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  • ZimFreak, on 09/07/2008, -37/+345>_>

    i don't get it.
    • directedition, on 09/07/2008, -5/+358It's all white...

      FFFFFF = pure white. or rather, the greatest hex values for red, green, and blue.
      • BXRWXR, on 09/08/2008, -5/+71Oh, god.
      • echong112, on 09/08/2008, -13/+158Damn Geeks.
      • xieodeluxed, on 09/08/2008, -16/+8Thats awesome!
      • SasquatchBill, on 09/08/2008, -3/+71Am I wrong, but doesn't this have more to do with the color of his car rather than being unreadable to cops?

        Or is that another layer to the joke?
      • suckanucka, on 09/08/2008, -5/+8Whyz it alwayz gotta be white?
      • naner, on 09/08/2008, -1/+70@suckanuckasuckanucka

        Because 000000 will get you arrested in Ohio.
      • Bega, on 09/08/2008, -5/+14@ echong112

        you do realize where on the web you are, right?
      • Epitaph, on 09/08/2008, -8/+8@Bega: Thank you. I haven't frequented Digg in a while and have noticed a few... changes in the fan base. When I saw "Damn Geeks", I figured the Digg as I knew it was dying off.
      • JustinHopewell, on 09/09/2008, -5/+5We're still on Slashdot, Epitaph.
    • Synyk, on 09/08/2008, -10/+129there are three options:

      either 1- like directedition said, FFFFFF is pure white in hex...but then not only does the lack of # make it sort of hard to get, but also, it's not really funny or interesting...and if THAT is the joke, the title "Unreadable to Police" doesn't really relate...which brings me to

      option 2- FFFFFF is extremely hard to read to police. I mean try it..."the plate has six effs", I almost broke my tongue when I tried.

      option 3- there is nothing to get, bury and move along.
      • computrius, on 09/09/2008, -3/+2The FFFFFF.. Its white on a white car.. It blends in. I am pretty sure that is the joke. It relates perfectly fine :)
    • firebirdx01, on 09/08/2008, -9/+12its webpage design humor
      • bobartig, on 09/08/2008, -1/+13No, humor would inidicate that this was funny or clever in some way. Not so much.
    • UndeadZmobie, on 09/08/2008, -2/+62You must be the police.
    • ptsuk, on 09/08/2008, -14/+4Any of you notice that its ON a WHITE jag? i'm sure the interior is also WHITE!

      That or this is one hella of a racist vehicle owner ;)
    • cawpin, on 09/08/2008, -1/+23While subtly humorous. If you really want to give them a hard time go with 8B8B8B, DODODO, or O0O0O0.
      • SummerNight, on 09/08/2008, -18/+5I think it would be best to go with something like:
        lI1l1I
        (el i one el one i)
      • poet, on 09/08/2008, -1/+25@SummerNight: Since when did license plates print letters, "el", in lower-case?
      • Raptor007, on 09/08/2008, -1/+6I'm pretty sure they treat O and 0 equally (they use one or the other in their database and don't allow duplicates), and you can't use lowercase on a license plate.
      • DiggzDE, on 09/08/2008, -10/+2I think SummerNight was pronouncing the letters... as in "L i 1 L 1 i"

        He probably didn't remember that capitalization works much better then trying to type out the physical pronunciation of the letters.
      • NegativeDigg, on 09/08/2008, -0/+11There is a LP640 in California with the plates 8B8B8B8. Last week I saw the plates NEGRO on a black corvette being driven by a black guy.
      • rpgguy1o1, on 09/08/2008, -6/+2I'm pretty sure the "oh" looks like 0, but the zero has a slash more like ( / )
      • RSterkenburg, on 09/09/2008, -4/+2The letters O (o), Q (q) and I (i) are generally not allowed.
        (oh, kew, and eye)
      • RipleyIsDead, on 09/09/2008, -1/+4I wonder if 80085 is taken?
    • Blandyman, on 09/08/2008, -6/+10The officer would just say "the plate on the car is Frank, frank, frank, frank, frank, frank." or "Frank six times."
      • MeThePeople, on 09/08/2008, -1/+35foxtrot you delta uniform mike bravo alpha sierra sierra
      • thaitan, on 09/08/2008, -2/+11Lima oscar Lima
      • efitz11, on 09/08/2008, -3/+8foxtrot uniform charlie kilo



