When Nanotechnology Calls, You Answer
Posted at 1:44 pm on Thursday, September 13, 2007, in Technology, and tagged email, spam.
Random email of the week, maybe year (not caught by my spam filter)…
Just this April, a large cross-departmental group of Stanford faculty was awarded a multi-million dollar grant to take up such challenges and develop new devices and technology for use in 3-D ICs. Chidsey, for instance, is one of the researchers involved in integrating nanowire transistors into 3-D circuits, which requires being able to position nanowires reliably and accurately. With the development of 3-D ICs, you can expect all-in-one MP3 player-telephone-digital camera-PDA devices the size of Star Trek communicators to hit the shelves at Fry’s within this decade.
Our Company offers a very good wage to the successful candidate, along with an unrivalled career progression opportunity. If you believe you have what it takes to take on this challenge and would like to join please send the following information to: CarlPalmerPD@gmail.com
1) Full name
2) Contact phone numbers
3) Part time job/Full timeThe ideal applicant will be an intelligent individual, someone who can work autonomously with a high degree of enthusiasm. We are seeking a highly motivated professional, with skill of working with people. The position is home-based. We offer a part-time position with flexible working hours. And we would be happy to consider a full-time job share applicant. A strong background in the marketing field is essential for this position, as is the ability to inspire at every level.
You do not need to spend any sum of money and we do not ask you to provide us with your bank account number! We are engaged in totally legal activity.
If you are interested in our vacancy please feel free to contact us for further information. The preference is given to people with knowledge of foreign languages.
Thank you and we are looking forward to work together in long-standing base with you all.Nature’s own marvelous nanoscale machines include motors that spin bacterial flagella at up to 1000 revolutions per second and polymerases that step along DNA and RNA to facilitate the flow of genetic information. Block, along with other Stanford researchers such as Professors W. E. Moerner (Chemistry) and Steve Chu (Physics), are studying Nature’s machines through single molecule science. This young field is devoted to following molecules one at a time rather than observing their averaged behavior, as has been done traditionally. To understand why average properties may obscure molecular behavior, “Consider a ship traveling from New York to San Francisco,” says Block. “If it’s small enough, it will travel down into the Caribbean and go across the Panama Canal and then back up to San Francisco. If it’s a big oil tanker, it won’t fit through the Panama Canal; it’s got to go all the way around Cape Horn. But the average path of a ship traveling from New York to San Francisco would probably come out somewhere in the middle of the Amazon where there is in fact no route at all!”
As the global energy demand continues to rise, the need for renewable energy sources has become ever more urgent. One candidate fuel for the future is hydrogen. Professor McGehee is hot on the trail, developing solar cells to generate electricity, which can then be used to zap water apart electrolytically into hydrogen (and oxygen) with 80% efficiency.
Does well-done spam exist? I guess so.
I do not understand the spamming-angle of the email. It goes nowhere, and I really need to know where to send my mother’s maiden name and my debit card PIN number to. This email doesn’t ask for them, so I’m confused. Plus, the message has facts.
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September 14th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Another humorous aspect to this e-mail is that, if taken at face value, the “applicant” would be developing “new devices and technology for use in three-dimensional integrated circuits.” (Funny, but I thought that all integrated circuits were 3-D. Has anyone ever seen a 2-D one that worked? But I digress….) In and of itself, no humor there, but the spam goes on to say that this position is home-based! I don’t know about you, but I’d think most people wouldn’t have enough of a home laboratory where they’d be able to design IC’s. But I could be wrong!
September 28th, 2007 at 2:39 am
I tried to reply to the email given, carlpalmerpd@gmail.com and it came back undelivered, no such user. Maybe he’s locked up already, or blew himself up in his home-based lab!