I disagree with point 6. You'd have to be pretty weak to not be able to steer a car with no power steering. The dangerous point is the transition, when the car doesn't respond as expected. It doesn't take very long to acclimate to the changed response of the car, but I guess that if the power steering failed just before a sharp bend there's a chance that you could go off the road. Likely not though, if you have a decent reaction time.
And the power brakes...oh no, you have to push a bit harder! Unless something leaps out in front of you at that moment, or (I suppose) you're coming up on a stop sign/light faster than you should be, you should be fine on that one.
The intent of copyright is to make it worthwhile for an author to produce a work. No advancement in technology has magically increased the pace of book sales. The time from final draft to published book may have changed, but (originally, not sure about now) copyright applied only after the work was published. So yes, 14 years is a reasonable time to be compensated for the time spent creating the work, which hasn't changed significantly in those 200 years.
You think it would be better to create some complex system for copyright length, based on the type of work? The goal is to encourage creativity by authors (not inventors, they get patents!), not simply to make lawyers and accountants filthy rich figuring out how long copyright is on some particular work.
At least we're agreed that the current system sucks. "life of the author + 70 years" is way too long; why should we compensate the author's descendents, who had nothing to do with the creation of the work?
As for patents, their length is pretty reasonable for the few inventions that actually deserve it. The problem with that is that patents are given out much too freely, and now apply to things that are not inventions.
Don't forget that the "best" solution is probably also a simple one, which "some sort of equation for each category of work" is not. There's nothing magical about 14 years, but it's a) reasonable, and b) simple.
So do they need to "share the wealth" with owners of webpages to whom they link?
Or is providing the indexing service payment enough?
Most web page authors seem to feel that it is. Several authors have stated that they feel the same about their books. All the more so in that if you wish to read the book, you still have to buy it; Google's service would just make it easier to find!
I'm pretty sure that depends on particular hardware... I find that the Microsoft devices tend to have a really easy-to-scroll wheel, with a hard-to-click middle button.
IMO the Logitech devices (I use a Trackman Wheel) tend to strike a much better balance in this respect.
Right, but you talked about ease of guessing the password. Giving out their passwords doesn't make them any easier to guess.
And it doesn't seem like a surprising reaction, really. Is there any other provision for them to share their files with other people, e.g. webspace, or some other read-only file sharing method?
Aside from that even, what's the harm going to be?
If the system is set up properly, it should not be a system level security breach; the only thing a malicious person should be able to do with the account is damage that specific student's files. And if they lose their work, well.. it's their own damn fault. Hopefully they'll learn from their mistake. And it's likely that they'll learn better from that than from having their ability to work removed.
And what if they need a file for a class, and can't get to it because somebody guessed their password and you disabled their account for it? They're screwed, I suppose.
Since you map forward and backward to two buttons, and you can't effectively do both at once, it doesn't matter if you use one finger or two.
So do you use a separate finger for forward and backward, or move one finger from one button to the other? FWIW, I use 3 fingers, as well as all 5 mouse buttons (scroll up+scroll down)
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"I am much, much better with a console controller than with a keyboard and mouse."
Are you that much better, or is everyone else that much worse?
Yes it is, at least if by "the case" you mean the whole shebang, including PSU, motherboard, RAM, drives, any expansion cards, and of course, the [micro]processor.
"College science classes"? Try High School, or junior high maybe.
That's what gets me, that nearly everyone working in an office learned this shit, but for some reason can't (or won't) apply their existing knowledge to the field of computers.
And informing of browser security fixes is way more important than new extensions, and should be treated as such.
I was just pointing out that "I haven't seen any indication of it." is more a matter of not paying attention than of it not being there. The "windows update" icon is hardly any less subtle.
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"...don't loose money by doing it."
And hopefully tight money.
Why not stop bitching about it and use something better
er...point 7! that is.
I disagree with point 6. You'd have to be pretty weak to not be able to steer a car with no power steering. The dangerous point is the transition, when the car doesn't respond as expected. It doesn't take very long to acclimate to the changed response of the car, but I guess that if the power steering failed just before a sharp bend there's a chance that you could go off the road. Likely not though, if you have a decent reaction time.
And the power brakes...oh no, you have to push a bit harder! Unless something leaps out in front of you at that moment, or (I suppose) you're coming up on a stop sign/light faster than you should be, you should be fine on that one.