        put the you know what, in the you know where!
      • brianara3, on 09/09/2008, -1/+3We all know that the police do not conform to military lettering standards.
      • kevinwiz, on 09/09/2008, -1/+5That's if he can count 6 F's without losing his place and getting mind *****.
      • Nollykin, on 09/09/2008, -5/+3foxtrot. *sigh*
      • clsslc, on 09/09/2008, -1/+1"We all know that the police do not conform to military lettering standards."

        letter
        Function: verb
        Date: 1668
        transitive verb
        1 : to set down in letters : print
        2 : to mark with letters
        intransitive verb
        : to win an athletic letter
        — let·ter·er -tər-ər noun [1]

        The military calls it the "phonetic alphabet." [2]

        Just sayin'.

        [1] Merriam-Webster: "lettering"
        http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/letterin ...

        [2] Naval Historical Center: Phonetic Alphabet and Signal Flags
        http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq101-1.htm
    • urbandistrict, on 09/08/2008, -8/+1I did (space)N E R D S(space)
    • Fordi, on 09/08/2008, -1/+20Duh. His license plate is white on white.
    • arcooke, on 09/08/2008, -12/+23Once upon a time.. everyone on Digg would have instantly understood this. How sad.
      • doom777, on 09/08/2008, -2/+14if it was about obama, everyone would have instantly understood it
      • sq2shooter, on 09/08/2008, -7/+8Agreed. That many nerds on one site is beyond pathetic.
      • tacojohn48, on 09/09/2008, -1/+4Even having done webpage design, I didn't get it right off.
      • jeebusroxors, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2Don't worry. That just means you're an idiot.
    • Jemm, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1  
    • Sheethappens, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1That'd be the Jaguar F6, sigh....
  • jggube, on 09/07/2008, -4/+271It's more like #E5DDDB but whatever. :)
    • Doji, on 09/08/2008, -3/+41I'm getting #C2D2E2.
      Seems to be a tinge of blue.
    • coasterswim, on 09/08/2008, -2/+19Gimp disagrees with both of you: #BFD4EB
    • Tunguska, on 09/08/2008, -1/+14Colorzilla gets #CBD43E
    • whitej, on 09/08/2008, -0/+62It's dithered, so actually you're all right.
    • Raptor007, on 09/08/2008, -0/+32I didn't get it until I saw you guys posting your readings. But there's no # in front of it, so it wouldn't pass HTML validation as just "FFFFFF".
      • mrrealtime, on 09/09/2008, -1/+1HTML isnt the only language that uses 6 digit hex to represent numbers.
    • Ziggy7273, on 09/08/2008, -1/+5Derrrrrr.... The car is reflecting the sky.
  • vivisimonvi, on 09/07/2008, -16/+4white out?
  • oveanh, on 09/08/2008, -34/+14sounds like a gay fart!
  • jaihu, on 09/08/2008, -20/+8so lame.
  • yourpaljasper, on 09/08/2008, -14/+361I feel like less of a nerd for not getting this.
    • Eagle193, on 09/08/2008, -25/+4Same here. Several people have tried explaining it to me and I still don't get it.
      • thcobbs, on 09/08/2008, -1/+17Now you should just feel like less of a smart person.
      • uberchaoslord, on 09/08/2008, -4/+4"Smart" and "topic-specific knowledge" are two different things. I hate you Trivial Pursuit for making us value the retention of trivia, as opposed to logic and critical thinking....
    • megamod, on 09/08/2008, -18/+2You should feel uber cool for not getting it?
    • waluigi14, on 09/08/2008, -4/+170They forgot the "#", so I didn't recognize it as hex.
      • xxl3w, on 09/08/2008, -12/+14a hexadecimal IP address doesn't start with #. Maybe you should learn more than HTML color code wheels?
      • Raptor007, on 09/08/2008, -1/+8@xxl3w
        A hexadecimal IP address has 8 digits, so it's not that.

