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HP Discusses Anti-Counterfeiting Measures
JohnA writes "While searching for drivers for an HP printer that was given to me, I noticed an article on the front page of hp.com that brags about how HP's R&D department was able to insert flaws into their products to 'deter' counterfeiting. I'm so glad we have HP looking out for us..."
...only outlaws will couterfeit money.
Oh, wait a minute...
... and an add for a new HP computer immediately follows the article.
Beautiful.
"In May 2003 U.S. officials announced a radical new design for the $20 bill that includes several new, confidential counterfeit-deterrence features. These measures include adding light shades of blue, peach and green to the $20 bill as an anti-counterfeiting measure. (Note: The peach bills premiered in October 2003)."
Way to keep the confidentiallity going there HP!!!
...here at the United Counterfitters of North America (UCNA) when I say that we will no longer be patronizing HP for any of their printing products. Crippled products such as this simply don't fit our needs.
Of course, HP isn't going into the currency-printing business...
No, that would infringe upon SCO's business model and IP rights....
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
wanna make a joke trillion dollar bill to represent the deficit with a disingenious picture of GWB as a protest?
You'd need seven of them...No, wait 8....9....
What if I have a legit reason to copy currency?
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
While searching for drivers for an HP printer that was given to me..
HP printers are textbook-example standards compliant. They don't use drivers.
Now, seriously, what were you doing on HP.com?
Damn right!
With money in your "pocket", your electronic account can't be emptied by scumbags. Nor do you have to worry about banks charging outragous fees for their services. Of course there are other problems related to having money in your pocket.
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
Because captialism rewards those things so well... --EC
--Have a good night's sleep. Don't forget to brush your tooth.
How is counterfeiting currency part of My Rights, again? So you can make, um, backups in case your original bills are lost or stolen?
Funny story (but not for the guy who did it), a few years ago my brother was working as a bartender at a popular nightclub. One of his customers starts spending some big money (nothing really suspicious there, however), but mentions that he is about to go into prision for a few years. At that point, he received a some crisp new bills with a 'different' feel to them. He looked at it, and it didnt look right, so he tested it with his 'fake money' marker.
Anyway, the guy was arrested shortly after for passing fake currency, and he didnt even get to have more than a drink or two. Not the best way to spend your last days of freedom =)
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
It looks like you're scanning some currency. Would you like me to:
- Download the relevant statutes related to currency reproduction.
- Contact the Secret Service.
- Arrange for you to turn yourself in.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
HP is infringing on my rights to backup and store copies of my currency for archival purposes. ;)
If I understood the article correctly, then I agree with HP. And all the other companies doing the same thing. Counterfeiting should be left to the skilled professional. I am tired of armature counterfeiters passing me shoty craftsmanship. Give me a high quality job from and engraved plate the way it was intended. No self respecting counterfeiter should want to bring a bill into a paint program and send it to a consumer printer only to be produced on a corporate copier.
That is way American is falling behind the world now. Lazy armatures with no pride in their work! Show some respect to the elderly, and spend a little time with them. Learn how it was done in the good old days before them there computer thingies. They had no concern for big brother. Just use cash, and mechanical equip. That way the service tech did not know your operation when they come to reset your equipment after it detects something that resembles money. You unbolt things, get the worn part, take it to a machine shop, slide the cash (could be fake if you wanted) and fix the thing yourself. Back in business. No RFID, no card swipe trail, no knowledge of where your equip is. Nothing.
So I say to hell with today's armature. Let them use crippled equipment. Maybe after enough of them get rounded up and locked away, we can get back to good old American quality. I LOVE AMERICA. MAY SHE ALWAYS BE BLESSED WITH THE BEST.
I think there are considerably fewer people who'd accept a one trillion dollar bill, at least if they have to return cash.
I was pissed that my new hp printer couldn't make me a grilled cheese sandwich either. I know a printer isn't supposed to be able to make me a sandwich (just like it's not supposed to be able to make counterfeit money). But how dare they not give me that capability. Damn them.
Reminds me about back when some students in my high school printed out phony $20 bills in the computer lab and then spent them downstairs in the cafeteria. The bills were printed in black and white on regular printer paper, which is good enough when you're dealing with lunchladies.
"Multi-level detection and deterrence - a detection scheme that uses an algorithm to separate suspicious documents from those free of suspicion." Ummm.... isn't that kind of stating the obvious? Kind of like saying the solution to the homeland security issue is to come up with a way to separate suspicious people from non-suspicious people..
You *can* make a grilled chesse sandwich with your HP printer. You just have to pre-heat it properly. The tricky part is cleaning up the butter residue.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
If you think lexmark isn't far behind you're fooling yourself. This is the way it's going to be. Don't go around thinking "hey lexmark is going to be the defender of our right to make funny money" because they most certainly aren't. This whole thing reminds me of a scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian:
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Judith: Any Anti-Imperialist group like ours must *reflect* such a divergence of interests within its power-base.
Reg: Agreed. (General nodding.) Francis?
Francis: I think Judith's point of view is valid here, Reg, provided the Movement never forgets that it is the inalienable right of every man--
Stan: Or woman.
Francis: Or woman...to rid himself--
Stan: Or herself.
Reg: Or herself. Agreed. Thank you, brother.
Stan: Or sister.
Francis: Thank you, brother. Or sister. Where was I?
Reg: I thought you'd finished.
Francis: Oh, did I? Right.
Reg: Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man
Stan: Or woman.
Reg: Why don't you shut up about women, Stan, you're putting us off.
Stan: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
Francis: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
Stan: (pause) I want to be one.
(pregnant pause)
Reg: What?
Stan: I want to be a woman. From now on I want you all to call me Loretta.
Reg: What!?
Stan: It's my right as a man.
Judith: Why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
Stan: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?!?!?!
Stan: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But you can't have babies.
Stan: Don't you oppress me.
Reg: I'm not oppressing you, Stan -- you haven't got a womb. Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?
(Stan starts crying.)
Judith: Here! I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the *right* to have babies.
Francis: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister, sorry.
Reg: (pissed) What's the *point*?
Francis: What?
Reg: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies, when he can't have babies?
Francis: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
Reg: It's symbolic of his struggle against reality.
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