What's your favorite brick fact? Mine's that if you suggest an HAI topic and we use it, we'll send you a free t-shirt. Do that here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUdlvw6YgU44J8AnM2U_ZvRMyvh_CUM51LYSqF5nYJB9d1-w/viewform?usp=sf_link
A 7 bit counter can in fact NOT count from 1 to 127, it can count from 0 to 127, hence why most people believe it can count to 128, binary ALWAYS counts from 0
He warned us about pandemics as well. (Before corona) Also there is a wire inside a laser.printer used to reset the charge on the drum. It is called the corona wire!
We all demand a brick video. At the beginning you can put the location of all the nuclear silos in the US, so the bricklayer assigned to your channel will get bored and leave.
@@KafshakTashtak Thats because even when printing black and white the printer uses a tiny bit of colour every time, so over time you eventually run out, forcing you to buy more etc etc...
I just buy an ink refill kit from eBay and I refill the same ink cartridges multiple times for SUPER cheap. Make sure you buy the correct color ink. (and don't buy the HUGE black ink bottle, just buy the small kit with all 3 colors and black)
@@maverick2377 If anyone plan to do this, buy a printer without DRM cartridges or you literally won't be able to refill them without the printer refusing to work.
And hear we thought our IT teacher was nuts, always keeping his 'old' printer cause the gov was tracking printouts... that was 2003... i feel stupid now
The greatest protection against the government invading your privacy is the fact that they probably don't care. (Unless you're doing counterfeiting in your basement or something.)
After learning this I was surprised how easily I could see the pattern of red dots after printing something with a yellow background. Can't believe this wasn't discovered earlier!
It could be that, or possibly a code for the manufacturer, country of origin, or some other geographical ID. That reduces the problem of having to police printer companies too much to make them use different SNs for their products, as well as helps you target specific countries and/or companies for having any printers capable of counterfeiting for economic reprisals (increased fees, fines, tariffs, etc.).
You require yellow ink. But I'm printing in black. YOU REQUIRE YELLOW INK. But its 40 dollars. *YOU REQUIRE YELLOW INK.* WHY THE FUCK DO I NEED YELLOW INK? *Knock Knock Knock* *FBI OPEN UP!*
This happened to me just a couple of days ago! My yellow ran out and I hadn't used the printer much since intalling it. I was asking for a b/w print, but it would because the yellow was gone.
It's because printers mix colors to give " blacker blacks and whiter whites" when in reality Its just a way to get people to use up their color cartridges without knowing
@@potatoman8609 i you first print all yellow paper (print yellow on white) then something on it it does difference cause yellow on dots is same as yellow of paper
I just have to say, I’m a mason, and I got super excited when you started with bricks. And yes, the debate is raw with the masons on frogs. The Red Seal standard is frog up. Fortunately cored brick is more common then frogged brick.
I actually noticed these dots as a kid, especially on printouts that had been left in the sun to bask in UV for a long time, but had always just chalked it up to print heads being bad and leaking yellow or something. Now I finally know what they were for.
This could theoretically work but you'd have to be VERY precise in your scaling and placement of dots for them to line up. Also your calculations would have to be derived from a previously printed sheet from the specific printer, and the dot pattern would change as time passed, so you'd have to factor that in too. Or print a complete field of dots (all ones, no zeroes), but it'd still have to perfectly match the generated pattern to work. Not that I've ever given any thought to that question before...
Great question. Software to do just that was produced by TU Dresden. It prints additional yellow dots to disrupt the machine identification code. Its purpose is anonymity, specifically among whistleblowers.
3:05 how are you going to explain this programming concept better than any programmer i've ever heard it from. I finally get it, and its so simple wtf.
@@hyperxalloyfpspelinappaimi8447 It actually goes up to 127 because that is the sum of 2^0 through 2^6. This is why binary works. The sum of the previous powers of 2 is always 1 less than the next power of 2.