The intent of copyright is to make it worthwhile for an author to produce a work. No advancement in technology has magically increased the pace of book sales. The time from final draft to published book may have changed, but (originally, not sure about now) copyright applied only after the work was published. So yes, 14 years is a reasonable time to be compensated for the time spent creating the work, which hasn't changed significantly in those 200 years.
You think it would be better to create some complex system for copyright length, based on the type of work? The goal is to encourage creativity by authors (not inventors, they get patents!), not simply to make lawyers and accountants filthy rich figuring out how long copyright is on some particular work.
At least we're agreed that the current system sucks. "life of the author + 70 years" is way too long; why should we compensate the author's descendents, who had nothing to do with the creation of the work?
As for patents, their length is pretty reasonable for the few inventions that actually deserve it. The problem with that is that patents are given out much too freely, and now apply to things that are not inventions.
Don't forget that the "best" solution is probably also a simple one, which "some sort of equation for each category of work" is not. There's nothing magical about 14 years, but it's a) reasonable, and b) simple.
"I like reading books free on the web but it doesn't mean that it is right and legal."
ummm... Baen Free Library, Project Gutenberg?
So do they need to "share the wealth" with owners of webpages to whom they link?
Or is providing the indexing service payment enough?
Most web page authors seem to feel that it is. Several authors have stated that they feel the same about their books. All the more so in that if you wish to read the book, you still have to buy it; Google's service would just make it easier to find!
The DMCA is deceptive and vague but yet it still stands. Welcome to law.
Right, but the DMCA is not an EULA. It is not covered by consumer protection laws.
"We reserve full pillaging RIGHTS to your wife and ATTRACTIVE children."
...the right to steal from them?
Did you perhaps mean "raping" rather than "pillaging"?
I'm pretty sure that depends on particular hardware ... I find that the Microsoft devices tend to have a really easy-to-scroll wheel, with a hard-to-click middle button.
IMO the Logitech devices (I use a Trackman Wheel) tend to strike a much better balance in this respect.
OK, that sounds much more reasonable. :-D
How do you tell the difference between a guessed password and a shared password?
Also, if nothing is permananently stored, why would students even share their passwords?
Right, but you talked about ease of guessing the password. Giving out their passwords doesn't make them any easier to guess.
.. it's their own damn fault. Hopefully they'll learn from their mistake. And it's likely that they'll learn better from that than from having their ability to work removed.
And it doesn't seem like a surprising reaction, really. Is there any other provision for them to share their files with other people, e.g. webspace, or some other read-only file sharing method?
Aside from that even, what's the harm going to be?
If the system is set up properly, it should not be a system level security breach; the only thing a malicious person should be able to do with the account is damage that specific student's files. And if they lose their work, well
And what if they need a file for a class, and can't get to it because somebody guessed their password and you disabled their account for it? They're screwed, I suppose.
Sounds to me like the policy needs to be fixed.
The question was of fingers, not of buttons.
Since you map forward and backward to two buttons, and you can't effectively do both at once, it doesn't matter if you use one finger or two.
So do you use a separate finger for forward and backward, or move one finger from one button to the other? FWIW, I use 3 fingers, as well as all 5 mouse buttons (scroll up+scroll down)
"I am much, much better with a console controller than with a keyboard and mouse."
Are you that much better, or is everyone else that much worse?Not that it's a "kids" problem. The adults in my workplace are just as bad. "password", season, month. Maybe with some incrementing number appended.
Yes it is, at least if by "the case" you mean the whole shebang, including PSU, motherboard, RAM, drives, any expansion cards, and of course, the [micro]processor.
"College science classes"? Try High School, or junior high maybe.
That's what gets me, that nearly everyone working in an office learned this shit, but for some reason can't (or won't) apply their existing knowledge to the field of computers.
But the GP is talking about putting those computers to work on a problem, not about continuing to develop newer, better computers.
I agree, the arrow is way too subtle.
And informing of browser security fixes is way more important than new extensions, and should be treated as such.
I was just pointing out that "I haven't seen any indication of it." is more a matter of not paying attention than of it not being there. The "windows update" icon is hardly any less subtle.
Red "up" arrow in the top right? Admittedly, it's a bit subtle, but it is there, and in a part of the window that's normally quite blank.
Exactly.
Sounds just like Bayesian spam filtering to me.
Well, half the people on here seem to be worrying about google reading their IMs. Encryption would solve that.
Here's hoping they simply have not yet enabled s2s...