Because it is a word, albeit not perfectly applied in this context? The platen is the plate used to press the paper into the type in a printing press, so it's probably more applicable to the drum in a copier than to the cover glass.
At any rate, I don't think he meant "platen" as some sort of bastard-German plural, like Vaxen.
You don't actually know many librarians, do you? They're the ones who put books on the shelf that cause protests. They've installed filtering software when legally mandated, and they get rid of it as soon as they can.
I renewed my card at Enoch Pratt a few years back, and the librarian looked over my record, said, "Oh, they were collecting SSN's back then--let me just delete THAT from the record..." Not your typical bureaucrats, there, not at all. They're not in it for the money or the power.
That the officer might have expectations of privacy is the worst part of it. He has every moral right to privacy in his private life, but when enforcing public law on public roads and public salary he is not acting privately (at least, he better not be, because then he's just a thug.)
I can't speak for MD in particular (although I do live here) but beyond the pernicious "the public can't watch us do the public's work" aspect of this is those dashboard cameras we all love on America's Funniest Car Chases and whatever. I've certainly seen clips that include audio from the citizen as well as the police officer--are we to take it that these too are felonious wiretaps?
Vacant apartment. At least, that's how it was done when somebody spent $500 of my rent money on electronics. With rapid shipping, overly-relaxed merchants ("It's OK--your bank will take care of it.") and overburdened police, even though I caught the problem the morning after it happened the package was still successfully delivered to a vacant apartment in New York, and duly signed for (God knows what name they used.)
Seems obvious because you didn't use the card ever again after that?
I could be wrong, but if I were walking into a Walmart with a rigged-up card, I think I'd want a fresh number, something from the previous 48 hours, maybe. Sixty days seems like an awfully long time in hot-CC-number-years. If nothing else, it shows tremendous restraint on the part of a small-time criminal, most of whom can't seem to wait sixty minutes before they spend the money (unless, of course, her name badge read, "D. B. Cooper.")
This is on land, remember. At sea, the horizon is much more definite. On land, "sunset" can be when the sun drops behind a hill. This is part of the reason I don't keep a sextant in my car.
As for the square miles issue, yes, borders are linear. However, the cameras could be placed anywhere within, say, 200 yards of the border, so that you're looking at largish areas to search. Knowing that the camera is somewhere within a square block isn't the same thing as laying hands on it--and that's assuming that it isn't moved every so often.
So if I rolled into Luxembourg and applied for a job, there'd be no problem, right? Or just hung out on a street corner begging?
Pissing people off is almost the least of it. That calls for an army, not a border crossing guard.
There's an additional discussion around how much sovereignty is given up in joining the EU, and the Union itself certainly has border control. Perhaps Luxembourg doesn't need it for the same reason that Maryland doesn't.
Back in the Olden Days, when machines with oddly-large registers were pretty common (60 bits, for instance, was the word size I recall for a number of CDC machines,) then yes, word size was as you describe.
However, somewhere along the line, probably in the PDP-11 era, the 16-bit word became pretty widely accepted, so that back when I was programming in eight bits, nobody ever referred to an eight-bit value as a word, but rather simply as a "byte" or "eight bits." Double-precision arithmetic routines alowed one to work with words on a 6502, for instance.
Well, it's a double entendre--"word" is a vernacular term for "truth," or "that's right" ("The Sun rises in the East" "Word!") as well as being a (maybe obsolete? I'm old and stuff) term for a 16-bit storage unit, often a "short int," so hilarity ensues (for very small values of hilarity.)
OK, we'll go with 0% success. My point is that the failure of any one implementation does not invalidate the concept. Edison tried hundreds of wrong ways to make a light bulb, none of which demonstrated that the light bulb was unworkable.
Oh, and the Scud hunting in Gulf One was largely an air exercise, as I recall, and of course they went after the launchers. It's always preferable to destroy the enemy on the ground (or in harbor, or asleep in barracks) then when they're incoming. The Japanese didn't bomb Pearl Harbor because it's impractical to sink ships at sea--it's just easier to hit slow- or non-moving targets.
Regardless, what isn't possible is is to design a system that can accurately track and shoot down missiles in flight. As the Patriot defence system so patently demonstrated.
You're right. Just as the failure of Samuel Langley's aircraft demonstrated that man would never fly, the failure of an anti-aircraft missile to destroy only half of the ballistic missiles (targets moving at what, twice the speed of the targets it was designed to destroy?) demonstrates that ABM's will never work.
