If you think they just track license plates you haven't been paying attention.

There are definitely use cases for which it isn't needed. But that doesn't cover everything. There will ALWAYS be use cases that would require (or at least benefit from) higher connection bandwidth...and speed can often substitute nicely.

Well, the only better advice is "Don't put your master copy on the internet" and "Always have backups that you've checked".

That's clearly wrong, as there currently exist (very niche) applications for entanglement. I have strong doubts as to it's wide application, as the conditions for keeping it extant are so severe, but few and niche applications isn't the same as unimportant.

FWIW, ISTM that this might have application to quantum key exchange, I just don't know enough to say yes or no.

I believe it's not just a stunt, even if it doesn't imply what a lot of people seem to believe. (OTOH, I don't really know enough to *assert* that it's not just a stunt. I just see no reason to believe that, and decent reasons to doubt it.)

I'm sure that technically they said something like "The man may be a shoplifter", and thus were correct in that sense. But using a system that does that at that error rate is NOT reasonable. This is like the automated driving systems that require a human driver to take over within 2 seconds. NOT a good idea.

Well, yes. But they didn't actually know that that was what the design implied.

Tests have shown a lot of AI actions that weren't expected ahead of time, but in retrospect should have been obvious.

This requires that you believe they're being honest, with no backing evidence. I can see possible evidence of consistency, but that's a much weaker claim.

If they were lies, then I agree with down-ranking them.
If they were just opinions, then I only agree with avoiding them.

OTOH, I don't use X/Twitter. Slashdot is as close as I come to social media.

I think I heard this story last year, or perhaps a few years ago. I've no reason to think it was the same plant, though.

We're also discovering unceasingly dim objects that are closer. They just don't get the same news coverage. But I'm more interested in wandering planets and planetoids (and even Oort belt objects).

Perhaps the answer is that the "Big Bang" wasn't the first, and these black holes are left over from a prior "universe". In that case, though, why are they so close together.

Yeah, my question is "What isn't prior art?". The summary sure doesn't list anything.

OTOH, it does indicate the direction he wants to push things. He wants these integrated into the lives of people whether they, themselves, use them or not.

But that *does* require that you believe that they are honest to you about their future actions...and that they won't change their mind later.

Pirates were often hanged by the same countries that issued them letters of marque.

Why do you believe what they say when they continually misrepresent things. I'd say "lie", but that implies they know what they're doing.