Anyone can download the Java and Jini source codes, thus becoming a member of the club of developers.

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The lawsuit does indicate a nearly comical level of piracy, including identical (and meaningless) bugs between the source codes.

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Computers will be able to improve their own source codes and hardware in ways we puny humans could never conceive.

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Using modest skills as a programmer and considerable talent as an impersonator, he tricked employees of computer companies and phone equipment manufacturers into passing him confidential source codes.

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China can be a source of stability and help to underwrite international norms and codes of conduct.

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In recent years, passing on sensitive data points like e-mail addresses and credit card codes to marketing partners has also been a frequent source of corporate data breaches--about 40% of all breach incidents were a result of a third party's handling of data, according to another Ponemon study, released in November 2007.

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