Sunday, March 30, 2008

Questions and Answers

1. The creator of the 'love bug' virus is speculated to be a man by the name of Onel de Guzman of Manila, Philippines. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/29/philippines.lovebug.02/index.html

2. John Vaaler seems to be credited with inventing the paper clip and its patent.
http://www.answers.com/topic/paperclip

3. The Ebola virus was named after a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), where the virus was first recognized.
http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola/ebola-history.html

4. Finding the largest earthquake ever recorded was a little harder because there seemed to be so many answers. I found this earthquake mentioned a lot when referring to the largest.. the biggest earthquake since 1900 recorded with modern equipment occurred on May 22, 1960, in Chile and measured 9.5 on the Richter scale.
http://ask.yahoo.com/20000823.html

5. Using a conversion calculator, I think 1 kilobyte is equal to 9.313225746155E-10 terabyte...???
http://www.unit-conversion.info/computer.html

6.
Computer engineer, Ray Tomlinson invented internet based email in late 1971.
http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.htm

7.Storm worm is a piece of malware that self-propagates by spreading itself around a network of attached computers. Most experts say there's no way to know how many recipients of Storm spam clicked through and became infected, and therefore the actual size of the Storm botnet is unknown
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9039878&source=rss_topic17

8. To contact the prime minister, I found a website that you can fill out a form and a message that you would like to say/ask to the PM.
http://pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm

9. Stephen played keyboard for Brisbane punk band, the Black Assassins.
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm

10.I think 'web 2.0' is the new age use of blogger sites and the like that give the public more of an opinion and option to express their feelings with the choice for others to have their input back.
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1169528,00.html

I do not know that all of the sources I used to find my answers were of complete merit but I tried to use sites that were more widly credited-like cnn.com.

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