This is why you should intentionally set your printer to the wrong time 4:30 The last column is your general location. However, this feature is redundant, as each US state sells a different kind of ink so investigators can trace where the counterfiet was made.
Back in 1994 , before I knew about it, I accidentally found them when I was trying to make a photo quality print. I kept getting these yellow dots messing up my expensive photo paper and figured my printer was breaking down . Found out years later what it really was . Now I dont trust any technology to be anonymous .
I seriously want a vid of you talking about bricks, pls make one.... Uuhhhh, i mean.... Great video about bricks, very interesting, nothing suspicious in here
@@reyariass Many years before arduino or today's open source hardware, sparc processors already were. Remember that sparc cpus were (and probably are today) one of the very best performing cpus in the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSPARC
Printers now also analyze what they are printing every time you print something to make sure it's not money. So basically every time you print your printer says "Is this money? nope, just a cat saying "hang in there" go ahead"
This answers my question: Does this still happen, or are there new ways that the Gov't checks for counterfeiting? I am aware that printers/copiers are able to automatically shut down if they get bribed to copy currency, but enlighten me further!
This seems to be for only color based printers, so if your out of a color, it should print in black and white only, it’s just the manufacturer having a bad design if it won’t let you choose.
@@silvervens ...and a computer with a serial port to connect the printer to. ...also, some ancient Operating System for the whole thing to work. ...and good luck finding the toner/ink cartridge for it! Apart from those "minor" details, yes, that should work.
*Gov:* "We need you to print a secret code on every page..." *Company:* "Can we print it in color? And replicate it all over the page?" *Gov:* "Yes... ? " *Company:* "Say no more!"
I'm so glad that I still have that old Remington manual typewriter and that old beater Panasonic dot matrix printer and a large supply of carbon paper.
This is now one more reason why I don't want my printer's "diagnostic" data being sent to HP, as personal information could be leaked. Although would all documents have this tracking system, whether it's being sent to anyone or not?
You idiot, the dots would still be there. And for those suggesting any other color, including white, same deal for you morons. Anyone with a loop could see white printed on white. Because white is almost always not white. It will merely be more difficult to see, but most definitely not impossible.
I can't believe how good of a teacher half as interesting actually is. They're explaining things so simply that i actually understood how the 1's and 0's work in binary code
well actually the first time this happened was in 1971, when a group of citizens robbed an FBI office of important documents in Media, Pennsylvania. They sent letters printed on a Xerox printer and was almost caught by the FBI, but they managed to get away with it in the end soo
Nate River Would that effect the aerodynamics? Like would the frog create a magnus effect or drag? Would backspin or a spiral mitigate or aggravate the condition?
I prefer bricks without a frog. However, when I have to use bricks with a frog, the frogs go on the bottom. If you put the frogs on the top, it's more difficult to spread an even layer of mortar over them. Also, if you have the frog on top, it can fill with water, which can freeze and damage the wall during a strong winter.
@@lucascb8446 Yeah, but I've been on this earth for 18 years and around 7 months and have never heard of bricks with frogs. That in part might be because I live in western Europe and it might not make all that much of a difference from using flat bricks around here.
So every ransom letter, or bomb threat paper or even angry letter sent to people could have been solved if the Government just shared this knowledge with local agencies? How strange and yet completely “1984” plot like. Thanks for the video
Working in the copier industry for 35 years, we knew about this after the first color machines came out. Most machines now will refuse to print/copy copy-protected originals such as currency and some checks. How they react varies from machine to machine; some though service codes, others will just print solid black. We get calls from banks trying to copy checks, you would think that they would know better! Now if you distort the image such as reduce or enlarge it, on some machines they will allow you to copy in B/W.
Oh, and it's not every copy or print is reported to the government. Just if there is a case of counterfeit and they need to investigate where it has originated.
Ok, this video is super helpful and I’m glad I found it when I did. Whenever I print something out off of my printer, I always examine the paper thoroughly and any dots that are found, will have white out put over them. I also switched to a black and white printer to make things easier and removed the yellow ink cartridge from my color printer and got rid of the colors that could be used to make yellow. Government isn’t gonna get me today.
