Modern freighters can go through a force 12. Good luck doing that in a sailing ship from any era.

Sails and storms dont mix. Innumerable sailing ships had their sails ripped, masts snapped or went to the bottom because of it. Hardly surprising that when a technology that didnt involve having a couple of 50-100 foot high poles with large fabric attached to them that could work in all weathers came along it quickly took over. I mean FFS, this ship had only just left harbour and one of its modern rigid sails got damaged!

Have you seen the shitfest that is their current browser. Ergonomics went out the window years ago so they have form in shooting themselves - and their users, what's left of them -in the foot.

More likely the shrapnel went backwards into the tail engine.

Apparently you cant even understand simple english either. Go play with your lego sonny.

Apparently you're too stupid to realise that most countries have laws that allow governments to restrict what companies do in the national interest without nationalising them. eg selling to certain regimes. But then you posted A/C so no one will know quite what a moron you are.

You might want to come out of your basement sometime. Trump has not been getting his own way with the EU (I presume you've heard of the EU?).

Who's this "you"? I'm not american, HTH, plus Nexperia was sold to the chinese in 2018. Also since when did Trump decide the policies of the Netherlands government?

I never thought someone who read /. would be so utterly naive about hacking IoT devices.

"It's not just laziness."

Noooo, not at all, nooo...

"crank up the heating without getting out of bed"

Nuff said.

"warn you when you need to ventilate your house"

If it stinks, open the window. That thing on the front of your face , called a nose, try using it.

Western governments are slowly waking up to their utter fuckwittery in allowing companies in critical industries to be sold to china just so the C-suite and shareholders could enjoy a fat windfall. People have been shouting about this sort of thing for at least a decade but it was fingers in ears time from naive politicians. As this proves - its too late now.

... at how many people will have this hackable spyware shit in their homes just to save them getting their fat backsides off the sofa to use a manual switch.

The canadians no doubt need some favour or back scratching the FBI could do for them so itll probably be a quid pro quo. Anyway, if this guy is denying these websites their revenue I wont be shedding any tears if he gets nailed.

"What are we racing about?"

The usual - ever bigger bank balances for the tech bros, screw the rest of us who are put out of a job in the meantime. But hey don't worry - AI will generate new jobs! For maybe 1 in 100 people who get fired because of it in a best case scenario.

What would it be a hole in?