NSA: Crypto Cat teaches your kids about the secret world of cryptology

[bascule]

http://www.nsa.gov/kids/intro.htm

*laugh*

Apologies if everyone has seen this a million times

[TheCotMan]

http://www.nsa.gov/kids/intro.htm

I think having this kind of stuff for kids is pretty cool. If I were a kid and had access to the Internet and that site, I would have played there instead of magazines like GAMES.

Apologies if everyone has seen this a million times

It came up on channel a few months back, but I don't remember it having been posted here before your post.

[Wesson357]

Kids love this stuff (well boys at least) Looks like a great site for them to play around with.

[Twigman]

Kids love this stuff

What are you on about "kids"?
Bah...I'm loving it too.

[alklloyd]

Heh, "As you go thru the web site, Crypto Cat will keep a watchful eye on you..."

I bet he will!

Al

[Gadsden]

Heh, "As you go thru the web site, Crypto Cat will keep a watchful eye on you..."

I bet he will!

Al

Haha.. Big Brother Cat is watching...

[alklloyd]

As an aside, anyone read Alvin Fernald as a kid? Good books, one covered substitution cyphers and simple code...kept me busy the summer after 1st grade.
Did a google and amazon is selling them still.

Al K. Lloyd

Che: Ready for Sushicon? More octapus for me...

[Gadsden]

Che: Ready for Sushicon? More octapus for me...

Damn skippy! I gotta get with GM1 so we can get things planned..

[Abby_Normal]

Kids love this stuff (well boys at least) Looks like a great site for them to play around with.

Yeah, cause math is just to darn hard for girls. I was too busy making cupcakes for the boys and looking pretty.

Dumbass.

[Voltage Spike]

Yeah, cause math is just to darn hard for girls. I was too busy making cupcakes for the boys and looking pretty.

Dumbass.

Girls are just as capable, blah, blah, blah

The truth is that there does exist a gender bias in many cultures today. While I personally believe this is primarily the effect of "nurture" and not a "nature" (simply based on my personal observations), I don't think the solution is to simply ignore the "problem".

(As a side note, I don't think the solution is to treat women differently, either ... stupid Women in Computer Science groups.)

[Tao_of_pi]

this thread switched topics real fast. The reason Wesson357 probobly thinks that is he's never been around a real girl, all of his knowledge of the opposite sex comes from TV.

[Abby_Normal]

Girls are just as capable, blah, blah, blah

The truth is that there does exist a gender bias in many cultures today. While I personally believe this is primarily the effect of "nurture" and not a "nature" (simply based on my personal observations), I don't think the solution is to simply ignore the "problem".

(As a side note, I don't think the solution is to treat women differently, either ... stupid Women in Computer Science groups.)

I think you are right, besides, how can facts and logic be made more friendly to one gender or another?

I have noticed the the women I have met who attended "women in computer science" classes, or worse still womens college are often a little to uptight and thin-skinned to cut it in the real world.

"Grow a fucking pair" needs to be worked in to the program.

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"Grow a fucking pair" needs to be worked in to the program.

You're offering a session on this a DC this year, right?

[skroo]

You're offering a session on this a DC this year, right?

The potential outcome generates quite a mental image. Thank God years of far, far worse things on the intarweb have more or less inured me to such things.

On another note, I wonder if they sell stuffed Crypto Cat toys; my cat could use something to tear apart other than the couches.

[alklloyd]

<snip> mental image.<snip>

On another note, I wonder if they sell stuffed Crypto Cat toys; my cat could use something to tear apart other than the couches.

If they do, it would be here...

http://www.nsa.gov/museum/museu00006.cfm

but, no online orders.

Al