I still remember the Paula Abdul office background poster and the whole fiasco of BHA Carl Sagan code names. Easter eggs and codenames were supposed to be fun, not lawsuit material.
The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
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What is the MD5 checksum of the canonical version of the famous Lorem Ipsum PDF?
Ask Apple, I'd guess they'd use the one that they used to hide in their skeumorphic application icons.
TextEdit's icon used to have a copy of "Here's to the Crazy Ones" letter/poem/whatever. It was barely legible in the days of 256px icons but was extremely legible in the 512px version. I forget when it was first added, IIRC early versions of the icon used Lorem Ipsum text.
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Yup. I can't even think of any other "famous PDF". If you asked me for a famous modern formatted document generally, I might say the screenplay for The Godfather would be a good candidate. But there's no canonical PDF for that. :P Plus, copyright would prevent that.
For a long time Form 1040 was the top Google result for "pdf".
And being produced by the federal government, unencumbered by copyright.
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#154The interesting thing here is that I don't believe the Bitcoin whitepaper was released with any license. If someone could prove themselves to be the author they'd probably be able to make a case for a lot of money from Apple.
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#155Wait til you realize Satoshi worked for Apple and used stenography to embed his wallet key into that image. The PDF is a clue.
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> Each year's form is probably the most intentionally distributed PDF on the planet In the US*. The Bitcoin paper has surely been distributed far wider than any US-specific tax forms.
No. We're talking in the hundreds of millions of people who either make a 1040 PDF themselves or have one made for them, and every year. The number of people who have used a cryptocurrency is probably larger than but within one order of magnitude of the number of people who have filled out a US 1040. But the number of people who have intentionally downloaded the original Bitcoin whitepaper? That's a tiny, tiny fracti…
Even if only half the people in China or India did that, they would be double the numbers of the US for such tasks. They have taxes, work and PDFs too.
For Google search numbers, that would be different considering PDF searches in China wouldn't be done using Google. But perhaps taxes aren't done using PDFs either, that important detail I don't know.
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#157Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
#158The interesting thing here is that I don't believe the Bitcoin whitepaper was released with any license. If someone could prove themselves to be the author they'd probably be able to make a case for a lot of money from Apple.
Craig Wright is trying hard to prove that he is Satoshi.
Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
#159This reminds me of the (encrypted) copy of Microsoft Bob shipping with every Windows XP CD ever https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-...
The story mentioned how one of the reasons to put Bob on each CD was to make any download of the ISO longer, since the actual XP data didn't fill the CD's capacity. Someone this conjured a memory of downloading XP/2000 back in the day, when I first got DSL, and how it was almost an hour. I thought that was quick at the time. 1.5mb/s vs 56k and all.
I recently upgraded to 1GB internet, a 600mb game update took under 10 seconds. I wonder what 20 years will bring?
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My mistake on that claim, I still roll my eyes at people who say it's totally normal and okay. How many racey pictures of men have been canonicalized like that? There's a leering element to it.
> How many racey pictures of men have been canonicalized like that? To be fair, very few other racy pictures of women have been canonicalized like that, either; about the only pictures I can think of are paintings, specifically the Mona Lisa , which is hardly racy, and Boticelli’s Birth of Venus , which I suppose you might look at as racy, though I wouldn’t particularly. There’s a couple other non-picture works of ar…
Racy picture? Wait, what photo are we talking about? Is this still about the one in andrewfromx's article that shows a woman's face and shoulder?