> And so did the jury who awarded them $600k

What jury? The payment happened before the trial: "five days before a trial was scheduled to begin in the case, Dallas County officials agreed to pay $600,000 to settle the case".

In fairness, people don't generally give 6 figure settlements if they think the jury will agree with them

States aren't the ones doing the counting, though, the US Census Bureau is

Given that Texas forgot to take advantage of this during the last election, it would seem the incentives are pretty negligible.

Has this ever been tested in court?

What would that even mean? You present the judge an email from your boss and ask "Your Honour, is this an email from my boss?"

This is a serious topic but holy crap can you imagine that. I feel like I’m in bizarro world that anyone takes that argument seriously.

They have a lot of user-created music that doesnt exist anywhere else. Maybe they're trying to sell that dataset to AI companies for training their models. If they allow non-residential IPs, those potential customers could just scrape their site instead.

I've had success using a large capacitor instead of the battery. To keep it charged I connected its positive leg to the 5v USB pin through a diode.

"you will need a Wi-Fi card supporting active monitor mode with frame injection" https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl

Yeah, I saw that. I'm pretty sure that's a statement more about the drivers than the underlying hardware. Open-source drivers often have more limited feature support than the underlying hardware. I doubt anyone is producing WiFi chips that cannot transmit arbitrary software-constructed WiFi frames, or capture and relay to software all the frames they hear, and ACK frames as needed while doing so. But it's very easy to imagine that some of those capabilities would not be publicly documented, or not enabled with the default firmware provided to end users. Those limitations that hinder Linux end-users tinkering with their machines don't necessarily apply to an OS vendor with a deep partnership with the relevant hardware vendors.

Active monitor mode doesn't allow using AWDL while staying connected to a regular Wi-Fi network. That needs special firmware support.

Looks like some cars got stuck in a storm a few weeks ago, so they don't seem to be proactively suspending operation during bad weather: https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/waymo-temporarily-susp...

They could claim copyright infringement if you distribute their SDK in your firmware without their permission.

Can a single senator issue a subpoena, or does it require a vote?

Some committees are chartered with the ability of the committee chair to issue subpoenas.

My bees would swarm if they filled up the hive and had no space to put more honey or brood.

Just like bees in the wild, otherwise they'd never make new colonies.