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Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past"
Google's Eric Schmidt says that people's private lives are so well documented now that the young will have to change their names when reaching adulthood to avoid their youthful indiscretions. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Schmidt says: "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time." A fresh start from the stupid things you did as a kid seems like a good thing. Now we just need a way to get rid of the dreaded family photo album.
Why would you not hire someone because they get drunk in their off times? Wouldn't their performance and history of performance be a lot more important?.
Here's what one *VERY LARGE* employer has to say about why you wouldn't hire someone because they get drunk in their off times:
APPLICABLE ADJUDICATIVE GUIDELINES
GUIDELINE G: ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION
Paragraph 21. The Concern. Excessive alcohol consumption often leads to the exercise of questionable judgment or the failure to control impulses, and can raise questions about an individual's reliability and trustworthiness.
The Library of congress is indexing twitter comments, the internet archive is indexing tons of websites. Google is hardly your only problem. Tons of people are taking interest in logging your online activity for the whole world to see in the future.
When the "internet" was generally available in the form of social networking sites like Slashdot, somebody thought the Usenet Netiquette FAQ was obsolete so people ignored common sense and wrote whatever thought that popped in their heads. I'm not sure if people actually paid attention to the Netiquette back in the mid 1990s but at least they should be aware of such a thing. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855
Nah, I still have a felony conviction for armed robbery that follows me around. Happened when I was 17 years old. Been out and off parole for over 10 years. Am now 41, and still get turned down for jobs because of that conviction.
David Brin beat you by a decade
Here's his 1996 wired column, which he later expanded into a book:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/fftransparent.html
Here's the Wikipedia page on his book "The Transparent Society", which was published in 1998.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
-- Terry
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All things being equal, do you go with the qualified guy who has all his (admittedly harmless) childhood pranks documented on Facebook, or one of the ten other equally qualified candidates who don't?
Neither, I actually do valuable research, I'm a good manager.
"...neurologists are working to extinguish the orgasm; the mental energy required for prolonged worship requires authoritarian suppression of the libido, a vital instinct."
His point is likely to be, sex offenders with dead victims are less likely to get caught, and if the penalties for murder is less than that of sex offenses then the result of the stricter penalties will be an increase in sex offenders murdering their victims. Very few laws are passed with much thought about the unintended consequences of those laws, even when they're easily foreseen.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
I hate to break this to you but all religions are made up by man.