Tin Foil Passports?

[Justin]

On 2004-11-27T06:36:24-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> >Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222
> >Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00
> >   low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the
> >   cover of the passport so it could be read only when opened.' Don't
> >   they know that the whole tinfoil hat thing is supposed to be a
> >   joke?"
> 
> What is most poignant about this post is the lack of education of /.
> authors.  Don't they teach Maxwell any more?  Is Faraday just the guy
> who said ...

Standardized education. We can't have anyone teaching to the 50th
percentile, even assuming the median teen-citizen can handle basic
calculus and E&M.  Teachers must teach one or two sigmas below that
level, and anyone who gets hyperactive in such an inane educational
environment is malfunctioning and requires medication.

There has always been an uneducated class. These days, its members can
be found in gangs, sitting at home watching TV and drinking beer, or
hanging out on slashdot writing open-source software.

-- 
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of
thought which they seldom use."  --Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Diapsalmata