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*998
900 Numbers 0..99 are not three-digit.
Digits, not numbers... I guess a VIN can still be 007, or 054. Right?
NULL license plate not such a bright idea
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Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea
#252"Droogie contacted the DMV who told him to change his plate. He refused because he didn't do anything wrong. While they wiped the fines off his record, unfortunately for him, they didn't fix the problem in the system so once again, Droogie has accrued another $6,000 in tickets" So wait, after he knew this was the outcome from using this plate he just decided 'nope, the DMV will definitely rectify this error'? Maybe h…
If it got to that point, I’m sure some tech savvy lawyer would have fun with these cases.
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#253I like my new vanity license plate:
DROP DATABASE;
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#254Tangentially related somewhat-common bug: YAML files will interpret the literal 'no' as boolean false if it's not quoted, instead of as a string. Many developers have wondered why, when they stuck country-specific configurations in a YAML file, that things suddenly stopped working when they expanded support for Norway.
I don't have a problem with yes/no per se , I just don't like that it also takes true/false
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#255I recently saw a car with a license plate of B8B88BB8 (or something to that effect) that I am almost certain the owner chose to make it hard to read and transcribe correctly by either humans or computer vision systems. I was honestly kind of impressed.
I read that someone tried to register a license plate with a random sequence of Os and zeros (e.g. "OO0O00"). Unfortunately, it worked too well because the person doing data entry at the DMV ordered him a plate with all Os. :)
Or all 1's, L's and I's with a license plate frame that "accidentally" covers up the differentiating marks. >:)
PS: Reminds me, I should get one of those LPR T-shirts with license plates all over it.
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
I knew a kid in college who would get a ticket, and then look around the parking lot for another Black Nissan Maxima. Most people don't actually look at the plate number, just the make model. I think he got one ticket paid this way ... guy was kinda an asshole.
I've had a friend do the reverse: parking in illegal spot, and borrowing a ticket from another car that already received one. Upon return some hours later, he returned the ticket to the correct windshield. Quite brazen, and frankly a bit of an asshole thing to do.
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#257Reminds me of the story of Ireland's worst Polish driver who never got caught: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171....
I've also heard a similar story of a Finnish man who got a ticket in the UK, and on closer inspection found his name on the ticket listed as Mr. Ajokortti Körkort. Thats "driver's licence", first in Finnish, then Swedish, and is written at the top of the driver's license card. That said, I find these stories a little hard to credit, since you'd expect police officers in the EU to be fairly familiar with the standard…
> you'd expect police officers in the EU to be fairly familiar with the standard EU driver's license layout
The common design for all the EEA countries was supposed to be implemented by the members by the start of 2013 according to Wikipedia.
Until 2033 there will be valid licenses that were issued before the common license, so there's still a lot of different designs out there.
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?"
I had a cab driver in New York who was unable to take me to the Brooklyn Bridge.
... well it keeps getting sold.
Re: NULL license plate not such a bright idea
#259Tangentially related somewhat-common bug: YAML files will interpret the literal 'no' as boolean false if it's not quoted, instead of as a string. Many developers have wondered why, when they stuck country-specific configurations in a YAML file, that things suddenly stopped working when they expanded support for Norway.
I always felt Yaml is far too complicated of a format for storing hierarchical data. JSON is too simple (no comments; hard to store multi-line strings). HCL, the hierarchical data storage language used by Terraform, is the closest thing I’ve seen to a happy medium between JSON and Yaml. Another option, if the string values are not multi-line, is CommentJSON (use the Python module or write 10 lines of code that strips…
Both a bare > and a sequence of 3 quotes are invalid in JSON, so it should be really simple to add multi-line strings wither Python or Perl style.
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
That's absolutely how bits of entropy work.
However symbol frequency is also significant for entropy.
Do you think 1 in 25 four letter passwords contain a backtick?
If you were brute forcing an ASCII password (no whitespace), would you naively cycle from ! up to ~ for each character?