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Having some trouble with a Sony stereo I bought recently, I made an account at Sony’s web site to post a question there in the (probably idle) hope someone might be able to help. Once logged in with my new account, I feel very welcome at Sony’s online community when I read:
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Then there’s the real ery of that site when you want to sign up, which I didn’t mention last night because I wanted to get on with posting my question.
You fill out the form with your details, and it checks your password strength immediately. However, it only checks everything else on submitting the form. This isn’t that much of a when it comes to things like whether your chosen username is still available, but it is when there is a minimum length to that username. (Secondary WTF: why is that there anyway? And why is it six characters when there are plenty of names that are shorter than that?)
Even better is that on submitting, it claimed my password wasn’t OK when the as-you-type check said my string of random ASCII was as perfect a password as it had ever seen. A bit of experimentation turned up that there is a maximum password length of 30 characters that isn’t mentioned anywhere, even in the notice that says there’s something wrong with your password. I guess Sony figures nobody goes for longish passwords …
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@Gurth said in Another placeholder:
plenty of names that are shorter than that?
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@ben_lubar Or @Gurth … Oh, and it probably wouldn’t accept @kt_ or @LB_ anyway, because it also didn’t like Gurth_ even though by my count that’s six characters.
And another WTF I found. When someone replies to your post on the Sony forum, you get an email (if you opt for that, which I did). In the mail, you find a link to the thread, as you’d expect. Click it, and:
First reaction: why do I get to see this? Second reaction: why are all the country names in English?
For a lark, I clicked (semi-randomly) on Georgia. That results in:
So the menu is in Russian (because this is community.sony.ru, not community.sony.ge) but the rest of the forum is in Dutch, probably because I asked my question on Sony’s Dutch forum.
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@Gurth said in Another placeholder:
@ben_lubar Or @Gurth … Oh, and it probably wouldn’t accept @kt_ or @LB_ anyway, because it also didn’t like Gurth_ even though by my count that’s six characters.
And another WTF I found. When someone replies to your post on the Sony forum, you get an email (if you opt for that, which I did). In the mail, you find a link to the thread, as you’d expect. Click it, and:
First reaction: why do I get to see this? Second reaction: why are all the country names in English?
For a lark, I clicked (semi-randomly) on Georgia. That results in:
So the menu is in Russian (because this is community.sony.ru, not community.sony.ge) but the rest of the forum is in Dutch, probably because I asked my question on Sony’s Dutch forum.
You're right, it should be in English. Georgia is in the US
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@kt_ said in Another placeholder:
Georgia is in the US
A poor ripoff, I’m sure. I mean, do they even have
there?
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There can only be one @Placeholder. The rest are just cheap imitations.
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@Gurth said in Another placeholder:
@kt_ said in Another placeholder:
Georgia is in the US
A poor ripoff, I’m sure. I mean, do they even have
there?
Probably. Just ten times larger and forty times cheesier.
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@dkf said in Another placeholder:
@kt_ said in Another placeholder:
forty times cheesier
They aren't Wisconsin!
I thought it was Massachusetts that was famous for their cheese!
Ylvis - Massachusetts [Official music video HD] (Explicit Lyrics) – 04:35
— TV Norge
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@dkf said in Another placeholder:
@kt_ said in Another placeholder:
forty times cheesier
They aren't Wisconsin!
By "cheese", you mean "hat", right?
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@kt_ said in Another placeholder:
@dkf said in Another placeholder:
They aren't Wisconsin!
I thought it was Massachusetts that was famous for their cheese!
Real cheese comes from California.
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@HardwareGeek said in Another placeholder:
@kt_ said in Another placeholder:
@dkf said in Another placeholder:
They aren't Wisconsin!
I thought it was Massachusetts that was famous for their cheese!
Real cheese comes from California.
Forget that noise!
Tillamook FTW!
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@kt_ said in Another placeholder:
Probably. Just ten times larger and forty times cheesier.
For their sake, I hope not …