If he's unwilling to sell games to kids who are flunking out of school? I TOTALLY LOVE THAT STAND.
Let's pretend you are a shareholder or a CEO for a moment and view the world as they see it.
You would fire his ass for refusing sales that aren't legally mandated because you don't give a damn about other kids. You want the stock price to be high in order to make a profit by the end of the quarter?
Long term consequences? You don't care since your probably going to sell short in less than a year or get a gold parachute.
Oddly enough, I find it hard to be sympathetic toward a country that hosts a Holocaust Denial [go.com] seminar. Maybe I really am part of the problem.
Actually, due to the fact that the US is partly responsible for the current Iranian government (Operation Ajax blowout with the Shah) I would have to say us Americans are part of the problem. We replaced a socialism sympathizer with a dictator who brutally ruled his people and then we get all uppity when he gets replaced by a theocratic revolution. Then we back Saddam in hopes that he'll take care of the problem and it all goes to hell.
Things would have been find and we wouldn't be talking about Iran's nuclear program today had we not interfered with a legal election.
Speaking of which, in theory, 9/11 would have never happened because we wouldn't have been arming Saddam against the theocratic Iran which later lead to the invasion of Kuwait which lead to Osama getting all pissy about American bases in Saudi Arabia.
This is what we call "blowback". We've been over there for 50 years interfering, overthrowing people, supporting dictators, and selling weapons to everyone and you wonder why they hate us.
I don't approve of Holocaust denying and hope that Israel will be recognized as a sovereign nation by all, but to say we didn't make this bed in Iran and share some responsibility of it is just not learning history correctly.
Look, if we don't switch to IPv6 one of these days, then in 100 years from now an angry IT network sys admin is going to go insane with the mess we left him and invent a time machine and come back to blow us all up.
It is going to have to happen and the longer we put it off the more expensive it is going to get over time to replace all the equipment. Yes, NAT works but its like trying to keep an old system road infrastructure in place that will be more costly to maintain at a certain point than to replace.
After being convicted, he will be given a first-time-offender wrist-slap, probably a few months of probation and a stern warning not to do it again.
Censorship through extreme or mild measures is still censorship.
In the end if you can't speak anonymously, then it does not matter if you are shot on the first offense or simply fired from your job. You still don't have your freedom.
The question you should really ask, is it worth living a life in which you are not free?
Keep in mind both the revolutions in America and in France were egged on by anonymous authors.
Some suspect the famous humanist Erasmus wrote Julius Excluded From heaven anonymously to criticize the warrior Pope Julius II for his aggression against other states (Pope Julius II actually oversaw the sieges directly of expanding the papal states). Had he put his name on it he would have been excommunicated or put to the stake.
The point is that even though Tor can be used for evil it also prevents the powers that be (if they so ever get to be corrupt) from abusing that power. If they use means that don't involve your life or limb and you still do not have the ability to speak out anonymously then you are not truly free and your voice is at the whim of a government entity.
What is the point of speaking if you have no mouth?
In fact, they are doing everything they can to steal more service than the ISP is willing to allocate to them. As a result the ISPs have no other choice but to love this and use a big stick to provide the luving to the customer.
If my contract says I have unlimited bandwidth and I pay for the max speeds a provider provides, how am I stealing more service than the ISP is willing to allocate me? If they didn't want me to use the service I pay for, shouldn't they have not sold me the service in the first place.
Few if you are a home user, but if you use corporate enterprise or anything legacy then you are in a world of hurt. Mostly, this is not the fault of Microsoft, but rather your vendors (Specifically VPN and software related to home use)
Vista breaks Groupwise Webaccess use from home and various other VPN software packages simply do not function with vista. This is why many businesses have been leery to upgrade from XP. Again, to be fair, MS was making the software more secure which broke a lot of enterprise applications which is really the fault of the vendors but if they haven't got a patch yet, your only choice is to not use Vista.
