The most absolutely frustrating thing: I clearly remember an AMAZING story from a document, but apparently I didn't take notes on it, and never wrote it down, and I can't find it among the BILLION pdf files on my computer.
(And Spotlight is trash for this sort of thing.)pic.twitter.com/446LH3GKPx
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Do you remember when you downloaded the file/read it? You could narrow your search by date.
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sometime in the last 10 years
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And what was the story?
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It had to do with the difficulties of introducing classified evidence (photos of an atomic bomb casing) into a criminal proceeding. The prosecutor put the photo in an envelope with a little flap that could be flashed open. So they could flash it at the witness briefly.
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Apparently that was enough to get the witness to break down and confess, and end the trial. Just such a wonderfully ridiculous example of how secrecy makes certain things (esp. criminal proceedings) difficult.
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What's annoying is I do have a lot on court proceedings from this time — but none of the ones I have are the one with the little envelope.pic.twitter.com/7wbgYyzUHn
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Which time? And what was the crime?
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Probably late 1940s. Crime was something to do with the photos — selling them or something. There were a few cases at the time about this. May have been the Alexander von der Luft case. But I'm just not finding the specific anecdote I remember...
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Not a computer expert by any stretch but I seem to recall an ability to do some kind of a 'global search function' (my paraphrasing) that could look for any kind of unique word string if you can remember one. Proper nouns are very helpful for this search.
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And knowing government derivative document photocopying quality -- most in 2-bit line art scans -- what percentage of them are readable?
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