@@BornAgainCynic0086 Upon googling, I couldn't find any source that confirms that inkjets have yellow dots, but quite a few saying the opposite. Do you have a source that indicates the yellow dots being printed?
@@Thewinner312 No, I was commenting that an inkjet COULD easily print yellow dots, not that they in fact did. Max does not realise just how fine an inkjet can print.
My guess would be that the last column simply is a checksum. Would make sense, since reading these can be hard and you want to get sure you're not misreading them when investigating.
@@jimpad5608 I am sorry but you may not be aware that the US is the only country in the world that tracks each and every movement on Earth and prohibits other countries from doing the same.
So I’m guessing that the time is kept in military time so 6:00 pm would be encoded as 18:00, you also forgot to mention what the third and fourth columns do, the first column and top row are there to ensure that you aren’t reading the wrong dots as each dot takes a look at the number of dots in their row excluding themselves for the first column or number of dots excluding themselves in their column for the top row and have a dot if the number of dots is even, counting zero as even. The top left dot appears to track the parity (whether the number of dots is even or odd) of the first column. Is there are reason we’re certain the 15th column isn’t part of the serial?
What's your favorite brick fact?
Mine's that if you suggest an HAI topic and we use it, we'll send you a free t-shirt. Do that here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUdlvw6YgU44J8AnM2U_ZvRMyvh_CUM51LYSqF5nYJB9d1-w/viewform?usp=sf_link
Bricks are sexy
A 7 bit counter can in fact NOT count from 1 to 127, it can count from 0 to 127, hence why most people believe it can count to 128, binary ALWAYS counts from 0
Probably the frog side, because I never knew that, and would of never expected that to be a debate among people!
dollar shave club sponsored HAI
meanwhile
skill share: ......
I tend to place the frog diagonal
I am more amazed by the fact that there are bricklaying forums than about the secret codes thing.
Freemasons
@@markdavis7397 frog up
frog forward
ya same
frog sideways
Thats why my windows always asked me "do you trust this printer?" i shouldve known!
Printer rights matter!
Yes, your windows. Who put them in your walls?
Gates knew this all along and was trying to secretly warn us. I'm sorry, Bill, we should've pay more attention to your message.
He warned us about pandemics as well. (Before corona)
Also there is a wire inside a laser.printer used to reset the charge on the drum. It is called the corona wire!
@@MidnightThunderYT exactly!! It's gives positive charge to photoreceptor drum.
We all demand a brick video. At the beginning you can put the location of all the nuclear silos in the US, so the bricklayer assigned to your channel will get bored and leave.
Yes!
HAI you must do this for all the viewers
I need this
FBI: **uses yellow dots for identification**
Me, an intellectual: **prints on yellow paper**
Alessandro Celoria the codes were made to stop counterfeit money and no one will take yellow money
Stephan Timmy they were just making a joke
@@chloroclymor8388 r/wooosh
Wot
@@chloroclymor8388 then paint it over with green
We deserve a video that sounds like it’s gonna be about the feds but turns out to be about bricks.
Say no more
I would actually be interested in a brick video.
I second that
Same
Hear, Hear
Frog down
Probably won't happen since there's likely no way to work planes into it
No wonder why my printer always “runs out of yellow ink”...
And doesn't print black and white when it's out of color inks.
@@KafshakTashtak Thats because even when printing black and white the printer uses a tiny bit of colour every time, so over time you eventually run out, forcing you to buy more etc etc...
u could just get a black and white ONLY printer.
dumbass........
What if i built my own diy printer haha
@@geetakhatri4591 well all public drivers (code thing) will have this software. And good luck getting windows to recognize it
Can I bill the government for yellow toner wasted? Color toner is crazy expensive.
AboboKing The money probably pays for the cost of the program.