And why should Canada's sovereign territory being pieced apart? If it suddenly became globally advantageous to cross shipments through most of the US, the EU and the rest of the world would be perfectly justified in making it international territory as well?
Most nations can be pressured into doing anything with enough clamoring from the WTO or other economic organizations. Even the RIAA seems to have pressured the Canadian parliament a bit. I could only imagine if the EU (egged on by Denmark and their recent territorial claims off of Greenland) and the US got the WTO and the UN to push for this, that Canada would with its current conservative pro-US government might cave in. Of course, if you vote them out you might have a better chance of retaining some sovereignty.
According to the Wiki article:
Five hundred miles (800 km) away, Eagle City, Alaska, had a telegraph station; Amundsen travelled there (and back) overland to wire a success message (collect) on December 5, 1905. Nome was reached in 1906. Due to water as shallow as 3 feet (1 m), a larger ship could never have used the route. So it looks like it could never be used for anything larger than a small canoe or raft. And they used a lot of dog sledding to boot.
As a personal model of mine, it does a better job of accounting for the myriad types of people I've encountered in the last fifty years than a more basic "that person must be stupid" approach.
Unless of course you define stupid as someone who does not have common sense. I would personally define stupidity as the lack of ability to relate correlations of two or more observable facts.
Example:
Your car is making a funny noise and the oil light is on. Possibly those things could be related. Your fax machine isn't printing faxes and it says "No Paper" on the LCD. Possibly those things could be related. Your computer does not turn on and there is no light on the surge protector. Possibly those things could be related. Your bank account is empty and you haven't heard a reply from the Nigerian prince. Possibly those things could be related.
However these are examples on where a person is not stupid, but out of their expertise:
Your car is making a funny noise and yet there is no lights. Take it to a mechanic. Your fax machine isn't printing faxes and it says "PC Load letter" or some obscure message. Take it to the store. Your computer does not turn on and you have checked the power source. Take it to a tech. Your bank account is empty and you have done your best to hide your personal information with shredding and guarding of your social security number (maybe your hospital was hacked). Call your bank and identity theft protection immediately.
Now granted, not everyone is stupid all the time (well most everyone that isn't in politics), but you can do stupid things based on varying degrees. It is the common sense part that helps a person realize that two things are related or at least know when they are out of their league and they need an experts help.
Its usually the people that claim to be experts and either refuse help and get angry at you after they messed things up and only concede that they are not an expert at the last moment that really bothers me and in fact probably shows your stupidity to refuse to get a professional involved just because you are stubborn.
Heck... I fix computers for a living, but you don't see me back talking to my mechanic, doctor, or lawyer because I don't like how he does things and think I know how its done. If it bothers me that much, I'll get a second opinion or take my business elsewhere to be worked on.
So, close to 5 megabytes per second. I.E. you'd need to have a 40 megabit internet connection running at it's full capacity and with a good ping time to be able to even stay current with the battle.
Microsoft of all people was developing a technology called DonnyBrook which would theoretically allow a thousand player Counter Strike match. It basically creates something called guidable AI which only 4 players actually sends information to each other player and the "AI" assumes or takes control of everyone else out of your focus and only updates ever now and then from them.
But I think this of course my be a Vista only or Xbox360 only technology but they said they plan on licensing it and have a working tech demo with Quake 3.
It locks you down to using iTunes, makes it difficult to use multiple machines or move music around, doesn't have particularly high sound quality, and doesn't support a lot of music formats.
Feh. I use iTunes because I run OS X anyways and that it still supports MP3s that I ripped from my CD collection years ago.
Seeing I'm too lazy to ever re-rip the entire 500 CD collection again into any other format, if iTunes forced you to use the iTMS songs then it would be easier for me to find another MP3 player and portable device.
So chalk it up to laziness, but if it works people will use it until something else easier comes along or they break functionality of the existing. Even though MP4 or OGG is better format, I'm not going to re-rip my entire collection anytime soon.
SECURITY One of the things, I never understood was why not develop a one time pad system for wireless security?
