Get with the times and use oauth2 services (google/facebook/twitter/whatever).
This leads to one of three problems.
Relying party (RP, meaning site operator) allows Facebook and no other identity provider (IDP)
I don't have a Facebook account. I graduated and lost my.edu e-mail before Facebook even existed. (Or insert some other reason not to be F'd.) I guess if you want to be joined at the hip to Facebook, I'll have to patronize your competitor.
RP allows the top three U.S. social IDPs
Google is blocked where I live. Facebook is blocked where I live. Twitter is blocked where I live. Now how should I or any other expat living in China log in?
RP allows use of any IDP supporting OpenID Connect, an application of OAuth 2 for authentication
I haven't seen a single major OpenID Connect IDP that supports Dynamic Client Registration. This means each RP will have to sign a contract with each IDP, which scales at O(n^2), as I've mentioned before.
You want me to create an account to leave a comment on your stupid little blog? I don't see what's wrong with password.
What happens when someone guesses your password to a comment section or forum and uses your account to post libel, copyright infringement, child sexual abuse photos, or other contraband information?
Sometimes I just use an email address like "guest@whateversiteiamat.com
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teachers have been legally obliged to report any suspected extremist behavior
You failed to highlight "suspected extremist behavior". It doesn't say they are legally obliged to report every damn meaningless thing.
School faculty who have a George W. Bush accent (as mentioned in dryeo's comment) are more likely to become suspicious of extremist behavior when hearing "terraced".
You usually have to put in your current password to change it, except for self-service password resets. Otherwise, they'd find the last digit in the password and try all ten possibilities and try it against your saved previous password hashes.
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Non-technical readers may not be aware of the presence of firmware in products. They may associate "copyright" solely with exclusive rights in informational and entertainment works and be unaware of the implications of copyright in firmware.
How many "general public" people fix *anything* they own?
Members of the general public hire repair providers to fix things. Copyright allows a manufacturer to limit competition among repair providers.
Indeed, but after MAI Systems v. Peak in 1993, Congress amended the USC 117 to apply to licensees as well as "owners."
The rights of a lessee in the amendment, codified at 17 USC 117(c), are limited "for purposes only of maintenance or repair of that machine", not for production use. In theory, "maintenance or repair" would include repairing a tractor, but the lessee would in theory need to pay for a lawyer to prove in court that the action was permitted "repair" and not excluded "enhancement". Besides, this amendment was enacted as title III of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, and a broad "repeal of the DMCA", as some copyright reformists advocate, would wipe it out.
Even if all VOD shows with more than one viewer are cached at each CMTS, the CMTS still has to use bandwidth on its network segment for each separate viewer on that CMTS. Or are you referring to caching on the customer premises equipment? That's DVR more than VOD.
Put these together and you get a fairly direct legal conclusion: information *about* a conlang isn't copyrighted, because it isn't created in form (textbooks, dictionaries) by the creator of the conlang
I just thought of a different legal theory that could be used to claim copyright in a constructed language. A language's lexicon is a set of names of things. In the API of a programming library, the set of functions is also a set of names of things. But in Oracle v. Google, a U.S. court of appeals upheld copyrightability of the "structure, sequence and organization" of the Java standard library's API on May 2014. (It remanded to the district court the question of whether copying said API for purposes of interoperability is a fair use; this remains unresolved.)
A typeset letter-for-letter re-publication of ancient manuscripts should have no additional copyright
A publisher doesn't have to publish the manuscripts at all; it can instead hoard them as trade secrets and publish only edited versions. Or it can take advantage of extended copyright terms that some countries apply to posthumous first publication, as AthanasiusKircher suggests.
On many devices, the user has to initiate copying the software from permanent storage into RAM in order to run it. This is true of any computing device not based on execute-in-place read-only memory (XIP ROM). But because of how 17 USC 117 is worded, only the owner of the device has the authority to perform this copying, not someone who's using it on the owner's behalf (MAI v. Peak).
I'm guessing the longer term of copyright compared to patent exists in part to balance the independent creation and fair use defenses to infringement, which apply to copyrights but not to patents.
If that were the case, numerous people would be able to claim copyright on all biblical manuscripts
Bible translators routinely enforce copyright in their translations. This is why the World English Bible (WEB) project exists, to produce a revision of the pre-1923 ASV into contemporary English and license it under CC0.
