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Alleged eBay Hacker Goofs up and Goes to Jail
juliao writes "SecurityFocus is reporting that alleged eBay hacker Jerome Heckenkamp was jailed after his first solo court appearance."
It's pretty funny actually, stuff like challenging the indictment on the
grounds that they typed his name in all capital letters, demanding to immediately testify (even tho they were only there to schedule the trial), threatening the judge and so on. He would know better if he watched a couple episodes of Law & Order. Note that I base all court proceedings on the wisdom of Sam Watterston.
> that think that your name in all caps is the name of a legal fiction.
That would be the "Nom de guerre" belief. It comes from French which means "war name," but it really means an assumed name.
I don't know about you, but I learnt to spell names with the first letter in capitals, and the rest in lowercase. Lawyers used to give the excuse that typewritters only had uppercase, so they spelt names in uppercase. Why they continue this fraud and abuse of English is above me.
> I tried to understand the thinking behind that, but it involves conspiracy theories and a general detachment from reality.
What, the "conspiracy" that there is *NO* manual of style that mentions names are to be written in uppercase?? If there is, please show me !! Ask any English teacher how names are spelt. Now why do lawyers continute to disregard the rules of the language?
You probably don't think companies are legal person as well (which the law has unfortunately ruled they are.)
> They also belive that the two letter postal code abbreviations for states represent different states than the ones that you write out longhand.
Look up the definition for abbreviation proper. Abbreviations are either:
1) First letter of each word, (which is really an acronym)
2) The first syllable.
Again, lawyers use English inconsistentenly with what is taught.
<sarcasm> They couldn't have a reason, now could they! Guess it's a conspiracy! </sarcasm>