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Microsoft Patents the Mother of All Adware
An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica has an article on the mother of all adware patents filed by Microsoft: 'It's such a tremendously bad idea that it's almost bound to succeed. Microsoft has filed another patent, this one for an "advertising framework" that uses "context data" from your hard drive to show you advertisements and "apportion and credit advertising revenue" to ad suppliers in real time.' Ars discusses this disturbing concept, which was originally unearthed by Information Week and we first discussed last week."
Charity Burbage gets Avada Kedavra'd by Voldemort on page 12. Hedwig gets Avada Kedavra'd by a random Death Eater on page 56. Mad-Eye Moody gets Avada Kedavra'd by Voldemort, first mentioned on page 78. Scrimgeour is reported dead on page 159. Peter Pettigrew gets choked with his own hand by Voldemort on page 471. Dobby gets flying mid-Portkey knifed by Bellatrix Lestrange on page 476. Fred Weasley gets explosion'd on page 636. Severus Snape gets snakebitten by Nagini on page 657 Harry Potter gets Avada Kedavra'd by Voldemort on page 704. Nagini gets beheaded by Neville Longbottom on page 733. Bellatrix Lestrange gets outduelled by Molly Weasley on page 736. Voldemort gets punk'd by Harry Potter on page 744. Lol, Phoenix Down'd. Ginny Weasley gets impregnated by Harry Potter. Thrice; James, Lily, and Albus Severus. Hermione Granger gets impregnated by Ron Weasley. Twice; Rose and Hugo. Draco Malfoy gets a son, whom he calls Scorpius. What the hell.