But 'NULL' !== NULL. Well, in a more perfect world ;)
People with names that break computers
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I've always wanted a license plate I1II0O0O just to mess with the automated license plate scanners and video tolls
Many states don't allow both "I" and "1" or "O" and "0" in their character set. NJ is one that doesn't. However in NYC I saw a limo with the plates "1I11II1"
I always wanted to have an MMO character named "Bobby Tables".
I do have one who's the III, only it's spelled Ill for reasons of forced capitalization.
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You want to check out the author? .... Isaac Asimov ... Yeah, you should probably do that.
I checked out a bibliography. Seems like lots of derivative stuff playing on the same old memes you see everywhere.
it's probably little consolation, but I thought your comment was hilarious. :)
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#214A friend of mine, last name O'Neil, legally changed it to ONeil so he could fill out more forms online.
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#215I'm thinking I should either name my child "Define", or change my surname to "Define"...should make Google searching for personal information somewhat frustrating.
Re: People with names that break computers
#216But 'NULL' !== NULL. Well, in a more perfect world ;)
Heck, even NULL !== NULL
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Not sure I understand. The city of London is in the county of Greater London. New York City is in the state of New York. But Singapore is a city-state.
Do you really not understand, or are you being oblique? In any case, there is no county of Greater London. Greater London is an 'administrative area' - have a read of the London Government Act 1963, which created it, and abolished the county of London which had existed before. That's why we have a Greater London Authority (and before that a Greater London Council), rather than the London County Council we had when Lo…
London, along with most county towns in the UK shouldn't have a county appended to them. This isn't the case for New York.
Re: People with names that break computers
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if you are naming kids and want to save them a lot of bureaucracy in their lives, give them short names. - Thing One and Thing Two.. I wonder if it will fail..
Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius and Decimus — Roman names for fifth...eighth, tenth son. Prima, Secunda, Tertia, Quarta, Quinta, Sexta, Septima, Octavia, and Decima — first to tenth daughter. Octavia survived into modern English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_Spencer , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler
Balinese use birth order in their names.
There are a lot of Wayans.
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The fact that addresses don't come in canonical form is an interesting challenge for anybody who wants to verify addresses, e.g. for fraud preventing. Actually, many banks, when verifying addresses for online transactions, just strip out all non-numeric characters when doing address verification.
My apartment has two different apartment numbers, the right one and the one that Royal Mail made up for their database. Makes it interesting to match things up on different accounts
Also, a lot of websites have this thing where you have to enter your postal code and then you can pick your address from a list of addresses associated with the postal code. I used to live in a development for a while that was so new that it didn't appear in many of these databases, so signing up for various services (or even paying council tax) was near impossible.