[b]this is why teenagers shouldn't vote. There are the very few extremely intelligent ones that do understand the ramifications, but most need a little bit of maturity first.[/b]
Basically what I got from the Slashdot blurb was that about half the kids knew about the freedom of speech, et cetera. What you fail to look at is that the fact that these teenagers are going to be voting in the next election, and they still won't know anything about it.
Isn't there a fairly large difference between students unterstanding that newspapers are allowed to publish anything and the opinion that they should (or shouldn't) be allowed to basically publish anything? It seems to me more like we have children who are growing up to be facists, rather than we have stupid kids.
Okay, so I didn't RTFA. But, even with something that can break a 50-Million Bit Key, what if I'm writing it in my own language? Are computer's able to handle that?
I mean, assuming I'm recording something important enough to me that I wouldn't want anyone to ever see it and I'm encrypting it this much, why not just go the extra step and create Clonish, or Cowboy Bobish? I mean, I'm stuck using the characters provided to me on my keyboard, but I could make up my own fontset, and I'm no Grammar Nazi, as shown by this huge run-on sentence, so I don't need anything like semicolons, dollar signs, et cetera. Couldn't I just create, say, a 32 character alphabet and pretty much screw the NSA over?
I haven't gotten a chance to watch the miniseries, yet. Think I should still try and watch this?
I caught a little of what looked like BS:G movie (was that the miniseries) last week on ABC, but I missed most of it.
Would I be way lost?
Wasn't this on The Screen Savers several weeks/month ago? I rarely watch it, but if I recall correctly, they tested this out by creating a phonebooth sized container with this material and then had one of their crew take a laptop inside and see if he could still get a signal.
If I recall correctly, he was still able to get a signal, but there was a noticable drop in the connection. He was probably a lot closer to the wifi router than any wardriver would be, though.
My family's been on the recieving end of a similar situation.
My father's mother always gives him a gift card to Sears for Christmas. Last year, when he went to use his card, he bought some sort of All-in-one stereo package with a dvd player. Well, when we opened the box, instead of finding a DVD player, we found all sorts of old software and manuals. The only name I can remember was Corel 3, but we had at least 2,000 pages of manuals in that box. I don't even know where one would get that kind of retro-software today.
At first it was really funny. But then the laughing turned to confusion. Then the confusion turned to anger. We're gonna have to waste our damn time going up to Sears and trying to convince them that we're not the ones ripping them off.
Needless to say, it took about an hour and four employees to get them to take it back. Eventually, all they would say was "It must have been an inside job and we'll investigate." LMAO. An inside job? It seems like a lot of effort/work to get a sub-200 dollar system.
Trey and Matt have a valid point, but the average US readers of Slashdot WILL be informed about the election. We aren't the people going out and voting because P Diddy told us to.
Channel One may have had Bush winning, but Nickelodeon, I believe, picked Kerry. I haven't really watched Nick, but in the last election, I believe they were saying that they had always predicted correctly. They chose Bush last time.
But I agree, superstitions are bullshit. But that doesn't stop me from always putting on my right sock first.
You make a lot of good points, and there are really only two that I want to address.
"that means they take huge contributions from corporate interests, and correspondingly support tax cuts and other give aways to support their funders."
According to my latest issue of Wired (12.11), on page 082, they list candidate funding, and give nice little pie charts. Very informative, anyways the point I'm trying to make is that they state that only 2% of Bush's funding comes from corporations/groups (They list his total funding as 242 million, so that should be... 4.84 million) while Kerry gets a whopping 10% of his funding from corporations or groups (They list his total funding as 223.4 million... so that should be 22.34 million). I'm not good with numbers, but isn't 22.34 million a lot more than 4.84 million?
"well known to have a rightward slant"
Oh yes, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Dan Rather - all staunch Bush supporters.
"Uh, how exactly is this different from the rhetoric coming out of Bush/Cheney and the Republican convention."
Because everything said at the Republican Convention wasn't said in a rally for a supposivly (last time I checked) non-partisan groups.
Rock the Vote and Vote or Die aren't even making any effort in their rallies (AFAIK, this is only from what I have read, I have not attended either) to be non-partisan.
