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.
A while back we figured that the system we work on technically allows loading nigh anything as a texture, including stuff like SVG and PDF. So we also ended up with a bitcoin whitepaper textured surface used as a test, even though the actual project formed in part around opposition to cryptocurrency.
The darn thing is just that famous.
IRS Tax Form 1040
The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The US Constitution and Declaration of Independence
The Treaty of Versailles
The Paris Treaty
The Kyoto Protocol
The Bible, King James Version
Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther's 95 Theses
The Communist Manifesto
"Smashing the stack for fun and profit" by aleph1??
Is it though? The whitepaper wasn't released with any license. The original author still holds the copyright.
I'm going to guess someone from Apple's legal team is pretty pissed right about now.
I recently upgraded to 1GB internet, a 600mb game update took under 10 seconds. I wonder what 20 years will bring?
Probably not much. At least advancements wont be like the difference between going from 1.5 mbps to 1 gbps. It's the same reason why 10gbe ethernet has not become a common thing for consumer level desktop hardware. While 1gbe ethernet has been the standard offering since the mid-2000s. Recently lot of manufacturers have started supporting 2.5gbe. But low cost switching/routing hardware that fully supports 2.5gbe isn't quite there yet.
I sold the car and even had to start iTunes to remove the album.
Excerpt...
“No,” I said, “I don’t think we give it away free. I think you pay us for it, and then you give it away free, as a gift to people. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?”
Tim Cook raised an eyebrow. “You mean we pay for the album and then just distribute it?”
I said, “Yeah, like when Netflix buys the movie and gives it away to subscribers.”
Tim looked at me as if I was explaining the alphabet to an English professor. “But we’re not a subscription organisation.”
“Not yet,” I said. “Let ours be the first.”
Tim was not convinced. “There’s something not right about giving your art away for free,” he said. “And this is just to people who like U2?”
“Well,” I replied, “I think we should give it away to everybody. I mean, it’s their choice whether they want to listen to it.”
See what just happened? You might call it vaunting ambition. Or vaulting. Critics might accuse me of overreach. It is.
If just getting our music to people who like our music was the idea, that was a good idea. But if the idea was getting our music to people who might not have had a remote interest in our music, maybe there might be some pushback. But what was the worst that could happen? It would be like junk mail. Wouldn’t it? Like taking our bottle of milk and leaving it on the doorstep of every house in the neighbourhood.
Not. Quite. True.
On 9 September 2014, we didn’t just put our bottle of milk at the door but in every fridge in every house in town. In some cases we poured it on to the good people’s cornflakes. And some people like to pour their own milk. And others are lactose intolerant.
I take full responsibility. Not Guy O, not Edge, not Adam, not Larry, not Tim Cook, not Eddy Cue. I’d thought if we could just put our music within reach of people, they might choose to reach out toward it. Not quite. As one social media wisecracker put it, “Woke up this morning to find Bono in my kitchen, drinking my coffee, wearing my dressing gown, reading my paper.” Or, less kind, “The free U2 album is overpriced.” Mea culpa.
At first I thought this was just an internet squall. We were Santa Claus and we’d knocked a few bricks out as we went down the chimney with our bag of songs. But quite quickly we realised we’d bumped into a serious discussion about the access of big tech to our lives. The part of me that will always be punk rock thought this was exactly what the Clash would do. Subversive. But subversive is hard to claim when you’re working with a company that’s about to be the biggest on Earth.
btc_wp() {
open /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
}Another favorite of mine were the super-high-resolution touch pad gestures that the corresponding System Preferences pane would display in a loop to illustrate how to perform them. Must have been a few hundreds of megabytes at least.
[0] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b1674191a88ec5cdd733e424...
[1]b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553
Vannevar Bush‘s essay “As We May Think” in 1945 is a visionary document that describes technologies we take for granted today more than 70 years ago.
It’s possible the Bitcoin white paper will be looked at in similar ways, especially if Bitcoin ends up being one mankind’s most important inventions in addition to being a critically important financial asset.
Do we really think the Bitcoin white paper is more impactful than, say, the Magna Carta or Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses? I think you might be inadvertently succumbing to recency bias.
It's possible that the test file is for an end user to verify function, not an Apple dev, I guess, but then in that case Id expect Apple to provide something much more clear (say, Apple logo with "if u can read this, great" rendered in multiple languages") that supported their aims of branding, lack of legal encumbrance, and international support.
What an absolutely foolish way to broadcast to your employer that you’re willing to leak information.
Doesn’t seem like a huge problem. Basically no different to “we’re aware of it”
Also interesting that it led to the sort of related Brenton Woods system, and all the effects of that and it's de facto ending in the 70s under Nixon
6+1+2=(9)0.
Oh how strange the machine elves churn.
April 5th is also 9. (Month 4 day 5) and guess what…
Cool.
So it was added some time between 10.10 and 10.14.
I love the comments here all so awe struck by this that they don't realize how stupid it is. Literally any PDF document would have served the same purpose, the printer test page could have been enough. But this just reveals that even deep inside Apple development there are cryptobros who don't mind all the millions of dollars that the whole crypto movement has scammed from hard working gullible people.
imagine doing that to the rest of the tech industry. "my friend lost money in an email! duh 'puters r scam!" come to think of it, there were people in the 90s like that.
Only insofar as it made the image slightly larger, making it slower to distribute an ISO image of the CD online. I don't think the installer actually checks its presence or anything like that.
