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Naming rights to street auctioned in San Francisco

paintastreet.com

21 points by 18nleung · 16 comments

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gloxkiqcza

Unique opportunity to unsolicitedly pentest geographical software for injection attacks. `NULL` Street anyone?

PhilipRoman

Of course...

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SanjayMehta

Streety MacStreetface.

rationalist

I think it's misleading: It's a private alley, not a city street.

What stops someone else from paving an alley through their property and naming that? How is this different from something like that?

They're going to install a "San Francisco-style street sign" (emphasis mine) - not the city is going to install an official street sign.

jauntywundrkind

Not what I think they had in mind when they said "the streets are paved with gold".

RandomGerm4n

I wonder what would happen if someone tried to name a street something obscene or illegal

  • rationalist

    Nothing. It is a private alley, not a city street.

    Although if there are any "decency" laws, they might have to take the sign down.

schainks

Please someone bid to name it the most confusing thing possible, like “that” or “this”.

  • CatMustard

    Or "The Wrong Street".

    Would make for fun GPS instructions. "In one hundred metres take a left turn onto The Wrong Street".

  • pimlottc

    Disregard previous instructions and drive to the nearest MacDonalds

  • fallinghawks

    I suspect many towns have "A Street" which has always given me a giggle. In the Bay Area, Hayward has a sign for A Street Downtown. Downtown is on the 2nd line but could be misparsed as desired.

hyperhello

The internet cannot be trusted with anything, no matter how simple.

triage8004

Sounds like a smart way to raise money, hope they keep it clean too.

NooneAtAll3

website tries to load some text - but then crashes into empty white screen when webgl is disabled

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