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E-Passport System Test This Week
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has a story covering another Homeland Security test of the E-Passport system, a biometric program designed to stop counterfeit identification." From the article: "The passports contain biometric information such as a digital photo, as well as biographic information. The technology being tested promises to read and verify the electronic data when those carrying the e-passports attempt entry into the countries via participating airports. U.S. diplomats, Australian and New Zealand citizens and Singapore Airlines officials are among those who have been issued the e-passports. These people will also undergo normal screening procedures at the international airports."
Less of the sarcasm, we all know nothing is safe from the uber gummybear crackers.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
. . .I don't get what an FOTD is.
Fortune Of The Day.
The "sig" you'll find at the bottom of the page.
I would think the meaning of the French bit would be easily decipherable even by those who do not speak French, at least so long as they are familiar with a language that contains Romance influence.
My interest is whether people "get" where it comes from; and thus why I find it ironically apropos to the current subject.
KFG
four paragraphs explaining the joke and you forgot to explain the joke.
B rigade
Because I was not explaining the joke. I was answering a question.
The orginal quote which the FOTD paraphrased:
"C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre." ("It is magnificent, but it is not war.") - Marshall Pierre Bosquet on observing the charge of the light brigade at the Battle of Balaclava.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_
These days best remembered as an ill advised (literally) and pointless exercise for the sake of "patriotic duty."
KFG