Say you and your router contain a text file of one time pads in a 100mb text file that you generate by physically syncing over regular Ethernet during the initial setup of wireless.
Then all your wireless connections can do is ask what time the router thinks it is. Then every 10 seconds you change the one time pad. Over a day you would run through about 8640 one time pad sequences over the given day.
Which gives the eaves dropper about 10 seconds before they can crack the one time pad before you move on. In theory, an eavesdropper could record the entire days worth of communication and dechiper what was transmitted but could not fool the router into communicating with him because they will never know in advance what the one time pads are except the two parties communicating based on time intervals.
You may want to up the time intervals to prevent any communication but you would need to copy a real large one time pad on both the computer and the router, unless your willing to physically sync once a month or something.
The GPL3 isn't about "freedom" anymore, it is about restricting use, the very thing that RMS claims he is against. The code released under GPL3 will end up not being used, and replaced by something less restrictive.
What? I don't care one way about BSD, closed source, or GPL but this is a horse load of bullshit.
The real copyright owner has the freedom to do anything he or she pleases and one of them is to either accept or reject GPLv3 or make their version of that license. The people who are not the copyright owners are being restricted from restricting other people.
So the only freedoms that are being restricted is the freedom to restrict others to use the work of people before you.
If you don't like it... Don't use GPLv3 code.
Projects using GPLv3 code as failures has yet to be seen. You'll see a lot less corporate support, but generally they haven't been very nice in giving back to community, hence to anti-Tivozation clause.
Your posting is a stark illustration of why the field needs a code of ethics.
Why do you need a code of ethics, when a level of access levels is appropriate.
It doesn't matter if it is ethical for an IT employee to read your email. If his supervisor instructed him too or gave him authority then it is company policy because it is a part of his job function. If he has been instructed by his supervisor that it is not part of his job then he should not do it for personal reasons.
3. Not reporting it because you would have to admit you were snooping on other people - priceless AND retarded.
Hrm... I thought IT was supposed to snoop? At least most companies I work for monitor traffic and programs you install to make sure you aren't doing anything horribly wrong.
I mean its the companies computer and bandwidth. They have a right to know what you are doing with it isn't wrong.
If you have personal stuff, either wait to get home or just understand people are watching and don't do anything shady.
If so, you will know that if its trivial to steal your product, people do it, and you end up flipping burgers for a living.
No. If your software is trivial break and impossible to maintain, then you'll be flipping burgers.
I worked for small time developers as support whose software costs $10,000 a pop for their entire facility. We sent them discs and upgrades on CDRs. There used to be CD keys, but it was decided that to be done away with since it was trivial to xerox them.
They made a pretty good profit even without support and training up sales because in order for fixes you had to talk with us directly. There were no forums, no nothing unless we knew who you were, and were paying for support and had also purchased the package. Of course for $10,000 a facility package, you can bet your ass that we had customer damand immediate software fixes taken straight to the coders that day and overnighted to them (this was late 90's)
Software copy protection will annoy your customers to no end and they will get highly pissed especially since they are paying for support and go to another software package.
However, social protection (support and fixes) is the only sure method people will buy your software once and over and over again. Of course most of your developers talking about stuff they sell on the net are often shareware developers who no one has a real niche for their software anyways.
Thats why you flip burgers... Not because people pirated your software.
Speaking of which there was a CAD program company who had horrible dongles who went out of business simply because everyone hated their dongles which was through a Parallel port system and would break if you went to a newer operating system.
Who cares what the scientists say? What does accounting, marketing and production say?!?! Marketing says 2 and half years if your pre-order. Production says 10 years if don't screw up the prototypes again. And accounting says in 1 year it won't matter because you're all being laid off.
Being unequal biologically does not mean we should be treated unequal in our rights.
We really need to get over the fact that we are all different and that there is nothing wrong with studies that show we are inferior or unequal with other people.
