You do realize that they would require either a massive court settlement where MS loses badly, an extreme 180 in MS corporate leadership, or a complete rewrite of copyright law.

Before HTC starts talking about using eye-tracking in VR to measure ad-views, they need to actually add eye-tracking to the Vive first (there is a 3rd party working on this, but not HTC itself)

As a side note, in the early days of TV, ALL commercials were like this, simply because it wasn't technically feasible to 'cut' to a pre-recorded commercial. Commercials were all done live within the show itself, sometimes with a product endorsement, sometimes by panning the camera over to an off-stage table with a product display, and sometimes by just holding a sign in front of the camera with a live voice-over.

I think someone just forgot to turn off the April Fools machine last year.

Maybe they will remember to do it this year, and we will wake up tomorrow to discover that the entire Trump presidency was just an incredibly elaborate, year-long, April Fools joke.

Unless you bought the gun at a gun show in Florida, in which case the wholesaler sells directly to the end-purchaser, and doesn't record anything.

I wish I had some mod points for you right now.

ANPR (Automatic number plate recognition) cameras in use in the UK (and probably many other places) already do this using computer text-recognition to scan every plate that goes past the camera, and then records the date and time and a video clip into in a database. The police can go back later, type in a plate number, and it will show them every time that car went past any ANPR-enabled camera.

Computer vision is good enough now (in a limited/uniform context like license plates) that RFID isn't really necessary. All it takes it a radar gun, a camera, and some fancy software.

Also, passive RFID (the kind found in smart cards) only has a range of about 3 feet, so it would have to be a battery-powered or car-powered active RFID tag (300 foot range), but then you get into issues of drivers being able to turn it off at will.

I had no idea that term applied to more than just square brackets. It seems obvious in retrospect, though: if they were the only kind of brackets, it wouldn't be necessary to specify that they are square.

The line is written as "A,B,C or D"

In oxford english, it means A or B or (C or D) due to the missing comma after the C
This is the way the drivers are reading it

In non-oxford english, it means A or B or C or D.
This is the way the company is reading it.

I do the same thing with parenthesis. I would write a 4 sentence comment on a site, and it may have as many as 6 sets of parenthesis.

The grammar in question is part of state law, not a contract, and contra proferentem only appears to apply to contracts. Even if it was applied to laws, the state isn't a party to the lawsuit and therefore can't "lose" the case.

This is the part I was referring to, not the article itself.

It was loaded as part of the login screen, before the person had actually gotten into the site (and onion addresses are intentionally nonsense, so there is no way to know what site you are actually going to end up at when you click a link).

They are charging people on the basis that the presence of the FBI spyware alone is proof of guilt, whether or not they find any child porn on the persons computer, and more importantly, whether or not they had actually accessed anything illegal.

It's like setting up a camera at the door to an illegal brothel, and charging everyone who goes through that door with soliciting prostitution, even if they were just drunk and lost.

I suspect that they are hiding some fatal flaw in the evidence collection method, which will invalidate the evidence (or at least violate the warrant) if the full method is revealed.
Other sites have mentioned that the malware may have been loaded too early, before the target had actually broken the law (which takes it beyond the scope of the warrant)

From what I read, the FBI's real problem is that the malware was sent to every visitor to the main login screen, BEFORE they had a chance to log in, and BEFORE any child porn had actually been viewed.