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Re: The List Of Shame: Websites That Don’t Allow Special Characters In Their Passwords

Jared — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:43:35 -0000

"The ones that stand out are the financially-oriented sites, obviously, but the fact that Digg doesn’t allow special characters just blows my mind (Reddit does). "

Becareful of taking a holier than thou attitude, while you can use special characters in reddit, they are stored plain text in their database despite the fact that their backups containing the passwords were stolen from the back of a van a few months ago.

Re: The List Of Shame: Websites That Don’t Allow Special Characters In Their Passwords

Jared — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:28:40 -0000

Matt you're right I haven't actually tried the feature since they changed it but the wording on the front page implies that it's still stored plain text. My bad.

Re: James Bond’s Outbox

Jared — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:52:09 -0000

I imagine the 85kb comes from the large letter head, which most likely is an image and not text.

If you look at the "inbox" section it's sorted by received ascending so the newest is at the bottom (see today's messages, assuming the ones above it are previous days.) The outbox is sorted by date received descending and it appears he responded to each email not in the order they were received but by newest to oldest(removing the "re: " on each) shortly before filing his resignation.

Re: Are you an Idiot: Funny IQ Test

Jared — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:30:06 -0000

I got it all right, except the second question, which I don't think I actually got wrong. If it's a race around a track, then if you overtake the last person you can be in any position except last place.

Re: Music CD’s Are Obsolete - Here’s Their Replacement.

Jared — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:18:48 -0000

The head unit in my car already accepts USB drives and MP3 players. My old iPod Nano has a nearly permanent place in my car, occasionally I swap out the 4gb of music for something different (though core songs stay.)

Re: The List Of Shame: Websites That Don’t Allow Special Characters In Their Passwords

Jared — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:43:35 -0000

Re: The List Of Shame: Websites That Don’t Allow Special Characters In Their Passwords

Jared — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:28:40 -0000

Matt you're right I haven't actually tried the feature since they changed it but the wording on the front page implies that it's still stored plain text. My bad.

Re: A Digg On Digg Has Become Meaningless

Jared — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:32:01 -0000

I think removing transparency and digg rankings would probably cut down on a lot of gaming for status, but greatly aid gaming for spamming.

Re: How to Lock a Folder Using Notepad

Jared — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:57:52 -0000

Loquacious I don't believe the point of this is to be secure, just simple.