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Last Friday, Springfield-based gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson committed to a "code of conduct" for the sales and distribution of handguns as well as a number of new gun safety and design standards to be implemented over the next year. In exchange for these commitments, the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Treasury and state and local government officials agreed to dismiss pending lawsuits against the nation's largest gun manufacturer...
...Users who deal with the codes daily say they are hard to memorize. They take longer to type. And they are easy to botch. Correcting one typo in the 33-digit code can take hours of fact checking and backtracking...
...Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper, Harvard's vice president for finance, says she knows 33-digits are not ideal. But she adds that the University had little choice about code length...
...says Harvard has been busy pressing Oracle on more urgent system redesigns, like making the system's on-screen navigation easier. Since Oracle is unlikely to overhaul its basic code-assigning system at one customer's urging, code complaints are near the bottom of Harvard's priority list...
...Huidekoper says a second reason for the long codes is that faculties--some of which are now complaining about code length--originally asked that the system be designed with additional code segments...