
<http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/01/news/economy/obamacare-enrollment/index.html?iid=EL>to
sign up for coverage starting at the beginning of 2014. Nish
Bhalla<http://www.crunchbase.com/person/nish-bhalla>,
CEO of information-security firm Security Compass<http://securitycompass.com/>,
said it "does not sound realistic at all" that Healthcare.gov will be fully
operational before that point.
"We don't even know where all of the problems lie, so how can we solve
them?" Bhalla said. "It's like a drive-by shooting: You're going fast and
you might hit it, you might miss it. *But you can't fix what you can't
identify."*
*Several computer engineers said it would likely be easier to
rebuild*Healthcare.gov than to fix the issues in the current system.
But it's
unlikely that the government would toss out more than $300 million worth of
work.<http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/21/technology/obamacare-website-contracts/?iid=EL>
*The sheer size of Healthcare.gov is indicative of a major rush job*.
Rolling the site out too quickly likely increased the number of errors, and
that makes the fixes more difficult to implement.
*"Projects that are done rapidly*
( May I ask didn't they have like 3 years to build this?)
usually have a lot of [repetitive] code," said Arron Kallenberg, a
software engineer and tech entrepreneur. "So when you have a problem,
instead of debugging something in a single location, you're tracking it
down all through the code base."
*To put 500 million lines of code into perspective, it took just 500,000
lines of code
<http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2012/july/0726-ss-msl.html>
to
send the Curiosity rover
<http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-4.59194444444,137.440277778&spn=0.01,0.01&q=-4.59194444444,137.440277778%20(Curiosity%20%28rover%29)&t=h>
to* *Mars*. Microsoft's
*(MSFT
<http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=MSFT&source=story_quote_link>,
Fortune
500
<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2013/snapshots/3063.html?iid=EL>)*
* Windows 8 operating system reportedly has about 80 million lines of code.
*
*And an online banking system might feature between 75 million and 100
million lines. *
*A "more normal range" for a project like Healthcare.gov is about 25
million to 50 million lines of code, Kennedy said.*
*"The [500 million lines of code] says right off the bat that something is
egregiously wrong," said Kennedy.
<https://www.trustedsec.com/news-and-events/> "I jumped back when I read
that figure. It's just so excessive."*
Applicants might be able to at least register for Obamacare sooner than
that, even if the site isn't 100% perfect. The *New York Times* report said
five million lines of code need to be replaced just so the site can run
properly.
But the Obamacare website has bigger problems than simply getting people
registered for health care.* The code is also riddled with security holes,
according to Kennedy, who outlined his cybersecurity concerns on Trusted
Sec's company blog
<https://www.trustedsec.com/october_2013/affordable-health-care-website-secure-probably/>.*
"If someone can't register, that's obviously bad -*- but if the information
gets hacked, you're talking about one of the biggest breaches in American
history,*" Kennedy said. "I think security is an afterthought at this
point."
( The security and hacking is a story unto itself. It is very bad. I'll do
a follow up tomorrow)
That might not be a major issue now, as people are still having trouble
logging onto the site. But once it's up and running, *that code had better
be made more secure.*
"At this point, the car isn't even moving," Bhalla said. "But once we're
speeding down the road, you're going to want that seatbelt to work." [image:
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page]<http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/23/technology/obamacare-website-fix/?iid=EL#TOP>
Here is a graph to help you understand how much code is in things. The more
code, the more things go wrong.* KISS.* Keep It Simple Stupid.
[image: 1276_lines_of_code5500
million]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/1276_lines_of_code5500-million.jpg>
~Steve~
http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/23/technology/obamacare-website-fix/
*Steve <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/stungunsandmace/>* |
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