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Do you really need a technical background or some sort of college training to find the File > Save As > PDF option?
Haha.. I don't buy into it either. Something is fishy about the story, or maybe this is a secret plea deal with a behind the scenes type negotiation process to trick other conspirators into providing more evidence.
Semi-related tip: I despise protected pdfs with a passion. Especially when you download a datasheet and you can't add annotations or highlights to it. So, how to remove this protection? One way is to print to postscript and convert back to pdf, but then you can't copy text from it. Here's how (on windows): download qpdf ( http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/ ) and run qpdf.exe -decrypt encrypted.pdf woho.pdf I made a small b…
Put that in AWS Lambda and charge $1 each. Boom, Saas-retirement-fund.
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People pass on the right because people block the passing lane. It shouldn’t be possible in most cases to pass on the right.
You've never seen someone pass a stopped school bus on the shoulder?
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Do you really need a technical background or some sort of college training to find the File > Save As > PDF option?
Using File -> Save As -> PDF requires several skills Window management in Windows GUI: 1. Usage of File Menu and/or Ribbon Menu 2. Knowledge of Word's PDF integration File System knowledge: 1. What a "file" is 2. What "file formats" are 3. What a PDF is 4. That a word document can be saved or printed as a PDF Etc etc etc I work with non-technical folks all the time and printing/saving as PDF comes up often. Usually i…
HN readers who don't work with non-technical users may not realize just how lost and unable to explore many people are, particularly when they didn't grow up with computers. There's also a huge problem with "dialog blindness."
If you have an understanding of how "computers" (hardware, OS, apps, websites, doesn't matter it's all the same mystery box) work then you can explore with less fear. I deal with people in their 20s and 30s who don't grasp that a "scanner XYZ not found" error may mean that they should look for a way to select a scanner. Many of my older end users are clearly using a lot of software entirely by rote, though it's definitely not limited to them.
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Different context but Buffett's quote “If a cop follows you for 500 miles, you’re going to get a ticket,” applies here. If you are a criminal you don't violate only one law. You tend to violate multiple laws and at some point you are going to be sloppy.
Buffet's quote applies to non-criminals as well.
Three Felonies a Day
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That's why white collar crime is so difficult to prosecute. And it's why prosecutor's rely so much on getting low level people to turn on high level people.
I think that has a lot more to do with prosecutors never going after executive because they are buddy-buddy. Martin Shkreli is a perfect example of a CEO that can get canned when it is decided he should be.
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Buffet's quote applies to non-criminals as well.
More in the US than elsewhere. In Germany, you obey the speed limit, and only rubes pass on the right. In the US, everyone drives 9 mph above the posted limit if they're being careful, and people pass on the right willy-nilly, regardless of what local laws say. But if the police really want to enforce that on you, they can. There are tons of "blue laws" in the US, some from over a hundred years back. Sometimes the po…
German living in Germany here: er, no. Typical is slighly more than +10%. If you keep to the speed limit, people behind you will get upset.
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> Those Enron-esque cross-cut shredders don’t cut it anymore with open source machine learning that can easily reassemble those documents. That's interesting! When I googled for this, I found a few papers, but nothing like a git repository. Do you have more information?
I remember there was also a big effort to reassemble the shredded files by the German Stasi after the fall of the wall, both algorithmically and manually. Not sure if those efforts are ongoing, but it could be another avenue to explore if you are interested.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/03/stasi-files-ea...
There are certain things I cannot believe are still this difficult with as advanced as user-friendly technology is: sending files to someone else, and converting documents. Sending files to someone else is a problem with a ton of solutions, some of them better than others, but none of them actually solving the problem. Email often has size limits and spam filters block certain attachments. Dropbox is often restricted…
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$1 is going to struggle to beat free: https://online2pdf.com/remove-pdf-restrictions
I always find it hard to trust free. Even with T&Cs/ToS/Privacy, if I'm not paying for it, I feel that its all lies. Combine that with a site that looks like that, and I'm assuming my PDF will have a virus attached to it.
But if it's say, as a friend recently experienced, a handout from a teacher in Corel Draw format, you bet your ass I'm uploading it to whatever the top google result for "convert corel draw to pdf online" is.