What's the cost savings? $1? What's the cost? 10 - 50% of your customers losing their shit when they can't plug in their new PC/monitor and complaining to the retailer, calling the manufacturers support line, and/or leaving bad reviews online. Yeah, I wonder why they don't do that.

Wealth was concentrated in those areas long before modern economic policy. Hell a map of the northeast from 1813 probably wouldn't look all that different, wealth concentrated in and around the major cities.

You could even cook with them!

I'm pretty sure they're using: Public-key_cryptography so no.

It actually doesn't sound that bad, 400,000 web pageviews pays nowhere near $3,000.

Very sorry we killed your child and your dog during our raid sir, false positives are a tragedy but we can't let the terrorists and drug dealers win can we? Next time don't flush that expired cough syrup and prescription drugs, call our chemical disposal unit for the proper forms first, and if you have anymore kids be sure to teach them to lay face down on the floor and pray when unknown people break in in the middle of the night instead of screaming and crying!

I believe they will be adding more over a peroid of time.

As the years go by the older notes will get less common, especially new looking old notes.

I was at a casino once and this guy put a stack of crisp old style 100s on the table. The casino employees spent 15 minutes inspecting them, calling others over to look at them, etc before they accepted them.

They are, ask for some at the bank.

According to my rounding algorithm there is 1 information!

If the government prints tons of new money the value of it goes down, even if they don't tell anyone. Wouldn't this work in reverse?

Exactly, the problem isn't gerrymandering, Citizens United, or the gutting of parts of the Voting Rights Act, it's that the average person is an uninformed moron who votes about as well as a drunken monkey.

Man, look at that gutted budget: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/total_spending_chart

The ads are served by the ad companies servers not the website owners.

Does no one on slashdot know how the internet works anymore???

That's not true, but you already knew that.