To Funny: WiFi Company Buries Toilet Cleaning in Service TOS
Tue, 07/25/2017 - 12:55pm
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Hoping to highlight the silliness of lengthy terms of service, one UK WiFi hotspot operator by the name of Purple recently did something amusing: it inserted a "Community Service Clause" into its terms of service requiring that users of its hotspots must perform 1,000 hours of menial labor in exchange for this connectivity. The company, which currently provides WiFi service for companies including Legoland, Outback Steakhouse and Pizza Express, said during the two-week span that 22,000 people agreed to do this by approving the TOS as they used the hotspots.
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http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/WiFi-Company-Buries-Toile...
I Remember . . .
Sometime back in the 80's, not long after Michael Dell renamed his company from PCs Limited to Dell, I noticed the fine print accompanying one of their ads in InfoWorld or some similar trade publication had a little terminology inspired by someone's favorite pizza place--something to the effect of "anchovies not included." Apparently I wasn't the only one who noticed, because in the next issue one of the columnists made a reference to it.
Amazon Web Services Terms
A section of the terms of use for Amazon Web Services has the usual not for use with safety-critical systems, but then rescinds the restriction in the event of a zombie apocalypse:
"57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat.
However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization."