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Vanity Plate Options for NCommander; Soylent Staff

posted by LaminatorX on Friday May 09 2014, @11:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the Mock-Us,-Please dept.

starcraftsicko writes:

The New Hampshire Supreme Court recently struck down a law that restricts potentially offensive vanity license plates. According to Seacoast Online:

In a unanimous decision, the state Supreme Court agreed with the arguments of David Montenegro, who wanted the vanity plate reading "COPSLIE" to protest what he calls government corruption.

State law prohibits vanity plates that "a reasonable person would find offensive to good taste." But the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union argued that the law is unconstitutionally vague and gives too much discretion to a person behind a Department of Motor Vehicles counter.

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  • (Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Friday May 09 2014, @02:16PM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Friday May 09 2014, @02:16PM (#41252)

    I suggest "NONE" - so that anytime someone tries to record your license plate it will look like your car had no plates.

    Or maybe something like "88B83E38" in order to make it confusing to read (anyone have a statistical analysis of what characters have the highest error rate by OCR / ANPR systems?)

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by AndyTheAbsurd on Friday May 09 2014, @02:35PM

    by AndyTheAbsurd (3958) on Friday May 09 2014, @02:35PM (#41262) Journal

    Years ago, someone in the part of the upstate NY that I lived in has "MWMWMWMW" as their vanity plate (on a white BMW or other relatively high-end car, IIRC). This was before the days of automated plate readers being common, so I'm guessing that they just did it so that cops would have a hard time getting it correct on tickets...in which case it probably would have been better to randomize the order rather than just alternate Ms and Ws.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 09 2014, @03:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 09 2014, @03:42PM (#41288)

    hmm deceased may work also? Or if they use web forms &amp or /html to get the ones who do not sanitize their data...

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 09 2014, @04:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 09 2014, @04:13PM (#41292)

    http://xkcd.com/1105/ [xkcd.com]

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday May 09 2014, @05:08PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday May 09 2014, @05:08PM (#41317)

    DEV/NULL
    Because "drop table" wouldn't fit