Re: toward null-safe cookie cutter Comparators

From:
Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:02:34 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<31377212.180.1321491754214.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prnv30>
Gene Wirchenko wrote:

Daniel Pitts wrote:
[snip]
 

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).

Because if I change my legal name, then I have legal recourse for them=

 

discriminating against me ;-).

 
 
 
     "Your Honour, we have documented proof in writing of the
defendant's intent to commit computer hacking. Exhibit A is a name
change application that the defendant ..."
 
[snip]


Cute, but given that Daniel's approach involves no login to any computer sy=
stems, no coding, no scripting nor any other computer activity of his own, =
it would be very difficult indeed to make a case that he's engaging in comp=
uter hacking. In fact, he would make such a change with no certain knowled=
ge that computer systems have a weakness, much less any demonstrable attemp=
t to exploit such weakness.

http://xkcd.com/327/

--
Lew

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