....or are they simply more cynical about the actual value of strong passwords in the era of large-scale user-database compromises?

I seriously doubt that most young people (i.e. the ones who aren't tech majors) even understand what this means. Young people appear to be more tech-savvy mostly because they have grown up around it and are not intimidated by it; it isn't because they have an innately better understanding of computer science and follow tech news more closely.

In fact, that lack of intimidation is also a better explanation of why they choose weaker passwords: they don't take it as seriously as older people, who both have had more (bad) experiences in life to make them more cautious, and are less comfortable with computers out of unfamiliarity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime

Er.... "space" is "another place".

The Bill of Rights doesn't prohibit (for example) slavery, disenfranchisement of women, or the outlawing of homosexuality. Later Amendments (e.g. 13th, 14th, 19th) corrected some of the oversights we now consider "basic civil/human rights", but not all of them.

If I miss this, I'll just get in my spaceship and watch it some other time, from space.

Moderation in all things.

My parents made me go outside and play with other kids instead of watching TV all the time (which was the lazy kid's asocial "activity" of that decade). Now, I may be single (after one long-term relationship) and weigh 200lbs in my 40s, but I probably have them to thank for the fact that I'm not a virgin (with no long-term relationship) and weigh 300lbs in my 40s.

So did I. It was also a joke.