There's actually been a couple of cases of people trying to pull shenanigans like this, one in Cali: dude put "OPEC FY" i.e. "OPEC Fuck You" on his Prius. Told the DMV it was "OPEC Friendship Youth" or some dumb shit. The DMV being the DMV bought it and he was issued the plates. Of course, the dipshit went around and bragged about it on the Internet and eventually got a letter from the DMV saying his plates were revoked and can we please have them back now. I'm sure there was a nice fine to go along with that.
The other recent case was in VA, some neo-Nazi dude came up with some crazy acronym that basically made several references only readily apparent to white supremacists. It was like "88" mean "Heil Hitler" (H being the eighth letter of the alphabet) and the others made reference to the writings of some other skinhead currently in jail. Etc. and so forth. His case was not helped by the fact that he was driving a giant F-250 or something that had a custom silkscreen (or whatever its called) that had gigantic pictures of the Twin Towers aflame with the text "Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9/11". So, then some Islamic advocacy organization researched the meaning of the plates, presented what they found to the DMV, and boom, revoked.
So yeah. Basically, it's not
too hard to pull one over on the DMV (I mean, if a neo-Nazi can do it...), but you'd better keep the seekrit meaning of your plates to yourself, or at least off the Internet, because they
do check and they
will (eventually) find out.
Oh, god, THAT guy? THAT fucking thing? (yiff sound server) Sound servers are idiotic and broken, especially on Linux, where no two apps speak to the same daemon. What is it with furries feeling like they have to badly reimplement bad ideas? Jesus. Fuck.
Not to go off topic, but PulseAudio has basically solved that problem now. It speaks most protocols and has shims for most APIs.
However, this thing showed up recently in Debian, and the site is, uh, weird:
Roar Audio. There's no real justification for why it exists (why it's better than, say, the emerging de facto standard of PulseAudio), and the mailing lists are somewhat strange. He makes reference to the use of integer math so I figured he might be under contract with some mobile device developer, but apparently he's not. I went through most of the archives out of morbid curiosity. Very few posters but the developer has some choice stuff in there. I'd imagine he's a furry, although he never really says as much.
Oh and the Yiff Sound Server is circa 2001 technology, if that. However, I think you'll be sufficiently amused to know that the same developer is still updating a GTK+ frontend to ClamAV as of 2009...written in GTK+ 1.2. Which was deprecated in 2003 and doesn't support anti-aliased text or any sort of accelerated rendering.
