Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" 706
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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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.
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David Brin beat you by a decade (Score:3, Informative)
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 [wired.com]
Here's the Wikipedia page on his book "The Transparent Society", which was published in 1998.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society [wikipedia.org]
-- 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.
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"...neurologists are working to extinguish the orgasm; the mental energy required for prolonged worship requires authoritarian suppression of the libido, a vital instinct."
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I hate to break this to you but all religions are made up by man.