Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: kensi Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: toward null-safe cookie cutter Comparators Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:22:42 -0500 Organization: SICN Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <9ikmdiFktaU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: boE97fIOqjAfikXEhaRruQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-6.0/1.5.22(0.156/4/2) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10025 On 17/11/2011 10:09 AM, Nigel Wade wrote: > 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. That was a HUGE stretch by the prosecution to try to get someone whose conduct they disliked convicted of *something* even though she hadn't actually done anything illegal -- and I seem to recall it was thrown out on appeal.