I just buy an ink refill kit from eBay and I refill the same ink cartridges multiple times for SUPER cheap. Make sure you buy the correct color ink. (and don't buy the HUGE black ink bottle, just buy the small kit with all 3 colors and black)
Probably yes
@@maverick2377 If anyone plan to do this, buy a printer without DRM cartridges or you literally won't be able to refill them without the printer refusing to work.
@@iwiffitthitotonacc4673 Yes! If anyone is wondering, my printer that allows me to refill is the Canon TS3122.
Bought it at Walmart for cheap.
“The world government, based in DC” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 that got me good
And hear we thought our IT teacher was nuts,
always keeping his 'old' printer cause the gov was tracking printouts...
that was 2003... i feel stupid now
He might still have been nuts. It's just that he was right. You can be both nuts and right at the same time.
I kept my old HP black only laser printer Just in
case
@@ypop417 My HP 2100 is my main printer. Damn good printer ever since I got it in 2000. It don't talk to anybody.
The greatest protection against the government invading your privacy is the fact that they probably don't care. (Unless you're doing counterfeiting in your basement or something.)
@@soaringvulture Yep just black and white no color
Is there a whole episode about bricks spread out between your videos?
no. as far as i know there are only two times when he talked about bricks.
@@calebmurray3945 this and?
The video about JANET - the US government's secret airline.
No, he cannot release an episode about bricks, otherwise Freemasons will get angry for releasing their secrets!
I want a full video about Bricks now
I wanted to know about frogs on bricks.
I've never thought I would say that
r/brandnewsentence
same here
*BRRRRRRICKFROG!*
If you want to know about frogs in bricks, then I'm sure you'll be equally as interested in learning about frogs on horses. Google it!
Catherine Moore
I read that as “frogs *in* horses” and got scared…
Nobody:
Make a video about something important
Everybody:
Is the frog of the brick up or down?
Down
Frogs facing each other for a secret long term hiding compartment.
This guy's transitions into his ads are smoother than a government spy.
Honestly I find them to be pretty jarring.
Lol yeah
He gives Linus a run for his money
As a person watching linus, he also used a similiar pattern, aka not smooth enough. Smoothes transition award goes to Internet Historian
getting blocked by me for that shilling. there's more shilling than content.
After learning this I was surprised how easily I could see the pattern of red dots after printing something with a yellow background. Can't believe this wasn't discovered earlier!
I'm suing the government for using and stealing MY ink to print this code without my consent!
actually do it
Only sue them for the yellow ink expenses lol
@@aram7863 the government
@@aram7863 its pretty obvious patrick star would be judging the case.
Brick-gate 🤣🤣🤣
4:26 "And nobody ever figured out what the 15th column does"
Maybe some sort of checksum? (to detect if there is any mistake due to some missing dots)
It could be that, or possibly a code for the manufacturer, country of origin, or some other geographical ID. That reduces the problem of having to police printer companies too much to make them use different SNs for their products, as well as helps you target specific countries and/or companies for having any printers capable of counterfeiting for economic reprisals (increased fees, fines, tariffs, etc.).
Its a parity bit to make total number of dots in a row even. If total no of dots in a row is not even then there is error in the code.
Beings that's how barcodes work, I think that's what it is
Serial number perhaps to identify the said printer?
@@michaeldesanta5810 isn't that what the "row parity" column is for (2:37)?
You require yellow ink.
But I'm printing in black.
YOU REQUIRE YELLOW INK.
But its 40 dollars.
*YOU REQUIRE YELLOW INK.*
WHY THE FUCK DO I NEED YELLOW INK?
*Knock Knock Knock*
*FBI OPEN UP!*
i bet that's why you need color cartidges to print B&W
Lol, I've been looking for a comment like this.
This happened to me just a couple of days ago! My yellow ran out and I hadn't used the printer much since intalling it. I was asking for a b/w print, but it would because the yellow was gone.
It's because printers mix colors to give " blacker blacks and whiter whites" when in reality Its just a way to get people to use up their color cartridges without knowing
Might as well get some minerals. You might require more of them anyways.
Half as interesting is basically school but more interesting and with memes.
