Seriously though as others have stated your resume itself isn't nearly as important as who you send it to. You have a rare combination of skills (engineering, military, jet aircraft etc) and there are small set of companies that would give you a serious look regardless. It doesn't have to be all drones and DoD type companies, NASA and commercial engineering firms would be as well.
This is why we need research, even in the soft sciences like history. Without such research it's trivial for put forth ideas that sound self evident and they become 'truth'.
I don't know which is true, they both sound plausible. The fact is science is good and it should not be retarded in the name of religion or short term economic relief.
That's a slightly different scenario though. In this case they don't have to weed out responders to save time. For most click here, enter data here type phishing attempts it's a one time interaction. If you're dumb enough to take the first step there's no second step to save you.
I guess I shouldn't have written 'I will never understand' but I certainly don't at the moment. I'll admit it's so pervasive there may be a reason but they're usually fairly subtle errors where as the Nigerian scammers are fairly blatant. It's like spoofed web sites that are a 95% match to the original. Why not go ahead and make it 100%.
It makes me wonder if it's a legal issue, i.e. they know that if they leave the credit cards and banks an out for claiming it was the users fault for not realizing it was a scam then the legal world will be more inclined to ignore them.
I will never understand why phishing and malware attempts always have some weird tell that they're not legit. Whether it's some bizarre choice of words in the midst of an otherwise fairly legit looking piece of email or Cyrillic text in the middle of an otherwise semi-legit looking app there's always a tell.
It's as if the authors are carefully trying to prey only on the truly stupid.
I stood about 5 feet from him while he performed it. It's just a slight of hand trick but it's a very good one. I can see how the easily fooled completely believe it's real.
I met James Randi when he came to my high school in '83 as guest lecturer in our physics course, then met him again as an undergrad in '87 in a paranormal physics course (basically describing the physics, quantum or otherwise, required for certain paranormal activities to be possible).
Both were fascinating visits, in the first he performed a psychic surgery demonstration. Even standing beside him, knowing it was fake, it sure looked real.
The bet was 20+ years old then. The only thing that's changed in 50 years is the value of the bet. Still no takers.
He's a man that will be sorely missed in the much too soon future.
Given the broad applicability of this approach and the acute stoichiometric control of the metal compositions, we contend that the PMOD technique opens an entirely new parameter space for discovery and optimization of new heterogeneous electrocatalysts.
is the "hype", which is preceded by several pages of data.
Because you're not planning to set fire to the house and collect the insurance the second the deal goes through. If you did that would be fraud. If you have enough money fraud perversely translates to 'smart'.
Agreed. I'm not sure what we're supposed to be amazed at. It's a storage industry driving amount of data per flight in 1993, it's impressive in 2003, it's trivial in 2013.
I suspect horrible article is the main culprit. At a guess I suspect this is nothing more that Facebook's authentication service failing.
Client is directed to Facebook for authentication, mechanism fails, Facebook tosses up error page. The implication that Facebook did anything wrong other than having buggy authentication is likely way of base.
Full disclosure, don't have a facebook page, never visited a facebook page, have zero interest in facebook.
And adding to your anecdote I've never had a flu shot and I don't recall the last time I had the flu. I'd say at least 20 years (1992) but it's possible I had it once in that time and simply forgotten.
I do believe in the efficacy of the flu shot, I just never bothered to get one. Maybe if I get the flu this year I'll change my tune next year.
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If this mutt: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57591030/probe-irs-contractor-won-up-to-$500-million-in-questionable-bids/
can claim to be a disabled vet because he hurt his ankle in high school at a prep school then the sky is definitely the limit for you.
Seriously though as others have stated your resume itself isn't nearly as important as who you send it to. You have a rare combination of skills (engineering, military, jet aircraft etc) and there are small set of companies that would give you a serious look regardless. It doesn't have to be all drones and DoD type companies, NASA and commercial engineering firms would be as well.
If "likes to blow shit up" is the metric against which dangerous people are measured maybe a wall should be built around the US so they can't get out.
I direct your attention to the AC comment currently below yours:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3779175&cid=43804491
He has a much firmer grasp on reasonable in my opinion.
This is why we need research, even in the soft sciences like history. Without such research it's trivial for put forth ideas that sound self evident and they become 'truth'.
This series of articles suggests it was economic collapse and not religious dogma. http://www.history-science-technology.com/articles/articles%208.htm
I don't know which is true, they both sound plausible. The fact is science is good and it should not be retarded in the name of religion or short term economic relief.
