My guess would be that this would be an option that would default to "on", but could be turned off by the user.

All the companies that I know of offer an "evaluation" option even if they don't outright say that they do on their website. Most of them can even generate full license keys that are valid for something like 30 days. You just have to ask.

Actually, it's a known fact that Microsoft will commonly put up a BSD server and tweak Apache's response headers to report it as IIS. They have actually been caught doing it a few times. It would look kind of bad if Microsoft doesn't use their own product.

I don't know about NewEgg either. Their prices are not generally the best. Plus, I've received poor customer service from them recently. I'm guessing that they are simply beginning to enjoy their popularity and are starting to rely more on their reputation. My bad experience coupled with other stories has tarnished their image enough for me that I try to go elsewhere online if I can.

Read your contract. For the most part, the company that provides your service does so of their own will. The only thing is, you have money and normally they want to take it from you. If your cable company suddenly decided that they didn't want to offer cable tv to you, there's not much that you can do as long as they refund any service you have paid for that you won't be receiving.

All they will do is send you a letter saying that they are no longer offering the service to you...you will likely see one of two approaches:

- A full refund for your "last month of service"
- A pro-rated refund for the remainder of your paid service (monthly in most cases)

It is entirely up to the company to decide who they want to do business with.

The problem is going to come if a company offers more than one service to a customer. In the case of a cable company, how likely is a customer that has had their internet access cut off going to be to keep their cable tv service?

I personally pay ~$40 for cable internet service, but my monthly cable bill is ~$120. I can guarantee you that if the cable company cuts off my cable internet, they will lose the whole $120 from me.

I am pretty sure you're joking, but you know the shuttle has the flight characteristics of a "flying brick", right?

The wings on the thing are just on there to help control the descent and serve as fuel storage.

I hesitate to call the shuttle a "glider", but that's pretty much what it is.

So, what about all of the schools that migrated to Google Apps and don't pay anything? What do they get?

What about the rift this will cause on the business side...for years to come, employees will value their worth to the company by their ability to run Aero Glass on their desktop...

CCMalloc also detects memory leaks and shows you where they took place. Even uses the GPL! It might not be as easy to use (you link your program to it during compile instead of running the it on a completed binary), and doesnt have a web interface, but its functional, and has been out for years.

I bet someone could write a ld_preload kind of thing that calls ccmalloc, and you could run it on the completed binary as well, so you could run 'ccmalloc ./a.out' just like the 'gsinject -d ./a.out' of this product.

Here is ccmalloc's page.
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/biere/proje cts/ccm alloc/