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This makes no sense to me. Why does our government need Boeing-grade solutions to very simple problems? Can our federal IT department not spend 60 seconds on Google, look up "Drone Jammer", and find this well-documented solution? Why can't they make something like this? FCC? Psh...these are the feds we're talking about. If Stingrays aren't a problem for them, jamming commercial drone frequencies won't be either. Maybe the electrical diagrams too complex for Uncle Sam to know what to do with? Oh, they want to detect them also? Another 60 seconds with "Sonar to detect drones" tells me that our friends across the pond have developed drone sonar for Heathrow. I'm pretty sure we're good friends with the Brits and can figure out how to use this technology in our prisons. Seriously...I've seen high school science fair projects look more complicated than this.

Or maybe I'm not getting the point. Maybe our government just doesn't want to bother coming up with their own solutions. Maybe they just want to throw our tax money away.

As an engineer working for a company that rhymes with bored, this is a disaster of biblical proportions for VW. Ive already heard people calling them smokeswagons and having a hard time reselling, but its important to remeber that this could have happened to any automotive manufacturer with a lapse in conscience.

And nobody seems to be saying anything about the Bored Bocus that does the exact same thing.

http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

Your figures are off.

http://www.bbc.com/news/electi...

How difficult would that make things? They could write the software in Cuba and sell it through a subcontractor in a different country. It's not as if software requires a 'Made in' label, and this has been done in the past on the very small-scale, quite lucratively.

" government needs to be more strict with publicly funded research and ensure that the results end up in the public domain"

This idea is laughable, since the US is an oligarchy.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

Over the last 200 years rights for big business have always expanded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Copyright_term.svg

Most cops carry 2 guns, a knife, a baton, a Taser, and pepper spray. They wear a bullet-resistant vest, steel-toed boots, and have a radio to call for backup with...and yet they're terrified of a guy in shorts and a t-shirt.

They're also afraid of naked people. The officer in that case went to the grand jury this week with a powerpoint show explaining how he thought the victim had "super powers," and would not be stopped by pepper spray. How tazing him would have made him stronger.

The powers that be have been teaching us to be afraid of shadows for so long, even the police are paranoid

"They are building hundreds of nuclear power plants."

And they're not even all in China:
http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

Claim are made the sister Suspended for three days, this from a rabid right wing politicians web site http://www.allenbwest.com/2015... becomes expelled for bomb scares. Typical pseudo religious, pseudo conservative bullshit, lies upon lies upon lies. If I had a child who had correctly designed and connected the circuits of a clock and was arrested and accused of terrorism, I would also with out hesitation leave the country, next time he could have half a dozen out of control law enforcers empty their magazine into the child's chest and half the surrounding landscape. Choke on your hatred and bile, just as you choke your country with it. What can you celebrate, the most hated murderous regime on the planet, far outdoing all the rest of the world combined in destruction of the planet and of humanity. Raging greed and hate, how about the white girl who had a circuit board on her T-Shirt, responce from 'your kind' of crazed law enforcement, "She was lucky I did not shoot her in the head".

The reality is most of the attack was based around failed jock strap douche bags who hate computer geeks and nerds, jealous of their intelligence. No real threat just wanted to stick it to a smart ass, typical jack ass response. Why the huge offence because any one who rejects American exceptionlism who does not support America Number 1, no matter where they come from in the world or who they are must be attacked, must be denigrated, must be abused. Just crawl away you lead head http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi..., you are just so pathetically what the love of motor vehicles turned you into, a society and culture poisoned by the toys they loved more than any other country. Actually physically poisoned, not some simile - less caring, less understanding and less morale, as a result of inhaling all those tetraethyl lead fumes, ahh, do you smell the stink of that irony for what you did to yourselves and why your society is abusing the rest of the world in such a criminal fashion. Who wouldn't leave given a great opportunity, well, I suppose leads heads wouldn't.

The diagnosis itself is not a causal one, and the exposure "is nearly four times the annual dose allowed for nuclear workers in Japan but is less than half the amount US nuclear workers can be exposed to in a single year." (BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...).

As for the 1,600 deaths in the evacuation - not one of them was as a result of exposure to anything except the hysteria that comes from exactly this kind of overblown fluff.

Disgusting.

At least one expert disagrees with you.

"Dr Lynn Dicks, a biodiversity and ecosystem services research fellow at the University of Cambridge, told the Science Media Centre: "We now have robust evidence that neonicotinoids have a serious impact on free-living bumblebee colonies in real farmed landscapes."

http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

These people destroy monuments, critically endangered birds northern Bald ibis, and anything that stands in their apocalyptic way, except of course Toyota pickups, infidel weapons and young girls. They don't need no scientists helping them - ridding the world of the infidel will give them Allah's blessing, and presumably feed them.

You rate this hysterical drive "Insightful"?
WTF is wrong with you, /. ?

But right now a drone is going to give someone a bad cut or maybe take out an eye.