        I didn't recognize it at first either. I'd expect either the 0x prefix or the HTML # prefix to give it some context; otherwise it's more likely to be text than hex.
      • clsslc, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1"a hexadecimal IP address doesn't start with #."

        Hexadecimal numbers don't start with colons.
    • dasamps, on 09/08/2008, -1/+7I didn't get it either at first......maybe there is still hope for me.


      Unless I did just get thrown off by the lack of the pound symbol :(
    • frequentFlyer, on 09/08/2008, -3/+17please turn in your nerd card at the nearest Fry's.
      • flashpointmedia, on 09/08/2008, -7/+3Real nerds don't go to Fry's.
      • Lane, on 09/08/2008, -0/+5really? where are you getting your new cpu after a horrible spur of the moment dry ice accident when you need that paper by tomorrow morning?
      • Gryffydd, on 09/08/2008, -0/+4I'll just UPS mine back to Newegg :P
      • brianara3, on 09/09/2008, -0/+4@Lane

        .. I will just use one of my 10 other computers while my CPU is on its way back to NewEgg.
    • Lososaurus, on 09/08/2008, -0/+4Well, if you could have 8 characters, you could use 0xFFFFFF instead, but I don't know if you can have a '#' in a plate.
      • HonestAbe, on 09/08/2008, -2/+2You can have 8 characters. Even if you couldn't, 0XFFF is equivalent.
      • Raptor007, on 09/08/2008, -3/+5Err, what? 16777215 = 4095?

        Maybe #FFF in HTML would give the same result as #FFFFFF, but that's not really the same as saying 0xFFFFFF is equivalent to 0xFFF.
      • HonestAbe, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1"#FFF in HTML would give the same result as #FFFFFF"

        Fixed that for ya.

        http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#rgb-color
    • lvizon, on 09/08/2008, -2/+8nerds != designers

      english works just fine for us nerds:
      http://mkaz.com/ref/xterm_colors.html
      • urbandistrict, on 09/08/2008, -1/+2I am both nerd and a designer

        nice ref link.

      • amirman, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1nice link - bookmarked.
    • tristan0is0bord, on 09/08/2008, -6/+12hahaha. the color code for white is FFFFFF, so that on a white background would make it unreadable.
      • brianara3, on 09/09/2008, -2/+4Thank you Captain Obvious...
      • RSterkenburg, on 09/09/2008, -2/+3*****' genius!
      • mrjhmm, on 09/09/2008, -1/+2Thank you.

        You are the first person that explained it in terms that I could understand.
    • opusaz, on 09/08/2008, -3/+2It's so rare that I code html that I like color names, at least at first to get it close. So thanks for the link.

      Interesting, this list has many duplicate names. For example, there's lots of colors named "dark". They're not meant to be "dark[colorname]", since there is a dark[colorname] listed. In fact, just within the greens, there's three "dark"s.

      Sorry for the off topic, Bury away. I'll take it gracefully.
  • MrBibby, on 09/08/2008, -4/+31I hope his background is transparent or he'll never find that car...

    I hate myself for that.
    • CrazedLeper, on 09/08/2008, -0/+11If it makes you feel any worse, I hate you too. :-)
  • techmint, on 09/08/2008, -7/+436Once you go #000000, you never go back....
    • gobbstopp, on 09/08/2008, -3/+67unless you get #fff000 fever...
      • Barryke, on 09/08/2008, -8/+3Ugh that is just nasty!

