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Earlier this summer I decided that I'd found a loophole and ordered 'N0 TAG' and 'N0NE' (zeros) for my motorcycles. The license plate font doesn't distinguish between 0 and O but the computers seem to account for visually similar characters -- I could not order the same plates with Os after they'd issued. Haven't caught anyone else's tickets so far. SunPass won't accept 'N0 TAG' being associated with my transponder t…
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Yeah, just b/c he is stubborn enough and doesn't wish to give up his vanity plate instead of folding. Pretty much nothing that hard/uphill battle has happened to him.
There are two options: die on the hill, or retreat. He is not retreating. Therefore he has chosen to die on the hill.
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I once had a BevMo cashier in California ask me, “Massachusetts? Is that in Canada?” Very little faith left.
I once had a cab driver take me to MIT. Cab driver: "what is this place?" Me: "MIT" Cab driver: "what's MIT?" Me: "the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Cab driver: "what's Massachusetts?"
plate VARCHAR(8) NOT NULL DEFAULT "NULL"
plate VARCHAR(8) NULL DEFAULT NULL
The only thing I can think of is the software (or it's database driver) handles everything in strings; so None() and Some("NULL") both get converted to "NULL"?
A colleague used an app's "generate secure password" feature to change their ISP's web portal login - which then also became the WAN router's password - which they didn't realise. It was about a week before the router dropped its connection and needed to re-authenticate - and that's when I was called in to investigate the loss of connectivity - which Windows 10 very unhelpfully reported as the network cable disconnec…
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?
Sure, it would be nice if the systems where patched. But maybe he should just get a job at the DMVs IT department instead :)
In the end I would probably rather pay the fines than fix this bug, it's probably a lot of horrible systems barely held together..
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> 10% more security (6.55 vs. 5.95 bits per character) That's not how this works. By your logic having a password consisting of 1,2,3,4 is only twice as secure as having just 1,2.
According to KeePass2, the password: "12" contains 7 bits of entropy, but "1234" only contains 5 bits of entropy. Is that right?
3f38ba8a6ce3aa800f007c2e431df7fd 124 bits
9339bf587ee11b12d207df846a879cf4 129 bits
8ca4354a9038df590fecec1f964062fd 121 bitsWhen I was a foolhardy college student I figured out that if the cited vehicle make on my city parking ticket didn’t match my registration, I could get appeal the ticket via a web form very easily and succeed every time. Naturally I removed the badges from my car and put on different badges from another manufacturer. After a while they started to cite me as “other” and the trick no longer worked.
All we had to do was register our cars in each others names. When I was married, my car was registered to her and vice versa. The redlight/photoradar laws in my state required that the company operating the devices had to match the pic of the driver violating the law, to the pic of the registered owner via the license plate. If they couldn't match them, no ticket was issued as you can't prove who was driving. That's…