The following is an extract from a RFQ I recently received:
There are further idiocies, such as failure to specify OS.
The following is an extract from a RFQ I recently received:
There are further idiocies, such as failure to specify OS.
-- Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
I bet they top post as well :-)
Michael Kellett
No they don´t. They remove all contents from previous messages because they use Google.
Except the signature, they always keep it
Regards
Zara
That should make for entertaining reading, nearly as good as reading a European directive.
have they never heard of PDF printers?
Paul Burke
This is aparently independent of the OS. Pdf files can be created to be not printable. That they cannot be saved is dreaming.
Rene
-- Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com & commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net
Make sure that you print the secretly patented super-secret spy special attack squirrel secret-agent invisible security code onto each sheet of paper, so that any honorable photocopier or scanner will know its duty when presented with a print-out from one of these documents. Oh, and arm the cleaners.
A relatively innocent omission. Probably they didn't bother to mention it because they just assumed that *everybody* uses CP/M.
-- Richard Heathfield "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999 http://www.cpax.org.uk email: rjh at the above domain, - www.
They could have simplified the specs dramatically:
"Certain users should be allowed to read the pdf files, but they should not be able to read the pdf files."
-- espen
I'd say those are not very unusual requirements. There is a number of web services for the document hosting which provide the access rights like that.
Vladimir Vassilevsky
DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
How are they able to let the customers download a file to print it, and not be able to save it? How are they able to watch a file (in clear text), and not be copy it? Thats beyond me. If you can create such a system, I bet you get rich. It should be easy to create an obfuscated system preventing grandma from copying , but a somewhat computer literaded person?
Have you ever tried copy and paste from xpdf?
-- espen
Open-source PDF viewers are not obliged to honor the "disable printing" bit.
For further details, contact Dmitri Skylarov.
[...]
It doesn't matter how hard the data is kept, there is always a way to steal it. And every computer literate fool knows that.
The purpose of this document is the demonstration of the strict policy about handling the sensitive information.
The owners of the document access web systems are probably doing OK.
It should be easy to create an obfuscated system preventing
It does not matter. This is a legal document, which requires that all measures whatever possible should have taken.
Vladimir Vassilevsky
DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
The last time I checked, there were password/encryption schemes that were are only available in Adobe Acrobat Reader (which honors the don't print, don't "cut/copy" bits).
Of course it's only a matter of time before the open-source viewers add support. Or until somebody hackes Adobe Acrobat Reader to disable the honoring of the various permission bits.
For all practical purposes: if it can be viewed, it can be printed, saved, edited, and copied. Anybody who pretends otherwise is deluded.
[Unless you only allow people to view it on a physically secure computer you've set up in a physically secure room you control.]-- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Used staples are good at with SOY SAUCE! visi.com
Not at all unusual.
Just impossible.
They attempt to.
-- Grant Edwards grante Yow! PARDON me, am I at speaking ENGLISH? visi.com
Yes. It didn't work for some of my documents. I fixed xpdf, now it works for all documents.
[It's beyond me why a vendor would provide an application note for a device containing lists of constants you are required to use in your source code and then not allow you to copy/paste the constants.]-- Grant Edwards grante Yow! My NOSE is NUMB! at visi.com
That's usually purely accidental - did you give them feedback so they could fix it ?
-jg
I probably should have, but I didn't.
-- Grant Edwards grante Yow! What's the MATTER at Sid?... Is your BEVERAGE visi.com unsatisfactory?
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:05:29 -0600, Grant Edwards wrote (in article ):
It's been a long time since tech pubs people had a clue.
-- Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR) "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
While working as a consultant doing low level stuff, you still must analyze the commercial viability of your customer's requirements, at least if you expect to receive your payment in time :-).
Paul
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