*I LOVE IT*
That's why I print my documents on yellow paper.
Goverment: he played us like damn fiddle
You do know that doesn't make a difference right?
@@potatoman8609 i you first print all yellow paper (print yellow on white) then something on it it does difference cause yellow on dots is same as yellow of paper
if u'd use purple paper the yellow dots would be easiest to see.
maybe black works too
@@alanowa123 The government won't be fooled by easy tricks.
1:37 “its not weird ok its fashionable” 😂
Could you do a HAI episode about laying bricks, specifically frog up vs down? I was actually interested in learning about it.
always use frog up
it uses up less mortar
* Printer runs out of yellow *
Printer: I'm the brick now.
OOooooOOOooooOOOOOo
Who uses printer's as bricks
HAI: Changing topic from bricks to FBI secrets.
FBI agent that is interested in bricks: "You weren't supose to do that!"
He actually was supposed to do that if you check the title
Damn it, I was really enjoying the brick part!
I just have to say, I’m a mason, and I got super excited when you started with bricks. And yes, the debate is raw with the masons on frogs. The Red Seal standard is frog up. Fortunately cored brick is more common then frogged brick.
Why is that mark called a frog is where my brain went when he told us about it. thx.
I actually noticed these dots as a kid, especially on printouts that had been left in the sun to bask in UV for a long time, but had always just chalked it up to print heads being bad and leaking yellow or something. Now I finally know what they were for.
What if you artificialy print some extra dots?
This could theoretically work but you'd have to be VERY precise in your scaling and placement of dots for them to line up. Also your calculations would have to be derived from a previously printed sheet from the specific printer, and the dot pattern would change as time passed, so you'd have to factor that in too. Or print a complete field of dots (all ones, no zeroes), but it'd still have to perfectly match the generated pattern to work.
Not that I've ever given any thought to that question before...
Great question. Software to do just that was produced by TU Dresden. It prints additional yellow dots to disrupt the machine identification code. Its purpose is anonymity, specifically among whistleblowers.
@@onlyGGG any name for that software?
It's called DEDA Toolkit.
nathan adler but surely someone could design a software for counterfeiters to use. Surely it wouldn’t be that hard to do
3:02 just a slight correction, it’s between 0 and 127
Yes
Yep. That's what happens when you talk about a topic you know nothing about
@@alexismandelias Yep. A small mistake completely ruins this content. 0/10 ign, would not recommend, would never watch again.
BCD, literally the most simple computer science topic lol
@@amorag59 BCD is binary coded decimal where 4 bits encode a decimal digit
I guess I'll never know if frog up or frog down.
Ribbit!
Down. You want to put that frog down.
I would already love it if my printer just prints without problems.
3:05 how are you going to explain this programming concept better than any programmer i've ever heard it from. I finally get it, and its so simple wtf.
"Finally the FBI is gone"
CIA joined the chat
Who would win? A bunch of professional government workers with unlimited resources at their disposal
OR
Yellow sheet of paper
Yellow paper
Pellow Yaper
Pallow Yeper
You can't really counterfeit with yellow paper.
@@painkillerjones6232 Chinese money.
7 bit is any number between 0 and 127 i.e. 2^7 = 128 numbers. Don't forget zero :)
Haha yes! I thought something was off when he said 127
@@hyperxalloyfpspelinappaimi8447 Well 127 is the maximum number that can be achieved with 7 bits, but people always forget to count zero as a number!
@@hyperxalloyfpspelinappaimi8447 It actually goes up to 127 because that is the sum of 2^0 through 2^6. This is why binary works. The sum of the previous powers of 2 is always 1 less than the next power of 2.
@Gary Bea Possibly the last column shows the order for a zero?
@@pitaya4151 last one was prob error detection and it showed if the whole row was odd or even etc
This is why you should intentionally set your printer to the wrong time
4:30 The last column is your general location. However, this feature is redundant, as each US state sells a different kind of ink so investigators can trace where the counterfiet was made.
