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Police code. A police code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States. Examples of police codes include "10 codes" (such as 10-4 for "okay" or "acknowledged"—sometimes written X4 or X-4), signals, incident codes, response codes, or ...
Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, are brevity codes used to represent common phrases in voice communication, particularly by US public safety officials and in citizens band (CB) radio transmissions. The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [1]
The code-rate is hence a real number. A low code-rate close to zero implies a strong code that uses many redundant bits to achieve a good performance, while a large code-rate close to 1 implies a weak code. The redundant bits that protect the information have to be transferred using the same communication resources that they are trying to protect.
July 14, 2024 at 3:11 PM. Gene J. Puskar/AP. Moments after he was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, former President Donald Trump was seen with blood on his ear and cheek as he ...
Caption: "SMASHED!", Harper's Weekly, 22 September 1900. A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. [ 1] One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".
10:00: A man is seen waving a white flag on the southeast side of the compound. He is advised over loudspeakers that if he is surrendering he should come out. He does not. At the same time, a man believed to be Steve Schneider comes out from the remains of the front door to retrieve the phone and phone line. 11:30
Blackstone's ratio. Statue of William Blackstone located at Constitution Ave & 3rd St. NW, Washington, DC. In criminal law, Blackstone's ratio (more recently referred to sometimes as Blackstone's formulation) is the idea that: It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. [ 1]
Brooks's law. Brooks's law is an observation about software project management that "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." [ 1][ 2] It was coined by Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. According to Brooks, under certain conditions, an incremental person when added to a project makes it take more, not less ...