This is exactly what I did with my son. I installed vmplayer, created a VM and locked everything down so that the only internet access that he has is via the VM. The one difference from the parent is that I do not back up and restore any files, that is his problem. When he screws up the current VM, I just remove it and drop in a copy of the original VM. I am done within a half hour. You should have seen my son's face the first time that he screwed up the VM. He could not believe that I just blew away the VM with all his data on it. He learned very quickly after that to keep backups of everything that he wants to keep.

Basically, that is the way that I see it. There is no other way for them to tell if I watched the commercials.

When my wife signed us up, I really assumed that they would have some type of electronic device that would track everything or they would have a way to pull the info from the DVRs.

If they really wanted to be accurate, they would get together with the different providers of the DVRs, Cable boxes, Sat receivers, etc and add the ability to log all the needed data. You would have to also build in the capability for the user to shut off the logging so that people will not complain about their privacy being invaded. You could then upload the logs on a nightly basis from all the users that allow it and compile it. There is so many ways that you could slice the data. There is enough people that would be willing to do this that you would get pretty accurate numbers. You would also get the numbers year round instead of the one week a year as it is in the current system.
I bet that there are ways to tag the individual commercials so that they can track which commercials are actually being watched. They could compile this data and sell it to the add companies so that they have better data on what catches peoples attention. I also notice that a lot of times, I will watch the first commercial before I remember that I can fast forward. I usually also catch the end of the last commercial. They could sell this info to the TV stations which could use that data to justify charging more for the first and last commercials in a break.

I actually one of the Nielsen families this year, my wife signed us up and we were selected. I was actually surprised that it was very low tech. You are given a booklet for each TV in your house. You have to hand write in the information. There is a column to fill out if you watch something that was DVR'd. I used that column for almost everything I watched. Since each row is a 15 minute time block, if you took more then 45 minutes to watch an hour long show, you would have either have to shorten the time to 45 minutes or say that it took 60 minutes to watch the show. I assume that if you lengthened it to 60, they said you watched the adds. On 30 minute shows, most people probable did what I did and just marked down that it took 30 minutes. Every couple shows, I would have a 15 minute show so that the time would match up again. on top of all that, there is no way to track the number of times that I paused the shows, to do something else (get a drink, eat, use the bathroom, take care of the kids, etc) So, I would not trust any of the data about commercials at all.

The warrant might be presented to the ISP, but it is for a specific persons email.

The Article compares it essentially to when the government seizes property that is in the possession of a third party, it only has to notify the third party, not the property owner. I am not a lawyer and don't play at being one. But, outside of internet related cases, have you ever heard of a warrant being issued to person "A" that states is does not want person "A's" property, just the property that person "A" is holding for person "B".

A good example would be: Has there ever been a warrant issued directly to the USPS/UPS/FedEx for all mail/packages sent to/from Person "B" that did not require that person "B" be notified of the warrent?

Which of the three make it not not viable transportation or a real vehicle? The fact that it has 7000 batteries should not factor in at all. Would you feel better if it was just one big battery of equivalent size? As for the $100k and 2 person point, most sports cars over $100k are only 2 person cars. So, are they also not real vehicles. For you they might not be feasible but for someone that does not have kids, has a relatively short commute, and can afford it, it is viable transportation and I bet a lot of fun.
When most new technologies are released, they are usually priced where the average person can not afford it. But over time either the price will come down or newer cheaper versions are build. Look at the cost of the first Plasma TVs that came out, they were around $10k to $15K. Enough people bought them at that price that the price started dropping and other vendors started producing cheaper and better quality TVs. The same happened with PCs, Gaming consoles, DVD players, Blue-Ray, and the list goes on. The same thing will happen here. Tesla is already working on a new model (http://www.teslamotors.com/models/index.php) that is cheaper ($50K), has better range and can hold more than 2 people.

That's all well and good until your child goes up to that lady and says that "my daddy says that you are going to have a baby", and it turns out that she is not really pregnant.

Get me an intergalactic lawyer. I am going to sue! I never signed a release form to allow them to put me on a TV show.

I admit that I am not an astronomy expert, but I thought that we travelled around the center of the galaxy in the galactic plane and that we pass thru the spiral arms. It is the spiral arms that have the large concentrations of stars and dust.

if you look closely at the article, this is something that the air force did between 2005-2007. so this is actually old news. 'The Air Force began the project in 2005 and finished installing the new configuration on systems in 2007. In contracts with hardware providers it demanded that vendors pre-load the special Windows XP configuration onto systems before delivering them to the Air Force.'

That would not work either. You can not calculate the number of responses that would have been generated if the messages were not deleted.