Back in 1994 , before I knew about it, I accidentally found them when I was trying
to make a photo quality print.
I kept getting these yellow dots messing up my expensive photo
paper and figured my printer was breaking down .
Found out years later what it really was .
Now I dont trust any technology to be anonymous .
I seriously want a vid of you talking about bricks, pls make one....
Uuhhhh, i mean.... Great video about bricks, very interesting, nothing suspicious in here
so THAT'S why my yellow ink always gets depleted even when i print in only cyan
well shit my cyan monopoly money s getting tracked down
The Monopoly Police will be knocking on your door any day now!
Rolling 'go to jail' way more than usual suddenly
Arrest has increased to 99.81
This sounds like a good argument for making an open-source printer!
That is actually a really good idea!!!!
Isn’t open source only for code?
@@reyariass No, open source hardware is absolutely a thing.
@@reyariass
Many years before arduino or today's open source hardware, sparc processors already were. Remember that sparc cpus were (and probably are today) one of the very best performing cpus in the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSPARC
@@reyariass Hardware can be open-source too. The current trending topic is RISC-V processor.
As a Coloradoan, I can confirm that the Denver airport does house aliens.
That dollar shave club ad at the end was imidietly executed
Printers now also analyze what they are printing every time you print something to make sure it's not money. So basically every time you print your printer says "Is this money? nope, just a cat saying "hang in there" go ahead"
@queeditchable that's true, it doesn't know it's a cat... That was more for what I was hoping would be comedic effect
This answers my question: Does this still happen, or are there new ways that the Gov't checks for counterfeiting? I am aware that printers/copiers are able to automatically shut down if they get bribed to copy currency, but enlighten me further!
Besides paper money is obviously fake feeling versus the cotton money is made of. People would notice right away
@@vitalnutrients744 well, if you could manufacture the correct material, there's really nothing stopping you from running it through a printer
AH, so that's why I can't print black and white documents when I'm out of Cyan Ink
Omg I always got frustrated like YOU DONT NEED FKING YELLOW TO PRINT MY BLACK TEXT but now I know
I thought the codes were only in yellow?
This seems to be for only color based printers, so if your out of a color, it should print in black and white only, it’s just the manufacturer having a bad design if it won’t let you choose.
Get an 1980 printers
@@silvervens ...and a computer with a serial port to connect the printer to.
...also, some ancient Operating System for the whole thing to work.
...and good luck finding the toner/ink cartridge for it!
Apart from those "minor" details, yes, that should work.
*Gov:* "We need you to print a secret code on every page..."
*Company:* "Can we print it in color? And replicate it all over the page?"
*Gov:* "Yes... ? "
*Company:* "Say no more!"
Me: **tries to print black and white document**
Printer: *RePlAcE cOlOr CaRtDrIdGe*
How is this a joke?
@@MidnightBloomDev because printer companies are happy if you buy more ink.
Uh ok
@@MidnightBloomDev It's not a joke, it's the fact that we've all been using a substantial amount of extra ink than we've been led to believe we are.
Bricks are actually so interesting. I wonder if HAI has a video on it? 🤔
I'm so glad that I still have that old Remington manual typewriter and that old beater Panasonic dot matrix printer and a large supply of carbon paper.
New game. Every time HAI and Wendover Productions does their intro's, try to guess the sponsor
*We're spilling some secret government tea.*
Also half as interesting: *titles video named secret codes *
Dude!
That ... That ... That has got to be 1 of the best visual demos of binary code is have yet to see!
Well done
4:12 That’s literally exactly 1 year before I was born 😳
This is now one more reason why I don't want my printer's "diagnostic" data being sent to HP, as personal information could be leaked. Although would all documents have this tracking system, whether it's being sent to anyone or not?
That's it I am filling my yellow ink cartridge with black ink
That'll make the dots easier to see.