Here are some much worse things done by remote controlled aircraft.
Kill someone
Interfered with fire fighting
Interfered with police
Invasion of privacy

As for drones interfering with flight operations, have you ever met a goose? If you are a pilot and your choices are to hit a goose or to hit a drone pretty much every pilot will chose the drone.

How many geese to you know that carry a lithium battery that can explode under the right circumstances? Geese are not within human control but drones are. We do what we can.

These people destroy monuments, critically endangered birds northern Bald ibis, and anything that stands in their apocalyptic way, except of course Toyota pickups, infidel weapons and young girls. They don't need no scientists helping them - ridding the world of the infidel will give them Allah's blessing, and presumably feed them.

And odd sleeping patterns did carry over into the Western world, too. It's called segmented sleep and there are tons of old books that mention it. What we are doing now came about as a result of the industrial age, when we started to have to work 8 - 10 hour shifts.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

You're a liar. Assange has repeatedly offered to be interviewed at the Equadorian embassy. Swedish officials have interviewed people abroad in similar circumstances numerous times in the past. Those officials are every bit as dishonest and dishonorable as you are in this case. Read this. -PCP

No, he has not been charged.

As another poster noted, Sweden isn't Switzerland, and you should probably educate yourself before making making an even bigger mockery of yourself. Although reading may be difficult for you, it is imperative that you read the entire referenced piece to prevent further demonstrations of extreme idiocy. Have a nice day, champ. -PCP

40% of the world's malnourished children are in India.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Why nobody is concerned?

While I'd say that it would be possible to remain incognito on facebook with caution and a sprinkling of technical knowledge if they rescind their real names policy, the EU at least is finally making moves to restrict its ability to transfer data to regimes with fewer protections for proviacy.

.. 30 minutes is, indeed, fucking lightspeed.

Not really. BBC article: "The official said the first bomb had landed at 02:10, and MSF staff called Nato in Kabul at 02:19 and military officials in Washington a few minutes later, but the bombing continued until 03:13."

You seem to be saying the problem is just bureaucratic incompetence, and that was my guess initially. But now, after hearing the details, I'm betting on the side of deliberate action. And believe me, if I have a bias, it's solidly against the Taliban. But, unlike you, I'm not the type to construct an imaginative set of circumstances to excuse my country's military. NATO deliberately ignored the calls from Medecins Sans Frontieres.

your healthcare system costs 100-1,000x less than ours does and you live longer with a higher quality of life

your higher education is so cheap, you'll even take americans for free if they do good on their exams, no need to even learn german

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

of course germany has problems, every nation does, you're an idiot if you think i was describing germany as some sort of paradise

but from this side of the pond, germany is clearly and unequivocally doing better on the issue of social safety nets, for which us americans are paying many multiples of, for far less benefit, because morons here think it's a free market, and plutocrats corrupt our elected officials to keep thew gravy train flowing

Just WOW. You yanks are so indoctrinated in your gun culture you have lost leave of you common sense.

Guns can kill people because of
- Accidents, exp Kids
- Suicide
- Partner Violence
- Mental Illness
- Criminals & Gangs

When you have SO MANY FREAKING guns you are going to get more gun deaths.
In fact you are 10 (yes 10) times the gun death rate of comparable western countries.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

You are drinking the NRA's cool aid + your links were crap and had nothing to do with statistics of Gun homicides per capita: a real measure of the social impact of Guns.
Since you like the Washington Post, try this
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
or the BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

For civilized western countries, the USA gun homicide rate is 10 times that of comparable countries.

This is because
- You have freaking guns everywhere. Accessibility increases the homicide rate (kids find them, a bullet does more damage than a punch etc.etc)
- You have an African American problem. When a people group you beat on for hundreds of years get their freedom & guns: you've got a problem.
- The USA celebrates violence: You as a culture group are not mature enough to have guns as freely as you do.

It will take multiple generations to solve your gun violence problem. If you put in sensible gun reforms like Australia, you will have 20-30 years of criminals having a vast supply of weapons, while law abiding people don't: thus the laws will fail from the outcry of the innocents.
I'm afraid your goose is pretty much cooked.

Without guns people only have knives to play with. It still doesn't solve the underlying problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

A large part of the cost of housing in the US these days is due to codes. Yes, that is a big drain on the economy and a big obstacle to housing affordability.

You said it. If only big government would let people who clearly know what they are doing take care of hooking up their own gas lines, stop having so-called inspectors shut down private homes because they "smell funny", not harass honest builders over which materials they use in construction, and allow small busineses to take care of maintenance on their own, then life would be much better.

Think of all the money that could be saved!

> Any news on that modular Google phone?

Yeah. August 8, 2015 -- Delayed.

