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.
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."
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.
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.
"Oh, this guy again. I have all the paper work ready"
https://xkcd.com/1105/
there's one of these for literally every meme ever huh?
Given how long the xkcd has been around I think the car is referencing the comic
2005 for those wondering.
Think they mean the specific comic
I'm almost sure they're procedurally generated for some time now
I knew I read it somewhere, it didn't remember it to be an xkcd comic
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.
Oh like so I bet
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."
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!
This is even dumber than the morons who think any plate that's days "private" has any hope of passing any kind of check.
If all license plates said “private” or “1ii11i1i” they’d never catch us all
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
According to the timestamps, you were 3 hours too late, sorry dude... https://startrek.website/comment/6045561
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.
This is like the old SC2 pros hiding their nicknames when practicing on the ladder
Nowadays we just call that "smurfing", and it's a plague on every online game with a ranking system.
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.
you sure it wasn’t this guy?
That is funny but not as bad.
It would be funnier if the license plate was "*DROPTABLE"
Can't get DDoSed if they can't figure out your username
I looked up the plate (TLC records are public info) and it's still in service.
Neat.