Discussion: SQL injection attack at rogaine ?

Compare this (famous amongst nerds) cartoon with the 12 hour results from this weekend's rogaine (see team in place 34, the green column).

Geez was there anywhere that didn't hold a rogaine this weekend? Oh wait, full moon.

Nice!

A women's team came in first place overall. How often does that happen in rogaining? Followed by a mixed team in second place overall.

A women's team came in first place overall. How often does that happen in rogaining?

When it's two hardcore ultra runners like Gill and Jess, I'd imagine the easier question is "who the hell is going to beat them?"

Oh look, twice on the same weekend (in different states). Bloody WA though has bucked the trend once again.

Shouldn't they have added a comment tag in order to have the parser ignore the rest ot the string after the DROP TABLE? Depending on which DB they use, the garbage after the last ";" might cause a syntax error and the DB might ignore the entire command.
So, instead of
Team'); DROP TABLE Teams; (Yitao Lei, Ben Li, Paul Walker
they should have called themselves
Team'); DROP TABLE Teams;-- (Yitao Lei, Ben Li, Paul Walker

Yep. Sheesh, you put the whole thing into a comic and they still can'r read it right.

Besides, this would never work - no sensible DBA would use the plural of the entity name for the table.

A women's team came in first place overall. How often does that happen in rogaining?

Rogaining results are full of women beating mixed beating men and vets beating open, that categories are a complete farce. Except for those over (let me see...) 68.

Rarely does WARA have women's teams winning events outright - twice in 34 years I think.
The old farts regularly win events outright - some people just don't know when to quit

Everyone in WARA who's been around awhile recalls one such incident.

1st & 2nd teams were women, can anyone beat that?

Closely followed by two old women in third place. :-)

"...that categories are a complete farce..."

Last year the top three teams at the Australasian champs were mixed teams and two of the top four teams were vets.

I agree with gruver the age categories are a joke. I know a number of vets who are just as fast as the top open teams, moving the vet age group up to 50+ or 55+ would at least make it unlikely that the vet team is going to be beating the open teams.

And junior teams being U23 is silly as well, stop pretending that you're still a kid and compete with the big boys/girls.

The junior age moved up to 23 because there were no U18 teams competing and they wanted to retain the category. It didn't really fix the problem because now there are no U23 teams competing.

Rogainers peak at about age 40, don't they?

Yeah, Andre and Wil are both >40 and Fletch and I beat them on the weekend (we're both 38 this year). This two team/one event study leads me to believe your assumption is correct.

Is there a problem with vets teams winning outright? Or women for that matter?*waits for the cries of protest*

I agree that setting the junior upper age level at 23 is nonsense.

So it seems when I'm closer to 40 my rogaine team will be able to beat all the top boys and take out 1st spot. *rubs hands together evilly* can't wait...

You're going to need some new teammates, too. In 13 years I fully expect to be an arthritic cripple. :)

Once Tash proves she has the potential to win rogaines, she'll be snapped up by Wil as a teammate.

In 13 years we will all be Cyborgs (I'll be a Cy-Sporg) and have no need for arthritic limbs... so we can do it Juffy and Brycec!! :)

Well that'll change the conversation around the fire, at least.

"How'd you guys go?"
"Well I broke a servo, and my partner's knee joint started leaking oil and all his automatic alarms went off. We did a bit of patching, but I was out of interface cables and my gaffer tape was full of sand..."

"Is there a problem with vets teams winning outright?"
There's no problem with a vet team winning, but why bother having a separate category?

My nanoprobes were malfunctioning - however I found some boilogical and techonological matter on course called 'Team 34X' and I added it to our own. Their resistence was futile.

Greig, wait until you turn 40 and then you can join the queue of complainants arguing towards the reintriduction of the veteran category ;-)

Never take away the benefits of the older generation; you'll never hear the end of it!

Andy McQueen's team winning the vet and supervet category is (IMHO) a more significant result than Gill's team winning outright. Pretty sure they would not have run, but they sure can navigate on those NSW topo maps. Abolish the relatively (cf orienteering) few classes rogaining has and these performances are invisible.

Wait until you get really old, then you get an award for just turning up. I was going to say "badge" instead of award just out of habit because awarding badges is so ingrained in WARA culture but I'm guessing in other parts of the world this is probably not the case. WARA even sells points badges (1000, 1500, 2000, 2500 and 3000 I think. People (especially the older ones) wear jackets plastered in badges

I thought you said the other day that most rogainers wouldn't care if you didn't allocate points, because so few of them were there to be 'competitive'

Heh heh heh...my parents were very chuffed with their engraved glasses for winning mixed ultravets, even if their score was only 10% of ours.

It is great when you win a Veteran class and the Open class. It gives you a chance to wind up the youngsters and maybe surprise them that someone "old" might still have it :-)

NB. Rogaining classes are inclusive so Open is open to all, and the age classes do not exclude recognition in the Open or Younger age groups. So Open is Zero to Infinity age, Veteran is all team members over 40 under 55 and the veteran group is part of open, Super Vet is 55 to 65 and so on

That's not quite correct. Veteran is all members who are 40+ but with at least one member who is not yet 55+.

There are seemingly a few infinity aged rogainers hanging about in our association or maybe it just seems like they've been there forever.

We've been there for ever although you aren't too far behind in those stakes young fella (still lurking...)

Yeah, seems strange I've been in WARA for 22 years but am still not a veteran. I'm sure by the time I get there, the government will have raised the veteran age to make it harder for the younger generation to win badges.

What an awesome idea. 50 is the new 40 they say.