I can see this working quite well most of the time especially at night when it would be unmistakable. How well would it work through clouds though? I suspect that there will still be situations when they will have to scramble the jets.
I once asked my congressman about eliminating daylight savings time and converting to a three time-zone system which would also result in billions of dollars in savings according to the founder of the UPS or something.
Since he wasn't handing out straight answers on anything that day his response to my inquiry was "Well that's a good idea but it would take an act of congress". After the chuckles died down he moved on to the next question and that was that.
Driver's licenses and birth certificates are essentially "no proof" as the former does not actually indicate citizenship or residency, the latter doesn't have a photo, neither has a standard format, and both are easy to fake.
Then I guess there's no proof that over 70% of Americans are citizens then. Seriously, those documents are what the passport is issued based on.
That's all well and fine, but the fact is that the majority of us Americans lack a passport. Would bringing your birth certificate, social security card, and state ID allow you to enter, or would they make you stay in Canada for two weeks while you went through all the bureaucracy to get a passport?
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Now all they need to do is attach these things as the controller for the new fighting robots they use in Iraq. The rebel fighters might be emboldened to attack the robots if they knew that by causing them damage they could "paralyze an infidel".
"the motive, to increase the time it takes to brute-force the password"
That's just stupid. Why do we have systems that allow brute-forcing anyway? They should alert someone when several hundred wrong passwords have been tried on an account and then appropriate actions can be taken. I don't get the whole "update your password every two weeks" thing. I end up memorizing another near random set of characters while everyone else just writes it down or goes from password7 to password8.
Science Fiction Authors Hoax Vanity Publisher
"Atlanta Nights," by Travis Tea, was offered a publishing contract by PublishAmerica of Frederick, Maryland.
Washington, DC (PRWEB) January 28, 2005 -- Over a holiday weekend last year, some thirty-odd science fiction writers banged out a chapter or two apiece of "Atlanta Nights," a novel about hot times in Atlanta high society. Their objective: to write a deeply awful novel to submit to PublishAmerica, a self-described "traditional publisher" located in Frederick, Maryland.
The project began after PublishAmerica posted an attack on science fiction authors at one of its websites (http://www.authorsmarket.net/). PublishAmerica claimed "As a rule of thumb, the quality bar for sci-fi and fantasy is a lot lower than for all other fiction.... [Science fiction authors] have no clue about what it is to write real-life stories, and how to find them a home." It described them as "writers who erroneously believe that SciFi, because it is set in a distant future, does not require believable storylines, or that Fantasy, because it is set in conditions that have never existed, does not need believable every-day characters."
The writers wanted to see where PublishAmerica puts its own quality bar; if the publisher really is selective, as the company claims, or if it is a vanity press that will accept almost anything, as publishing professionals assert.
"Atlanta Nights" was completed, any sign of literary competence was blue-penciled, and the resulting manuscript was submitted.
PublishAmerica accepted it.
From: PublishAmerica Aquisitions [e-mail protected from spam bots]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Subject: Atlanta Nights
As this is an important piece of email regarding your book, please read it completely from start to finish. I am happy to inform you that PublishAmerica has decided to give "Atlanta Nights" the chance it deserves....Welcome to PublishAmerica, and congratulations on what promises to be an exciting time ahead.
Sincerely,
Meg Phillips
Acquisitions Editor
PublishAmerica
The hoax was publicly revealed on January 23, 2005. PublishAmerica withdrew their offer shortly afterward:
From: "PublishAmerica Acquisitions"
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005
Subject: Your Submission to PublishAmerica
We must withdraw our offer to publish "Atlanta Nights". Upon further review it appears that your work is not ready to be published. There are portions of nonsensical text in the manuscript that were caught by our editing staff as they previewed the text for editing time assessment pending your acceptance of our offer.
On the positive side, maybe you want to consider contracting the book with a vanity publisher such as iUniverse or Author House. They will certainly publish your book at a fee.
Thank you.
PublishAmerica Acquisitions Department
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The regularity with which Google redoes their search algorithim suggest that for sites with less than first tier popularity, this will not happen.
As mentioned somewhere, anyone can get a .pro about anything now. See bible.pro for proof.