There are plenty of people in this world that can run a mile in 5 minutes when I am lucky to walk one in 20, who can do pi to 100th digit in their head where I have to use a computer, look better than most super models without effort where I would have to work for it, and some have an natural speaking talent way better than me where I have to practice the speech for a while in front of a mirror.
(I might be able to beat their ass in Counter Strike or Dungeons and Dragons on the other hand...)
Thing is, there are biological limitations to all of us. Some autistics can do some amazing memory recollections and math in their head but have a horrible time with social interactions.
We simply have to get over the fact that we are biological unequal and can't do everything as well as everyone but simply accept the fact we only need to be treated with the same rights.
You have a right to play foot ball in a public park regardless of your physical condition, but you do not have the right to play foot ball on a professional team just because you are human. Certain genetic dispositions should be accepted as limitations or that you'll simply have to work harder than those born with those genetic traits (or accept that you cannot do those things as your lot in life).
Still... It does not give you the right to take away the human rights of those who are genetically different from you.
That is the key thing to understanding being human.
So could it be that the mental flexibility of youth makes them more susceptible to liberalism (in the modern usage of the word) than the more experienced minds of the older generations?
No, it just means youth is more susceptible to non-norms, radicalism, or extremism.
Not to Goodwin this, but some of the last fanatical fighters of WWII in Europe were teenage Hitler Youth "Werewolf" resistance fighters while the older generation of soldiers had already surrendered or were pushing for peace. Youth likes the ideas that are radical from the normal (or are easier prey to propaganda and brain washing) regardless of if it being left or right wing.
From a personal anecdotal experience, I am more economically conservative minded than my parents, whereas they would vote for Hillary Clinton, I would vote for some one like Ron Paul.
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If he's unwilling to sell games to kids who are flunking out of school? I TOTALLY LOVE THAT STAND.
Let's pretend you are a shareholder or a CEO for a moment and view the world as they see it.
You would fire his ass for refusing sales that aren't legally mandated because you don't give a damn about other kids. You want the stock price to be high in order to make a profit by the end of the quarter?
Long term consequences? You don't care since your probably going to sell short in less than a year or get a gold parachute.
Oddly enough, I find it hard to be sympathetic toward a country that hosts a Holocaust Denial [go.com] seminar. Maybe I really am part of the problem.
Actually, due to the fact that the US is partly responsible for the current Iranian government (Operation Ajax blowout with the Shah) I would have to say us Americans are part of the problem. We replaced a socialism sympathizer with a dictator who brutally ruled his people and then we get all uppity when he gets replaced by a theocratic revolution. Then we back Saddam in hopes that he'll take care of the problem and it all goes to hell.
Things would have been find and we wouldn't be talking about Iran's nuclear program today had we not interfered with a legal election.
Speaking of which, in theory, 9/11 would have never happened because we wouldn't have been arming Saddam against the theocratic Iran which later lead to the invasion of Kuwait which lead to Osama getting all pissy about American bases in Saudi Arabia.
This is what we call "blowback". We've been over there for 50 years interfering, overthrowing people, supporting dictators, and selling weapons to everyone and you wonder why they hate us.
I don't approve of Holocaust denying and hope that Israel will be recognized as a sovereign nation by all, but to say we didn't make this bed in Iran and share some responsibility of it is just not learning history correctly.
Look, if we don't switch to IPv6 one of these days, then in 100 years from now an angry IT network sys admin is going to go insane with the mess we left him and invent a time machine and come back to blow us all up.
It is going to have to happen and the longer we put it off the more expensive it is going to get over time to replace all the equipment. Yes, NAT works but its like trying to keep an old system road infrastructure in place that will be more costly to maintain at a certain point than to replace.
After being convicted, he will be given a first-time-offender wrist-slap, probably a few months of probation and a stern warning not to do it again.
Censorship through extreme or mild measures is still censorship.
In the end if you can't speak anonymously, then it does not matter if you are shot on the first offense or simply fired from your job. You still don't have your freedom.
The question you should really ask, is it worth living a life in which you are not free?
