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With the UK banks that I've used, the telephone operators also ask for x, y and z characters of your password which they then enter in a similar system to the internet login shown - i.e., they don't get to see your full password on their screens.
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These labels usually say 'per 100g' or 'per litre' to help with price comparison. When it's not an item which can be measured in this way, all the ones I've seen say 'per each' or even 'per ea' in some cases. Yes it's annoying, but you easily forget about it once you've left the shop.
And yes, the guy who shops at Waitrose has far too much money - Aldi all the way for me!
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Actually NaN is part of the IEEE floating point spec. Results from any time an operation is performed that is undefined. For instance, division by zero or by +/- infinity.
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Price per unit is so valid for "each". An eight-pack of candy bars contains eight "each".
NaN probably came from setting the unit quantity to zero (or maybe null - but it's harder to imagine a SQL NULL being translated to NAN without specific logic to do so) than a rather than one.
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So you think that once someone has hacked the bank database and got your password they are then going to use it to post messages on The Daily WTF to make you look stupid ..... oh time to change your password.
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One-way hash of password != ability to look up individual letters.
Ergo, they are storing the plaintext.
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Ulster Bank merged with NatWest's predecessor in 1917 - I would suspect that IS the NatWest system.
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Same code at RBS in their online banking system. So complex that you have to write down your PIN and password so you can figure out what you need to log on . . . . . resulting in an insecure option. Someone there needs to read some Bruce Schenier books!
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Great White Buffalo!