• C (unregistered) in reply to dpm
    dpm:
    Password must be EXACTLY eight characters
    I'm willing to bet US$20 that this requirement exists because they're storing it unencrypted, in plain text, in a eight-byte field.
    I counter-claim that it's an eight-CHARs field... Or else perhaps they're using it as a DOS filename?!?
  • (cs)

    #1:"Damnit.... The network went down!"
    #2:"Of course, Bill ate some bad salad, he's been been in the wiring closet all afternoon" #1:"I feel bad for the tech who's going to have to restart all the gear then."

  • Mike Caron (unregistered)

    Er, not to defend the WTF or anything, but:

    15 orders of magnitude

    There are 3.368x10^12 passwords that are 8 characters long, and fit the idiotic "start with a lower case letter, rest must be lower case letter/number/$/#" pattern. There are 9.389x10^10 such passwords that are 7 characters or less. You may notice that this is effectively a rounding error.

    And, even if we're nice, and assune the cracker is on the same network as the server, and gets a nice 10ms request time per attempt, it will still take (worst case) over a millenium to brute force.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    I called 402-982-0823 and it's not collecter indeed

  • Ken B (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    I didn't know Estmates was in jail.
    Of course he is! He's the guy running around construction sites, putting those "end road work" protest signs all over the place.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/inazuman/482743330/

  • Irish Girl (unregistered) in reply to Piercy
    Piercy:
    So not only do they show RAM instead of the CPU they pass on bad practices like putting your fingers all over the connectors.

    WTF!

    I looked at the picture before reading the surrounding text and thought that the mishandling of the RAM was the WTF.

  • Ken B (unregistered) in reply to Strawberry Blonde
    Strawberry Blonde:
    I like my password in cyrillic because the backwards Rs look funny.
    ˙sıɥʇ ǝʞıl ʞool ʇɐɥʇ sʇǝqɐɥdlɐ ɹǝɟǝɹd ı
  • Matt.C (unregistered) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    The office hour sign is a novelty item you can purchase all over the place: http://www.after5catalog.com/business-hours-sign-p-1499.html.

    And it's absolutely ANCIENT.

  • Flygon (unregistered)

    Dang, I was hoping to be able to visit between 00:00pm and 00:00am, looks like I have to arrange better hours.

  • Oxymoron (unregistered) in reply to Joe
    Joe:
    "NEW! Zippelessr Style" body bag

    That's Body Bag 2.0

  • huh? (unregistered) in reply to Mike Caron

    Isn't 0:00 am to 0:00 pm 12 hours?

  • nibh (unregistered) in reply to huh?

    They should use the extra flow of liquid in the "wiring cabinet" for additional cooling. Maybe they can even get someone to stand behind it (with color enhancing flakes)?

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    "we tested out some of the body bags" By hopping inside and having someone do up the zipper? So it was warm and cozy in there then? Was it a good fit?

  • a (unregistered)

    I have that exact "Don't Smoking" toy (still in the package), but you're missing out on the real gold here- the sticker on the barrel (at least on mine) reads "FASTER YOU FOOT".

  • James (unregistered) in reply to c
    c:
    The password pic reminds me of the secret questions/answers where you have to pick the question from a drop-down list and most of the people I know can answer any of the questions or learn their answer with very little effort, effectively forcing me to write answers like !@#*(*&^@JASKFNJKpriuasfn32^*%&^(324o67t.

    Noone said you have to answer those things truthfully - or with the expected answer, either - just have to remember what you put.

  • Bingo (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    I didn't know Estmates was in jail.

    There goes my coffee....and my monitor!!

  • AShjdf (unregistered) in reply to Flatline
    Flatline:
    Anonymous Coward:
    Only about 39 possible characters, and the first one must be one of 27 lower case alphabets, and of the 7 characters left one must be $ or # - no need to brute force any passwords which do not have $ or # there.

    Last time I checked the Western alphabet had 26 letters.

    Might be different in America....

  • Old Joke (unregistered) in reply to ih8u
    ih8u:
    Nah:
    dpm:
    Password must be EXACTLY eight characters
    I'm willing to bet US$20 that this requirement exists because they're storing it unencrypted, in plain text, in a eight-byte field.

    Nope. All the fields in their database are char(255)

    And they're all in one giant table which holds logins, payroll, ... everything. It's just simpler that way.

    CREATE TABLE BrillantDatabase ( F0001 char(255), F0002 char(255), ... F9999 char(255) )

    FTFY

  • Xythar (unregistered)

    Yeah, my friend Not A. Collecter really has a lot of trouble calling people because of his name. He should really change it.

  • KP (unregistered) in reply to huh?
    huh?:
    Isn't 0:00 am to 0:00 pm 12 hours?
    There is no such time as 0:00 am or 0:00 pm (when the big hand points to the nought?)
  • ConMan (unregistered)

    I can only assume that someone actually used © in a password and broke the system at some point, thus necessitating the second last restriction. I take my hat off to that theoretical person.

  • Psilax (unregistered)

    I know of an belgian ISP that has a max of 8 chars on there passwords, including ADSL login passwords. And my guess it's an sql-injection prevention on there database because > ' or ''=' < is 9 characters :-)

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Just wanted to say that I hate your sponsors and enjoyed ad-blocking their undoubtedly crap adverts. Thanks!

  • ClaudeSuck.de (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Just wanted to say that I hate your sponsors and enjoyed ad-blocking their undoubtedly crap adverts. Thanks!

    This site is free. We have to click on some links from time to time to keep the sponsors happy.

    CAPTCHA: populus: it's all for the people

  • Pickle Pumpers (unregistered)

    He may not be a collecter but he is one hell of a spellor.

  • (cs)

    As opposed to [image]

  • Dave C. (unregistered) in reply to EatenByAGrue
    EatenByAGrue:
    Maxim K spotted this waterless flushing urinal in Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell, NSW.
    Botany Bay ... Botany Bay! Oh, no! We've got to get out of here, now! Damn! Hurry!
    Oh, yeah...the scene where Chekov spots the waterless urinal and realizes they're not on Ceti Alpha 6 at all.
  • (cs) in reply to Xythar
    Xythar:
    Yeah, my friend Not A. Collecter really has a lot of trouble calling people because of his name. He should really change it.

    Well, he does have a bit of trouble.. but he's way better off than his brother, Aaron.

  • (cs)

    But the "estmates" guy is for real. You guys need to check this out:

    http://corpuschristi.olx.com/painter-painting-free-estmates-new-or-lived-in-small-or-large-jobs-inside-or-outside-look-iid-11882269

    (I'm at a restricted browser at work, or else I would have posted a screen shot)

  • (cs)

    Regarding the phone number...

    It's a marketeer hawking auto warranties:

    http://whocalled.us/lookup/4029820823 http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-402-982-0823

  • (cs)

    Waterless Urinal may sound funny, but is basically correct. The trap has a layer of oil (or equivalent) in it which allows urine to flow through, then seals it off.

    Everybody expects a urinal to need flushing, so you have to say something. The only way to be more technically correct is to put "flush" in quotes.

  • (cs)

    Free Estmates... What, no jokes about Werner Erhard and the EST movement?

  • ithcy (unregistered) in reply to dpm

    I'll take your bet. Many older systems used (and some still use) 56-bit DES for password encryption, which limits you to 8-character passwords. SuSE linux used to, Solaris used to, and I believe VNC still does, to name a few.

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