HELP ME DO MY HOMEWORK

[Dawnsteel]

1.   What is your age?
I am 33.  Uh, years.

2.   Are you male or female?
Male.

3.   Do you know what the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is?
Yes.

4.   Would you be likely to donate time or money to protect civil liberties?
No, not particularly.

5.   Are rights like freedom of speech and privacy on the Internet important to you?
I suppose they are, but I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about them.

6.   How informed are you about legal issues regarding the Internet and computers?
I have not sought out any particular information, so I'm probably average at best, more likely below-average.

7.   Where do you get your news from?
A combination of NPR (WXXI-AM1370), CNN.com, Plastic.com, and the local newspaper (and its Internet site).

8.   What websites do you regularly visit, at least once a week?
Those listed in the previous answer, as well as RPPR (and its forums), Penny Arcade, xkcd, Achewood, Questionable Content, PvP, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Wikipedia.

9.   Do you feel comfortable spending money online?
Yes, very comfortable.

10.   Would you prefer to read an article or watch a video to learn about something?
I much prefer reading.

11.   Do you think websites like Facebook and Twitter are useful to learn about new things?
Yes, generally from friends, much in the way they might tell me about a book (or something) if I were having a live conversation with them.  So far as I know, I've paid little-to-no attention to the ads that Facebook places.

12.   Do you pay attention to news sources that are outside the mainstream, such as foreign new services or independent documentary filmmakers?
I guess I'm open to getting news from foreign sources, but I have not done so to date.  I haven't gotten into documentaries, either.

[beowuuf]

1.   What is your age?
 - 32
2.   Are you male or female?
 - Male
3.   Do you know what the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is?
 - Nope!
4.   Would you be likely to donate time or money to protect civil liberties?
 - Only when it gets really bad (are we there yet?)
5.   Are rights like freedom of speech and privacy on the Internet important to you?
 - Yes, but not enough to combat answer to 4.
6.   How informed are you about legal issues regarding the Internet and computers?
 - not greatly, second and third hand information at best
7.   Where do you get your news from?
 - yahoo (just before checking mail), twitter, websearches
8.   What websites do you regularly visit, at least once a week?
 - some fantasy forums (related to PC DM game and Lone Wolf), some webcomics (PA, QC, Hijinks Ensue, Saturday Morning Breakfast Club, etc) twitter, yahoo mail, some fantasty related websites (WotC, here, Fear the Boot, Kingdom of Loathing)
9.   Do you feel comfortable spending money online?
 - yes, though probably ignorance is bliss.
10.   Would you prefer to read an article or watch a video to learn about something?
 - read the article
11.   Do you think websites like Facebook and Twitter are useful to learn about new things?
 - twitter is, simply because of the aware people currently online. However, noise and overreaction are just as possible!
12.   Do you pay attention to news sources that are outside the mainstream, such as foreign new services or independent documentary filmmakers?
 - no



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[AmishNinja]

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS HONESTLY YOU SHITHEADS

GO TO HECK


1.   What is your age?  2.   Are you male or female?                                                                                                               

27/m

3.   Do you know what the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is?                                                                            

Yessir.

4.   Would you be likely to donate time or money to protect civil liberties?                                                                  

Depending on how fundamental the right is, yes.

5.   Are rights like freedom of speech and privacy on the Internet important to you?                                                          

Absolutely.

6.   How informed are you about legal issues regarding the Internet and computers?                                                            

A cut above the rest but no expert.

7.   Where do you get your news from?                                                                                                        

Google, Twitter, Local Newspaper sites, Ars Technica

8.   What websites do you regularly visit, at least once a week?                                                                              

SomethingAwful, Facebook, Google, Hulu, YouTube

9.   Do you feel comfortable spending money online?                                                                                          

Yes.

10.   Would you prefer to read an article or watch a video to learn about something?                                                          

Read an article.

11.   Do you think websites like Facebook and Twitter are useful to learn about new things?                                                    

Definitely, yes.

12.   Do you pay attention to news sources that are outside the mainstream, such as foreign new services or independent documentary filmmakers?

Sometimes, but less than I used to.

[Kroack]

Ross is using his podcast powers to get survey's without doing any work at all.
I tip my hat to you, Sir.

