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Who smeared Richard Feynman?

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Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They just draw a black box over the text in the PDFs now... (No joke)

Yes, but now they remove the underlying text too. It was fun while it lasted.

Current best practice is actually to draw the black boxes, print it, then scan it back in. The result is crummy quality pdfs with no metadata or hidden text.

Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?

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A little gem from the article: "It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos."

if only we could all live in a world where the highest form of domestic abuse was calculus and playing drums.

It said "including", not "exclusively", and continued loud music is a well-known psychological torture used in detainee interrogation...

Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

if only we could all live in a world where the highest form of domestic abuse was calculus and playing drums.

It said "including", not "exclusively", and continued loud music is a well-known psychological torture used in detainee interrogation...

There's a big difference between blasting music in someone's face for hours and playing an instrument regularly.

Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?

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Interesting comment in the blog (by Raphael) http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/07/11/smeared-richard-fe...

> With regard to the censored words, I would argue that they are probably “my former husband,” instead of “my ex-husband, the”.

Author reply:

> Yeah, it’s possible. I don’t put a lot of faith in character length analysis, [...]

Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?

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A little gem from the article: "It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos."

That quote omits the actual alleged "extreme cruelty":

"...the appointee's wife was granted a divorce from him because of appointee's constantly working calculus problems in his head as soon as awake, while driving car, sitting in living room, and so forth, and that his one hobby was playing his African drums. His ex-wife reportedly testified that on several occasions when she unwittingly disturbed either his calculus or his drums he flew into a violent rage, during which time he attacked her, threw pieces of bric-a-brac about and smashed the furniture."

Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?

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A little gem from the article: "It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos."

if only we could all live in a world where the highest form of domestic abuse was calculus and playing drums.

At that time, in those jurisdictions, you could only get divorced under very precise circumstances. One of the few ways was for one spouse, typically the woman, to assert "extreme cruelty."

I don't know any more about this divorce than anyone else here but I do know that at the time people did whatever it took to fit in the required "extreme" criteria.

Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?

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A little gem from the article: "It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos."

That quote omits the actual alleged "extreme cruelty": "...the appointee's wife was granted a divorce from him because of appointee's constantly working calculus problems in his head as soon as awake, while driving car, sitting in living room, and so forth, and that his one hobby was playing his African drums. His ex-wife reportedly testified that on several occasions when she unwittingly disturbed either his calculu…

  > during which time he attacked her
Still sounds kind of vague. What, precisely, does the word "attacked" refer to?

Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?

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A little gem from the article: "It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos."

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Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That quote omits the actual alleged "extreme cruelty": "...the appointee's wife was granted a divorce from him because of appointee's constantly working calculus problems in his head as soon as awake, while driving car, sitting in living room, and so forth, and that his one hobby was playing his African drums. His ex-wife reportedly testified that on several occasions when she unwittingly disturbed either his calculu…

> during which time he attacked her Still sounds kind of vague. What, precisely, does the word "attacked" refer to?

  > threw pieces of bric-a-brac about and smashed the furniture.

Re: Who smeared Richard Feynman?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but now they remove the underlying text too. It was fun while it lasted.

Current best practice is actually to draw the black boxes, print it, then scan it back in. The result is crummy quality pdfs with no metadata or hidden text.

Well you'd think but I worked for an org back in 2005 that decided to completely optimise that step away.

They were an aerospace/defense company building IFF units no less...

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