TWIL- Week #53

This Week I Learned:

• OpenSSL is a very common open source library used for implementing SSL, and it’s regularly seen in web server environments such as Apache and nginx. The Heartbleed bug was introduced in version 1.0.1, which was released in March 2011, and its fix was just released this week in version 1.0.1g.
• It is estimated that this covers about 17 percent of the world’s websites running SSL, but it doesn’t impact web servers that don’t use OpenSSL, such as Microsoft IIS. Customers running Linux images in Azure Virtual Machines, or software which uses OpenSSL, may be vulnerable. 
• About two-thirds of Web servers rely on OpenSSL.
• 44% of Twitter users have never tweeted.
• Mobile is where Twitter earns most of its money. EMarketer expects about 77 percent of Twitter's estimated $1.1 billion in advertising revenue to come from mobile this year.  
• The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb) hosts movie scripts online free for reading and downloading.
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launched Apple on April Fools Day 1976 with a third partner Ronald Wayne, who cashed out his 10% stake of $800 early fearing bankruptcy.
• Infosys has the highest attrition rate among India's top 3 IT outsourcing firms with nearly a fifth of its workforce leaving Infy in the quarter ending December 2013.
• India's software services and outsourcing industry is worth $100 billion. The outsourcing sector relies on US & European companies for about three quarters of its revenue.
• You can know the approximate company size of any company registered with EPFO with Gramener's tool
• At Rs 400 crore, Samsung beats Apple 4:1 in advertising spendings in India.
• India outlawed dowries in 1961
• According to the British medical journal, The Lancet,  one million new cancer cases are being diagnosed in India each year. Fewer than 30% of cancer patients in India survive for more than five years after diagnosis. Around 40% of all cancers in India are attributable to tobacco. Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer deaths overall.
• The Human Genome Project was started in 1989 with the goal of sequencing, or identifying, all three billion chemical units in the human genetic instruction set, finding the genetic roots of disease and then developing treatments. The first draft of the human genome was complete on June 26, 2000. The primary goal of the $3 billion Human Genome Project — to ferret out the genetic roots of common diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s and then generate treatments — remains largely elusive. 
• The number of human genes is astonishingly small compared with those of lower animals. The barely visible roundworm needs 20,000 genes that make proteins, the working parts of cells, whereas humans, apparently so much higher on the evolutionary scale, seem to have only 21,000 protein-coding genes.
• The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000.
• As of March of this year, there were just 9,710 inmates remaining, compared to 9,914 guards. And the number of inmates included 650 Belgian criminals the Netherlands is housing as part of a temporary deal. In the US,the figure is more like one guard or staff member per five prisoners.The overall US incarceration rate is more than 10 times higher than that here.
• "We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Edison
• "Try again. Fail again.Fail better." - Samuel Beckett