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...ultimate aim of the gift, Glenn said, is to attract more funding for the establishment of a larger aging institute...
...worse, apparently. Consider this gem from the newest version of the terms of service for the AOL Instant Messenger service (AIM): “...by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy...
...didn’t accept the press release—I accepted the terms of service agreement. And to me, it looks like it would only take a little effort for those terms to be twisted into giving AOL the right to publish a book of my (profoundly uninteresting) AIM conversations, claims to privacy notwithstanding...
...users are sufficiently disgruntled to the point that they would do so if they knew this clause was present, we’ve already established that most users almost certainly haven’t read the terms of service to begin with. It’s possible to encrypt AIM conversations so that AOL can’t intercept them, but to do so requires both parties to commit and requires a certain level of technological proficiency which the typical AIM user doesn’t possess...
...opposite of the speech’s main point. I did not argue that we should change the way we live in order to fight the war on terror. On the contrary, as I said in my speech, “The President has declared that our war aim is to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life as a free and open society...