I recall, without being able to find the reference, that a few months ago someone on/. mentioned a commercial paper that feels like US currency. Said it made for GREAT resumes, because the people receiving them subconsciously reacted to the feel of something valuable.
Wow, I'm sure Adobe has NO idea what's going into its own products, they just copy and paste government code in like THAT without even looking at it.
Of course they didn't know. Works like this:
1. Put in undocumented bug
2. Wait for it to be discovered and posted to/.
3./. geeks explain it all to them better than government ever could.
4. Profit! (from printing money now that bugFeature is understood
It seems that it would take one hell of a scanner to produce a passable currency note with the really
NOT! It might take one hell of a scanner to provide a passable currency note to an expert with a microscope, but the average person can't read that tiny writing anyway, and has no clue if it's there, or not.
Adobe is actually exceeding the requirements of U.S. law, which allows color reproductions of U.S. bank notes so long as the reproductions are smaller than 75 percent or larger than 150 percent of actual size.
Menu -> File -> Import -> Scanner -> UMax PowerLook 4000
Resolution 3140 dpi
Height =.477 inches
Width = 1.146 inches
Menu -> Image -> Size
Resample = No
New Resolution = 600 dpi
WARNING: THIS PROGRAM MAY NOT BE USED FOR SCANNING OR EDITING CURRENCY. GO TO: WWW.I'M-A-COUNTERFEITER.GOV.
Menu -> Image -> Mode -> Grayscale
NEVERMIND!
The reproduction must be one-sided, and all materials, including graphic files that were used to make the reproduction, must be destroyed afterward.
First, does this mean I have to drop my hard drive through the shredder afterwards, lest some hard disc forensics program uncover the image after it has departed the Recycle Bin?
Also, I though I knew a lot about Photoshop, but I have yet to be able to create a two-sided image, or find the two-sided printer to print it. Can anyone help?
The inner workings of the counterfeit deterrence system are so secret that not even Adobe is privy to them. The Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group provides the software as a black box without revealing its precise inner workings, Connor said.
Like how long is this going to take for someone to reverse engineer?
People live and breathe just to do things like this... ...and the rest of us appreciate that they're here.
Well, I don't know what you can or can't see, but I can. I spent years staring at film and veloxes.
And I've spent 4 decades collecting coins, stamps, and paper money, which means I look at it all closely with interest. I also do photography, scanning, and large format printing, which means I pay a whole lot of attention to every single pixel.
And 99% of the world doesn't. Is it possible to produce a counterfeit bill that will fool an expert at 600dpi printing (which is a hell of a lot less in terms of true color cells)? Oh hell no! And not at 900dpi, and not at 1200dpi. But the average person doesn't put their bill on a high-resolution scanner and import it into Photoshop (pre-CS) just to get a good look at it once before deleting all the files. And they don't print a single-sided version long-ways on their 36" wide large format printer -- which exceeds by a properly sufficient margin the requirement to be at least 150% of actual size -- just to see what the new $100 looks like when printed really BIG. And yes that poster has real impact with most people. And most of all, they've never seen the microprint actually spell out words as part of the security mechanism on even one of their bills.
Yeah you can prove that you can't recreate all these features on current consumer-grade equipment (I was using better than consumer grade) and fool an expert. But the expert is not the person you have to fool. And that's why counterfeiters continue to succeed, often with stuff that is amazingly crappy.
As far as my proofreading goes, f*%#ing Slashdot needs to incorporate a spell checker in their posting mechanism. For a geeky site, that's a major deficiency.
Now I've got to go get another really big glass of tea if this pissing contest is going to continue.
No. Delicious as that might be, we want this over now. Corporations hate uncertainity, and the longer this continues, the longer the momentum Linux has in overtaking MS will be harmed. Remember, MS would love this to remain in contention for years.
1: Vastly more memory at much cheaper prices.
-or-
2: Such draconian DRM/DMCA/**AA lawsuits/Product Activation woes/SCO lawsuits/stupid Congressional actions and the like such that there is nothing left to put in said memory.
Almost the same for me. They let me M1 Moderate 3 times in about 4 weeks, and then never again. I was even cut out of M2 Meta-moderation for a while. Never an explination.
That left only M3 (Mod Parent Up/Down/Funny) moderation.
Slashdot Mirror
Can't do that. I'll lose my chance at First Post -- or at least First Page Post.
Notice to SCO:
You're Terminated!
All that's left is for the judge to put the final nail in your coffin.
So quit walking around and scaring the folks.
