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Re:Facebook Users Must Be Allowed To Use Pseudonyms, Says Ge... by skreech on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @01:46PM (#4938840)
The SSN is technically a NUID, not an UUID. So legal names are more important in international context (an Indian SSN doesn't mean anything in the US, for example).

But yeah, assigning GUIDs to everyone born in the world, like as "a93sz0sz" would allow uniqueness for thousands of years.

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Re:Facebook Users Must Be Allowed To Use Pseudonyms, Says Ge... by brazzy on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @04:47PM (#4939776)
Yet somehow, I doubt many people would appreciate that kind of uniqueness...
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Re:Facebook Users Must Be Allowed To Use Pseudonyms, Says Ge... by malandrew on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @02:38AM (#4941596)
Actually legal names are a problem even within the US. I recently had problems with getting a California driver's license because my second middle name was abbreviated on my green card, but spelled out fully on my North Carolina driver's license, which I was transferring to California.
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