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[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago (3 children)

"Oh, this guy again. I have all the paper work ready"

[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (2 children)

there's one of these for literally every meme ever huh?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Given how long the xkcd has been around I think the car is referencing the comic

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Think they mean the specific comic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I'm almost sure they're procedurally generated for some time now

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I knew I read it somewhere, it didn't remember it to be an xkcd comic

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's even more boring than that - the license plate system already searches ambiguous characters. It's almost like this issue comes up even without people gaming the system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh like so I bet

if license plate person thinks they have 1 on they plate {
  do check to see if it’s \
    actually == i
}
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Something like that, yeah, I think the system automatically checks.. Although this has 8 ambiguous characters, so actually you could have 256 cars with virtually indistinguishable plates, which is a lot. I believe custom plates have an approval process, and I wonder if this would be part of it. Like, "Yeah, no more black lincoln town cars with all I's and 1's, something's up."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is why I don't have a tag on my car. Can't track my license plate if I don't have a license plate. It's foolproof!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is even dumber than the morons who think any plate that's days "private" has any hope of passing any kind of check.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

If all license plates said “private” or “1ii11i1i” they’d never catch us all

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Has anyone posted the related XKCD yet?

noooo? no one? OK .. i guess it's my turn

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/license_plate_2x.png

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

According to the timestamps, you were 3 hours too late, sorry dude... https://startrek.website/comment/6045561

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure the database actually treats them as the same character. So not sure if someone can't have a different arrangement of I and 1 or if they all just get investigated if one of them commits a crime.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is like the old SC2 pros hiding their nicknames when practicing on the ladder

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Nowadays we just call that "smurfing", and it's a plague on every online game with a ranking system.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can't say too much but god I hate this so much. Used to work a call center and someone had a username that was all 1,l,I s and there was no way to easily identify between those 3 characters. For someone to verify who they were they needed to tell us their username and some other info. So I had to waste nearly 30 fucking minutes dealing with this stupid shit before we could proceed forward and we couldn't just DC the person.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That is funny but not as bad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It would be funnier if the license plate was "*DROPTABLE"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Can't get DDoSed if they can't figure out your username

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I looked up the plate (TLC records are public info) and it's still in service.

Neat.