I can see this working quite well most of the time especially at night when it would be unmistakable. How well would it work through clouds though? I suspect that there will still be situations when they will have to scramble the jets.
How about provinding a link to this internet 2 thing ;)
English speakers will have to settle for using nonetheless and ne'erdowells in order to save bytes.
I once asked my congressman about eliminating daylight savings time and converting to a three time-zone system which would also result in billions of dollars in savings according to the founder of the UPS or something.
Since he wasn't handing out straight answers on anything that day his response to my inquiry was "Well that's a good idea but it would take an act of congress". After the chuckles died down he moved on to the next question and that was that.
Driver's licenses and birth certificates are essentially "no proof" as the former does not actually indicate citizenship or residency, the latter doesn't have a photo, neither has a standard format, and both are easy to fake.
Then I guess there's no proof that over 70% of Americans are citizens then. Seriously, those documents are what the passport is issued based on.
That's all well and fine, but the fact is that the majority of us Americans lack a passport. Would bringing your birth certificate, social security card, and state ID allow you to enter, or would they make you stay in Canada for two weeks while you went through all the bureaucracy to get a passport?
Now all they need to do is attach these things as the controller for the new fighting robots they use in Iraq. The rebel fighters might be emboldened to attack the robots if they knew that by causing them damage they could "paralyze an infidel".
"the motive, to increase the time it takes to brute-force the password" That's just stupid. Why do we have systems that allow brute-forcing anyway? They should alert someone when several hundred wrong passwords have been tried on an account and then appropriate actions can be taken. I don't get the whole "update your password every two weeks" thing. I end up memorizing another near random set of characters while everyone else just writes it down or goes from password7 to password8.
You tell us. His blog lists off all his current investments both short and long.
You could get your own arcade machines like Maximum Assault or Area 51.
Science Fiction Authors Hoax Vanity Publisher "Atlanta Nights," by Travis Tea, was offered a publishing contract by PublishAmerica of Frederick, Maryland. Washington, DC (PRWEB) January 28, 2005 -- Over a holiday weekend last year, some thirty-odd science fiction writers banged out a chapter or two apiece of "Atlanta Nights," a novel about hot times in Atlanta high society. Their objective: to write a deeply awful novel to submit to PublishAmerica, a self-described "traditional publisher" located in Frederick, Maryland. The project began after PublishAmerica posted an attack on science fiction authors at one of its websites (http://www.authorsmarket.net/). PublishAmerica claimed "As a rule of thumb, the quality bar for sci-fi and fantasy is a lot lower than for all other fiction.... [Science fiction authors] have no clue about what it is to write real-life stories, and how to find them a home." It described them as "writers who erroneously believe that SciFi, because it is set in a distant future, does not require believable storylines, or that Fantasy, because it is set in conditions that have never existed, does not need believable every-day characters." The writers wanted to see where PublishAmerica puts its own quality bar; if the publisher really is selective, as the company claims, or if it is a vanity press that will accept almost anything, as publishing professionals assert. "Atlanta Nights" was completed, any sign of literary competence was blue-penciled, and the resulting manuscript was submitted. PublishAmerica accepted it. From: PublishAmerica Aquisitions [e-mail protected from spam bots] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 Subject: Atlanta Nights As this is an important piece of email regarding your book, please read it completely from start to finish. I am happy to inform you that PublishAmerica has decided to give "Atlanta Nights" the chance it deserves....Welcome to PublishAmerica, and congratulations on what promises to be an exciting time ahead. Sincerely, Meg Phillips Acquisitions Editor PublishAmerica The hoax was publicly revealed on January 23, 2005. PublishAmerica withdrew their offer shortly afterward: From: "PublishAmerica Acquisitions" Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 Subject: Your Submission to PublishAmerica We must withdraw our offer to publish "Atlanta Nights". Upon further review it appears that your work is not ready to be published. There are portions of nonsensical text in the manuscript that were caught by our editing staff as they previewed the text for editing time assessment pending your acceptance of our offer. On the positive side, maybe you want to consider contracting the book with a vanity publisher such as iUniverse or Author House. They will certainly publish your book at a fee. Thank you. PublishAmerica Acquisitions Department