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Do you worry about telephone handsets and toilet handles as well?
(Unless, of course, you were just working the staph/staff pun, in which case I apologize for my density.)
At any rate, I don't think he meant "platen" as some sort of bastard-German plural, like Vaxen.
I renewed my card at Enoch Pratt a few years back, and the librarian looked over my record, said, "Oh, they were collecting SSN's back then--let me just delete THAT from the record..." Not your typical bureaucrats, there, not at all. They're not in it for the money or the power.
The obvious risks of copying my buttcheeks? Care to elaborate, 'cause it's not especially obvious to me. Stupid, maybe, but not risky.
Apple should remember that India does, in fact, have nukes.
That the officer might have expectations of privacy is the worst part of it. He has every moral right to privacy in his private life, but when enforcing public law on public roads and public salary he is not acting privately (at least, he better not be, because then he's just a thug.)
I can't speak for MD in particular (although I do live here) but beyond the pernicious "the public can't watch us do the public's work" aspect of this is those dashboard cameras we all love on America's Funniest Car Chases and whatever. I've certainly seen clips that include audio from the citizen as well as the police officer--are we to take it that these too are felonious wiretaps?
If you need a lab analysis to find the problem, how much of an impact can it be?
Vacant apartment. At least, that's how it was done when somebody spent $500 of my rent money on electronics. With rapid shipping, overly-relaxed merchants ("It's OK--your bank will take care of it.") and overburdened police, even though I caught the problem the morning after it happened the package was still successfully delivered to a vacant apartment in New York, and duly signed for (God knows what name they used.)
I could be wrong, but if I were walking into a Walmart with a rigged-up card, I think I'd want a fresh number, something from the previous 48 hours, maybe. Sixty days seems like an awfully long time in hot-CC-number-years. If nothing else, it shows tremendous restraint on the part of a small-time criminal, most of whom can't seem to wait sixty minutes before they spend the money (unless, of course, her name badge read, "D. B. Cooper.")
Thanks!
Alas, I haven't forked over the ducats to the OED. What's it say?
Actually, a lot of cabs take plastic, and although you're right about buses, the Baltimore Light Rail ticket machines accept credit cards as well.
As for the square miles issue, yes, borders are linear. However, the cameras could be placed anywhere within, say, 200 yards of the border, so that you're looking at largish areas to search. Knowing that the camera is somewhere within a square block isn't the same thing as laying hands on it--and that's assuming that it isn't moved every so often.
Pissing people off is almost the least of it. That calls for an army, not a border crossing guard.
There's an additional discussion around how much sovereignty is given up in joining the EU, and the Union itself certainly has border control. Perhaps Luxembourg doesn't need it for the same reason that Maryland doesn't.
So can you show me a country that doesn't try to maintain its territorial integrity?
Cool. Ask for documentation, and receive documentation. Thank you.
Back in the Olden Days, when machines with oddly-large registers were pretty common (60 bits, for instance, was the word size I recall for a number of CDC machines,) then yes, word size was as you describe.
However, somewhere along the line, probably in the PDP-11 era, the 16-bit word became pretty widely accepted, so that back when I was programming in eight bits, nobody ever referred to an eight-bit value as a word, but rather simply as a "byte" or "eight bits." Double-precision arithmetic routines alowed one to work with words on a 6502, for instance.
Surely phrases like, "Never a truer word was spoken" would be more familiar to Americans.
Well, it's a double entendre--"word" is a vernacular term for "truth," or "that's right" ("The Sun rises in the East" "Word!") as well as being a (maybe obsolete? I'm old and stuff) term for a 16-bit storage unit, often a "short int," so hilarity ensues (for very small values of hilarity.)
Actually, I'd like a check like that from Google. I'd hang it on my wall.
Oh, and the Scud hunting in Gulf One was largely an air exercise, as I recall, and of course they went after the launchers. It's always preferable to destroy the enemy on the ground (or in harbor, or asleep in barracks) then when they're incoming. The Japanese didn't bomb Pearl Harbor because it's impractical to sink ships at sea--it's just easier to hit slow- or non-moving targets.
You're right. Just as the failure of Samuel Langley's aircraft demonstrated that man would never fly, the failure of an anti-aircraft missile to destroy only half of the ballistic missiles (targets moving at what, twice the speed of the targets it was designed to destroy?) demonstrates that ABM's will never work.
Was this "years ago" like sometime before the American Revolution?
Zippers may be the only thing that separates us from the great apes.