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PDF Tracking On the Way

(el)Capitan.Nick writes "PDFzone reports that the company Remote Approach has launched a service to track the movement of PDF documents with its tool Map-Bot. The purpose of this service is to allow PDF publishers the ability to measure their audience, as web publishers can already. Though personal information is not gathered from machines, IP addresses are. PDFs can require users to be connected to the Internet in order to read them, and every person you email the PDF to is subject to the service. As PDFzone's opinion article states, while 'the chances of running into a Remote Approach PDF right now -- and in the near future -- are pretty remote ... the potential for the technology to tarnish PDF's image [of security] is staggering.'"

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  1. FP for democracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YAY for democracy, this FP is dedicated to it!! :-D

  2. Re:Pope is dead.. fuck him and the catholic church by Armadni+General · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm willing to bet you're some retarded teenager who just thinks, "OMG HAATING RELGION IS SOOO COOL!!11!"

  3. Re:Pope is dead.. fuck him and the catholic church by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yup, the Catholic Church is the scourge of the earth.

  4. Re:Pope is dead.. fuck him and the catholic church by jacksonj04 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You mean unlike you sectist, overzealous assholes who wouldn't recognise a differing opinion if it came up and slapped you in the face?

    Coward indeed.

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  5. Re:Pope is dead.. fuck him and the catholic church by jacksonj04 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Umm... so you'll be a Christian then?

    Not to piss on your bonfire or anything, but suggesting he'll go to hell kinda means you believe in hell. Correct me if I'm wrong, but hell relies on something called religion. Christianity happens to be one of these.

    When you're mature enough to deal with other people's opinions, feel free to come back.

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  6. Re:Pope is dead, and the cc is irrelevant by Steve+Franklin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are so simple minded you can't conceive of some of the ideas of Christianity being true (perhaps the ones they stole from the Pagans?) without the entire system being true?

    This character spent his entire life telling little children a pack of lies and you can't conceive of him going to Hell under the terms of original christianity? Forget the clowns in the Chinese silk robes and their modern mumbo-jumbo.

    Consider yourself corrected.

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  7. Re:Pope John Paul II, dead at 84 by Steve+Franklin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What "word" would that be?

    As for Liberals, it would be greatly appreciated if you practised what you preached and didn't make accusations you can't prove. I AM A LIBERAL, you bat-breathed little pinhead, and your attempt to equate Liberalism with everything you don't like about the world is getting a little old. You morons have control of all three branches of government and yet you continue to blame all your own stupid cock-ups on someone who hasn't been president in FOUR years. Go back under your bridge and say ten hail marys.

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  8. Re:Pope is dead.. fuck him and the catholic church by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Funny; the Catholic Church doesn't respect all of the religions of the world.

  9. MODS--PARENT HAS MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, shouldn't you be off creating a fifth troll account and stalking people as AC? We all know now; check out a certain user journal. haha

  10. Re: ? by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do tell.

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  11. Re: ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What, worried that yes, we were telling the truth, and caught onto you?

    You've been had. Give it up. Create another troll account like the journal says.