I'm not convinced [QAM] is a great solution when it requires O(n) bandwidth for n available channels. The current system only requires O(1) bandwidth for n available channels. Obviously multiple viewing devices changes it slightly, but the proportions remain similar.
Now scale "multiple viewing devices" up to all the viewing devices in a whole neighborhood, which I define as the area served by one CMTS. Then video on demand ends up with O(m) bandwidth for m viewers, which can be greater than the number of available channels depending on how big a neighborhood is.
The Five Eyes are the major Anglophone countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States), which also happen to be part of a signals intelligence cooperation treaty.
[Use of keyboard language rather than display language for display] affects all the [UWP] _apps_ that are installed by default, so I'll say it's Microsoft. Note that the desktop, and all desktop-related programs, correctly respects my language choice.
Then you've found a genuine defect in the UWP subsystem, and yes, it should be reported to both Microsoft and the public.
And I'm not alone, social.microsoft.com has several posts on the issue from other people.
Do you have a blog, a social media account, or other means through which you can raise awareness of this defect in order to encourage other users to put pressure on Microsoft to fix it?
On a related note, I've tried coming up with English words for hexadecimal, with words for ten through fifteen starting with A through F, to represent a culture that counts in base sixteen. This way I can represent the convention of translating the viewpoint character's language while still retaining some of the local color. (A base 20 culture would use "score" notation.) These are what I have so far:
Ten is "ash", based on the word for ten in Amharic, Arabic, and Hebrew
Eleven I'm not sure. Apart from Huli bearia, there aren't a lot of natlang B-words meaning eleven. Any hints?
Twelve is "carn", shortened from "carton" (of hen's eggs)
Thirteen is "dreight", rhyming with "weight", shortened from German dreizehn
Fourteen is "erb", shortened from Maltese erbatax
Fifteen is "fleven", which I nicked from HBO's Silicon Valley. The rhyme with "seven" encourages interpretation as the second pass of counting to eight on fingers.
Sixteen is "steen", and seventeen through thirty-one are "onesteen", "twosteen",..., "flevensteen".
Multiples of sixteen use "-sy" suffix: twensy, thirsy, forsy, fifsy, sixsy, sevensy, eighsy, ninesy, ashsy,..., carnsy, dreighsy, erbsy, flevensy
Sixteen squared is "one page", based on usage of "page" in MOS 6502 programming to mean that many octets and grammatically analogous to "one hundred"
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The worst is the ones that have some sort of restriction on what characters you *can't* use in the password
Does this include inability to use Chinese characters because the password field is printable ASCII (U+0020 through U+007E)?
Get with the times and use oauth2 services (google/facebook/twitter/whatever).
This leads to one of three problems.
Relying party (RP, meaning site operator) allows Facebook and no other identity provider (IDP) I don't have a Facebook account. I graduated and lost myYou want me to create an account to leave a comment on your stupid little blog? I don't see what's wrong with password.
What happens when someone guesses your password to a comment section or forum and uses your account to post libel, copyright infringement, child sexual abuse photos, or other contraband information?
Sometimes I just use an email address like "guest@whateversiteiamat.com
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teachers have been legally obliged to report any suspected extremist behavior
You failed to highlight "suspected extremist behavior". It doesn't say they are legally obliged to report every damn meaningless thing.
School faculty who have a George W. Bush accent (as mentioned in dryeo's comment) are more likely to become suspicious of extremist behavior when hearing "terraced".
jiamima is encryption key or encrypted code, or maybe add a new password.
Sure it isn't I love pancakes?
You usually have to put in your current password to change it, except for self-service password resets. Otherwise, they'd find the last digit in the password and try all ten possibilities and try it against your saved previous password hashes.
The 2001 overreaction set up the 2012 Benghazi overreaction. It's like an allergic reaction only on the second exposure to an allergen.
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How does help the general public to understand?
Non-technical readers may not be aware of the presence of firmware in products. They may associate "copyright" solely with exclusive rights in informational and entertainment works and be unaware of the implications of copyright in firmware.
How many "general public" people fix *anything* they own?
Members of the general public hire repair providers to fix things. Copyright allows a manufacturer to limit competition among repair providers.
Indeed, but after MAI Systems v. Peak in 1993, Congress amended the USC 117 to apply to licensees as well as "owners."
