A) If your system doesn't detect the username brute force, as mentioned, its time to invest in better IT managers.
B) The NIST standard (SP 800-63) that introduced the wide spread used of uppercase, numeric and special characters was released in 2004, and revised in 2006, 2011, and 2013.
It was later replaced in 2016/17 (SP 800-63-3) with notes that requiring special characters and hard to remember schemas caused security lapses in other harder to protect areas such as post-it notes with passwords or password schemes as mentioned above. The amount of companies that still used a 16 year old and retired security standard is ridiculous.

tl;dr; if a company requires a P4$$w0Rd!!! password scheme, their view on security is almost old enough to vote and you should not trust them.

For your own research:

• https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPassword_policy%23NIST_guidelines
• https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nist.gov%2Fitl%2Ftig%2Fprojects%2Fspecial-publication-800-63

You sir, I would give all my internet points, but alas this is where everything is made up and the points don't matter; also, I believe you to have a surplus by way of the inverse ID law.

http://xkcd.com/178/

dr00g911, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?

He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, almost 100 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to corporations. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Corporate infiltration, Corporate indoctrination, Corporate subversion and the international Corporate conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

This is a VERY old diagram. It shows how the design was intended 3 years ago.

If your going to cite diagrams, use one from the actual product. http://audivolv.com/emotivEpocMindReadingHelmet.jpg

As for previous comments on "conductive goo", the emotive epoc uses felt pads with a saline solution for conductivity. If you will notice, the owner and lead researchers are both women with thick, long hair and they have no problems using the device.

Linux support is in the works (Read: Drivers are under development); however, since their target is gamers, this is not their priority at the moment.

"Put paid to"
Meaning :To deal with effectively; to finish something off.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/293200.html

"Canard"
Meaning: a false or unfounded report or story

Slashdot should definitely expand these to include other MMOs. WOW, Eve, EQ2, et. al.

When the [MP|RI]AA make the Network Appliances being Licensed