I recall, without being able to find the reference, that a few months ago someone on /. mentioned a commercial paper that feels like US currency. Said it made for GREAT resumes, because the people receiving them subconsciously reacted to the feel of something valuable.
1: Hold down Shift key
2: Insert currency
Of course they didn't know. Works like this:
1. Put in undocumented bug 2. Wait for it to be discovered and posted to /. /. geeks explain it all to them better than government ever could.
3.
4. Profit! (from printing money now that bugFeature is understood
NOT! It might take one hell of a scanner to provide a passable currency note to an expert with a microscope, but the average person can't read that tiny writing anyway, and has no clue if it's there, or not.
Menu -> File -> Import -> Scanner -> UMax PowerLook 4000 .477 inches
Resolution 3140 dpi
Height =
Width = 1.146 inches
Menu -> Image -> Size
Resample = No
New Resolution = 600 dpi
WARNING: THIS PROGRAM MAY NOT BE USED FOR SCANNING OR EDITING CURRENCY. GO TO: WWW.I'M-A-COUNTERFEITER.GOV.
Menu -> Image -> Mode -> Grayscale
NEVERMIND!
First, does this mean I have to drop my hard drive through the shredder afterwards, lest some hard disc forensics program uncover the image after it has departed the Recycle Bin?
Also, I though I knew a lot about Photoshop, but I have yet to be able to create a two-sided image, or find the two-sided printer to print it. Can anyone help?
Like how long is this going to take for someone to reverse engineer?
People live and breathe just to do things like this...
...and the rest of us appreciate that they're here.
Make that free plus $699 SCO tax and manhandling.
And I've spent 4 decades collecting coins, stamps, and paper money, which means I look at it all closely with interest. I also do photography, scanning, and large format printing, which means I pay a whole lot of attention to every single pixel.
And 99% of the world doesn't. Is it possible to produce a counterfeit bill that will fool an expert at 600dpi printing (which is a hell of a lot less in terms of true color cells)? Oh hell no! And not at 900dpi, and not at 1200dpi. But the average person doesn't put their bill on a high-resolution scanner and import it into Photoshop (pre-CS) just to get a good look at it once before deleting all the files. And they don't print a single-sided version long-ways on their 36" wide large format printer -- which exceeds by a properly sufficient margin the requirement to be at least 150% of actual size -- just to see what the new $100 looks like when printed really BIG. And yes that poster has real impact with most people. And most of all, they've never seen the microprint actually spell out words as part of the security mechanism on even one of their bills.
Yeah you can prove that you can't recreate all these features on current consumer-grade equipment (I was using better than consumer grade) and fool an expert. But the expert is not the person you have to fool. And that's why counterfeiters continue to succeed, often with stuff that is amazingly crappy.
As far as my proofreading goes, f*%#ing Slashdot needs to incorporate a spell checker in their posting mechanism. For a geeky site, that's a major deficiency.
Now I've got to go get another really big glass of tea if this pissing contest is going to continue.
Like I'm going to see this with the unaided eye that this counterfit bill was only printed at 600dpi? I think not.
No. Delicious as that might be, we want this over now. Corporations hate uncertainity, and the longer this continues, the longer the momentum Linux has in overtaking MS will be harmed. Remember, MS would love this to remain in contention for years.
RICO.
No KaZaA for them. Bet the Martians are pissed at not being able to d/l Britany.
Well, the Martians missed again. Got the Beagle II, but missed us. Is their aim worse than usual lately, or are they just not good at double-headers?
Without spending a grand or more for a Geochron, is there a similar PC screen saver for download to the one for Mars?
1: Vastly more memory at much cheaper prices.
-or-
2: Such draconian DRM/DMCA/**AA lawsuits/Product Activation woes/SCO lawsuits/stupid Congressional actions and the like such that there is nothing left to put in said memory.
NOBODY!
dodging and burning (making an area lighter or darker)
Why not? He went Poloriod (when he shot the official photograph of President Jimmy Carter).
Boy is that dumb.
What this means is that the CPCC gets half of what they want this time, and the other half next time.
What it means is every bad, stupid, greedy, pocket-lining special interest idea gets to half-dilute every other good idea.
You keep thinking brainwashed thoughts like that, and you will deserve every bad thing that happens to you.
Or were you really being sarcastic?
And be careful how you are using the royal We. You do not speak for all Canadians.
Almost the same for me. They let me M1 Moderate 3 times in about 4 weeks, and then never again. I was even cut out of M2 Meta-moderation for a while. Never an explination.
That left only M3 (Mod Parent Up/Down/Funny) moderation.
NO. That's how long it take me to finally get through the last of it in my inbox.
One down,
Ten thousand to go!