        In my starting days i once had a #FACE06 fever, but its all gone now. Still like it though.
      • MattFromSeattle, on 09/08/2008, -0/+12Jaundice?
      • mario323, on 09/08/2008, -0/+4Oh now i get it lol
      • Raptor007, on 09/08/2008, -0/+6Close enough, but #FFFF00 would be pure yellow. Still, nice comment. :¬)
    • gavroche, on 09/08/2008, -0/+5#24a536 people > other humans
      • amirman, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1is that like turquoise or something?
    • dhughes, on 09/08/2008, -0/+63 Whoa, whoa! Let's not make this a #FFFFF against #000000 issue.
    • lulzitsadigg, on 09/08/2008, -0/+13RACE WARS
    • merreborn, on 09/08/2008, -1/+13I got pulled over for driving while #000000
    • DeadeyeDick, on 09/08/2008, -0/+9I knew a girl from South Carolina with plates reading an indecipherable mess of B's and 8's. Her dad was cop and suggested she do it to be funny.
    • lane.montgomery, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2Once you go #cccccc you'll never stray.
    • vashth3stampede, on 09/09/2008, -0/+4once you go #000000, you go deaf
  • BigTuna99, on 09/08/2008, -3/+185wow, a nerd with a jaguar. Someone was a part of the .com boom.........
    • dasamps, on 09/08/2008, -0/+21Part of my college fund was part of the .com bust :(
    • dhughes, on 09/08/2008, -0/+15 Or someone bought a Jaguar decal and name plate off eBay and stuck it on a Ford Taurus.
    • BoneStamp, on 09/08/2008, -3/+3... or they work their ass off and earned it like the rest of us 60+ hour/week people.
      • dhughes, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1 If you're working 60 hours you'll wind up dead from a heart attack, then I'll buy your used Jaguar.
    • oenoneablaze, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1...and now they live in Ohio? No one from the Bay Area would ever want to go there.
    • MistaWiggs, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1heh back in may i totaled my jaguar. The depreciation rate is terrible. You can get a 2002-2005 x-type for $10,000-15,000 [$40k+ new] and s-type [$60k+ new] (what this appears to be) for $15,000-20,000. And the thing is: it's hard to tell a 2002 from a 2008!
  • mcdougan, on 09/08/2008, -17/+4if i was about to waste my money probably would have done 8B8BB8B or something
    most cops probably dont know colors anyway
    • gobbstopp, on 09/08/2008, -6/+17well you don't know how many characters are in a hex code, so..
    • elnerdo, on 09/08/2008, -0/+15I don't think he meant it as a hex code. I think he just meant it because it's hard to tell the difference between 8's and B's.
  • BoonTobias, on 09/08/2008, -17/+3mccain's plate
  • asnider, on 09/08/2008, -28/+90Even after having the joke explained to me, I still think that this is incredibly lame and unfunny.
    • doctechnical, on 09/08/2008, -2/+22You are not alone. This isn't a joke so much as "look at my geek penis".
      • MeatyMcBeef, on 09/08/2008, -1/+3The joke would be my responding "what penis?"
      • MasterGrief, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2I don't think this person is trying to display how much better a nerd he is than others... Seems more like a simple in-joke that he wanted to have to connect him to his culture, like people with Apple tattoos or Star Wars shirts. I know that if I didn't mind getting a tattoo, I'd probably get the Lambda symbol on my wrist.

        Altman be praised.
    • dasamps, on 09/08/2008, -4/+1That was a pretty good...metaphor. God, those kind of people suck. Their payback is that they go home with their right hand and not a member of the opposite sex.
    • DallasG, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1Masturbating Walruses > The appeal of this joke...
  • youliveinfear, on 09/08/2008, -11/+49it's funny because it's the hex code for white.
  • greeniemeani, on 09/08/2008, -5/+160#FFFFFF is a hexadecimal representation used by computers for the color white.
    • mediaspree, on 09/08/2008, -9/+5I shat bricks when I got it.
      • ngmcs8203, on 09/08/2008, -2/+11You should probably have a doctor take a look at that problem.
      • ZombieTraveller, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1or build a house, either way...
      • Greg2k, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1Come get the ***** blocks and build it yourself
    • jfulls, on 09/08/2008, -5/+1Find me one other person on this earth who actually calls it a hexadecimal representation.

      Hex code pls.
      • NathanielJ, on 09/08/2008, -0/+3He was explaining it for the non-nerds on Digg. Saying "#FFFFFF is the hex code for white." wouldn't have been as helpful, so leave it alone.
      • Raptor007, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1@jfulls
        Okay, you found me.

