random thoughts and stuff
So I got this amazon credit card cause they gave me 30 bucks off my order from amazon. I bought a bunch of cables and a optical audio to rca audio converter, my new television only has optical out much to my chagrin.
The amazon card is through Chase and I have to say I am both impressed and disappointed with their online offerings. They let you set up auto payments, something I wish my other card would do. the interface is nice and streamlined. However they required that my username have at least 8 characters including a number. My username??!?! I've had the same username everywhere and it simplifies my life. granted it does make me a little bit more vulnerable to attack because you already know what the username you should be looking for(this is mostly true, there are a few other usernames that i use but not nearly as often as this one). Okay I can get past that. now the password requires the same thing at least 8 characters and at least one number, and no special characters. WHY?!?!?! If you're going to be secure why limit the key space to 36 characters?!?!? 48 characters are surely much better and if you support unicode well lets just say that there isn't any dictionary attack that would break that.
what else, new 3.0 iphone software has been announced. I'm definitely interested in it, not that i have an iphone (i love my crackberry) but i do have a itouch(myself, >> sorry couldn't help it) and i enjoy it immensely.
and thats it right now, i'm too low to think of more things to ramble on about.
~z
The amazon card is through Chase and I have to say I am both impressed and disappointed with their online offerings. They let you set up auto payments, something I wish my other card would do. the interface is nice and streamlined. However they required that my username have at least 8 characters including a number. My username??!?! I've had the same username everywhere and it simplifies my life. granted it does make me a little bit more vulnerable to attack because you already know what the username you should be looking for(this is mostly true, there are a few other usernames that i use but not nearly as often as this one). Okay I can get past that. now the password requires the same thing at least 8 characters and at least one number, and no special characters. WHY?!?!?! If you're going to be secure why limit the key space to 36 characters?!?!? 48 characters are surely much better and if you support unicode well lets just say that there isn't any dictionary attack that would break that.
what else, new 3.0 iphone software has been announced. I'm definitely interested in it, not that i have an iphone (i love my crackberry) but i do have a itouch(myself, >> sorry couldn't help it) and i enjoy it immensely.
and thats it right now, i'm too low to think of more things to ramble on about.
~z