[Aksannyi]

Want to know what I learned today?

I learned that POL doesn't accept any of these !@#$%^&*() characters in passwords. You see, I changed my password last night on my laptop, and it contained a * when I typed it. I do this with passwords becaues it makes them harder to figure out.

Well I tried to log in today on the PC, and obviously my new password hadn't been saved on the PC yet, so I knew I'd have to put it in and re-set it. Only I kept getting an "incorrect password" message. Um ... what? I tried it with the CAPS on, just in case I was retrarded enough to change my PW with it on. No dice.

So I close POL on the PC and open it on the laptop, just to make sure that I can actually log into my account. And I can, so (whew) I wasn't hacked. So I figured I'd go into the password menu to maybe see what I could find out, and the soft keyboard thing pops up, with ... you guessed it ... no !@#$%^&*() on it.

Sure enough, I counted the characters of the password I'd saved and it was exactly one less than I thought. Tried it without the * on the PC and I'm in game.

So, this is interesting and pretty stupid. If I want an * or a % in my password, why can't I have one? That makes our passwords stronger, doesn't it? So I went out of my way to make a password that contiained numbers, lowercase, uppercase, and special characters but SE wouldn't allow it. WUT?

Also I cussed out my computer for a solid 3 minutes over this.