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Answer: Living Persons
Although it might simply appear to be a matter of national pride and design aesthetic that all U.S. currency with a person depicted on it carries the portrait of a long-deceased but historically significant American, it’s both national pride and a matter of law. Under the laws governing the production and printing of U.S. securities (which includes currency), it is illegal to feature portraiture of a living person on securities.
As such, the U.S. Treasury maintains a policy of selecting significant figures from American history that are well known to the public. The current set of portraits were originally chosen in 1928 and have been updated several times when new security features and layouts were introduced.
Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of Treasury.
You have likely heard other people discussing the use of a proxy to bypass web filters at work, or to browse the internet anonymously, but wondered if a proxy would actually be that useful to you or not. Today’s post looks at the benefits a proxy could bring to your browsing experience.
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If you’ve used Windows Vista for more than 3.7 minutes, you know what UAC (User Account Control) is.. it’s the obnoxious, nagging popup window that will be your life for the next 3-5 years unless you switch back to XP in frustration, or to a better OS like… OS X, Suse, Ubuntu, or even XP.
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While most of us are content to go with the ‘tried and true’ process of installing the executable files for our favorite software, is it really necessary to do so? Could we actually extract those same executable files rather than install them, and run them the same as their stand-alone cousins?
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The big night is almost here, so why not help your little ones have fun and keep track of Santa’s progress while waiting to go to sleep? Passing those last hours before bedtime can be filled with fun, games, holiday music, and more thanks to the two awesome Santa tracker websites set up by NORAD
This month Gmail rolled out a new feature: after years of setting images to load only when prompted, they now load automatically. That might seem like a convenient feature, but it also means that image-based trackers from marketers load automatically and mobile email slows down as chunky in-text
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This has definitely been an eventful year with regard to the ongoing controversy surrounding the NSA’s widespread information gathering activities. But how did they manage to ‘access’ the information swept up by their monitoring? YouTube channel Numberphile looks at the arithmetic behind the NSA’s
