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It took me a minute to find this--remembering it from when it made the rounds a few years ago. "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names". It's a useful reality check for anyone who thinks they can find and record someone's "real name". http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ Perhaps PS4 should consider using VIAF. :) - Tom On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:36 AM, MJ Ray <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Michael Schofield <[log in to unmask]> > > [...] This split topic I'd like to see maybe in another thread is > > about giving full legal names to web services. If anyone watched the > > PS4 reveal last night, you might have noticed that PS4 is giving up > > gamertags (read: aliases) for full names to easily integrate with > > other social platforms. [...] > > Anyone know how they're going to handle namespace collisions, and the > various sexual and racial harrassment that will happen in some games > once you can make assumptions about people from their full names? > > Hopefully, they only need be names and not legal full names. > > This might amuse some of you: I'm not even the first (or in the first > ten) calling themselves "MJ Ray" on one popular web service - the ones > before me are a diverse bunch, too; and I namespace-collided with > myself at least twice while I was both staff for different departments > and a student at an expanding university - the user database required > full names and required them to be unique... oops! I don't think > that's the case any longer... ;-) > > Regards, > -- > MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. > http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. > In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html > Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ >