Typically, an attacker will attempt to bypass the username and password system by sending code or characters that confuse the site's programming.

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In general terms, you should shoot for 12-14 characters, assuming the system will allow it.

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If you have 2 characters in your team at rank 1, the system is going to find you a match with, you guessed it, someone else with 2 rank 1 characters.

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Kochan details how such characters have manipulated governments and the entire international financial system.

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He casts a wise, rather than a cold, eye on his characters' struggles, both with an inflexible social system and their own weaknesses.

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Leveraging WebGL and Javascript, the system samples the search giant's images and generates text art using the appropriate characters and hues.

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Tate, Keith David, and Bokeem Woodbine put a great deal of heart into their performances, but because the characters are little more than types the film turns into one more indict-the-system polemic with little emotional pull.

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Unlike the other services, the Marine Corps has always harbored flamboyant characters and nonconformists, and we loved Happy Halloran for his slightly wacky heterodoxy, always playfully challenging the System.

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However, because some character classes or skill sets can easily defeat characters of other classes or skills in many MMORPGs, developers should consider a skill-point character development system over a class-based system to balance play and to provide an opportunity for any character class engaged in combat to win.

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