• 14th_cylon
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    3 months ago

    that xkcd is… completely irrelevant to the post.

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      3 months ago

      Replace “all 1’s or something” with “drop database or something” and it 100% applies.

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        3 months ago

        and replace pork steak with tofu chilli bowl and it is now vegetarian food. what is your point?

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          3 months ago

          And if my grandma had two wheels she would be a bicycke. What are we talking about again?

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            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.

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              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.

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                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

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                  It’s about plates and sql injection.

                  And (by how I understood it) the point of the I1I1 plate was that it wasn’t easily discernible and the camera couldn’t identify it correctly to link it to the owner, but the police knew who it was nonetheless because it’s always the same guy that already got caught. I might be wrong though, it’s just a funny comic and isn’t probably meant to be looked into that deeply.

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                    And (by how I understood it) the point of the I1I1 plate was that it wasn’t easily discernible and the camera couldn’t identify it correctly

                    the point was it was hard to read and remember for a human. hence why the witness in the comic gives only vague description, which is what the owner of the sneaky plate hoped for, but due to its uniqueness the police knew and the plate failed to achieve its intended purpose on a spectacular level. there was no automation involved at all.

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      3 months ago

      Makes me wonder if the Lucky 10,000 comic came out because of how often people might’ve said “everybody’s seen that XKCD”.

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      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.

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        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 ;)

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        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.