Dollar Bills and you.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:15 am

this is an eye opener

Time to start lining your wallets with lead(or some other metal)

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:13 am

oh no! What is the world coming toooo?

roid · Post by **roid** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:16 pm

they say it's the $20 bills, not $1.

gota mcrowave? does anyone wanna try this? i'm sceptical.

wouldn't you be able to feel the RFID tag in the bill?
surely they arn't THAT small. (the tags i've seen in libery books or store items are at least 0.5mm thick imo)

Fusion pimp · Post by **Fusion pimp** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:20 am

I doubt that the library has the technology or the financial resources to match government ability.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 2:45 pm

It's a hoax.

Darkside Heartless · Post by **Darkside Heartless** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 7:04 pm

Mobius, you think everything is a hoax.

Remind me not to experiment with money anymore, they may start putting magnesium in it.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:07 pm

Even if they installed RFID tags in cash, it's not like they could track it around the world. Passive RFID has a range of ~5m. Meaning that it's useful for detecting counterfeits (pass the bill through a scanner, no beep = not real).

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:07 pm

So the $30M ad campaign for the $20 bill wasn't actually spent on ads... ... hmm.

Phoenix Red · Post by **Phoenix Red** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:17 am

DCrazy wrote:Even if they installed RFID tags in cash, it's not like they could track it around the world. Passive RFID has a range of ~5m. Meaning that it's useful for detecting counterfeits (pass the bill through a scanner, no beep = not real).

That's what they're telling you. I'm not saying it isn't true, but I'm also not ready to assume they can't track them either.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:39 am

i've read about some interesting technologies that can do what Red Pheonix suggests. it's so cheap and small that the usa navy is looking into this technology to put on EVERY SINGLE ITEM IT OWNS so that it can take easier inventorys.

it's been a while since i read about it, but i remember it involves using static as a carrier signal.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:07 pm

What's what "they" are telling me? Passive RFID (the kind that functions without its own power source) can only function within ~5m of a reader. This is per Texas Instruments. What "They" (I assume you mean the T-men) are saying is that there is no RFID; I'm saying that if there is, it's passive and therefore can't be tracked around the world. However, it can be tracked at certain points, or -- its most likely use -- used as an anti-counterfeiting measure.

The only people who have any real concern are counterfeiters. "Tracking" would be the same as recording the serial numbers that uniquely define every dollar bill produced.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 9:00 pm

i be hereby saying, that DC doth seem to know thyn ★■◆●.

it is a pretty novel idea for non-counterfiet money. but it just seems so easily copied. it's only an electronic component afterall.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:14 pm

I repeat. It's a hoax.

It is confirmed.

You can now return to your normal paranoia.

aldel · Post by **aldel** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:35 pm

I just got a new $20 from the ATM, so I microwaved it for a minute. It got warm.

bash · Post by **bash** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:15 pm

Good thing those ATMs don't dispense poodles, huh?

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 1:11 am

you gonna prove what you say Mobi or are we just gonna write that off as another crackpot comment of yours?

Fiend · Post by **Fiend** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:31 pm

Confirmed where Mobi?

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:47 pm

You know sometimes I don't know if you guys are screwing around with Mobi or actually being serious.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:06 pm

Mobi's a sheep, it's easy to screw with a sheep...just need a good pair of hip boots