OT: Smarter people do exist

[Bill Vermillion]

Bill Campbell, the prominent pundit, on Tue, Dec 28 13:53  while half 
mumbling half-witicized: 


> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> >Walter Vaughan wrote:

> >> Two things surprised me this Christmas.

> >> 1) bought a new inket printer for my wife. They now have
> >> a sensor in the Canon (maybe other models now) pixma
> >> series where you print an alignment page as part of the
> >> installation, it's own internal sensors calibrate the
> >> printhead. Made me shake my head asking why we didn't have
> >> this earlier.

> >The higher-end HPs have done this for years. (Cue image of
> >"Battlestar Galactica"'s Cylons as the blue light scans back
> >and forth.)

> I always though BSG was about the stupidest ``SF'' series ever.

> Back on the printer topic, I saw something recently that
> pointed that all the color laser printers sold today print
> the printer's manufacturer and serial number on every page
> using yellow dota that are basically invisible if one doesn't
> know to look for them. Presumably this is to prevent amateurs
> from counterfeiting money (only the Federal Reserve and other
> Central Banks are allowed to do that).

Which brings up the question, why would the government have
to counterfeit money in the first place?


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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com