lil bobby tables finally get his license?
Lol, my exact first thought, Bobby Tables turned 18!
Assuming he went to school at a normal age, i dont think he aged 1.2*10^17 years between the comic and now
Where do you need to be 18 to drive?
In a considerable part of the world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_driving_ages
Oh, guess NA bias is showing.
Yeah, I assumed most of the world was at least 18. I was surprised when I moved to the US at 15 and could get a learner’s permit and drive with an adult, and drive by myself at 16.
Growing up in a rural part of Ohio it was needed. Everything was 20-30 miles away. Need milk and eggs, well see you an a hour
Yeah, I totally understand how it’s necessary across many parts of the US. There’s so much I couldn’t have done in high school, like having a job, if I couldn’t drive. I didn’t live in a rural area, but between the sprawl and lack of public transportation…
In a rather large part of the world (the solid green parts of that map).
Poland and probably most of Europe. You don’t need a car here for everyday living, so there is no point in giving licenses and care to kids.
NYC without drivers ed
In the US you don’t get your full driver’s license until 18. 16 is permit and requires an over 21 license driver with you, and 17 is a provisional license so it has restrictions on how late you can drive and how many people can be in the car.
I got my license at 16, permit at 15. I live in the U.S…
Yeah but I think what he’s saying is that you can have a license, but there are still restrictions for a certain amount of time. In California when I got my license on my 16th birthday, I think it was 6 months that I couldn’t have anyone in the car under 18 without someone over 25, and I couldn’t drive past 10 or 11 pm (unless I was coming from work or some kind of emergency). It’s been a minute (almost 20 years lol) and I remember changes to the rules not long after my restrictions were lifted (I think they extended them to a year), but yeah, it’s not like they handed you a license and you were a free agent.
Old Millennial, here. Gather round!
In most of the USA, you could get a permit at 15 1/2 years old, and this came with the restriction of needing someone over 18 with you.
Then at 16, if you passed the test, you were given a license and could drive all you want. No restrictions, no limits, have your friends in the car, no one really cared. Then people started to realize that giving 16 years olds free rein to drive causes a lot of accidents. Over the past ~15 years more states have adopted the graduated driver’s license and it has caused a notable drop in fatalities.
Isn’t this the same country that made the drinking age 21 because of car accidents?
I think that may be a state restriction. For sure you can get a permit at 15, and 16 should be provisional, but iirc the only restriction is that those under 18 cant drive after 11pm, atleast in FL.
Pretty sure the US allows individual states to set the ages. In Canada, it’s provinces that set it. Lowest age I’ve ever heard of was 12 (for limited permits to move farm machinery along back roads in Saskatchewan, although that was decades ago and it might not still be a thing). I had a full and unrestricted license at 16, but the rules have changed since then.
Only if you live in New Jersey
Admittedly it’s been a long time since this was relevant to me, so this may have changed, but where and when I grew up in the US you could get a learner’s permit (unlimited driving with another qualified driver in the car) at 15 yrs and 9 mos, then a full license (able to drive by yourself and transport anyone over 18) at, I think, 16 and 6 mos. At 18 the restrictions on whom you could transport disappeared, but I’ve never heard of anyone paying attention to or enforcing those rules anyway.
There may also have been a restriction about driving after midnight, but I don’t recall for sure.
I only had my learner’s permit for 6 months before getting my intermediate, and my full license 6 months after that.
that xkcd is… completely irrelevant to the post.
Replace “all 1’s or something” with “drop database or something” and it 100% applies.
and replace pork steak with tofu chilli bowl and it is now vegetarian food. what is your point?
And if my grandma had two wheels she would be a bicycke. What are we talking about again?
And if my grandma had two wheels she would be a bicycke.
No, she would be human with two wheels. That is not what a bicycle is
What are we talking about again?
We are talking about the fact that when someone says “that is not relevant”, countering with “if some facts were different, it would suddenly be relevant” is not very useful answer.
You also have to “change facts” to have the Bobby Tables xkcd apply here, because this is about plates and not children.
It doesn’t have to apply 100% to be a relevant xkcd, they just posted it because, like op’s pic, it’s about a person trying to be clever by messing with speed cameras, but everyone would know whose fault is it the second time it happens because of how weird the plate is.
