[PSES] A curiosity question

2012-09-04 Thread Doug Powell
All, I have noticed many IEC publications (in PDF) have a series of symbol embedded in varying locations on every page. They consist of string of punctuation marks. This sample string is somewhat randomized but it is representative. -``--`-`,,`,,,`,`,,`,`,,`--,,`-`,`,`,`,,`--- Is this

Re: [PSES] A curiosity question

2012-09-04 Thread IBM Ken
I have notice that in some Standards documents and always assumed it was a way to track the source of the original (paid-for) document in case someone was selling illegal copies (PDFs or photocopies). -Ken On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Doug Powell doug...@gmail.com wrote: All, I have

Re: [PSES] A curiosity question

2012-09-04 Thread Don_Borowski
It's secret code for We've got your money, but all you have is a bunch of bytes. ;-) Donald Borowski EMC Compliance Engineer Schweitzer Engineering Labs Pullman, Washington, USA From: Doug Powell doug...@gmail.com To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Date: 09/04/2012 09:44 AM Subject:

Re: [PSES] A curiosity question

2012-09-04 Thread Kunde, Brian
Good morning Mr. Phelps. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to take this PDF file, store it on a secured hard drive somewhere and never ever use it for any purpose, yet take the chance of violating one or more national or international copyright laws, to which several black SUVs will

Re: [PSES] A curiosity question

2012-09-04 Thread John Woodgate
In message 64D32EE8B9CBDD44963ACB076A5F6ABB026279E0@Mailbox-Tech.lecotech.local, dated Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Kunde, Brian brian_ku...@lecotc.com writes: Good morning Mr. Phelps. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to take this PDF file, store it on a secured hard drive somewhere and