Posted on 03/28/2016 5:52:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
Jennifer Nulls husband had warned her before they got married that taking his name could lead to occasional frustrations in everyday life. She knew the sort of thing to expect his family joked about it now and again, after all. And sure enough, right after the wedding, problems began.
We moved almost immediately after we got married so it came up practically as soon as I changed my name, buying plane tickets, she says. When Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket, she gets an error message on most websites. The site will say she has left the surname field blank and ask her to try again.
Instead, she has to call the airline company by phone to book a ticket but thats not the end of the process.
I've been asked why I'm calling and when I try to explain the situation, I've been told, there's no way that's true, she says.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
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Wow. I never thought of that and I work in the field. Interesting.
Ping uh ling...
I love XKCD.
Have you thought about working indoors?
How do you fair with this?
What happens if you go with Null A. Void?
=) okay, that was good.
The “NULL” value in a database and the string “Null” are two entirely different things.
Somebody is programming stupidly.
Lol. That’s funny!
Sounds like an urban legend. Even with unsanitized input, ‘Null’ is not the same as NULL.
ROFLMAO!
The NULL value in a database and the string Null are two entirely different things.
Somebody is programming stupidly.
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Somebody’s making things up.
agree with both comments.
That article is a real stretch, and nothing new. Its just a typical stupid British pop culture piece. I hate these articles. I work in computer in Japan too, and have similar experiences with my name, but it never bothered me or made me question any fault of the computer. We run into processing problems all the time from data entry, and it is not just names, it can be addresses, phone numbers, anything entered into a database. When that database (or program) gets enough data, it will eventually need to be tweaked to fix rare bugs that occur because the test case had never been considered.
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Wow. I never thought of that and I work in the field. Interesting.>>> didn’t exist in the old world of moving data around. now what do they call these databases 5th generation. can’t handle simple data.
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