Don't you think you could have used a shorter headline, so Taxes would be on the same line ? you know.. like "US Lawmakers push to make internet tax moratorium permanent"

Or to use your characterization a moment would be captured where the suspect is not backing off. Such a moment is enough to clear the cop.

Not necessarily. Just because a suspect is not backing off does not mean the officer in the right. If the cop is charging at a 'suspect' with a weapon, without explanation or addressing them or refused to prove their identity as a legitimate police officer, then the suspect could very well be legally taking any actions to defend themselves.

That would be great, but it is currently not possible to run a mobile recording camera 24/7 with the batteries available today.

It's not 24/7. The batteries only need to last for say their 10-hour shift; perhaps some extra capacity just in case.

The body cam can also shut off, when the Officer steps in their squad car, and use a break-away charging connector like Magsafe, so the camera automatically turns on and starts recording when the officer leaves their squad car.

They could also have a mechanism to occasionally transmit image capture frames to dispatch along with GPS position, so they will be able to see the Officer is OK, provide continuous tracking history of their location at time X, and what any officer's last position was at any point in time to send help, if there is a problem.

This is exactly what they should do. The bodycam should be _always recording_ in a 10 minute continuous ring buffer.

If the Officer calls in an emergency or unholsters or uses handcuffs, a taser, firearm, handcuffs, or other weapon, or if shots are fired, then recording should start and include the 10 minutes before the incident, and continue recording 10 minutes after all police accessories are re-secured.

I had to help the non-technical staff around my office because they were utterly confused when suddenly they started getting Yahoo results rather than Google, and sites they used to find so easily weren't showing up in their searches.

Sounds like they were in need to switch to another search engine. If you're going to a search engine to find a specific website, then you are doing it wrong.

We have this feature called bookmarks for navigating to sites that you know about.

Don't worry. It's not going to be in cars anytime soon.

I think a Pi running realtime Linux with machine learning looks much more interesting as a possible candidate for replacement of legacy control systems in nuclear fission-based power plants with a much more modern less-expensive system based on current generation commodity off-the-shelf hardware.

Criticisms belong in the IETF discussion forum, but as long as the protocol is an improvement over HTTP/1, then this is progress. Sorry, PKH, about the Not Invented Here.

Yes, if the improvement to be made is great and Google or a 3rd party has already done enough work to have good results, then the standardization process should be expeditious, and if the IETF wishes to stay relevant, they should work to provide technologically better standards at a reasonable pace.

No, clothing, ropes, and handcuffs are not a "medical device"... none is "intended to affect the structure or function of the body" (unless chosen to be marketed that way)

Reading a nice book or listening to an exciting presentation can make you feel more energized. So apparently Youtube and Slashdot.org are medical devices now, and so is any computer that can be equipped with a web browser and internet connection in order to access them.

Handcuffs alter the function of the body by causing it to behave as if crippled through involuntary disabling of the use of hands; although they clearly have a punitive use (cruel and unusual punishment, I would say), they could clearly fall within the definition.

As noted, the device operates is battery powered and influences the brain through electricity, therefore it achieves its primary intended purpose through chemical action on the body....

Also... This device is not intended to affect the structure or any function of the body; as shown in the summary, the device is intended to affect how energized you feel, so this is a highly subjective matter and how nice you feel is not related to any specific structure or function of the body.

Just in the same sense you could stare at a bright light in the hopes of feeling more energized or take a cup of coffee, but it doesn't make bright lights medical devices, and it doesn't make Coffee a drug subject to FDA regulation as a medication, even if these products are advertised that they can do that: the usage is not a medical purpose.

If the device is not intended to diagnose or treat a health condition, then the FDA has no authority over it.

On the other hand.... if the Consumer Product Safety Commission Tsar doesn't like it, the commission could label it as "unsafe" and ban the sale of the product and issue mandatory recall: you know, like they did with buckyballs.

My view is Cable Internet + Netflix and Hulu are good enough, and any family members that want more should pay for it themselves or split the cost of the additional fees.

since the main point would seem to be to instill consumer confidence in putting their money in banks in the first place

Other issues are addressed by federal regulations and required rules that banks need to adhere to and routine auditing that banks have to undergo in order to protect against fraud/theft. There are minimum dollar amounts in capital required to be chartered as a bank, and there are additional private insurance protections banks are essentially required to take out, so banks have to have some coverage against fraud/theft to be allowed to operate. It's just that those protections are not backed up by the full faith and credit of the US government.

Still... plenty of people buy homes and take out Homeowner's insurance policies or Auto insurance policies, even though the government does not guarantee the payout for these policies in the event of a claim coupled with insolvency by your Home/Auto insurer.

FDIC largely insures deposits against honest business failure, as in fractional reserve issues -- such as a run on the bank; anything else is up to a bank's private insurers.

Don't worry, they had to stop digging because the local authorities mysteriously started insisting the excavators apply for some new permits. Those responsible for the safekeeping of the vault with the Holy grail and the Ark of the Covenant, etc are already in the process of using one of the secret secondary backdoors out of the facility to move all the valuables to one of the backup storage vaults.

By the time they resume digging, there will be an empty chamber for them to find.

In other words... the article is a dramatization, also known as clickbait.