[Flapjacks]

1.   What is your age?
27

2.   Are you male or female?
Male

3.   Do you know what the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is?
I've heard the name a few times and I understand the concept.

4.   Would you be likely to donate time or money to protect civil liberties?
If there was something I felt was specifically threatening my civil liberties, I'd put in time or money to fight it. Otherwise, no.

5.   Are rights like freedom of speech and privacy on the Internet important to you?
I consider them important, yes.

6.   How informed are you about legal issues regarding the Internet and computers?
Amateur level at best.

7.   Where do you get your news from?
I've been on a news hiatus since I got my cable turned off and I haven't been happier. However, what little news does reach me comes in the way of automated AP reports sent to my email by way of CNN.com and the New York Times website.

8.   What websites do you regularly visit, at least once a week?
YouTube, Amazon, 4chan

9.   Do you feel comfortable spending money online?
To a frightening degree, yes.

10. Would you prefer to read an article or watch a video to learn about something?
That depends on how each is presented; a bland article written in passive third person isn't going to hold my interest anymore than a similarly bad web video with powerpoint slides and a dullard reading from them stiffly. If, however, we operate under the assumption of all things being equal then I'd prefer the article because it'd be easier to reference when I want to bring it up on a forum, pass it to a friend, or email an excerpt with a link to it at the bottom. It's a lot less trouble than trying to make people commit to watching a full video just to make one or two salient points.

11. Do you think websites like Facebook and Twitter are useful to learn about new things?
I hardly use either (not trying to pretend I'm too cool for school, I have accounts on both) so I can't say how effective they are at teaching. Just looking at it on its face though, I would think networking sites would be better for spreading another medium between wide swaths of people (an article, a video, etc.) rather than being the place you try to reach them directly.

12. Do you pay attention to news sources that are outside the mainstream, such as foreign new services or independent documentary filmmakers?
When I watched BBC News, listened to their podcast, and read The Guardian online I realized that foreign news (atleast Western news) is almost indistinguishable with the exception that their human interest stories are marginally more interesting than the vapid Today Show garbage the American media go nuts over. As a film geek, I have a different perspective on the subject of documentary filmmaking. I've watched a shitload of them, and over the past four or five years they've all adopted the Michael Moore first-person narrative punchy editing style, which as an Errol Morris fan I hate with every fiber of my being.

[Kroack]

Bump, if Ross still has this assignment.

[clockworkjoe]

no it's done.

[Kroack]

Homework Win!

[Boyos]

The question is how did we do?

[Order66]

The question is how did we do?

terrible we did terrible everything we do is TERRIBLE!

[ugnis13]

What a surprise. No females...

[Boyos]

If we could only figure out a way to help cody get that hooker. She might become an incredible nerd and post in the forums next time!

[Order66]

What a surprise. No females...

milk

[ShotgunSurgeon]

EDIT: God damn it! I'll read the whole thread next time . . .

1.   What is your age?
 24 years

2.   Are you male or female?
Male

3.   Do you know what the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is?
Yes

4.   Would you be likely to donate time or money to protect civil liberties?
Sure

5.   Are rights like freedom of speech and privacy on the Internet important to you?
Yes

6.   How informed are you about legal issues regarding the Internet and computers?
I'd say moderately.

7.   Where do you get your news from?
Primarily internet sources: noagenda.com, fark, msnbc, yahoo. Sometimes CSpan

8.   What websites do you regularly visit, at least once a week?
Hmmmm.... gmail and google reader is the way I get most of my content.

9.   Do you feel comfortable spending money online?
Yes

10.   Would you prefer to read an article or watch a video to learn about something?
Hmmm... depends on the subject really. Usually a video.

11.   Do you think websites like Facebook and Twitter are useful to learn about new things?
Sure... I love learning about the new things that strangers from high school did.

12.   Do you pay attention to news sources that are outside the mainstream, such as foreign new services or independent documentary filmmakers?
Yes- primarly noagenda.com (I swear I'm not affiliated or sponsored).

[Tadanori Oyama]

What a surprise. No females...

That actually does surprise me a little. According to the board stats our male to female ratio is 7.5:1, so there should be one girl for every eight guys. Out of 217 members we should have at least 25 females. Of course, how many of them actually post?