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Comment Cutting and pasting T&Cs is hardly unusual. (Score 1) 399

by Ritontor on Wednesday September 03, 2008 @08:40PM (#24867659) Attached to: The 5 Most Laughable Terms of Service On the Net

Basically every website I've ever built has a T&C, and every time we have the discussion with the client about them, it goes like this.

"We need some content for your terms and conditions page"
"ok, umm... what do you think?"
"well, we have a boilerplate T&C we use that covers most bases..."
"OH! well just put that in there!"

I've only ever had ONE company deliver an actual real true to life T&C they wrote themselves, and even *IT* was a cut and paste off of an earlier site they had that we didn't build.

All in all, I'd say that most companies really couldn't give the slightest shit about T&Cs, and it really surprises me the amount of debate that goes on about them around here. Surely people just ignore them and do whatever they want anyway? And as for "we will not sell your details", well, isn't it just easier to assume they will and use mailinator / easily filterable addressses?

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Submission + - More Allegations of Developer Misconduct in EVE

Submitted by umilmi81 on Friday May 25, 2007 @06:14PM

umilmi81 writes: The EVE Online player based alliance GoonSwarm has published an open letter, including screen shots, accusing CCP employees of joining a member corporation, giving himself director level permissions, and then leaving the corporation.

In-game petitions sent to CCP about the incident were subsequently deleted. A forum moderator acknowledged the accusations, and has directed the matter to internal affairs.

CCP created an internal affairs department after admitting developer misconduct on previous occasions.

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IBM Touts Smart Surveillance System 37

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 07, 2006 @12:53PM from the big-blue-watching-you dept.

mikesd81 writes "Reuters reports that IBM hopes to capitalize on the enormous growth in video surveillance. They'll begin selling technology from their research labs that performs real-time analysis on footage captured by security cameras in stores and sensitive locales. IBM contends that it is the first to add advanced search functions, which make use of computers' improving ability to recognize video content. For example, the IBM system would let a user search for all instances of a green car passing by a store on a certain day. It can also incorporate data gathered from audio or chemical sensors. And IBM said S3 includes important privacy enhancements, such as the ability to automatically obscure faces of customers or passers-by. IBM said that S3's target market includes retail outlets, banks, airports, freight terminals and mass transit systems. It is also being sold to public security agencies and other government departments." C|Net reports that the software is so impressive, it may be monitoring border crossings before too long.

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