Your one obviously applies more, but there’s no need to gatekeep.
because this is about plates and not children.
but this isn’t about plates, it is about sql injection.
but everyone would know whose fault is it the second time it happens because of how weird the plate is.
this is obviously not official plate that would be registered to his name, so they would have no idea unless they caught him red-handed.
but there’s no need to gatekeep.
well, yes, i could have phrased that differently
But if you stuck a license plate to a child then it would be a car
Im suddenly hungry for carbonara
Makes me wonder if the Lucky 10,000 comic came out because of how often people might’ve said “everybody’s seen that XKCD”.
I’m pretty sure the cameras around here don’t use OCR at all or even if it does it only recognizes the format for plates from a thing shaped like a plate. So if you’re driving like an ass with the drop tables-“plate” that is pretty relevant.
The Bobby Tables one I’m quite sure would work at least on some systems if they let you input your kids name by yourself to some sort of digital form. Or at least I would be pretty surprised if every school system on earth would be patched against simple sql injections.
So if you’re driving like an ass with the drop tables-“plate” that is pretty relevant.
the only thing they have in common is the license plate. that is like saying that every joke that starts with “three people walk into a bar” is basically the same joke.
but here, have a photo that is actually relevant to the submitted xkcd ;)
is this your car?
no
I feel like one Z should be a 2 for good measure
The license plate cameras near me simply take a photo when motion is detected and send it to the server or stores it until connection is reestablished. Then they use image recognition on the car to determine the make and model and on the license plate. They also claim that they can record items such as bumper stickers or body damage. I think that they probably have humans review cars that don’t match exactly. My guess is that they use object detection to isolate the license plate, but you could probably make one by printing text onto a piece of paper and gluing it onto some cardboard. I also think you could mess with it if you put a decal of a letter or number next to your license plate.
Mvp
Cool username
Not always a good idea
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
according to Tartaro, he says he received a notice that the California DMV would not let him renew his registration unless he actually paid some of those fines.
that sounds so illegal. but i am not an american, so what do i know.
California will do a lot more than deny a renewal over unpaid fines. First they’ll double the fine the first day that you are late, and then they’ll add more fees every day until it is paid. Eventually, I think it’s after six months or a year, they’ll suspend your driver’s license, and after that they’ll issue a bench warrant for your arrest. So it’s entirely possible for your whole life to be ruined over a traffic ticket in California, culminating with you being thrown into prison.
ok, but while that is wild in itself, i assume that is under the assumption of them actually being your tickets. here we talk about situation where they demand the hero pays someone else’s tickets just because of the fault of their system.
That aligns perfectly from what I’ve seen from the California DMV. They do not give a fuck. They will do whatever their stupid little antiquated computer program tells them to do.
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Did you read the article? All those fines were from other people, erroneously applied to him when the police officer didn’t fill in the information on the citation.
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“There’s no way to know if he used the plate on dozens of vehicles in dozens of states, some at the same time.”
So then he’s innocent, case closed.
The standard is to assume innocence, not assume guilt
“There’s no way to prove him guilty so he should have to pay!”
I doubt the guy had several different car makes on hand to commit some sort of nationwide parking violation spree with the same plate but different cars in places where it’s impossible to even drive between the two places in the time between both timestamps.
Huh? They’re not his fines. The software is just shit so it puts all fines with no license plate as matching his.
How the heck does a system interpret a string value null as a literal null? That seems insane to me that there really is software out there written like this. “null” != null… Or so I thought, maybe there are languages out there that this can happen in easily? Or someone is storing the string value of null in a non nullable database column?
May I introduce you to our lord and savior JavaScript?
Javas Christ.
But even in JavaScript a string representation of null is not equal to a null literal. ‘null’ or “null” are not the same as null
“He had it coming,” says Christopher Null, a journalist who has written previously for WIRED about the challenges his last name presents.
This is peak nottheonion material
Paywalled
Can you explain the joke here? My neighbor has one of these on his truck, and it still doesn’t make any sense to me.
Your neighbor is the joke. (real answer: the sticker implies a cop would find being called gay very offensive, to the point of not pulling this person over. In reality the cop would likely just shoot you and say you were evading arrest or something while pissing on your corpse.)