        And I definitely wouldn't call it a "hex code"; if I'm speaking more casually, I'd just say "hex".
    • mackattack, on 09/09/2008, -0/+3Your comment is a digg representation for "I don't read comments before mine."
    • bocce, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1That's what I was thinking too.
  • itsthebrod, on 09/08/2008, -14/+7Probably the only time I'm glad I didn't get the joke at first... I feel much less nerdy now.
  • AdeleMor, on 09/08/2008, -2/+8no, that's definitely brilliant. it matches the car too.
  • DiggFellow, on 09/08/2008, -3/+5hit and miss for me...
  • markfulton, on 09/08/2008, -1/+38Truly unreadable license plate.... 1I0OI1O0
    • shortyjacobs, on 09/08/2008, -1/+2awesome
    • DoogieHowitzer, on 09/08/2008, -0/+4I tried something similar in DC. They Don't let you use the letter 'o' for just that reason :(
    • falstaff, on 09/08/2008, -0/+10I always wanted to get something like VWVVWW.
      Not sure if it would work in license plate font, though.
      • 48snickers, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2It doesn't. I saw that exact license plate over the weekend. All of us in the car were like "WTF does that mean?" Now that I see it in it's end-to-end, unspaced glory, I get it. On a car, it just looked perplexing.
      • wibambau, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1Always wondered how that would look.

        The other method is to get one that is confusing to say letter by letter like..
        UWUUWWU or IYYIIY
      • merreborn, on 09/08/2008, -0/+4"The other method is to get one that is confusing to say letter by letter"

        That's what the phonetic alphabet is for:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabe ...

        U = Uniform
        W = Whiskey
        I = India
        Y = Yankee

        So a cop reading your first plate over the radio would probably just say:
        "Uniform Whiskey Uniform Uniform Whiskey Whiskey Uniform"
      • zydeco, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1Friend of mine has WVM8838 for this exact reason. I'll ask him if it's ever worked. Come to think of it, if it did, he wouldn't know...
    • Funman1, on 09/09/2008, -1/+1Hahah that's A Brian Regan joke +100 Man Points!!
  • gimmini2003, on 09/08/2008, -2/+37Dammit.. I got it on the first look.. i need to get outside
    • DjBlic, on 09/08/2008, -1/+4second...

      i actually said "I see what you did there." out loud too...
  • jakatak, on 09/08/2008, -12/+4why is this not buried yet?
    • GrimelessAnthem, on 09/08/2008, -1/+4You're getting there
    • thegrantman, on 09/09/2008, -1/+1Because no one knows what the hell it is.
  • lead2thehead, on 09/08/2008, -2/+29There is one floating around DC that reads... II1I11
    • DoogieHowitzer, on 09/08/2008, -0/+3DC too eh? They wouldn't let me use the letter 'o'. I was gunna do 00O0OO0 :(
      • dhughes, on 09/08/2008, -1/+2 Get what my plate has on it, I have just a capital letter ' i ', it looks nice if I do say so.
    • davidlow, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1I know someone who has MNNMNMMN. It just looks like scribble.
    • tubbylardman, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1ll1l11? Correct me if im wrong but dont they make them all uppercase? LL1L11
      • utinam, on 09/09/2008, -0/+0newsflash: lowercase L (l) and uppercase i (I) look a damn lot alike in certain fonts (most fonts, really).
    • jd33, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1it's on a hovercraft?
  • DickMasterson2, on 09/08/2008, -13/+7***** thing sucks!
  • comptonstomp, on 09/08/2008, -12/+3"i have a license plate # six effs." yeaaaaa that was so hard to read
  • FallenTurtles, on 09/08/2008, -0/+31This money could have been spent on so many better things. Like Legos... or hookers.
    • TheMidnight, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2You know what, forget the Legos!
    • yurimxpxman, on 09/08/2008, -2/+1You know you're a nerd when you're considering whether to spend your money on legos or hookers. Nerds love legos, and can't get a woman without payin 'em.
    • Raptor007, on 09/08/2008, -0/+3Is it wrong that I pick Legos?
  • bedake, on 09/08/2008, -6/+3Dugg for tech related even if dont get/not funny
  • kurupttek, on 09/08/2008, -2/+13I don't see anything
  • kurough, on 09/08/2008, -9/+2#FFFFFF power
  • diggerlips, on 09/08/2008, -1/+26Try NOPLATE
  • aimhelix, on 09/08/2008, -1/+11Its ok.. but the lack of # makes it hard to fig out.
  • Idiggapony, on 09/08/2008, -5/+2I still don't get it. Is the idea that it has the RGB code for white, printed against a white background, so that it might be invisible? If so, I don't find that remotely clever or funny. If not, then what's the deal?