The rights of a lessee in the amendment, codified at 17 USC 117(c), are limited "for purposes only of maintenance or repair of that machine", not for production use. In theory, "maintenance or repair" would include repairing a tractor, but the lessee would in theory need to pay for a lawyer to prove in court that the action was permitted "repair" and not excluded "enhancement". Besides, this amendment was enacted as title III of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, and a broad "repeal of the DMCA", as some copyright reformists advocate, would wipe it out.
Even if all VOD shows with more than one viewer are cached at each CMTS, the CMTS still has to use bandwidth on its network segment for each separate viewer on that CMTS. Or are you referring to caching on the customer premises equipment? That's DVR more than VOD.
Put these together and you get a fairly direct legal conclusion: information *about* a conlang isn't copyrighted, because it isn't created in form (textbooks, dictionaries) by the creator of the conlang
I just thought of a different legal theory that could be used to claim copyright in a constructed language. A language's lexicon is a set of names of things. In the API of a programming library, the set of functions is also a set of names of things. But in Oracle v. Google, a U.S. court of appeals upheld copyrightability of the "structure, sequence and organization" of the Java standard library's API on May 2014. (It remanded to the district court the question of whether copying said API for purposes of interoperability is a fair use; this remains unresolved.)
A typeset letter-for-letter re-publication of ancient manuscripts should have no additional copyright
A publisher doesn't have to publish the manuscripts at all; it can instead hoard them as trade secrets and publish only edited versions. Or it can take advantage of extended copyright terms that some countries apply to posthumous first publication, as AthanasiusKircher suggests.
On many devices, the user has to initiate copying the software from permanent storage into RAM in order to run it. This is true of any computing device not based on execute-in-place read-only memory (XIP ROM). But because of how 17 USC 117 is worded, only the owner of the device has the authority to perform this copying, not someone who's using it on the owner's behalf (MAI v. Peak).
A tractor should be a bunch of gears and wheels attached to a large diesel engine with a seat on top. Where the fuck does a fucking computer come in??
The ECU exists in large part to control the diesel engine in a manner that prevents it from emitting excessive soot and greenhouse gases.
I'm guessing the longer term of copyright compared to patent exists in part to balance the independent creation and fair use defenses to infringement, which apply to copyrights but not to patents.
this only applies if you live in the U.S
Then what's the solution? Stop living in the United States? Getting a work visa elsewhere isn't trivial.
What's news is that more of the general public has a chance to learn how the brokenness of copyright law affects them.
If that were the case, numerous people would be able to claim copyright on all biblical manuscripts
Bible translators routinely enforce copyright in their translations. This is why the World English Bible (WEB) project exists, to produce a revision of the pre-1923 ASV into contemporary English and license it under CC0.
I'm not convinced [QAM] is a great solution when it requires O(n) bandwidth for n available channels. The current system only requires O(1) bandwidth for n available channels. Obviously multiple viewing devices changes it slightly, but the proportions remain similar.
Now scale "multiple viewing devices" up to all the viewing devices in a whole neighborhood, which I define as the area served by one CMTS. Then video on demand ends up with O(m) bandwidth for m viewers, which can be greater than the number of available channels depending on how big a neighborhood is.
No idea what the Five Eyes are
The Five Eyes are the major Anglophone countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States), which also happen to be part of a signals intelligence cooperation treaty.
[Use of keyboard language rather than display language for display] affects all the [UWP] _apps_ that are installed by default, so I'll say it's Microsoft. Note that the desktop, and all desktop-related programs, correctly respects my language choice.
Then you've found a genuine defect in the UWP subsystem, and yes, it should be reported to both Microsoft and the public.
And I'm not alone, social.microsoft.com has several posts on the issue from other people.
Do you have a blog, a social media account, or other means through which you can raise awareness of this defect in order to encourage other users to put pressure on Microsoft to fix it?
How does it "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" to allow a publisher to go all dog-in-the-manger about a work that it owns?
On a related note, I've tried coming up with English words for hexadecimal, with words for ten through fifteen starting with A through F, to represent a culture that counts in base sixteen. This way I can represent the convention of translating the viewpoint character's language while still retaining some of the local color. (A base 20 culture would use "score" notation.) These are what I have so far:
Any better suggestions?
Is that anything like iljena, where the noun is a set of consonants and the verb is a set of vowels that overlay it?