So he’s into water sports?
the cop is.
Dude, settle down a little, or a lot.
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But then he’d be stuck being a cop for the rest of his life.
I think this would get you charged depending on the locality, do not try at home kids
Charging other people for your own incompetence has a special ring to it.
Not expecting someone to war drive a drop table query into an EZ pass database isn’t incompetence, n’or is not expecting any other vulnerability to be exploited unless you have specific training to look out for it.
Even master defensive coders won’t be able to write something that’s impenetrable, just difficult enough to break into that it isn’t worth it to 99.99999% of attackers.
Sanitizing your data is programming 101 when dealing with database entries
I miss ancient memes like this
Reminds me of the woman that got a fine for “driving in a bus lane” here in the UK. When she looked at the attached image on the fine it was of a woman walking in the street of a town she’d never been to. On that woman’s jumper was lettering that closely resembled her plates.
Made me think I could attach a sheet of card with the plate details of some arsehole I disliked, ride a bicycle down the bus lane and see if they start complaining about being fined. 😅
They’ll get the picture in the fine letter so make sure you give them your best one-finger salute
Well I was on google streetview giving their camera the finger, LOL!
Is there even a remotely possible chance something like that would work? I have to drive past a ALPR that checks for insurance every day. I wouldn’t mind plastering code across my tailgate in a design that resembles a license plate.
It actually did work, apparently:
not working in two different browsers, should it?
It’s a link to a comment on this subject that says:
Ok, so to explain. This DID happen,literally 500m from my home :) the system was designed to store reg plate numbers and later turned to a speed camera. The stunt was done by a few students of the Technical University, it did bring the whole db down. They tried to revive it, but ultimately the boards have been dead for the past 5 years or so. Mind that this hack was performed around 7 or 8 years ago:) I can provide pics of the dead board now and exact coordinates too:)
And then later in the replies they do give the coordinates of the camera billboard thing they broke, and someone posts a Google Maps screenshot of the board at the coordinates they gave that just looks like a little digital billboard that’s turned off and is just black, and the OP confirms that it is the board they mentioned.
Hope that all makes sense; I’ve got a lot brain fog/stress brain and stuff and it felt like too much to screenshot lol
They tried to revive it, but ultimately the boards have been dead for the past 5 years or so.
That’s a new level of incompetence, even for the government. So, after spending all that tax-payer money, they just let the entire project die rather than have a developer spin up a new database schema, which would take anyone competent like 5 minutes? For real? And these are the people that everyone expects to fix our problems?
This is complete guess work but I’m pretty sure its the kind of things that was put together by some office assistant not a developer.
Real parks and rec vibes.
I don’t know what a database is and it’s been too long im afraid to go ask
Worth a shot. Wouldn’t surprise me if this backwoods town is vulnerable. That being said, I’m open to anyone’s code suggestions and I’ll slap it on there. My coding abilities are limited to BASIC and just enough C to make microcontrollers work.
Wow that is impressive
Highly unlikely.
Little Bobby tables learns to drive.
This is smart. When my son was learning, I put a magnetic ‘student driver’ sign on my car, too. More people should do this. It’s just polite.
L plates are a legal requirement here if that’s what you mean
They’re not required here. You just plop your child in your regular car with no changes whilst they’re learning. It’s insane. I bought a magnetic sign to warn people though, because that seems nuts to me.
I was making a joke tho.
I have been learning some database stuff today. Finally understand the drop table thing better.
This was actually tried btw. Mostly as a joke iirc
Edit: Looking into it, apparently it’s not confirmed. Damn, that was a very popular urban myth in french programming circles back in the 2010’s
This is awesome. Saved. LOL
Just pop a bike rack on your back plates and you are good to go.
It’s a Renault Mégane 1. There’s not a whole lot of those around anymore so it’d be easy to identify the owner even without a license plate.
identify - maybe, prove it at the court of law - somewhere between hard and impossible.
say you have found all these “not that many” cars, and now what? you would have (may slightly depend on the local law) prove who is the driver. that may be impossible, even if you have photo of the driver and photo of the suspected owner and you “think” they match.
the car also doesn’t have to be local, whatever your threshold for what local is is.