I think macOS has tried something like that though with "Don't Steal Mac OS X.kext" back in the day (which actually did contain a human-readable poem), but I don't really get the point of all of these attempts – surely the entire operating system is already copyrighted, even if it doesn't rhyme?
The article linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35461474 says that the installer checked.
I don't understand this reference and Google leaves me totally blank here. I could ask you to clarify, but there is the chance you don't see it or dont reply so … ChatGPT to the rescue?
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Prompt: What was the Paula Abdul office background poster controversy?
ChatCPT: The Paula Abdul office background poster controversy refers to a incident that occurred during a live episode of "American Idol" in 2009, when fans noticed a poster hanging on the wall behind Paula Abdul's desk during her pre-taped video segments. The poster, which appeared to be of a semi-nude woman, caused a stir among viewers and led to accusations that Abdul was promoting sexual objectification.
Abdul and the show's producers initially denied that the poster existed, but later issued a statement acknowledging its presence and stating that it was not intentionally visible during the broadcast. They also apologized to viewers who may have been offended by the poster.
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This does sound plausible … But wait! Is this truly true or just hallucinated?
Googling "Paula Abdul American Idol" just finds countless gossip posts about an alleged affaire with ex-contestant Corey Clark, but nothing about a poster.
Why would you expect that to return results about a specific controversy from 2009? She was a judge on American Idol for years, it's the only reason I know who she is.
And Apple will bury him.
$ wget https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
[...]
$ openssl sha256 bitcoin.pdf
SHA256(bitcoin.pdf)= b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553
$ openssl sha256 /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
SHA256(/System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf)= b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553
md5: d56d71ecadf2137be09d8b1d35c6c042
sha1: 8de2fdb04edce612738eb51e14ecc426381f8ed8
sha256: b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553
size: 184292 bytes
openssl sha256 /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
SHA256(/System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf)= b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553sha256: b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553
sha512: 2ac531ee521cf93f8419c2018f770fbb42c65396178e079a416e7038d3f9ab9fc2c35c4d838bc8b5dd68f4c13759fe9cdf90a46528412fefe1294cb26beabf4e
crc32 (lol): 13af7d06
md5: d56d71ecadf2137be09d8b1d35c6c042
sha1: 8de2fdb04edce612738eb51e14ecc426381f8ed8
Source: https://waxy.org/2023/04/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in...
Not much else. Been using ‘find’ in ‘/System’ and haven’t found anything else that interesting.
(Also implementing money on it does seem pretty intelligent -- its a scarcity device -- peoble just seem to do stupid stuff with it)
a) single one time cost.
b) no list of approved or unapproved uses
c) unlimited free read bandwidth
d) all my users pay to change the application
I've looked at AWS, GCP, Firebase, bare metal and none of their offerings have the same pricing structure of blockchain nodes. Additionally, the target audience for non-blockchain applications require a much larger funnel and friction to get users to for anything, while the overhead costs of getting them into the funnel soar. Free tiers are okay but can't handle a spike in traffic. Whereas audiences in the blockchain space have already crossed all the friction and have an insatiable demand for 1-click payment funnels.
This perspective doesn't really seem to arise in these conversations. But perhaps there is a counterpoint that I missed about some other cloud platform? This is very high impact for me and I can see many developers continuing to bring their audiences to this development platform.
A manufacturer doesn't need to test anything like this. They already have physical access to the devices before they are even set up.
A theory: they needed an existing PDF to test PDF rendering. The Bitcoin paper was (1) handy, and (2) has a diverse variety of content in it, including images and math symbols.
(I personally think there's zero chance that they are the same person, but it's fun to entertain this fantasy.)
Steve Jobs death: October 5, 2011
Steven Jobs marketed himself, Satoshi did not.
Not to say Jobs wasn't a great guy but I know many great guys who never could have invented bitcoin.
2019? Nah.
If I were Thomas Hawk, I’d be sending Apple a bill for the use of my photograph.
Further, Satoshi explicitly reassigned copyright over the entirety of Bitcoin essentially to posterity by rewriting the licensing. That, similarly, includes the bitcoin whitepaper.
https://cryptobriefing.com/us-grants-craig-wright-copyright-...
https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-creator-craig-s-wright-satoshi-...
That explains the temporal issue. Then, for the connection, I remember a lot of people on the internet reacted negatively on that news given that they don't agree that he should have ownership for that document as he never proved to be satoshi. I could see Apple or an employee inject that document in a way to "challenge" or "protest".
we also don't know how many men felt encouraged in their sexism upon encountering this image.
while the image didn't make men sexist, it undoubtedly helped normalize that view among those coming across it during their work.
context matters. if you read playboy at home, that's on you, but if it is found in the breakroom at an office then it has an effect on everyone working there.
I just don't see your point at all.
Was numbers.pdf not enough to accomplish what they wanted?
My opinion: I understand the OS is a big multi-team effort but this just not cool. It's not about the contents of the file or that it's about bitcoin.
Plain and simple: Don't ship files that don't need to be shipped.
All these files, if they are test files, should be in unit/integration test resources.
This should have never been allowed on macOS, an endorsement of a pyramid scheme, borderline ponzi scheme, incinerating the planet and evading sanctions.
I use Linux and macOS and the former would never allow this to happen ever.
Not sure what you mean here. There are many Linux distros...?
By adding it into the main macOS, a sentient being at Apple deliberately chose that file to place it into a major operating system. I consider it an blantant endorsement.
I'm questioning Apple's review process because of this. At worst this is akin to malware.
> evading sanctions
The horror