NULL license plate not such a bright idea • Hacker News Board

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

#11

Post by cortesoft » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 4:37 PM UTC

I love when people double down out of principle, when the only person getting hurt is themselves.

He refuses to change it because he did nothing wrong...sure, but you are also the only one being hurt by it. Is this really the hill to die on?

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

#12

Post by exfed » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 4:37 PM UTC

This kind of thing makes me question how tightly we couple (or fail to couple) the "code of Law" to the "code of Computers".

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

#13

Post by tsss » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 4:38 PM UTC

Shout out to all the Python programmers from the other frontpage thread who are responsible for bugs like this with their crappy scripting languages.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

#14

Post by astura » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 4:38 PM UTC

mieseratte wrote: post #8

Guess I should FOIA the DMV to find out what my state's default value is.

These tickets were issued by a privately operated citation processing center.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

#15

Post by jeffdavis » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 4:39 PM UTC

It sounds like a bright idea to me.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

#16

Post by oarabbus_ » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 4:39 PM UTC

>Apparently, when they didn't have the right data for a vehicle, a privately operated citation processing center used the word NULL in the license plate field for many tickets.

>used the word NULL

Oh god, I feel faint.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

#17

Post by astura » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 4:39 PM UTC

See also, the person who had the personalized license plate "NO PLATE" (and similar).

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/licensed-to-bill/

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

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Post by listenallyall » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 4:40 PM UTC

This is clearly an entirely fake anecdote. Show me a pic and change my mind.

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

#19

Post by dkarl » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 4:40 PM UTC

visarga wrote: post #3

NULL strikes again, this time IRL!

This time?

Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea

#20

Post by dhosek » Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 4:40 PM UTC

There was a similar issue in California where, in the days before on-line choosing of vanity plates, you would give three choices. One guy couldn't come up with a third option so he wrote "NO PLATE" and ended up with that as his plate with similar results. Snopes has the story:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/licensed-to-bill/