Don't get me wrong. I have no regrets about apologizing for apologizing.
Since I can vote and am somewhat politically aware, I tried to submit a blog entry at catch.com. Since it didn't pass through, I figured I've got this place. So here's what I said:
Department of Homeland Blurring
Do you feel safer?
Apparently the Secret Service does. It seems as though a typical 1-meter per pixel image resolution for aerial photos of the white house is just too detailed:
“The Secret Service did not say what kind of threat accurate overhead imagery poses. But Gartner analyst John Pescatore, a former Secret Service agent, says the image distortions could be a response to real, if unlikely, attack scenarios: like a homemade drone aircraft armed with explosives, remotely piloted by a terrorist using aerial photographs as a navigation aid.”
I’m sure anyone with the resources to construct the oxymoronic “homemade drone aircraft” could also connect to the Internet and go here, but my surity could be what lets the terrorists win. So in the spirit of blurriness, let's keep America safer:
Can't let any drones know what our president looks like
That'll stop those flag-burning hippies--er, terrorists.
Whew, that was a mouthful. I'm sure this would have been a good blog entry if I had gotten my html right. We'll never know.
4 comments:
How about a homemade drone Zombie? It wouldn't be very effective, but it would be cool.
Then the president would be completely safe. Zombies eat brains.
Actually, that top picture is the Capitol Building, not the white house.
--bonnach
here's a link to the white house picture. It's only a little bit blurry. http://ortho.mit.edu/washdc/draw-ortho.cgi?image=2016&dwidth=1000&width=500&dheight=1000&height=500&zoom_level=2&middlex=441&middley=725&x=0&y=0
--bonnach
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