@FIN_LehtiOnTäällä LEHTI invisible ink can become visible when heat is applied, which oxidizes it making it absorb some visible light
Scott Henrie fill it with water then
@@ashkechum101 that will make the paper wet, just put white ink
You idiot, the dots would still be there. And for those suggesting any other color, including white, same deal for you morons. Anyone with a loop could see white printed on white. Because white is almost always not white. It will merely be more difficult to see, but most definitely not impossible.
Your videos are so entertaining that I wasn’t going to click away from a video about which way a brick should face
**Printer companies want to know your location**
**Printer companies already know your location**
@@misaalanshori oh no
@@misaalanshori *loud knocking*
"FBI OPEN UP!"...
"Frog orientation" is my new favorite phrase
I really enjoyed this video about brick laying, the fact that you spoke about brick laying and nothing else for the entire video is brilliant
Mom: why are you looking at piece of paper with a magnifying glass
Me: yellow are our enemies, we must kill them at all costs
I never knew bricks could be so interesting! I would love a follow up video to explain some of the divots that weren’t covered in this video :)
I can't believe how good of a teacher half as interesting actually is. They're explaining things so simply that i actually understood how the 1's and 0's work in binary code
I’m a student forensic scientist and I did document analysis yesterday. This is fascinating!
Strange, I find Half as Interesting videos at least twice as interesting as Wendover Videos
OMG ITS BRICK EPISODE 2!!! First episode was Janet airlines...I MEAN brick episode 1 dang it
At 0:40 if you put subtitles on it says taxes are another certainty in life! :)
You always know it's going to be a good episode when he starts talking about bricks.
I'm more amazed by the fact that I'm more amazed by the fact!
well actually the first time this happened was in 1971, when a group of citizens robbed an FBI office of important documents in Media, Pennsylvania. They sent letters printed on a Xerox printer and was almost caught by the FBI, but they managed to get away with it in the end soo
Paper beats brick, government beats paper...
Does brick beat government? 🤔
If you throw it hard enough.
Freemasons....
Depends if it’s frog-up or frog-down bricks.
Nate River Would that effect the aerodynamics? Like would the frog create a magnus effect or drag? Would backspin or a spiral mitigate or aggravate the condition?
Nate River Better yet, forget the ones with the frogs, use the ones with speed holes.
Damn it, now I need to know what side frogs go! Thanks for ruining my day!
I prefer bricks without a frog. However, when I have to use bricks with a frog, the frogs go on the bottom. If you put the frogs on the top, it's more difficult to spread an even layer of mortar over them. Also, if you have the frog on top, it can fill with water, which can freeze and damage the wall during a strong winter.
@@qwertyuiopzxcfgh Thanks. I'm glad no more than 3 hours were ruined!
Also, before this video I didn't even knew bricks had frogs...
@@NorthEevee Thats because like he said not all bricks have frogs.
@@lucascb8446 Yeah, but I've been on this earth for 18 years and around 7 months and have never heard of bricks with frogs. That in part might be because I live in western Europe and it might not make all that much of a difference from using flat bricks around here.
@@qwertyuiopzxcfgh Thank you. I mean that sincerely.
So every ransom letter, or bomb threat paper or even angry letter sent to people could have been solved if the Government just shared this knowledge with local agencies? How strange and yet completely “1984” plot like. Thanks for the video
Working in the copier industry for 35 years, we knew about this after the first color machines came out. Most machines now will refuse to print/copy copy-protected originals such as currency and some checks. How they react varies from machine to machine; some though service codes, others will just print solid black. We get calls from banks trying to copy checks, you would think that they would know better! Now if you distort the image such as reduce or enlarge it, on some machines they will allow you to copy in B/W.
Oh, and it's not every copy or print is reported to the government. Just if there is a case of counterfeit and they need to investigate where it has originated.
David Jones from EEVBlog did a video about this a couple years ago and he looked at the printed paper under a microscope
*Jones 😀
Ajay yea I just realized that. David Brown is Boyinaband. This is what happens when you don’t drink your morning coffee 😂
👍 cheers!
