There's an interesting thing that hitting a target with a high energy inert round often doesn't do a whole lot of damage. There was a case in WWII of some armed merchant cruisers (i.e. cargo ships with a couple of obsolete guns welded on) were mistaken for cruisers by some German raiders. The raiders engaged at long range with AP rounds and scored some direct hits. The AP rounds went all the way through the unarmored ships and out the other side without detonating (they were designed to penetrate a bit into armor and then detonate: the lack of armor caused the warhead to not trigger). The end result was that the ships wound up with some perfectly survivable 15" holes in them and managed to escape.
Good stuff here. I just have to add that this effect is seen throughout the age of gunpowder: unless gunnery hit the enemy magazine, all they were doing was making pinpricks in the opposing fleet. Keegan's Price of Admiralty describes Lord Nelson's fleet and the HMS Dreadnought being involved in these kinds of battles.
MAXIMUM of 8 characters
That's not true at all; my password for Wells Fargo is 12 characters, and rejects if I try just the first 8.
You're not wrong that their minimum standard is weak, though. And I'm not sure about case-sensitivity.
Is a page a cohesive product, ads and all? The law is very unclear on this.
Uh, only in the sense of copyright is this a legal concern. It's your browser and your pipes; they can only cripple their own layout, not enforce your victimhood.
On a side note, what are people using currently for mobile browsing on Android? Every once in a while I'll pull up links friends send me, and after about 2 seconds of scrolling around some misaligned full page overlay shows up with the close button off-screen. I'd like to step up my blocking game on the phone...
I learned Project Management in grad school from Ted Kozman, and his guiding philosophy was the principle my peers and I codified as Kozman's Law:
If you fail to prepare to plan, plan to prepare to fail.
0 = 1 ?
I suspect that what we'll eventually find is that 0 => 1 + -1
The policy isn't the issue.
Yes it is.
Where is this insistence on real-naming coming from? Not the users (ie, 'the product'), but the advertisers (ie, 'the customers'). The users know their friends' aliases, but the advertisers can't or won't make that leap without some help in the form of arbitrary Terms of Use.
The policy IS the issue. The drag performers are just a symptom.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca
