How I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

Re:How I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in crypto... by pacaro on Sunday April 30, 2017 @10:21AM (#14231622)

The use of "native" in this thread is confusing. My understanding is that in the US, the term is normally used to refer to "Native Americans"

I'm not sure what the correct term would be though. "Natural born citizen" normally means someone who is a citizen through birthright, usually, but not always, because they were born within the US.

The phrase that I've most commonly heard is "Nth generation American", but does this require all members of N generations to be citizens? My daughter is eligible to be a "Daughter of the Revolution", but I'm not (yet) a citizen

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Re:How I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in crypto... by foldr on Sunday April 30, 2017 @12:43PM (#14232389)

"Native American" is used to refer to Native Americans, but the term "native" by itself just has the normal range of meanings.

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Re:How I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in crypto... by hyperman1 on Monday May 01, 2017 @02:15PM (#14240000)

I always wonder how the word alien in the USA points to either a non-american human or a being from another planet. What kind of world view causes people to think there are 2 kinds of sentient beings in this universe: Americans and everything/everyone else.

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