My god, these countries have no respect for American IP laws at all do they?!

I don't believe they're associating weights with the UPCs you scan. It's merely checking that the weight in the bag has changed when it's supposed to, or not changed when nothing was scanned.
You can test this out next time by scanning an item, and then just apply some weight by pressing with your finger in the bagging area. The "place your item in the bag" message will go away, whether you press hard or soft.
I'll do this if I have over-sized items that won't go in a bag, like a 40lb bag of dog food, and the register does not have a "skip bagging" button.

There's no protection for having a stupid password to gain entry to a system.
You may as well have not had one.

It's a Pearson Education owned site. Pearson publishes a ton of college books. Just because they offer Office related training, you're going to discount them as an example of a website that doesn't allow FF?
Even most of MS's sites now work just fine in Firefox.

That's the funny part. It won't let you even login if you're not using IE, but if you use the User Agent Switcher add-on and set it to IE, the entire site seems to work just fine in FF.
(which is what I do)

Yep, that is a bit scary. I've run across sites that cause FF to crash from time to time, even with NoScript running. It is not my first inclination to go and open that site in IE.

I just ran into one this week. myitlab.com

Change ISPs. My colo company specifically states in our contract that they will not touch my server (physically or remotely) without my prior consent. Once they had to rearrange the rack to fit a new server in, and they called me to ask if I wanted to be present or to move mine myself.

Windows runs just fine on Intel Macs without any bootcamp. You can boot up right off the CD like you would a Dell, and install it.

Is the game available to people in the US? I can imagine a horde of fat rednecks trying to make a living by watching some brits on cameras 12 hours a day.
Don't worry my Brit friends, we'll keep a close on eye on you. Just to keep you safe.

Why is this different from Apple not licensing use of it's OS on non-Apple computers?
Wasn't Irix only licensed to run on SGI machines?
HP-UX? Others?

That pisses me off to no end too.
Also why I keep an old pirated copy of WinDVD around, just to install it for the codec.

No. I have an iPhone on T-Mobile. My dataplan is an an extra $20 on top of my normal rate. I don't use many minutes, so have a cheap plan to start with, so my total monthly is around $50.

I keep all of my music on an external RAID array. They can examine the drive in my computer all they want. :)

Yeap. But then that's why we hack it, and then make it do what we wanted in the first place.