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Comment Re:um (Score 1) 419

And i'm fairly sure of the main UK broadband providers i've seen adverts for BT, Virgin Media, Talk Talk and PlusNet all advertising no limit (although its quite possible there are 'fair use' t&c's). Most providers just choose to traffic shape if you go over unreasonable daily limits (with virgin media this is during peak time).

Comment Re:Slashdot has a limit to (Score 2) 497

On the topic of weird password requirements, my university has the weirdest password requirements i have come across to date (i'm assuming its due to some software they must use);

Note that passwords must follow these rules:
* must be 6, 7 or 8 characters in length
* must contain at least one numeric digit
* must NOT start with a numeric digit
* must contain only lower-case alphabetic letters and numeric digits (that is no punctuation characters).
* the first three characters of your password must not be identical
* the first three characters of your password must not equal sap or pass
* the first three characters of your password and login name must not be the same

Comment Slashdot has a limit to (Score 1) 497

Slashdot has a password length limit, iirc its 20. The input field for setting a password has a max length of 20 however the login field doesn't. So when i last changed my password i was confused for a short while till i realised that i hadn't read the password guidelines. To be honest i find that ~50% of websites that i try to use long passwords on are limited to around 20.

Comment Re:Pointless (Score 5, Insightful) 183

The article was a bit misleading, but from watching the video its just a facebook app which blocks print screens/copy paste of images you upload through it. Doubt it will take long for tools which bypass this, and chances are the photos will stay within mcaffee social share rather than the general facebook albums, which will prevent a large number of people from using it.

Submission + - Valve Software recruits hardware experts (bbc.co.uk)

Robadob writes: Valve has posted an ad seeking applicants for the post of "industrial designer", the job description advert says that Valve is "frustrated by the lack of innovation in the computer hardware space".
The advert even goes on to suggest that the mouse and keyboard combination may need changing (Could this be the start of develop for the recently discovered controller patent).

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