On Friday 01 October 2004 10:09 am, R. Quenett wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/01/copying.dollars.ap/index.html
>
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> Selected quotes:
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> "Making these digital copies is getting harder, thanks to secretive
> anti-counterfeiting technology built into some popular consumer
> hardware and software products at the request of government
> regulators and international bankers."
>
> and
>
> "The technology detects and blocks attempts to view, scan or print
> copies of the redesigned $20 and $50 bills and, in a pop-up window,
> urges consumers to visit a Web site, www.rulesforuse.org, to learn
> about international counterfeit laws."
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>
> I hope you're as thrilled as I am. No, really, the mind boggles at
> the absolutely wonderful uses this will open up. And to think some
> people were worried about illicit or improper uses of cell phone
> cameras. Fuhgeddaboutit. Those rotten good for nothing sheeple
> won't be able even to think about bleating off key if we don't want
> them to.
>
>
Counterfeiting must have gotten WHAY out of hand these last few years....
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