Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Nigel Wade Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: toward null-safe cookie cutter Comparators Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:09:37 +0000 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <9ikmdiFktaU1@mid.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net FE90cgpKcws8NwZ2oj9KQQLlPerWeUkRM1HMI+kHCWVGBwiGvh Cancel-Lock: sha1:fMORrbQCQHvwlrWaGsfPqYuBizw= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 SUSE/3.1.11 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10001 On 16/11/11 17:50, kensi wrote: > Why go to the hassle of changing your legal name? It's not like giving > false information to large corporate marketing departments^W^W^W^Wweb > forms is an offense under the law or anything. ;) At most it's a TOS > violation and the account you create won't last long (cf. Facebook, > Google Plus). Really? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/27/myspace_mother_guilty/ Note, she was NOT convicted of "cyber bullying", but of fraudulently accessing MySpace by providing false personal information. If just goes to show how useful those "knee-jerk" laws can be, when suitably abused. -- Nigel Wade