Spectral Imaging Reveals Jefferson Nixed 'Subjects' for 'Citizens'

Jamie points out this excellent piece, well timed for America's Independence Day, that says spectrographic evidence has established that the one word Thomas Jefferson fully blotted out from an early draft of the Declaration of Independence was not "resident," or "patriot," but rather "subject." This, he replaced with "citizen."

When will the government ever learn...

[Kaenneth]

That redacting documents by simply putting a opaque block over them dosn't removing the unlaying data?

Morphing

[tomhudson]

Tthe task was made more difficult by the way Jefferson sought to match the lines and curves of the underlying smudged letters with the new letters he wrote on top of them.

"It's quite amazing how he morphed 'subjects' into 'citizens,' " she said. "We did the reverse morphing back to 'subjects.' "

Figures. The government has been trying to do that for years ...

Re:Don't worry

[Anonymous Coward]

You misplaced organ donors in the wrong list.

Re:Don't worry

[roman_mir]

No I didn't, or did you misread it as "voluntary organ donors"?

Re:free-born are inhabitants: denizens, not citize

[gyrogeerloose]

Slashdot needs a "-1:Tinfoil Hat" mod option.

Certain the word is "Subjects" or is it...

[Anonymous Coward]

"that rare first draft of the constitution with the word "suckers" in it."

Re:free-born are inhabitants: denizens, not citize

[GrumpySteen]

And maybe a "+1 Stylish Tinfoil Hat"

Re:I shit on Linux users

[NovaHorizon]

wow, if you're going to troll in this way you could at least have put this in a thread about linux.

Re:Don't worry

[lisany]

I prefer not to have my corpse desecrated and mutilated post mortem. It certainly doesn't matter after I die but having the comfort while living that my corpse will not be desecrated and mutilated is quite comforting indeed.

Re:Considering the mindset of the era

[Alsee]

when was the last time you wrote code that lasted more than two centuries with less than 30 patches?

Six thousand years ago.

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Re:Considering the mindset of the era

[Volante3192]

That's only because you refuse to fix the bug report code!

Re:What he really should've done

[Culture20]

Oh SH--! CTRL-Z! CTRL-Z!

Suspend the entire process? That's a little drastic.

Re:Considering the mindset of the era

[Alsee]

Platypus is closed as WONTFIX.
All remaining bug reports are closed as PEBCAK.

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Re:When will the government ever learn...

[ultranova]

That redacting documents by simply putting a opaque block over them dosn't removing the unlaying data?

Hopefully never.

On unrelated note, when will Slashdot get "-1 began a sentence in the subject" mod?