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To: etchmeister who wrote (11617)	10/2/2004 1:49:37 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25522

Re: I understand ASML knows "real tine" what's going on with their equipment Not sure how far they have come, but I read an article about a year ago about how the companies you mentioned were woefully behind in remote diagnostics. I am not sure if the gap has been closed, but I know they are/were working on closing it, as it is ironic that some of the most advanced machines in the world do not have the capabilities of machines costing a fraction of what they do.....again, I read this a year or so ago, so am not sure how true it still is.

To: etchmeister who wrote (11617)	10/2/2004 2:48:47 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 25522

OT: Technology You may be being watched and not even know it.....very interesting. The reserve's board of governors told the AP it located a stack of papers 52 inches tall about the mysterious technology but agreed to release only 14 pages. It said the other documents represented trade secrets, internal letters or law enforcement procedures that couldn't be disclosed under the information act. One document obtained by the AP, a 1998 U.S. government business solicitation, mandated that "any color printer must include a tracing system that encodes system identification in any output. This will tie the output to the originating equipment so that forensic identification of the equipment is possible in the event of illegal printing of currency images due to failure or circumvention of the recognition system(s)...." cnn.com