While legally that may be correct, from a practical perspective it probably does not matter. AT&T (et all) seem to be above the law, and beyond the courts

There are audits, and acceptable variances. For instance, there's this.

Auditors regularly check the weight of the patties before cooking. While it won't help much with a specific instance, it will prevent systemic abuse like alleged in the article.

The pound is based on the kilogram. Specifically, a pound is "legally defined as exactly 0.45359237 kilograms"

If the kilogram is changing, so is the pound.

I suspect spin-off (or something along those lines)

If you really pressed for it, you can demand (and will receive) a trial beginning within 30 days. However, you will not be able to mount an appropriate defense, since your attorneys won't be given any info/evidence until the last minute.

None of this really matters tho - 90% of cases end in plea bargains

Speedometers are not precision instruments, so there's a (fairly substantial) margin of error, usually a few mph. As such, most (all?) new cars are factory calibrated to report a few mph slower than actual speed.

Google has already acknowledged that their cars currently cannot handle adverse conditions. They are working on it, but it's down the road (No pun intended). They're first working on getting it working in ideal conditions, since that's surprisingly hard to get right.

All driving laws are state laws, and they vary (pretty wildly) from state to state.

Additionally, culture changes (regardless of law) even just between cities.

I don't know why this is even a story. Technology getting cheaper over time? Competition driving lower costs? Amazing!

BTW, here's a Dell for $199, so the price point isn't even new. Although, this CPU is about half as powerful (~approximate benchmark)

It's still very much the same type of device.

Newer phones SELL for $600-800.
The BOM (cost to mfr) for the Galaxy S5 is $251

I couldn't find a current BOM for a laptop, but a few years ago they had RAM at about $25

The Windows logo doesn't guarantee compatibility with Linux, only that SecureBoot won't be the problem.

Drivers may or may not be a problem, but that will/may be resolved as developers get on board.

Windows Logo Testing (AKA WHQL Certification) pays the OEMs *A LOT* of money. I was informed that, at an OEM a fraction the size of HP (~10k units per month) that it brought in over a million dollars per year. HP's quality is shit, but they aren't going to give away that kind of cash.

A much bigger risk is they negotiate a different agreement with MS for these PCs, which may not have the requirement.

You've apparently never had to deal with buggy Linux drivers. I've been fighting with a buggy nVidia implementation ever since I switched it to be my Linux server. It has never quite worked right on Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu), but since it's a server, it's not a big deal.

I DID find out the hard way when they changed mdadm to HALT BOOT when *ANY* array is degraded, and then not give a useful error message.

If your Windows PC is getting BSODs, either it's hardware fault, or it's a bad driver. (Or possibly a driver-level virus). If the hardware is actually supported by that version of Windows, you should investigate further. There may not be a good driver, but you should be able to at least identify the issue I would start with the NIC driver. I had a D-Link DUB-E100 USB NIC. The Win7 x64 driver would cause the same issues you're having now.

This story from 2008 suggests that the citizens support censorship.

This story from a few months ago says most don't believe it is being censored/monitored.

I'm sure Apple will structure it to ensure the latter cannot be (legitimately) applied. The Chinese team, employed by Apple of China (or similar), will not have access to the encryption keys. Those will be stored stateside, accessible only to employees of Apple of America.

That being said, the authorities will ABSOLUTELY have the power to cut Apple out of China entirely. They will be walking a tight rope between giving in, and standing strong. Google went through a lot of this a few years ago, now Apple will have to try to do the same.