Keep in mind both the revolutions in America and in France were egged on by anonymous authors.
Some suspect the famous humanist Erasmus wrote Julius Excluded From heaven anonymously to criticize the warrior Pope Julius II for his aggression against other states (Pope Julius II actually oversaw the sieges directly of expanding the papal states). Had he put his name on it he would have been excommunicated or put to the stake.
The point is that even though Tor can be used for evil it also prevents the powers that be (if they so ever get to be corrupt) from abusing that power. If they use means that don't involve your life or limb and you still do not have the ability to speak out anonymously then you are not truly free and your voice is at the whim of a government entity.
What is the point of speaking if you have no mouth?
In fact, they are doing everything they can to steal more service than the ISP is willing to allocate to them. As a result the ISPs have no other choice but to love this and use a big stick to provide the luving to the customer.
If my contract says I have unlimited bandwidth and I pay for the max speeds a provider provides, how am I stealing more service than the ISP is willing to allocate me? If they didn't want me to use the service I pay for, shouldn't they have not sold me the service in the first place.
Yes, vista has a few issues. Note: Few.
Few if you are a home user, but if you use corporate enterprise or anything legacy then you are in a world of hurt. Mostly, this is not the fault of Microsoft, but rather your vendors (Specifically VPN and software related to home use)
Vista breaks Groupwise Webaccess use from home and various other VPN software packages simply do not function with vista. This is why many businesses have been leery to upgrade from XP. Again, to be fair, MS was making the software more secure which broke a lot of enterprise applications which is really the fault of the vendors but if they haven't got a patch yet, your only choice is to not use Vista.
And why should Canada's sovereign territory being pieced apart? If it suddenly became globally advantageous to cross shipments through most of the US, the EU and the rest of the world would be perfectly justified in making it international territory as well?
Most nations can be pressured into doing anything with enough clamoring from the WTO or other economic organizations. Even the RIAA seems to have pressured the Canadian parliament a bit. I could only imagine if the EU (egged on by Denmark and their recent territorial claims off of Greenland) and the US got the WTO and the UN to push for this, that Canada would with its current conservative pro-US government might cave in. Of course, if you vote them out you might have a better chance of retaining some sovereignty.
As a personal model of mine, it does a better job of accounting for the myriad types of people I've encountered in the last fifty years than a more basic "that person must be stupid" approach.
Unless of course you define stupid as someone who does not have common sense. I would personally define stupidity as the lack of ability to relate correlations of two or more observable facts.
Example:
Your car is making a funny noise and the oil light is on. Possibly those things could be related.
Your fax machine isn't printing faxes and it says "No Paper" on the LCD. Possibly those things could be related.
Your computer does not turn on and there is no light on the surge protector. Possibly those things could be related.
Your bank account is empty and you haven't heard a reply from the Nigerian prince. Possibly those things could be related.
However these are examples on where a person is not stupid, but out of their expertise:
Your car is making a funny noise and yet there is no lights. Take it to a mechanic.
Your fax machine isn't printing faxes and it says "PC Load letter" or some obscure message. Take it to the store.
Your computer does not turn on and you have checked the power source. Take it to a tech.
Your bank account is empty and you have done your best to hide your personal information with shredding and guarding of your social security number (maybe your hospital was hacked). Call your bank and identity theft protection immediately.
Now granted, not everyone is stupid all the time (well most everyone that isn't in politics), but you can do stupid things based on varying degrees. It is the common sense part that helps a person realize that two things are related or at least know when they are out of their league and they need an experts help.
Its usually the people that claim to be experts and either refuse help and get angry at you after they messed things up and only concede that they are not an expert at the last moment that really bothers me and in fact probably shows your stupidity to refuse to get a professional involved just because you are stubborn.
Heck... I fix computers for a living, but you don't see me back talking to my mechanic, doctor, or lawyer because I don't like how he does things and think I know how its done. If it bothers me that much, I'll get a second opinion or take my business elsewhere to be worked on.
