birth cert-2

Брейбарт и Джозеф Фара спорят насчёт birth certificate и т.п..
Мои симпатии на стороне Брейбарта:

The wins in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts over the last three months did not come from people questioning Obama’s birthplace. They resulted from grassroots opposition to the Obama-Nancy Pelosi policy agenda.

Вот именно. И что радует:

Carl Cameron at Fox reported a few minutes ago that other Tea Party organizations will hold a presser later today to condemn Birtherism and distance themselves from it.

password size

American Express излагает официальную позицию насчёт ограничения размеров паролей.
У меня есть счета в нескольких банках, из них 2 (весьма крупных) ограничивают размеры пароля, по неизвестным науке причинам. Does this make sense to anyone?

I would like to inform you that our website has a 128 bit encryption. With this base, passwords that comprise only of letters and alphabets create an algorithm that is difficult to crack. We discourage the use of special characters because hacking softwares can recognize them very easily.

или:

The length of the password is limited to 8 characters to reduce keyboard contact. Some softwares can decipher a password based on the information of “most common keys pressed”. Therefore, lesser keys punched in a given frame of time lessen the possibility of the password being cracked.

По-моему, это полный бред, но может я чего-то недопонимаю?

Кстати, слово software действительно приобрело множественное число или это в AmEx грамотеи собрались?