"As for the whole draft proposition there is a reasonable chance the draft is going to come back real soon now, and it may come back under either Bush or Kerry"
This arguement has a lot of merit, but unfortuently not everyone is seeing this as clearly as you. As a lower middle class sixteen year old, nothing makes me want to move to Canada anymore than the thought of a President pushing for the reinstation of the draft. But so far that hasn't been the case. What is happening is that two democrats have backed two draft bills (one in the house and one in the senate) and Vote or Die and Rock the Vote have been saying this, but leading people do believe (again, this is hearsay) that Bush wants to reinstate the draft. It's this kind of misinformation that scares me. It's fearmongering, but that's just a case of the Democrats doing it. The Republicans do it to, and you mentioned it. And there is a good chance of what you mentioned happening too, and it doesn't really matter who is elected.
It's nice to see someone here who can see both sides! (That isn't sarcasm).
I have the same problem, my first Playstation 2 failed after about one year of use. It wouldn't read anything. Being the dumb kid I was at the time, I bought a new one and returned the old one in the new box.
The new one has stopped reading discs but now I just open it up and blow it out. I haven't had any problems with Dust in my Xbox, even though I've had it for at least a year and a half.
While I do agree that what Nintendo is doing is wrong, I can understant why their doing it.
I know that when I was younger (elementary school), I stumbled upon some not so good for elementary school website while looking for "Final Fantasy". I think my father told me that if he caught me looking at that kind of crap again that it'd be my final fantasy.
How is this any different from the presales of Halo 2. I don't remember the exact figures, aren't the preorders for Halo 2 over the 1 million mark? That's pretty good for something based on trailers and images (unless of course you pirated it then chose to preorder so you could Xbox Live it, but that's illegal and no one on/. brakes the law, ever).
I mean, we know that the first Halo was good (a little over hyped, but good nonetheless), but this is the EXACT same situation as with the new Gameboy. We don't know if it's really going to be good, other than the media hype that's been delivered to us, but we know that the previous incarnations have been good.
I have yet to come across a high school or college that wasn't this way.
Well, in Henrico county Virginia, all students 6th grade and up have iBooks, I think it's the same way in all of New Jersey (or some other state North of Virginia). In my highschool, we probably only have 20 Windows compared to the 1000+ Macs.
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[b]this is why teenagers shouldn't vote. There are the very few extremely intelligent ones that do understand the ramifications, but most need a little bit of maturity first.[/b] Basically what I got from the Slashdot blurb was that about half the kids knew about the freedom of speech, et cetera. What you fail to look at is that the fact that these teenagers are going to be voting in the next election, and they still won't know anything about it.
Isn't there a fairly large difference between students unterstanding that newspapers are allowed to publish anything and the opinion that they should (or shouldn't) be allowed to basically publish anything? It seems to me more like we have children who are growing up to be facists, rather than we have stupid kids.
What does Michael have to do with a story about collabrative art that was posted by Timothy?
Am I the only one who giggled when reading the name "Mr. Gross"?
Okay, so I didn't RTFA. But, even with something that can break a 50-Million Bit Key, what if I'm writing it in my own language? Are computer's able to handle that?
I mean, assuming I'm recording something important enough to me that I wouldn't want anyone to ever see it and I'm encrypting it this much, why not just go the extra step and create Clonish, or Cowboy Bobish? I mean, I'm stuck using the characters provided to me on my keyboard, but I could make up my own fontset, and I'm no Grammar Nazi, as shown by this huge run-on sentence, so I don't need anything like semicolons, dollar signs, et cetera. Couldn't I just create, say, a 32 character alphabet and pretty much screw the NSA over?
I haven't gotten a chance to watch the miniseries, yet. Think I should still try and watch this? I caught a little of what looked like BS:G movie (was that the miniseries) last week on ABC, but I missed most of it. Would I be way lost?
Wasn't this on The Screen Savers several weeks/month ago? I rarely watch it, but if I recall correctly, they tested this out by creating a phonebooth sized container with this material and then had one of their crew take a laptop inside and see if he could still get a signal. If I recall correctly, he was still able to get a signal, but there was a noticable drop in the connection. He was probably a lot closer to the wifi router than any wardriver would be, though.
How do you get the internet on a gasoline powered typewriter. There are gasoline powered typewriters?
My family's been on the recieving end of a similar situation.
My father's mother always gives him a gift card to Sears for Christmas. Last year, when he went to use his card, he bought some sort of All-in-one stereo package with a dvd player. Well, when we opened the box, instead of finding a DVD player, we found all sorts of old software and manuals. The only name I can remember was Corel 3, but we had at least 2,000 pages of manuals in that box. I don't even know where one would get that kind of retro-software today.
At first it was really funny. But then the laughing turned to confusion. Then the confusion turned to anger. We're gonna have to waste our damn time going up to Sears and trying to convince them that we're not the ones ripping them off.
