U.S. Offers $50 Download

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Posted by michael on Friday October 1, 2004 @05:10AM from the don't-copy-that-fifty dept.

chill writes "CNN is reporting that the U.S. Government is offering low-quality images of its new $50 bill for artists, students and others who discover that their computers, scanners or printers won't allow them to view or copy pictures of the new currency, due to mostly-secret anti-counterfeiting measures built-in. This anti-copying technology has been discussed on Slashdot before. Now to go and test my new Epson scanner and printer to see if they're affected!"

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Hey, what about the Zlotych? by leftie · 2004-10-01 05:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You forgot Polish currency.
Arbitrage by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-01 05:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I was just thinking of doing a little currency
trading earlier this week, maybe i'll call up the players in former Soviet Russia

and toy with the Engrish #. I'm tired of the # being way over valued relative to say the dollar.

On a lighter note, i'll check out the artwork on them new bills.

Cheers
moneyfactory.com? by sdo1 · 2004-10-01 05:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why is our government allowed to use .com addresses? They're not a company, for-profit or otherwise. I know there are virtually no real restirctions on who can get .com, .org, etc., but isn't .gov for United States Government departments and agencies?

-S

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.com!!?? by carrett · 2004-10-01 05:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Why is part of the treasury website have the URL moneyfactory.com? It really seems like a silly URL for an official government to have. Maybe I misunderstand exactly what they are. But even still, why would our government hire the kind of goofballs that would buy moneyfactory.com? at least they run linux :-)

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Stop the DAMN BLINKING! by bcarl314 · 2004-10-01 05:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Holy crap, what ever happened to the design philosophie of no more than one motion ad per page!
Old printers by Control-Z · 2004-10-01 05:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why couldn't you just use an old printer?
Karma WHORE! by Saeed+al-Sahaf · 2004-10-01 05:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Yup. Yes indeed. Yup, yup, yup.

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Picture on the bill... by MacGod · 2004-10-01 05:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Looking at the bill's picture, something occurred to me:

You know what we haven't had for awhile? A President/Prime Minister with a beard? Maybe that's what's wrong with government these days! Everyone knows you can trust people with beards!

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Fark by heir2chaos · 2004-10-01 05:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I suppose Fark's photoshop competition didn't get the news...
Thought by Deliveranc3 · 2004-10-01 05:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I thought there might be something wrong when printers cost $120 FOR A DECENT GOD DAMN PRINTER!

To hide price hikes I guess they have been raising cartridge costs.

Well I guess if they can spend $ to make a printer that DOESN'T PRINT maybe they could SPEND SOME MONEY ON ONE THAT FUCKING DOES.

.rant over
XX 2 times by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · 2004-10-01 06:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If uncle same taxes you $50 for social security for downloading pr0n, is that considered a DP? since you are screwed twice?