There are complicated reasons why there were different PGP versions made outside the US back in the 1990s, when there were US export restrictions on cryptographic software. These laws had a loophole that allowed cryptographic source code in printed books to be exported. We cleverly exploited this loophole by publishing books containing the complete PGP source code, exported these books to Europe and then arranged for them to be scanned via OCR back into a computer.
What you've listed are versions of Solaris and its compiler.
For your information, Solaris is very backwards compatible in both categories. If you compiled a solaris application with workshop 5 on solaris 2.6, these 8 year old binaries will run today on Solaris 10.
And 32-bit Sparc applications can run in all Solaris versions that are 64-bit (i.e. all in the last 10 years) with no problem.
Linux (and gcc) cannot touch Solaris's stability and backwards compatibility. Try again.
Most programs written in C/C++ crash due to invalid memory access, usually resulting from following bad pointers. Crashes from buffer overflows are rare by comparison.
For a business, getting revenue from the support side costs more than from the product side. You have to staff up human beings and call centers for support. You have neither cost for product.
Widget foo once developed (with a large R&D cost up front) can be sold many times over without incurring any cost, except for maybe cost of media, which is dirt cheap.
Yahoo! tracks clicks on the Yahoo! Toolbar in order to improve the Toolbar. This information is not used to target advertising to users.
... Yahoo! counts clicks on the Bookmarks button, but does not track the actual bookmarked sites visited.
... The Toolbar does not collect or report information about your visits to any web sites unless you have enabled the Web Rank feature.
etc.
Now if you knowingly download and install the Toolbar yourself, you clearly are ok with this (you did read the privacy notice right?). But for someone to have this installed on their computer without their consent is definitely just plain wrong.
Yes, it was in Cringely's book, but the quote from Kildall was, "Ask Bill why function code 6 ends in a dollar sign. No one in the world knows that but me."
What if someone stole your credit card and start charging with it? In the States, you're liable for only $50 if you do not report a stolen credit card in a timely fashion. There is no way you should be criminally convicted if someone else used your credit card.
The presumption of innocence means that the burden is on the prosecution to present more evidence to show your criminal intent beyond a reasonable doubt, e.g. evidence that shows that you knowingly participated in this scheme, etc.
It goes on explain why DeGroot's conviction was overturned. The only piece of evidence that the prosecutor presented against her is a credit card statement showing purchases of those domain names used by the spammers. However her lawyers contend that it doesn't prove that she actually made the purchases; her brother or someone else could've used her card to purchase those domain names.
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Example from another industry? The Dish DVR v.s. Tivo is a good comparison.
FYI,
The source code was printed in a book in order to circumvent U.S. Export Restrictions at the time.
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What you've listed are versions of Solaris and its compiler.
For your information, Solaris is very backwards compatible in both categories. If you compiled a solaris application with workshop 5 on solaris 2.6, these 8 year old binaries will run today on Solaris 10.
And 32-bit Sparc applications can run in all Solaris versions that are 64-bit (i.e. all in the last 10 years) with no problem.
Linux (and gcc) cannot touch Solaris's stability and backwards compatibility. Try again.
This summary reads like the Chewbacca Defense.
If you fork, you must contribute your code back to the main base.
If you fork, Marc will sue your ass.
You have to try to connect, and FAIL, to be assigned a 169.254.x.y address.
Most programs written in C/C++ crash due to invalid memory access, usually resulting from following bad pointers. Crashes from buffer overflows are rare by comparison.
You need luck.
Being at the right place at the right time to have the right things happen.
Why is it that people attribte their successes to skill but their failures to bad luck?
The Chinese language has many dialects. The government decrees mandarin as the official spoken dialect. http://chineseculture.about.com/cs/language/a/dial ects.htm
For a business, getting revenue from the support side costs more than from the product side. You have to staff up human beings and call centers for support. You have neither cost for product.
Widget foo once developed (with a large R&D cost up front) can be sold many times over without incurring any cost, except for maybe cost of media, which is dirt cheap.
By your own definition, Yahoo Toolbar is spyware. See the Yahoo Toolbar's Privacy Page: http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/toolbar/detail s.html
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etc.Now if you knowingly download and install the Toolbar yourself, you clearly are ok with this (you did read the privacy notice right?). But for someone to have this installed on their computer without their consent is definitely just plain wrong.
Yes, it was in Cringely's book, but the quote from Kildall was, "Ask Bill why function code 6 ends in a dollar sign. No one in the world knows that but me."
See this link http://dfarq.homeip.net/article/1197
What if someone stole your credit card and start charging with it? In the States, you're liable for only $50 if you do not report a stolen credit card in a timely fashion. There is no way you should be criminally convicted if someone else used your credit card.
The presumption of innocence means that the burden is on the prosecution to present more evidence to show your criminal intent beyond a reasonable doubt, e.g. evidence that shows that you knowingly participated in this scheme, etc.
If you RTFA (yeah right), you know that the main spammer, Jeremy Jaynes, remains convicted.
It is his sister, Jessica DeGroot, who had her conviction overturned. Unfortunately, TFA is rather short on details.
Here is a better article: http://www.leesburg2day.com/current.cfm?catid=19&It goes on explain why DeGroot's conviction was overturned. The only piece of evidence that the prosecutor presented against her is a credit card statement showing purchases of those domain names used by the spammers. However her lawyers contend that it doesn't prove that she actually made the purchases; her brother or someone else could've used her card to purchase those domain names.