Needless to say, it took about an hour and four employees to get them to take it back. Eventually, all they would say was "It must have been an inside job and we'll investigate." LMAO. An inside job? It seems like a lot of effort/work to get a sub-200 dollar system.
"No cities are on fire"
However, there IS a fire in my pants.
Maybe because it's actually a 51/48 split?
Bush got 3 million more votes than Kerry. He was elected, man.
Trey and Matt have a valid point, but the average US readers of Slashdot WILL be informed about the election. We aren't the people going out and voting because P Diddy told us to.
Channel One may have had Bush winning, but Nickelodeon, I believe, picked Kerry. I haven't really watched Nick, but in the last election, I believe they were saying that they had always predicted correctly. They chose Bush last time. But I agree, superstitions are bullshit. But that doesn't stop me from always putting on my right sock first.
You make a lot of good points, and there are really only two that I want to address.
"that means they take huge contributions from corporate interests, and correspondingly support tax cuts and other give aways to support their funders."
According to my latest issue of Wired (12.11), on page 082, they list candidate funding, and give nice little pie charts. Very informative, anyways the point I'm trying to make is that they state that only 2% of Bush's funding comes from corporations/groups (They list his total funding as 242 million, so that should be... 4.84 million) while Kerry gets a whopping 10% of his funding from corporations or groups (They list his total funding as 223.4 million... so that should be 22.34 million). I'm not good with numbers, but isn't 22.34 million a lot more than 4.84 million?
"well known to have a rightward slant"
Oh yes, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Dan Rather - all staunch Bush supporters.
"Uh, how exactly is this different from the rhetoric coming out of Bush/Cheney and the Republican convention."
Because everything said at the Republican Convention wasn't said in a rally for a supposivly (last time I checked) non-partisan groups.
Rock the Vote and Vote or Die aren't even making any effort in their rallies (AFAIK, this is only from what I have read, I have not attended either) to be non-partisan.
"As for the whole draft proposition there is a reasonable chance the draft is going to come back real soon now, and it may come back under either Bush or Kerry"
This arguement has a lot of merit, but unfortuently not everyone is seeing this as clearly as you. As a lower middle class sixteen year old, nothing makes me want to move to Canada anymore than the thought of a President pushing for the reinstation of the draft. But so far that hasn't been the case. What is happening is that two democrats have backed two draft bills (one in the house and one in the senate) and Vote or Die and Rock the Vote have been saying this, but leading people do believe (again, this is hearsay) that Bush wants to reinstate the draft. It's this kind of misinformation that scares me. It's fearmongering, but that's just a case of the Democrats doing it. The Republicans do it to, and you mentioned it. And there is a good chance of what you mentioned happening too, and it doesn't really matter who is elected.
It's nice to see someone here who can see both sides! (That isn't sarcasm).
A warning would have been very nice for those of us browsing from school. On the other hand, the website is called Boing Boing, so all is forgiven.
I have the same problem, my first Playstation 2 failed after about one year of use. It wouldn't read anything. Being the dumb kid I was at the time, I bought a new one and returned the old one in the new box. The new one has stopped reading discs but now I just open it up and blow it out. I haven't had any problems with Dust in my Xbox, even though I've had it for at least a year and a half.
I think time travel would be the most obvious answer.
While I do agree that what Nintendo is doing is wrong, I can understant why their doing it. I know that when I was younger (elementary school), I stumbled upon some not so good for elementary school website while looking for "Final Fantasy". I think my father told me that if he caught me looking at that kind of crap again that it'd be my final fantasy.
I hope the power doesn't blink.
How is this any different from the presales of Halo 2. I don't remember the exact figures, aren't the preorders for Halo 2 over the 1 million mark? That's pretty good for something based on trailers and images (unless of course you pirated it then chose to preorder so you could Xbox Live it, but that's illegal and no one on /. brakes the law, ever).
I mean, we know that the first Halo was good (a little over hyped, but good nonetheless), but this is the EXACT same situation as with the new Gameboy. We don't know if it's really going to be good, other than the media hype that's been delivered to us, but we know that the previous incarnations have been good.
Nice troll, by the way.
The blurb posted is misleading. The Wired Article states "with almost no performance hit."
Dude, don't tell them how to fix it.
That I can finally start to buy name brand food?!
I have yet to come across a high school or college that wasn't this way.
Well, in Henrico county Virginia, all students 6th grade and up have iBooks, I think it's the same way in all of New Jersey (or some other state North of Virginia). In my highschool, we probably only have 20 Windows compared to the 1000+ Macs.