Same thing happened to the Chief of our major research organisation. He used too many repeated exclamation marks and zeros after his monetary figures. A number of the mail servers blocked his message as spam.
Sorting yesterday through old letters from my (now) wife I saw that many of them had been damaged through the actions of silverfish. Yet I still have her very first email to me stored perfectly and electronically (Unix mail -> 5 1/4" floppy -> hard disk -> CDROM).
Of course, if I had stored those floppies in the wrong place...
The University of Sydney has a short description of the WTC's structure and offer an explanation for why the towers completely collapsed after being struck.
The link: www.civil.usyd.edu.au/wtc.htm
In my last job I used StarOffice 5.1 to retrieve Excel files corrupted in MS Excel. True, it didn't keep everything from Excel, but at least the data was retrievable.
I also use StarOffice to save Word files to HTML because the code is much cleaner and not 20x too big.
What I think is unfair is that other organisations' employees can obtain personal information about your habits without reciprocation and without your knowledge.
If Joe Marketing can bombard your mailbox with crap you should be able to do the same with his. Let's say you buy the book "Microsoft for Geniuses" they might reason you are gullible enough that you address should be sold to a network marketing company. (You only bought the book as a doorstop).
You should be able to sell his name to an instant coffee seller, so he gets sent samples to his office (Ooh, cool Joe Marketing drinks instant). You might not know all his personal habits, but you can still hit him where it hurts.
Surely we must be able to find out the names of Amazon marketing employees and give away these details to crap product companies. It's not like they can hide behind false email addresses. Same for other known sellers of personal details.
If the RIAA could find a way to monitor our thoughts we'd probably have to pay royalties on every tune that goes through our heads!:)
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This report, has a detailed description of Parkes Observatory's support for the Apollo 11 mission. It includes video clips, sounds and technical details.
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Tell you what, the astronomers here certainly wouldn't mind getting ahold of the DSN 70m dish at Tidbinbilla (near Canberra).
Same thing happened to the Chief of our major research organisation. He used too many repeated exclamation marks and zeros after his monetary figures. A number of the mail servers blocked his message as spam.
Sorting yesterday through old letters from my (now) wife I saw that many of them had been damaged through the actions of silverfish. Yet I still have her very first email to me stored perfectly and electronically (Unix mail -> 5 1/4" floppy -> hard disk -> CDROM).
Of course, if I had stored those floppies in the wrong place...
Actually, it's already happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
The University of Sydney has a short description of the WTC's structure and offer an explanation for why the towers completely collapsed after being struck. The link: www.civil.usyd.edu.au/wtc.htm
In my last job I used StarOffice 5.1 to retrieve Excel files corrupted in MS Excel. True, it didn't keep everything from Excel, but at least the data was retrievable.
I also use StarOffice to save Word files to HTML because the code is much cleaner and not 20x too big.
What I think is unfair is that other organisations' employees can obtain personal information about your habits without reciprocation and without your knowledge. If Joe Marketing can bombard your mailbox with crap you should be able to do the same with his. Let's say you buy the book "Microsoft for Geniuses" they might reason you are gullible enough that you address should be sold to a network marketing company. (You only bought the book as a doorstop). You should be able to sell his name to an instant coffee seller, so he gets sent samples to his office (Ooh, cool Joe Marketing drinks instant). You might not know all his personal habits, but you can still hit him where it hurts. Surely we must be able to find out the names of Amazon marketing employees and give away these details to crap product companies. It's not like they can hide behind false email addresses. Same for other known sellers of personal details.
If the RIAA could find a way to monitor our thoughts we'd probably have to pay royalties on every tune that goes through our heads! :)
This report, has a detailed description of Parkes Observatory's support for the Apollo 11 mission. It includes video clips, sounds and technical details.