Posted on 08/09/2016 5:41:31 AM PDT by Auntie Mame
I hope this couple thanks their stars that no LEO’s used a swat team at 0 dark thirty, first killing any dogs then starting the house on fire withy flash bangs, pulling the family out in their under ware to be handcuffed and watch the house burn to the ground.
Seems like we used to get two or three reports of swat raids gone bad every week. Maybe it has been all the press resulting from BLM.
Thanks for posting that. Makes a lot more sense now.
I agree that it was a dumb idea, but it should have been addressed years ago.
I’ve worked in data for longer than that, and you don’t use real data for default values. Imagine some poor bastard whose SSN was the default for all the illegals with bogus numbers!
It’s not a matter of imagining some future problem; it’s pretty much standard methodology and good practice.
I wondered about that also. Seems law enforcement must have figured out early it was bogus but had to do their due diligence. Therefore, no swat. Plus, people in Kansas are generally pretty level headed, excluding the Clutter killers, BTK, the Carr brothers, Billy the Kid, etc. LOL
Agree about not using real data for default values.
I’ve been in companies where some department decided to use 9/9/99 as the default value for a date when there was no real date — like a perpetual contract that doesn’t have an expiration date, but the field must be filled in. Guess what happened when fall 1999 rolled around? Companies today are putting in ‘99 again as the expiration date, but that’s quite a ways away.
I lived in NYC for 57 years. I've lived in rural WV for the past 14 1/2 years. Given my life's experience, I find your statement not credible wrong.
Imagine the size of his SS retirement benefits check...LOL
“I hope this couple thanks their stars that no LEO’s used a swat team at 0 dark thirty, first killing any dogs then starting the house on fire withy flash bangs, pulling the family out in their under ware to be handcuffed and watch the house burn to the ground.”
Apparently that kind of progress hasn’t made it to rural Kansas yet.
Houseboat owners beware!
You’d be closer to solving crimes by assigning the defaults to the White House.
Note to self - never buy a house with simple whole number coordinates.
I don’t get it either but just wow, how horrible for them.
The cops now have signs posted at the house to such affect. You have to click on the link within the story to get to the original article that explains everything.
Thanks - this gives me something to read while I eat breakfast....printing it now...and eating late...
I’ll let you know what I think - you know you can count on that, right?
Hehe. Right. If you print out the replies, another Freeper(s) graciously went to the link in the article and posted information that makes how this happened more understandable.
Truly strange. And more so that it went on so long.
I’ll check out the replies because an explanation sure eluded me after I read the article....glad someone else did it so I can concentrate on other puzzles this afternoon!!
“”Plus, people in Kansas are generally pretty level headed, excluding the Clutter killers, BTK, the Carr brothers, Billy the Kid, etc. LOL “”
You sure have a good memory....I’ve never forgotten In Cold Blood. The Carr Brothers, I check up on that case occasionally to see if they have been executed yet. Can’t even tell you what I’ve found - speaking of memories.
We traveled from CA to OH years ago and “In Cold Blood” was going to be shown on TV but the area where we were spending the night blocked it out..too near to the actual area where it happened. I believe we went through OK and the route had to be close..Hwy 40 probably.
“”another Freeper(s) graciously went to the link in the article and posted information that makes how this happened more understandable.””
I see posts #10 and #18. Should I say it all makes sense to me now even tho’ it doesn’t? Well, in a round about way, I suppose it does but I have a headache so I’m quitting now.
It’s not the company’s address that should be there though, because there really shouldn’t be any “default address” when a search fails. Standard programming in that case is to return no results at all, a “null” result. That way the person searching knows that there is no match.
These idiots instead stuck in a default address, so if you search for a bad IP, you have no way of knowing that it couldn’t be found.
I didn’t catch that. Thank you.
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