The answer is obvious enough - if the site restricts either the length or the content of your password, they obviously aren't hashing it (since hashes are always the same size no matter how much data you feed them) but are instead storing it in plaintext (and thus forbidding characters that would mess up their database queries or their actual data storage) or possibly doing some simple obfuscation on it, in which case you probably don't want to be using the site in the first place.

For the benefit of people who mistakenly use it that way, the correct word is "viruses".

Did Microsoft even recompile notepad and paint to 64-bit?

Last I checked (which was a while ago), any 64-bit version of Windows has all of its bundled applications (notepad, paint, etc.) compiled as 64-bit, and some apps are also provided in 32-bit for compatibility (particularly Internet Explorer, since you can't load a 32-bit ActiveX control into a 64-bit process).

Other than the 16-bit apps, which 64-bit Windows 7 *finally* removed support for

Unless I'm mistaken, all 64-bit versions of Windows have been incapable of running 16-bit applications, since any version of Windows only provides one emulation layer - 32-bit versions have NTVDM+WOWEXEC for 16-bit apps, and 64-bit versions have WoW64 for 32-bit apps (which, if you're running Server 2008 R2 Core, can actually be uninstalled).

Indeed, this is the same organization that was originally known as "Xerox PARC".

From TFA:

He tells me he was prompted to introduce the bill because his father used salt excessively for many years, developed high blood pressure and had a heart attack.

Because what was bad for his father is obviously bad for everyone. Though I'm sure some people won't mind this bill, particularly the ones who require extremely low sodium diets to cope with various medical conditions.

That's funny, since there's this flag called DISCL_BACKGROUND (which gets passed in via IDirectInputDevice8::SetCooperativeLevel()) that allows you to capture input from a device even when your application doesn't have focus. And yes, it does actually work.

Naturally, I realized that immediately after I posted my comment and saw janek78's comment right above my own.

a somewhat dodgy proposition if a telemarketer ever gets hold of your number

That alone is enough to doom this project from the start - telemarketers are relentless, and they will get your phone number even if you haven't given it to anyone. Hell, you could also get trouble from people dialing wrong numbers, or from people miswriting/mistyping their phone number when giving it to somebody else (I get a phone call in Spanish every so often, and at one point they confirmed that they had indeed dialed my number correctly).

Seems remarkably similar to how JPEG compression works. Not surprisingly, the resulting pictures look a lot like overcompressed JPEGs.

Clearly, it should be spelled "Brazillion".