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New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change

JayBonci writes "CNN is running a story with the newest advances in the original copy-protection arms race, a new US $20 dollar bill. From the article, specifically color and different number arrangements as an improvement over 1996's "Big Face" dollar bills." Little off the norm for Slashdot, but it's interesting since computers have vastly simplified forgery.

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  1. Firsty posty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A mug of frosty piss for all my comrades.

  2. Eww... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Those things are f*cking ugly...

  3. Typical /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As usual..

    No content, duplicate posts are getting old... Lets post something completely unlrelated to geekdom.

  4. moron commercing in a phonIE payper liesense.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hostage ransom softwar gangster stock markup ?pr? pottIE. yuk.

    that can't be very gooed?

    lookout bullow, iPoo(tm) may be coming to a commode near you.

    from trustworthycomputing.com: dallas is won of the 6 citIEs to attain 'cyber-security' so far.

  5. Becoming more and more like Europe by Gothmolly · · Score: 0, Troll

    With socialization of just about everything in the US on the horizon, it's just one more step until the US becomes another European country. Stupid looking monopoly money is yet another loss of credibility.

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  6. Re:not tempting to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because you're a rich fag.

  7. Re:7-10 years?!? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: -1, Troll
    What the hell is Boxing Day?

    Boring currency = hard currency.
    Colorful currency = children's toy. My dad had a box of pretty notes from foriegn lands when I was a kid. The notes were all totally worthless.

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  8. In God we trust by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If they take that ridiculous secular-relegious crap off of our bills and the new design is cool.
    --anon