    I saw a New York license plate similar to the one that lead2thehead mentioned, something like 11I1II1I. And the font that New York uses makes the 1's look almost identical to the I's. Now THAT is clever. Very useful if you plan to do a lot of hittin' and runnin'.

    • frequentFlyer, on 09/08/2008, -0/+0or racing.
    • staffa, on 09/08/2008, -3/+1I don't think the joke is white on white.

      I think the joke is white, as in cops are racists.

    • merreborn, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1I don't know man... I think all you'd need to remember/tell the cops is "His license plate was a bunch of 1s and I's."

      Can't be that hard to find the only guy in the state with a plate like that.

      So, yeah... people won't remember your *exact* plate, but they will remember enough for the cops to track you down anyway.
  • tucsonsun13, on 09/08/2008, -2/+16IH8PIGZ
    • dasamps, on 09/08/2008, -2/+3I don't. The cops in my area never write tickets. I am eternally grateful for that.
    • serif69, on 09/08/2008, -0/+13Most common phrase heard while driving with those plates: "Do you know why I pulled you over?"
    • SoCalMario, on 09/08/2008, -4/+18yeah you hate pigz but remember that next time your dumb ass needs help. Don't hate a cop simply because they wrote you a deserved ticket. We do have speed limit signs. Better a ticket than causing a speed related death. That means prison time and it's not the cop thats going to put you away, blame that on the judge but I digress......Hate them all you want but you'll go calling like a little bitch when you need help. Better to be called a pig than a bitch! FYI I've gotten 2 speeding tickets once by a city cop and once by a Chippie (Cal. Hwy Patrol) But even though I was pissed, I WAS speeding. Oh well. I rather have world with cops, than a world without them, sure cops aren't perfect and I don't expect them to be, after all they ARE human BUT a world without peace officers is a world with ***** bags doing whatever they want.

      I don't care bury me
      • truspect0r, on 09/08/2008, -4/+10PIGZ != All cops. Only those who abuse power.
      • funkymoose, on 09/09/2008, -1/+5truspect0r that might be your definition but to most people pig is just a normal term for cop. It's a term by people who dislike cops but a term for cops in general none the less. Saying PIGZ only means cops who abuse their power is like saying "*****" only refers to black people who are losers or something.
    • tucsonsun13, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1it was just a joke you dumb *****. I don't actually hate POLICE, nor do I waste money on vanity plates.

      I've never gotten a ticket, either.
    • wicketr, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1ILVTRTLS
  • ashwinmudigonda, on 09/08/2008, -7/+2I got it immediately it was the hex code for the color white. What I don't get it is

    a) What do you mean unreadable by police?
    b) Was he being racist? (you know Ohio and all)
    • Speed, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2The joke is that since it's hex code for white and the plate is white, the cop won't be able to see the letters.
      • ashwinmudigonda, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1 Oh well, Ohio. What do you expect!?
  • paulieslim, on 09/08/2008, -3/+8in the words of Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski..


