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Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print
It's not new, but it's getting noticed: Jordan writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that several printer manufacturers are now and have been for some time embedding (nearly) invisible serial numbers in every document you print with their color laser printers, allowing law enforcement to track any such document back to the printer which printed it. The technology, ostensibly created to track down money counterfeiters, was created by Xerox about 20 years ago. A Xerox researcher says that the number-embedding chip lies 'way in the machine, right near the laser' and that 'standard mischief won't get you around it.'"
but could y'all come up with some other books than just "1984" and "A Brave New World", once in a while. Christ. I will pay you to to reference the monitors in "Ender's Game". Or the poison snoopers in "Dune". Or the Chief of Naval Operations in "Rogue Warrior". Even the alien guy in L. Ron Hubbard's sci-fi would be a step up. Just anything other than 1984. Not forever. Not forever. Just a week. Maybe a tenday. Anything is better than nothing at this point. Please visit your local Barnes and Noble's or public library. Read a Harry Potter book or something.