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Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Re: Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Post by FireBeyond »

s73v3r_ wrote: post #113
saalweachter wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've never seen someone pass a stopped school bus on the shoulder?

Thankfully I haven't, but I fully believe that people can be dumb or dickish enough to do that.

Oh yes.

* http://abc13.com/news/driver-explains-himself-after-dangerou...

* http://www.northescambia.com/2017/08/driver-caught-on-camera...

* The winner, though? A fully loaded semi: http://www.startribune.com/trucker-charged-over-roaring-by-s...

"I gotta be places". Or, less politely, "Fuck you, I got mine."

Re: Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Post by FireBeyond »

twoquestions wrote: post #30
ajross wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mostly true. Hans Reiser and Ross Ulbricht were smart folks who got caught nonetheless. But not always true. No one's figured out Satoshi Nakamoto yet.

Nakamoto is also not a criminal, so there's less will to uncover their identity. But yes, you're correct it's not a forever and always thing.

And less ability. Private citizens don't have the ability to subpoena records.

Re: Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

braderhart wrote: post #133
s73v3r_ wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't buy that many people are quite bad with computers?

When it is your job to hide your financial activities, then no not really.

> When it is your job to hide your financial activities

"On February 11, 2011, another trader, Trader E, wrote to Trader C: 'shall we spoof.' Trader C responded: 'sure.'

...

Even the most minimalist 2018-era bank compliance program would at least teach traders not to use the word 'spoof' in a recorded electronic chat, but a decade ago our primitive forebears did not quite understand the problem."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-31/sergeant-...

Re: Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Post by [deleted] »

btown wrote: post #63

As an aside, Adobe Acrobat Pro's PDF-to-PPTX is a godsend if you're ever given a slide deck in PDF form that you need to update/remake to certain aesthetic standards (i.e. a partner/coworker sends you something you need to update to your company's standard formatting, for distribution to management, potential investors, etc.). Images become editable, backgrounds become editable shapes, and text boxes and even tables…

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Re: Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Post by Animats »

Getting a clean conversion from PDF to some editable format is hard, at least without Microsoft tools. I've been trying to convert a PDF manual to something I can edit using Ubuntu. LibreOffice produces a Draw document where the text is too big for its text boxes. Abiword extracts the text and loses the images and most of the formatting. An online service at least produced a usable document.

Re: Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

fencepost wrote: post #114
criley2 wrote: post #97

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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…

You beat me to it. 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…

"Didn't grow up with computers" (have contact with computers during compulsory education) in the West is likely people over 50.

Can probably go to 55-58 for people who have degrees; ie people who used computers during Uni education.

If you're older you've probably had 20 years with computers in the workplace save for some niches, seems long enough to learn to use a simple point-click menu.

Re: Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Post by adventured »

Chathamization wrote: post #82
stcredzero wrote: post #56

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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…

It's kind of strange. In the U.S., people get angry if they get a speeding ticket for going 12 miles over the speed limit (see any conversation about speed cameras). There doesn't seem to be any push back against having speed limits; rather, it seems like most people think we should have them and then ignore them.

That has varied. The speed limit commonly got set to 50/55 mph due to the National Maximum Speed Law in 1974 [1]. It ended up being a giant government shit show that resulted in an estimated Typically you'll see 70 or 75 on US highways now. To go much higher, the US is going to have to up its road construction & maintenance game, as the German autobahn is maintained at considerably higher quality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law

Re: Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Post by pvg »

spookthesunset wrote: post #147
ajross wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mostly true. Hans Reiser and Ross Ulbricht were smart folks who got caught nonetheless. But not always true. No one's figured out Satoshi Nakamoto yet.

Didn't they find a "how to get away with murder" book in Reiser's car? And 'ol Ross had a whole journal of his illegal activity sitting right on his hard drive.

Didn't they find a "how to get away with murder" book in Reiser's car?

They did and the bananas thing is he also very nearly did get away with it anyway - a plea deal under which he could have walked away with time served + a few months was available to him. Fortunately, his own hubris got him 15 to life.

Re: Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Post by stcredzero »

mpweiher wrote: post #117
stcredzero wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> In Germany, you obey the speed limit 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.

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.

My one trip to Germany was in Stuttgart in the early 2000's, and it was my German coworkers who made that observation. The car ride I took seemed to corroborate it.

Has it always been that way, or has it changed over time?

Re: Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Post by IntronExon »

saalweachter wrote: post #104
alphabettsy wrote: post #77

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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?

I saw that in the US once, as well as someone cutting off a funeral procession. In the latter case a cop almost instantly pulled them over, fortunately.
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