The thing is if you fly to Spain from outside the Schengen zone you have to do a similar thing, although your airline forwards the data on your behalf. And so on for the other Schengen countries (if a Schengen country doesn't currently require it then it'll be rolled out soon).

The main difference between the US and EU might be some aspect of data retention, where usually in the EU the data is deleted after one or two years and there are a few more limitations on who can get to see that data, unlike the US.

So effectively the US and the EU are equally screwed in this respect and each new 'advance' in technology on one side of the pond will end up appearing on the other side, sooner or later.

The first thing you do when you fire up a game is get a warning about using the Wiimote. At that point the most you should have done is point it at the screen and press A, not thrown it at the screen in an attempt to get the game started.

So on the one hand we have weak kids causing accidents using the remote so weakly that the weak strap breaks and on the other we have people who are so strong that they break the new strap when they're waving the remote around.

Ah, lawyers...