So, close to 5 megabytes per second. I.E. you'd need to have a 40 megabit internet connection running at it's full capacity and with a good ping time to be able to even stay current with the battle.
Microsoft of all people was developing a technology called DonnyBrook which would theoretically allow a thousand player Counter Strike match. It basically creates something called guidable AI which only 4 players actually sends information to each other player and the "AI" assumes or takes control of everyone else out of your focus and only updates ever now and then from them.
Otherwise here is the direct link with the MS interviewee about said technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrMzxOmQtJg
But I think this of course my be a Vista only or Xbox360 only technology but they said they plan on licensing it and have a working tech demo with Quake 3.
Yes, I attribute a great deal of my professional skills, and in fact, my computer mentality, to video games.
One time during rush hour traffic, a passenger of my car told me I drive like I'm playing a video game.
I replied that "I play to win".
It locks you down to using iTunes, makes it difficult to use multiple machines or move music around, doesn't have particularly high sound quality, and doesn't support a lot of music formats.
Feh. I use iTunes because I run OS X anyways and that it still supports MP3s that I ripped from my CD collection years ago.
Seeing I'm too lazy to ever re-rip the entire 500 CD collection again into any other format, if iTunes forced you to use the iTMS songs then it would be easier for me to find another MP3 player and portable device.
So chalk it up to laziness, but if it works people will use it until something else easier comes along or they break functionality of the existing. Even though MP4 or OGG is better format, I'm not going to re-rip my entire collection anytime soon.
Halo multiplayer is about the social aspect.
What is in Halo that you cannot get from playing online with Counter Strike, Half Life, Day of Defeat, or America's Army?
If you say vehicles... I will say Unreal Tournament.
Say you and your router contain a text file of one time pads in a 100mb text file that you generate by physically syncing over regular Ethernet during the initial setup of wireless.
Then all your wireless connections can do is ask what time the router thinks it is. Then every 10 seconds you change the one time pad. Over a day you would run through about 8640 one time pad sequences over the given day.
Which gives the eaves dropper about 10 seconds before they can crack the one time pad before you move on. In theory, an eavesdropper could record the entire days worth of communication and dechiper what was transmitted but could not fool the router into communicating with him because they will never know in advance what the one time pads are except the two parties communicating based on time intervals.
You may want to up the time intervals to prevent any communication but you would need to copy a real large one time pad on both the computer and the router, unless your willing to physically sync once a month or something.
The GPL3 isn't about "freedom" anymore, it is about restricting use, the very thing that RMS claims he is against. The code released under GPL3 will end up not being used, and replaced by something less restrictive.
What? I don't care one way about BSD, closed source, or GPL but this is a horse load of bullshit.
The real copyright owner has the freedom to do anything he or she pleases and one of them is to either accept or reject GPLv3 or make their version of that license. The people who are not the copyright owners are being restricted from restricting other people.
So the only freedoms that are being restricted is the freedom to restrict others to use the work of people before you.
If you don't like it... Don't use GPLv3 code.
Projects using GPLv3 code as failures has yet to be seen. You'll see a lot less corporate support, but generally they haven't been very nice in giving back to community, hence to anti-Tivozation clause.
Your posting is a stark illustration of why the field needs a code of ethics.
Why do you need a code of ethics, when a level of access levels is appropriate.
It doesn't matter if it is ethical for an IT employee to read your email. If his supervisor instructed him too or gave him authority then it is company policy because it is a part of his job function. If he has been instructed by his supervisor that it is not part of his job then he should not do it for personal reasons.
3. Not reporting it because you would have to admit you were snooping on other people - priceless AND retarded.
Hrm... I thought IT was supposed to snoop? At least most companies I work for monitor traffic and programs you install to make sure you aren't doing anything horribly wrong.
I mean its the companies computer and bandwidth. They have a right to know what you are doing with it isn't wrong.
If you have personal stuff, either wait to get home or just understand people are watching and don't do anything shady.
