Getting names right is very hard: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
No, getting names right is incredibly simple. It's a single unicode `name` field, stored however your language/db stores unicode. E.g.: name: [person's name] No minimum lengths (other than != 0) and a reasonably large maximum length for your db (only to protect against DoS attacks). Accept all input (into properly prepared SQL statements).
Reread the list with your assumptions in mind (one nonzero-length field, with a maximum field, Unicode).
>They exist in a legal grey area between POWs and war criminals. Yeah, it is pretty normal for a repressive regime to come up with a legal theory for why it is perfectly OK to hold people indefinitely without trial. Normally such theories are only accepted by that particular regime...
I think Obama felt exactly the same way going into office, but quickly realized the people being sent to Gauntanamo Bay are as dangerous, ambitious and as hardened extremists as they had been saying. Releasing them would greatly increase the chances of a terrorist act on western countries. I'm not saying they shouldn't get some kind of trial, but the notion that they are very likely all at the very least future suici…
If the NSA's information gathering operation weren't simultaneously voraciously accruing unto itself powers to operate within the boundaries of the US contrary to its original mandate then the existence of Guantanamo bay as a facility to indefinitely suspend the rights of enemy combatants exclusively outside the boundaries of the US would be far more palatable.