Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Nah, Jones aside" What does this phrase mean?
Might be an autocorrected "jokes aside"
That makes sense. Thank you. It's poor attempt at humor if the comment ends by proposing the punchline as an explanation.
FE-Schrift – forgery-impeding typeface
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess they still have 1 million plates in some storage facility. Nah, jokes aside: what they actually do is to not only legally, but practically issue their own plates, which would include stamping them. Also, they don't use the reflective background white. So not only they don't need it, they also have reasons to continue with the old variant. (And actually, they might indeed have a huge stock of them. Military su…
Why would it matter how many plates they have unless they stamp them ahead of time? The police issues their own plates as well and they manage fine.
Police does use the EU variant for the plates, though. You're right, of course they could go with FE Schrift on their old (non-reflective, non-EU) plates. That would, however, be a new combination that would match neither the new civil plates nor the old ones.
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#13Interesting: "it was tested at the University of Giessen's Dept. of Physiology and Cybernetic Psychology." That's quite a name, sounds like it was lifted straight from Command & Conquer.
It's worth noting that before sci-fi took hold of the term to add its connotations, "cybernetics" has the rather conventional definition of:
"the scientific study of how people, animals, and machines control and communicate information"
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#14>FE-Schrift has been the only typeface used on new vehicle registration plates of Germany since November 2000, except for plates issued to military-registered vehicles, which still use the former DIN 1451 typeface. Interesting that the the military vehicles don't get it. It makes some sense that they wouldn't need it, but I can't imagine that it would hurt to have it.
I think that is just a function of military vehicles being excempt from that law in the first place. To force them to also use the standard font would mean changing a totally different law, maybe even add a whole new one if the current status is not defined in federal laws but only in some military-interal regulation. Not that that is impossible, but there is little motivation either.
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#15Interesting: "it was tested at the University of Giessen's Dept. of Physiology and Cybernetic Psychology." That's quite a name, sounds like it was lifted straight from Command & Conquer.
Cybernetics is more common term in the continental Europe. Anglo-Saxons use "systems theory" and it's slowly replacing cybernetics. If you want to read about cybernetic psychology and related subjects, you might want to google "systems psychology", "systems neuroscience", "systems biology" instead.
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#16It's an interesting design, but I find myself wondering how often license-plate forgery happened.
Sometimes the severity of a crime outweighs the frequency. It may be worth preventing any forgery since, when it does happen, the effects are bad.
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#17A similar concept is found in Chinese writing. Numbers are written using relatively few strokes, making it easy to change a "one" into a "two." 1: 一 2: 二 3: 三 4: 四 5: 五 6: 六 7: 七 8: 八 9: 九 10: 十 For financial documents, a more complicated form of symbols is used: 1: 壹 2: 貳 3: 參 4: 肆 5: 伍 6: 陸 7: 柒 8: 捌 9: 玖 10: 拾
I'm reminded of a story in the Book Of Heroic Failures which went something like "Mr Smith, who attempted to pull off the worlds largest single cheque forgery, altered his pay cheque from 14 pounds 8 shillings to 148 million pounds. The fraud was successful right up until the moment he tried to cash it."
The best security for thousands of years has been simple - be a suspicious bastard.
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#18It's an interesting design, but I find myself wondering how often license-plate forgery happened.
Sometimes the severity of a crime outweighs the frequency. It may be worth preventing any forgery since, when it does happen, the effects are bad.
Are license plates that hard to forge? How much work is it to stamp one? (Not to mention that you can get away with printing plates even on paper. A buddy was driving his car intercountry but didn't have his official plate, just the temp ones. Border agents were particular about that part. A bit of Photoshop and applying a bit of dust and no problems at all during a trip spanning 3 countries.)
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#19It's an interesting design, but I find myself wondering how often license-plate forgery happened.
The article explains:
> The motivation for the creation of the typeface was spun in the late 1970s in the light of Red Army Faction terrorism
Given the amount of money spent on vehicle licensing, the additional work to create a font is small potatoes. It certainly doesn't cost more to produce.
It's analogous to choosing between TAI and UTC time in a system. They differ by only 36 seconds, but UTC clocks break during leap seconds. Why not just choose the right one.
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#20A similar concept is found in Chinese writing. Numbers are written using relatively few strokes, making it easy to change a "one" into a "two." 1: 一 2: 二 3: 三 4: 四 5: 五 6: 六 7: 七 8: 八 9: 九 10: 十 For financial documents, a more complicated form of symbols is used: 1: 壹 2: 貳 3: 參 4: 肆 5: 伍 6: 陸 7: 柒 8: 捌 9: 玖 10: 拾
Other than the one to two transformation, are there others? Was the formal system a response to these problems or how it has always been done?