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Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past"

Posted by samzenpus on from the watch-how-you-play dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Either that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:Getting old by klui · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

  3. Re:Either that by nelsonal · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  4. Re:Either that by cat_jesus · · Score: 3, Informative

    If ANY religion teaches hate, then it is not real, It's nothing but made up by man, designed only for the control others through shame and coercion.

    I hate to break this to you but all religions are made up by man.