Microsoft could incur approximately $70,000 in power costs to avoid the $210,000 penalty, resulting in real savings of $140,000.
"Flamebait headline" is also correct.
which proves they have been storing it without hashing all along.
Or they are truncating it before hashing, which is s still a WTF.
There doesn't seem to be any compelling security reason to exclude certain characters from eligibility for use in a password.
I can't see any compelling reason to have any restrictions at all, other than to store people's passwords in plain text or some decryptable format.
From the hosts perspective, there should be no difference between an 8 character alpha-numeric password, a tab-delimmitted list of non-printable characters, and the entire japanese translation of War and Peace. They all hash to the same length.
It's like that douchebag that owns Papa Johns Pizza trying to tell me that my pizza will cost a whole extra dollar to pay for health care for his employees
Actually it is 14 cents.
Of course, the O-Bots are gonna crank both AC and me down into -5 land, as that's how they roll...
Hey dingbat, the only mention of politics in this entire thread comes from you and the AC above you, of course you should be modded down. This is as offtopic as it gets.
receiving "rich text" emails is most painful. Because "rich" means lots of colours, images, cruft, and poor content. Instead of selecting different fonts people should try to write several complete sentences in their communication.
If for some reason suddenly all email tools would lack support for "rich text", nobody would miss it after a few days.
Just because some people send emails in 72pt rainbow colored Comic Sans doesn't mean it is useless. Take it up with the abusers, or just enable the "read all messages in plain text" option that every email client has. Or you could hit "reply all" and in 72pt rainbow colored Comic Sans type "IN THE FUTURE, IF YOU'RE GOING TO FORWARD ME THIS BULLSHIT, AT LEAST RUN IT THROUGH SNOPES SO YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE AN IMBECILE."
(I have done this before, one day after one too many forwarded "YOUR NOT GUNNA BELEVE THIS!" emails my tolerance threshold was reached and I lost my cool just long enough to type that message and hit send before the pang of regret hit my stomach. To my mother. At her work address. Along with 2 dozen of her colleagues. Now I just delete them.)
I find the text formatting mighty convenient when responding to a message point by point to differentiate the original text from my response, which is fairly often since I get a lot of emails of the type "what is the status of these tasks..." and "what would it take to implement the following features...". Also, inline images are nice, particularly since Thunderbird's attachment handling is abysmal. "Save all attachments" should really be labeled "Save each of these 20 attachments individually, one at a time". Where's the button for "Just show me the fucking images"?
Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work.
