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These unlucky people have names that break computers
BBC.com ^
| Mach 25, 2016
| Chris Baraniuk
Posted on 03/28/2016 5:52:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: douginthearmy
Trust me on this one, you don’t even want to know!
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posted on
03/28/2016 8:08:55 PM PDT
by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Like not saying all this stuff is text inputs.
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posted on
03/28/2016 8:13:27 PM PDT
by
tbw2
To: Kaslin
43
posted on
03/28/2016 8:45:57 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
(P)
To: Kaslin
44
posted on
03/28/2016 9:16:20 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: chaosagent
I worked at NASA too, with a group of “ADA is amazing” programmers used blank spaces to denote empty string values because they couldn’t get = null to work and didn’t bother to learn SQL well enough to know why.
Good time... (sorta)
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posted on
03/28/2016 9:24:13 PM PDT
by
csivils
To: HiTech RedNeck
They are probably doing an uppercase conversion.
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posted on
03/28/2016 9:31:13 PM PDT
by
dinodino
To: tinyowl
To: Kaslin
My son has joked about naming his child after a common SQL injection. It’s absolutely amazing how many websites don’t even bother to use parameters to protect against those.
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posted on
03/28/2016 9:46:00 PM PDT
by
Objective Scrutator
(All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
To: Kaslin
I know a dog who thinks his name is Stop That.
To: softwarecreator
So you’re a farmer? Guess that would give you a lot of time to think. :)
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posted on
03/28/2016 10:59:15 PM PDT
by
Crucial
(At the heart all leftists is the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
To: ifinnegan
An actual null as a word/string?
Its hard to believe.
Yep, but I saw it over and over.
51
posted on
03/28/2016 11:00:29 PM PDT
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
To: Billthedrill
So true... before programmers got wise, you could enter the following in a password field and get into a system:
x' or 'x'='x
To: Kaslin
What about those poor folks whose middle name is Nmi?
53
posted on
03/29/2016 2:53:21 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/29/2016 2:53:43 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: softwarecreator
Cats and dogs marrying...
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posted on
03/29/2016 2:54:01 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: SpaceBar
agree with both comments.Both?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world.
Those who understand binary numbers and those who do not.
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posted on
03/29/2016 2:56:27 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: grey_whiskers
Me; too!
I tell them as jokes all the time; but very few folks get them.
In fact; I told about a dozen of them once, just for laughs; and no pun in ten did.
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posted on
03/29/2016 3:00:20 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: douginthearmy
Exaggeration?
I've told them a million times NOT to do it!!
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posted on
03/29/2016 3:01:50 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I was 10 before I found out my first name wasn’t Dammit.
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posted on
03/29/2016 3:26:44 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Apparently not in database land. In Oracle, the empty string is actually NULL. Some versions of SQL also treat that string differently. If the programs that processed this person’s name stayed inside their executables, it probably would behave as you say, since strings are just another kind of variable. But once the string gets passed to a database, all bets are off.
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