If so, you will know that if its trivial to steal your product, people do it, and you end up flipping burgers for a living.
No. If your software is trivial break and impossible to maintain, then you'll be flipping burgers.
I worked for small time developers as support whose software costs $10,000 a pop for their entire facility. We sent them discs and upgrades on CDRs. There used to be CD keys, but it was decided that to be done away with since it was trivial to xerox them.
They made a pretty good profit even without support and training up sales because in order for fixes you had to talk with us directly. There were no forums, no nothing unless we knew who you were, and were paying for support and had also purchased the package. Of course for $10,000 a facility package, you can bet your ass that we had customer damand immediate software fixes taken straight to the coders that day and overnighted to them (this was late 90's)
Software copy protection will annoy your customers to no end and they will get highly pissed especially since they are paying for support and go to another software package.
However, social protection (support and fixes) is the only sure method people will buy your software once and over and over again. Of course most of your developers talking about stuff they sell on the net are often shareware developers who no one has a real niche for their software anyways.
Thats why you flip burgers... Not because people pirated your software.
Speaking of which there was a CAD program company who had horrible dongles who went out of business simply because everyone hated their dongles which was through a Parallel port system and would break if you went to a newer operating system.
Meters are put in high demand parking areas to increase the turnover of parking spots, thus increasing parking availability.
Why not just put, "Loading and unloading only: 20 minute attended parking"?
Most larger cities designate whole blocks like that for certain areas and shops.
As far as I can tell, 2007 has reverted to the 3 step mail merge process rather than the convoluted 6 step process of the 2003 version.
That is... If you can find it on the ribbon.
Production says 10 years if don't screw up the prototypes again.
And accounting says in 1 year it won't matter because you're all being laid off.
And what if the WGA server is down again?
This brings to mind some major privacy concerns too. Who besides me doesn't want my conversation getting routed through someone else's phone?
Do you use IRC, Skype, or some type of chat software?
Maybe say... Internet forums?
Then your conversations are already being routed through someone else's hardware. You can always use encryption though in all cases.
Being unequal biologically does not mean we should be treated unequal in our rights.
We really need to get over the fact that we are all different and that there is nothing wrong with studies that show we are inferior or unequal with other people.
There are plenty of people in this world that can run a mile in 5 minutes when I am lucky to walk one in 20, who can do pi to 100th digit in their head where I have to use a computer, look better than most super models without effort where I would have to work for it, and some have an natural speaking talent way better than me where I have to practice the speech for a while in front of a mirror.
(I might be able to beat their ass in Counter Strike or Dungeons and Dragons on the other hand...)
Thing is, there are biological limitations to all of us. Some autistics can do some amazing memory recollections and math in their head but have a horrible time with social interactions.
We simply have to get over the fact that we are biological unequal and can't do everything as well as everyone but simply accept the fact we only need to be treated with the same rights.
You have a right to play foot ball in a public park regardless of your physical condition, but you do not have the right to play foot ball on a professional team just because you are human. Certain genetic dispositions should be accepted as limitations or that you'll simply have to work harder than those born with those genetic traits (or accept that you cannot do those things as your lot in life).
Still... It does not give you the right to take away the human rights of those who are genetically different from you.
That is the key thing to understanding being human.
So could it be that the mental flexibility of youth makes them more susceptible to liberalism (in the modern usage of the word) than the more experienced minds of the older generations?
No, it just means youth is more susceptible to non-norms, radicalism, or extremism.
Not to Goodwin this, but some of the last fanatical fighters of WWII in Europe were teenage Hitler Youth "Werewolf" resistance fighters while the older generation of soldiers had already surrendered or were pushing for peace. Youth likes the ideas that are radical from the normal (or are easier prey to propaganda and brain washing) regardless of if it being left or right wing.
From a personal anecdotal experience, I am more economically conservative minded than my parents, whereas they would vote for Hillary Clinton, I would vote for some one like Ron Paul.