Ok, this video is super helpful and I’m glad I found it when I did. Whenever I print something out off of my printer, I always examine the paper thoroughly and any dots that are found, will have white out put over them. I also switched to a black and white printer to make things easier and removed the yellow ink cartridge from my color printer and got rid of the colors that could be used to make yellow. Government isn’t gonna get me today.
The is the best way to see a comercial I got to say. You should teach all this “influencers” how its done in a Info product. 🤜
Well now I know why my printer is so eager for me to register it aka tie my personal information to the serial number.
YEP
I will print everything on yellow paper so i can write a script for a brick video about frogs secretly
I think the biggest question raised by this video is
why does the government hate bricks so much?
They don't want to Build the WALL
you are the best at transitions, bar none
This might explain the weird streaks of yellow (even when nothing was yellow on the page) from an old color printer I used to have.
*proceeds to talk about some secret government tea*
Me: *_sadness noises_*
OUUUHH That‘s why you can not print black and white when you have no colored printer cartridges installed.
My officejet reverts to b&w mode
Yes this does make sense
I fill the color reservoir with water, use black white print mode. Never replaced those colored cartridges
@@deanhenthorn1890 smart boy
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oooh! A rubiks cube! Yeah, I speed solve those competitively. Cool to see one in an HAI video
dollar shave club: "sells 5$ razors"
me: CONFUSED SCREAMING
Well, i think that the Brazilian government doesn't spy me.
Wait.... what if it does?
*runs away*
The whole thing only applies to Laser printers, inkjets can't print tiny yellow dots that accurately.
ummm, they can do 4800 x 4800 dpi easily, 1 picolitre is a very very small dot.
@@BornAgainCynic0086 Upon googling, I couldn't find any source that confirms that inkjets have yellow dots, but quite a few saying the opposite. Do you have a source that indicates the yellow dots being printed?
@@Thewinner312 No, I was commenting that an inkjet COULD easily print yellow dots, not that they in fact did. Max does not realise just how fine an inkjet can print.
@@Thewinner312 My inkjet printers have always used yellow ink. What do you mean?
@@leannemo7382 oh yeah, they indeed do. I meant to write "dots", must have gotten my words tangled up. I corrected it. Thanks, good catch!
These videos keep on getting meme-er and meme-er
Wait you don't know what the 15th column means? It's to identify yourYEHTEHMTUEI465TRYDSXKUNRN
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Nothing nefarious likely a page no or print no.
your IP address
The brick segment at the beginning of the video, can you make a full length video about that?
That brick-laying thing is quite interesting to watch. Seriously.
haha the video is about colour printers, but the comments are about bricks 😂😂 xD
Nobody:
History channel at 3 am:
*your printer works for the goberment*
My guess would be that the last column simply is a checksum. Would make sense, since reading these can be hard and you want to get sure you're not misreading them when investigating.
i just found this channel and i love it!!! I've been watching wendover productions for forever and never would have thought you were so funny!!!
But are they still using the yellow dots?
All they'll find out about me is I used to play D&D and print resumes. in Canada.
it probably wasn't used in canada
Canada doesn’t spy on the world, the US does!
@@jimpad5608 I am sorry but you may not be aware that the US is the only country in the world that tracks each and every movement on Earth and prohibits other countries from doing the same.
@@tommyspringer3693 IT WAS
But does the printer get paid by the government?
Everybody gangsta until HAI talks about bricks
I first read 'How the government is working for your printer' and felt powerful for a moment.
I love how he starts government secret related videos by talking about bricks. LOL
So I’m guessing that the time is kept in military time so 6:00 pm would be encoded as 18:00, you also forgot to mention what the third and fourth columns do, the first column and top row are there to ensure that you aren’t reading the wrong dots as each dot takes a look at the number of dots in their row excluding themselves for the first column or number of dots excluding themselves in their column for the top row and have a dot if the number of dots is even, counting zero as even. The top left dot appears to track the parity (whether the number of dots is even or odd) of the first column. Is there are reason we’re certain the 15th column isn’t part of the serial?