Ok, One More Password Complaint

How is it possible that there are still sites that do not let you use a space, punctuation and/or caps as part of your password. Are you joking? It's almost as if they took extra effort to filter that out and make your passwords weaker. 'Cause let me promise you something... Ascii character 32 (a space) is a perfectly valid character for a computron and is functionally equivalent to char 44 (a quote), 52 (the number 4) or 119 (the letter w). The only reason that wouldn't work as a password is if you're storing the passwords in the database as clear text, and really? Are you that dumb? Really?