Countries have been known to remove passengers from airplanes stopping at their landing fields for breaking local laws from their home turf. But it *is* less common. (One of those countries is the US.)

Intel could never *really* be trusted, because of "national security" and "national security letters". But this *is* worse.

Perhaps, but I think the government taking partial ownership is a way to cause it to fail...at least internationally.

Bacterial infections are generally worse than viral infections, so I don't think that argument holds. You can find specific exceptions, but it's not the general rule. Also keeping inflammation high has lots of other risks, like increasing the danger of anaphylactic shock, and using more energy. It would probably also increase the rate of aging, but that's more of a guess.

Doing it "for days" might well be safe, and worth the cost in some circumstances, though.

This is more trademark violation, or possibly malicious impersonation. I can't recall anyone ever defending "pretending to be someone so you can get paid as if your work was theirs"....except...well, there was El Mir, of course. That's pretty similar. And I have known folks who defended El Mir. (But in his case people saw what they were buying before they paid.)

It depends on your needs. Consider Falkon, since that's a good choice (for some purposes) not usually mentioned.

Calling it "one of the world's most popular Linux distros" is well overstating the case. I've heard about it, and it's supposed to be technically good. But a bit difficult. I can't imagine comparing it's popularity with SuSE, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, ...at least not favorably. I'll admit I've considered installing it, though I've never gotten around to actually doing so, but I've also installed Mint and Mandrake and lots of other distros.

I assume it's because it's interfering with their use of the web/site. Which is a real problem, but doesn't bother everyone equally.

The last time I check there was a considerable amount of software applications that ran on (pick a version) of MSWindows, but did not run on Linux. (And conversely, of course.) This can make switching difficult for some users. I was once stuck on Mac OS 7.?, because I needed an application that wouldn't work on any later version.

There are many use cases where a quantum computer would be valuable. Simulating chemical interactions sounds like one of them. Actually, and IIUC, relaxation based quantum computers are already of some use. Ones that had a more general computational capacity would be more useful were they even nearly as efficient. Factoring numbers is not one of the desirable (to me) use cases, though, it's just one of the easy ones to test.

Yeah, but calling this a single ion qubit, when it needs a bunch of lasers to hold it in place, id EXTREMELY misleading. It may well be developed into something more efficient then the current quantum computers, but it's not shrinking to even nearly the size of an atom.

Yeah, I was just triggered, because some apps already show up in dark mode without my wanting it. When I looked at the story again, the forcing was applied to the apps, not to the user.

Damn. I don't want to buy an iPhone, but I may have to, because I cannot read dark mode text.

Not yet. Maybe next year.

The idea long preceded Apple's implementation. I think there were car-based implementations in the 1950's.