The whole system needs javascript to work, it utterly breaks the second you disable it. The university I go to also uses that system, and Community Server is honestly light years ahead compared to Blackboard. I think you could have a decently long research paper explaining everything that is wrong with it. It merits a front page post at least though. You wouldn't even need to dramatize, it's bad enough as it is.
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RE: A securerer login page
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RE: Bell Canada WTF!
Wholesaling from Bell is a bit of a pain, my dad owns a small ISP, and it's easier for him to get access through another company that then goes through Bell. Also, Bell is finding all sorts of excuses to raise prices, they called my home a few weeks back and they said we supposedly weren't paying for the call waiting and caller id functions, and we've had those charged since the beginning... Also, they tend to slap random charges as they see fit, espcially for Internet connections, so the bill goes up quite a bit (according to some friends anyways).
Wholesaling cable is feasable, but it's a bit expensive (my experience is with Vidéotron here). So, there is no way we can compete with their all-in-one deals, but we can still be a decent alternative to standalone cable Internet (+VoIP phone if the customer wants phone service too).
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RE: HTML Title error from WTFU
That particular page is probably part of some old (as in at least 8-9 years old) school management system, which could explain the questionable methods used there. The home page for the admissions office which is linked in the snippet looks well made, however. Also, that university is so deep in debt that it wouldn't be surprising that the whole system was made on the cheap. Some schools in the area also encourage blatant disregard for standards (like the college web design course I took two years back, but that's another wtf altogether), so maybe some of that influence is there too.
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RE: 6 character passwords and security
They give you a random ID as username (which you copy/paste from the email they send you because remembering it is a pain), and then ask you to choose a PIN, which serves no other function whatsoever than a password (it's not like a bank PIN at all, banks often use it to confirm transactions and stuff, but the university only asks it once to log in).
If you accept an offer of admission, then you can login using the email address given by the university and an 8-character password, which is a bit better, but it's still limited.
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6 character passwords and security
I recently applied to a certain university for their Software Engineering program. They create an account for you to remember where you are in filling out your application and, later on, to login to the system. I forgot to read their instructions on how to choose a password, so I picked one around 12 characters, with letters, numbers, and a special character or two, which I do most of the time. I am then hit by a screen telling me the password is invalid, to pick another one. I then go on to read the guidelines:
In case the image doesn't work, it says that the password MUST be 6 characters. Then it rambles on about security and how you have to choose a password that isn't easily identifiable which contains numbers and letters. Good luck doing that with 6 characters, unless their password hashing is incredibly slow (if they even do that), password security with 6 characters is a bit impractical from what I've seen.