That's a slightly different scenario though. In this case they don't have to weed out responders to save time. For most click here, enter data here type phishing attempts it's a one time interaction. If you're dumb enough to take the first step there's no second step to save you.
I guess I shouldn't have written 'I will never understand' but I certainly don't at the moment. I'll admit it's so pervasive there may be a reason but they're usually fairly subtle errors where as the Nigerian scammers are fairly blatant. It's like spoofed web sites that are a 95% match to the original. Why not go ahead and make it 100%.
It makes me wonder if it's a legal issue, i.e. they know that if they leave the credit cards and banks an out for claiming it was the users fault for not realizing it was a scam then the legal world will be more inclined to ignore them.
I will never understand why phishing and malware attempts always have some weird tell that they're not legit. Whether it's some bizarre choice of words in the midst of an otherwise fairly legit looking piece of email or Cyrillic text in the middle of an otherwise semi-legit looking app there's always a tell.
It's as if the authors are carefully trying to prey only on the truly stupid.
Singing anthems around the bonfire tonight, pitchforks 2 for $1.
I wouldn't sweat it too much, by next week we can all go back to watching honey booboo and free-basing corn syrup.
Here's a video of him debunking it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxMGxz6-oTs
I stood about 5 feet from him while he performed it. It's just a slight of hand trick but it's a very good one. I can see how the easily fooled completely believe it's real.
I met James Randi when he came to my high school in '83 as guest lecturer in our physics course, then met him again as an undergrad in '87 in a paranormal physics course (basically describing the physics, quantum or otherwise, required for certain paranormal activities to be possible).
Both were fascinating visits, in the first he performed a psychic surgery demonstration. Even standing beside him, knowing it was fake, it sure looked real.
The bet was 20+ years old then. The only thing that's changed in 50 years is the value of the bet. Still no takers.
He's a man that will be sorely missed in the much too soon future.
No, in this context 'Murica' is the alternate name of the U.S., also known as 'upper Texas'.
I haven't traveled to the USA.
The exchange rate makes it a reasonable destination, but I don't want to be treated like dirt.
We treat you like 'Earth'. You'll be strip mined, bombarded with high energy particles and lower life forms will crawl over your surface.
What link did you click, here's the paper linked to:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/03/27/science.1233638.full
The last sentence in the paper:
Given the broad applicability of this approach and the acute stoichiometric control of the metal compositions, we contend that the PMOD technique opens an entirely new parameter space for discovery and optimization of new heterogeneous electrocatalysts.
is the "hype", which is preceded by several pages of data.
If possible I'd mod GP as -5 Informative (i.e. intended to be informative but failed miserably) and you at +5 insightful.
DARPA is working on it.
The spam for hosts files is >1K bytes.
Not sure what the big deal is just anonymous ftp to 10.0.0.73 every so often to get an update.
And at least some of us are completely incapable of proofreading prior to hitting submit.
Careful, these guys are going to come after you for procreating next!
Now worries there. After watching things like Jersey Shore, the US Senate and most television shows it's pretty clear we're still amateurs.
Because you're not planning to set fire to the house and collect the insurance the second the deal goes through. If you did that would be fraud. If you have enough money fraud perversely translates to 'smart'.
Agreed. I'm not sure what we're supposed to be amazed at. It's a storage industry driving amount of data per flight in 1993, it's impressive in 2003, it's trivial in 2013.
If you kill enough bad guys you get an extra life anyway.
I suspect horrible article is the main culprit. At a guess I suspect this is nothing more that Facebook's authentication service failing.
Client is directed to Facebook for authentication, mechanism fails, Facebook tosses up error page. The implication that Facebook did anything wrong other than having buggy authentication is likely way of base.
Full disclosure, don't have a facebook page, never visited a facebook page, have zero interest in facebook.
I suspect some bright intern invented it.
Cheeky bastards. Why couldn't they just install really bright street lights if they wanted to be visible from space.
I have to admit I'm a bit surprised that Australia wasn't visible from space till it caught fire. I thought Africa was the dark continent.
Phrasing it worse would certainly take a bit of effort. I had to read it 3 times before shaking my head and moving on to the comments.
And adding to your anecdote I've never had a flu shot and I don't recall the last time I had the flu. I'd say at least 20 years (1992) but it's possible I had it once in that time and simply forgotten.
I do believe in the efficacy of the flu shot, I just never bothered to get one. Maybe if I get the flu this year I'll change my tune next year.