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When I was a foolhardy college student I figured out that if the cited vehicle make on my city parking ticket didn’t match my registration, I could get appeal t
by pardavis 7y ago
When I was a foolhardy college student I figured out that if the cited vehicle make on my city parking ticket didn’t match my registration, I could get appeal the ticket via a web form very easily and succeed every time.
Naturally I removed the badges from my car and put on different badges from another manufacturer. After a while they started to cite me as “other” and the trick no longer worked.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y agoRelevant xkcd comic https://xkcd.com/1105/ https://xkcd.com/1105/
- Iv 7y agoIn the Starcraft 2 community it is called barcoding. Basically, I 1 | l are all accepted characters for a name and I think some do look actually identical on most fonts used in the game. So yeah, one person doing that you call "barcode", 2 persons doing that, you already have deniability. Be more than 10, and that's a crowd.
- amyjess 7y agoBack when I used to play Ingress, that was really common. The Enlightened in Dallas had a ton of barcode names.
- BryantD 7y agoThe new client makes it much easier to distinguish the characters, but there are still plenty of barcodes in the game.
- Retric 7y agoYou can reuse names in SCII, so it’s more a convention than anything else. The important bit is to have many accounts with similar names.
- knd775 7y agoThere was a time where call of duty ghosts was exploitable, and people could wipe/delete the accounts of anyone whose username/gamertag they knew. Streamers and pro players had to use barcode usernames to avoid getting their accounts deleted.
- perspective1 7y agoGoogle's AlphaStar StarCraft bot did just this under different accounts. Along with some other fingerprinting, many of the accounts and replays were found by the SC2 community.
- Iv 7y agoTo my knowledge, it played with only one account. It played exactly 50 games with every race. It was outed mainly because of two things: A very high win rate (above 80% IIRC) and the fact that as a zerg it produced units by selecting larvas directly, which no one ever does (someone explains that it uses control groups but they are hidden and dont show up in replays, I dont know how accurate it is)
- ChainOfFools 7y agothis goes back at least as far as the original Unreal Tournament, I even saw a player using it in the fairly obscure Shogo: MAD multiplayer community. Never knew why it was done back then, I assumed it was just to be cute, but it did make it troublesome to mention them in ingame chats.
- ohazi 7y agoI actually saw a car with a license plate like this last week. Some combination of I's and 1's. White Ford Mustang driving around Santa Clara.
- tjpnz 7y agoI've seen something similar in New Zealand. Probably wouldn't be fooling anyone given the size of the country and how distinctive the car was.
- bloak 7y agoIn UK number plates I and 1 are the same character, as are O and 0: https://www.dafont.com/uk-number-plate.font?text=O0I1l https://www.dafont.com/uk-number-plate.font?text=O0I1l Number plates existed for decades before ASCII was invented. Before computers, people often used mechanical typewriters which didn't have keys for 0 and 1: you typed 0 as O and 1 as l. I threw away one such typewriter recently. It was in good working condition, with its instruction manual. It had been made in a country that no longer exists. You may imagine how sad and nostalgic I felt.
- tracker1 7y agoSaw a similar one on the road in front of me with a combination of N's, M's and I think a W ... man it was impossible to get straight while moving.
- Iwan-Zotow 7y agoBobby tables we call him
- jmts 7y agoNope, that one is different. https://www.xkcd.com/327/ https://www.xkcd.com/327/
- cronix 7y agoAll we had to do was register our cars in each others names. When I was married, my car was registered to her and vice versa. The redlight/photoradar laws in my state required that the company operating the devices had to match the pic of the driver violating the law, to the pic of the registered owner via the license plate. If they couldn't match them, no ticket was issued as you can't prove who was driving. That's probably changed now that a lot of DMV's are doing facial scans with datapoints. They probably just scan the whole DMV DB now to find the driver. Wear a mask.
- joezydeco 7y agoOr get a right-hand drive car: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081607/Speeding-puppet-seat-British-car-makes-muppets-German-police.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081607/Speeding-pu...
- beagle3 7y agoIs it true that in England, the person sitting next to the driver IS the driver? :)
- djsumdog 7y agoI knew a kid in college who would get a ticket, and then look around the parking lot for another Black Nissan Maxima. Most people don't actually look at the plate number, just the make model. I think he got one ticket paid this way ... guy was kinda an asshole.
- cgriswald 7y agoSomeone tried that on me on campus but I noticed. I wasn’t supposed to be parked there either and was skating by on a technicality that worked as long as no one looked too closely into it. Otherwise I’d have called security and made his life uncomfortable for awhile. As far as I’m concerned, it’s fraud.
- distances 7y agoI've had a friend do the reverse: parking in illegal spot, and borrowing a ticket from another car that already received one. Upon return some hours later, he returned the ticket to the correct windshield. Quite brazen, and frankly a bit of an asshole thing to do.
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- ddingus 7y agoAlso pure genius. The worst kind, but hey! Gotta credit where some is due.
- lccarrasco 7y agoBut what did he do if the other car had already left when he returned? It's much more than a bit of an asshole thing to do.
- distances 7y agoThat, or received a second ticket. It all went to the plan that time, at least.
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- russdill 7y agoI really enjoyed my parkingservices@ email address at my university. Took them many years to catch up and take that alias away.