Mental notes to myself

I’ve just read a post about the goatse man can cause you get a jail time in the US for posting it on a board or site with a fake title. I’ll not link here the infamous photo here sorry

Here is the related US code:
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It didn’t surprise me to read, some guys are suing Nintendo for failing to include a non-defective remote control. As far as I got, it has something to do with the breaking remote straps which were recently replaced.
Here is a pic for the replaced straps :
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Silently Bell Sympatico updated their terms and service affective by the May 15,2006 but all the news papers and Slashdot figured it out now a days.
Paragraph 17 of the terms and conditions of Bell Sympatico Service, it says:

User Information; Other Information. Your messages may be the subject of unauthorized third party interception and review. An individual with Internet access can cause, among other things, damage, incur expenses and enter into contractual obligations while on the Internet. All such matters are your sole responsibility. Your Service Provider has no obligation to monitor the Service, any content or your use of Your Service Provider’s networks. However, you agree that Your Service Provider reserves the right from time to time to monitor the Service electronically, monitor or investigate content or your use of Your Service Provider’s networks, including without limitation bandwidth consumption, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy any laws, regulations or other governmental request from any applicable jurisdiction, or as necessary to operate the Service or to protect itself or others.

That means they’ll tell you to the big brother if you download mp3s from your favorite bittorrent site.
Also by talking to friends I learned that all the ISPs in Canada doing the same thing already but Bell is the first ISP to announce it on their ToS.

Microsoft yesterday began expanding its anti-piracy program by quietly pushing out a software update that in many cases automatically scans Windows computers and reports on whether they are powered by unlicensed software.

Now big brother bill scans your computer and reports it back to Microsoft.

Grrrr

It’s really not so much that the authorities (the Dutch police in this case) sent out 17,000 text messages to the cellphones of fans who rioted at a Rotterdam footie game as it is the fact that the cell providers operating the airwaves on premises both tracked and divulged the numbers and names of the accounts of all fans present with an active mobile phone. Believe it or not, though, four suspects contacted the popo after getting the texts, and a fifth just turned himself in. Suppose if you’re dense enough to riot over a sports match you’re probably dense enough to turn yourself in over a text message.

from Engadget

From The Globe&Mail: Could it be possible that Canada will make Google or any other Internet search and archiving engines illegal? Bill C-60, which amends the Copyright Act and received its first reading in the House of Commons on June 20, suggests it could be illegal for anyone to provide copyrighted information through “information-location tools,” which includes search engines

here is the rest