    NERDS!!
    • jasonh1234, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1Be funnier if he hadn't gone on to starting the biggest web portal for realtors on the net.
  • evets616, on 09/08/2008, -6/+3See, it's funny because he used the hex code for the color white on a white car. There is also the implication that police will not pull him over because of his skin color.
    • CrazedLeper, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1Alas, being white is no longer a *protection* from police brutality but, at least, it doesn't invite it.
    • CabesMojo, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2How is his skin color implied at all? Its just the hex for white on a white car with a plate that has a white background.
      Good lord people will make freaking anything about skin color its retarded.
    • aaabbbsss, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2Yeah, it's not implying skin color. It's jokingly stating that the cops can't read the license plate number b/c it's the code for white on a white background.
  • figjam1981, on 09/08/2008, -1/+2I saw a news report on a dude who got a license plate that had 00808080 to foil photo radar. That's a good license plate.
    • skyshock1, on 09/08/2008, -0/+3How does that work?
      • figjam1981, on 09/12/2008, -0/+1From a distance its impossible to tell which are 8's and which are 0's.
  • leerayIG88, on 09/08/2008, -9/+40111011101101000011010010111010001100101
  • InnerBlueAbyss, on 09/08/2008, -4/+4Hope he remembered to browse with Firefox, for safety.
  • airwalkery2k, on 09/08/2008, -2/+2Why does it say 16777215 in base 16? I don't get it!
  • skoles, on 09/08/2008, -1/+19XKXXKXK
    • ryan899, on 09/08/2008, -2/+1MINVMNI
    • bhavinp, on 09/08/2008, -1/+7Just make sure you don't drive that thing in urban neighbourhoods k k k
    • Hoofenhoffer, on 09/08/2008, -1/+1alright, that is deffinatly going to be my license plate
  • groinsniper, on 09/08/2008, -7/+5Topic Fail.
  • blogosphear, on 09/08/2008, -1/+4ALT0160 is just as good
  • DigitalHippie73, on 09/08/2008, -6/+4So what they are saying is that any cop who sees this will instantly recognize it as the code for white and then will cease to see the actual letters and only see white? Sure, makes perfect sense to me.
    • uberchaoslord, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1Maybe the cops of the future, who will be robotic...

      Where's Thx when we need him? We can outrun them together!
  • Barryke, on 09/08/2008, -3/+1Dammit i read it as integer and failed.

    Orly? By my standards the joker failed.
    Functional esthetic's design first, eye esthetic's design second.
  • Myholyleg, on 09/08/2008, -1/+6It's missing a 0x00 value Alpha channel
  • adjohnson916, on 09/08/2008, -1/+0The way I like to interpret it is that this is a commentary on the idea that often cops have a blindspot when it comes to white people. But maybe that's just me being radical to amuse myself.
  • synystar, on 09/08/2008, -5/+2My guess is that he meant "unreadable" to mean the car will be ignored by police since the occupants are all white. Kinda stupid.
  • zhenya80, on 09/08/2008, -1/+3I don't get, how is this guy is a nerd? He is probably a graphic designer, ie artists.
    • synystar, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1Graphic designers are nerds. The good ones are anyway.
    • shenaniJen, on 09/08/2008, -0/+0As a Graphic Designer, I'm wondering how this one can afford a Jaguar...
  • theillest1, on 09/08/2008, -1/+7Dammit, I immediately got it. However I don't think it's clever so I guess I'm not 100% geek.
  • douglasr007, on 09/08/2008, -1/+81roses are #ff0000, sky is #0000ff....this car is not #ffffff and my shirt is #000000 not
    • DinosaurDerek, on 09/08/2008, -3/+5i wish i could give you more than just one digg.
    • Shiftyeyedgoat, on 09/08/2008, -1/+44I never thought I'd see the day of a Borat meets hexadecimal joke.
    • TriplePlay2425, on 09/08/2008, -9/+3Holy ***** balls, did that just happen?

      I just came.

      Twice.

      Make that thrice.
      • Antz0rz, on 09/09/2008, -1/+5You have issues.
      • brianara3, on 09/09/2008, -1/+6You came... for hex colors... WTF?
      • TriplePlay2425, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2No, I came for a hexadecimal joke that managed to have a Borat reference in it.
  • beskurrd, on 09/08/2008, -1/+2Search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal for "FFFFFF"
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