Shat! There goes my Tank Man Simulator screen-shots.
...helpful in tracing criminals and terrorists as too many use zombied computers and/or accounts under a regular user's name. They're gonna arrest Grandpa for stealing nuclear secrets.
I can just see it now: GOP will bleep with it to require a birth certificate to watch a free cat video, but not to buy an AR15.
"NewScummyIdea"
You mean like the PATRIOT act?
Personally I'd like a plug-in hybrid (PIH), and hope those are perfected soon. It gives one more fuel options. For normal commuting I could plug in at night to charge and never have to visit a gas station, yet have gasoline as an option for longer trips or blackouts.
I expect more pandemics, civil wars, Yellowstone eruptions, petulant Presidents, and/or zombie apocalypses. PIH's are a better fit for chaos.
A shutdown would cause a political stir in the US because it's a popular app.
But this shut-down threat may be a ploy to scare USA regulators etc. If the algorithms were really that unique, they'd patent them to protect them, and then agree to license them to the split-off as part of the settlement as long as the split-off doesn't use or sell them for other apps.
If they are relying on trade-secrecy instead of patents to protect their ideas, they are probably already swiped via mole employees, and/or deemed obvious by others.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.