The funny thing is, it should be SO EASY for Samsung to compete with Apple. The iPhone is practically a stationary target.* You know when the next one will be out: late Summer/early Fall. You know what they'll be like: thinner. Samsung should go after the low-hanging fruit and do what Apple won't. Here, Samsung, I'll give you the first two for free:
1. Offer 32 or 64 GB storage at the entry level.
2. Make it a few mm thicker with 2x the battery life.

I like most of the stuff Apple makes, but 16 GB has been the entry-level storage of the iPhone since the 3GS. That means the 4, 4S, 5, 5S, 6, and 6S all started at 16 GB. Do you see that? They've been standing still for SEVEN GENERATIONS.* Partner with Amazon and sell cheaply (or give away) many GB of storage for pics. They've ditched the Fire so they shouldn't mind. 16 GB drives me NUTS. A single photo on my 5S is 2-2.5 MB.

And thinness -- the original iPhone at 11.6mm was TOTALLY FINE. I'd HAPPILY carry a phone that "thick" if it meant I could have way better battery life. Instead, Apple shaved off 4.5mm but they still have that ridiculous camera bump. How much easier do they have to make it? COMPETE, you retards, don't just copy.

Oh yeah, and please make a 4" model for those of us who don't like gigantophones.

You don't have to try to be cool like Apple. You can be the Corolla to Apple's BMW. The Corolla is the best-selling car of all time, you know, and Toyota seems to be doing OK.

* I'm not saying Apple hasn't innovated or hasn't done anything worthwhile in all that time -- I'm just saying they're leaving some big things on the table here, just WAITING for someone to come along and snatch them up.

Surface temperatures will climb faster when we move into an El Nino phase, if that's what you're looking for.

And you don't have to look very far; it's happening right now: Current El Niño climate event 'among the strongest'.

For chrissake, step out of the basement and READ. I beg you. I deplore of you. Every single point you're making has been debunked to death for years. There is no such thing as 'global warming hiatus'. Only bad data, measurement inaccuracies over the oceans, and a regional pause in warming over North America and Europe, which has been more than compensated for by an incredible degree of warming at the poles. http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

> Every time someone takes a step, they cause a small earthquake. Does that mean they should sit very still and starve to death? Similarly, if a small amount of AGW isn't seriously dangerous, does that mean we should kill hundreds of millions of people through energy poverty to fail to solve something that really isn't that much of a problem?

Actually climate change is a very serious problem and by far the cheapest way of dealing with it is to deal with it right now. It is projected - based on optimistic predictions! - that the economic damage caused by climate change would dwarf the expense of dealing with it. And if you do it in a smart way, it doesn't even need to be that expensive to deal with. Solar and wind are already pretty cheap and could create lots of jobs. The price of oil is going to continue to rise; the sooner we reduce our oil consumption the less we have to pay in the long run. Any way you look at it, it's beneficial economically and environmentally to deal with climate change as soon as possible. Except, of course, if you're a coal magnate, which anti-agw people either are or are useful idiots for. Sorry to say this but it's true.

The main reason why diesel consumer vehicles all but died in North America in the 90's was that they had developed a reputation as being "dirty"

Diesel engines of passenger cars died back in the late 70s and early 80s, mostly due to a bunch of absolutely terrible vehicles produced by the Big 3 during that time. It wasn't just that they were dirty (though they were) but they were incredibly unreliable and badly designed. They did things like converting gas engines to run diesel with disastrous results. It was so bad that demand for diesel vehicles in the US dried up for nearly 30 years. Now it appears that diesel has gotten another black eye which is unfortunate.

On its official WeChat blog, Tencent said the security issue affected an older version of its app - WeChat 6.2.5 - and that newer versions were not affected.

It added that an initial investigation showed that no data theft or leakage of user information had occurred.

So I googled WeChat, as it sounds like a great tool... and it tops today's headlines about malware in it: http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

If parents need to spy on their children . . . there is a lack of trust.

Sometimes there are children who just cannot be trusted to make good decisions - who have proven that they are going to make bad decisions over and over again.

And sometimes children just make mistakes and in this unkind world such mistakes can be very dangerous indeed.

Case in point: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
Snippings from that article for your convenience:
"When we got into her Facebook account, we realised that she had a profile that we didn't know about..."
"Sixteen days after Karen disappeared, she was abandoned at a bus terminal[...]
"[...]she didn't understand the magnitude of the danger she'd been in."
"Elizabeth took her to a conference where she met girls who had been trafficked."
"It was when she heard their stories and realised what hell they'd been through that she finally realised the danger she'd been in. She went to the conference as one girl, and came back another," says Elizabeth.

i wouldn't worry about it, we're losing plenty of mass, and gaining plenty of mass too.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

There are many people who've been promoting this idea. I'm sure some from before you and some after. It seems to actually have already worked in Germany and possibly elsewhere.

http://www.neweconomics.org/bl...
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-...

"I have no doubt that the NSA (etc) have been monitoring your top level communications the same as they have for the rest of Europe (etc)."

Not according to Wikileaks.

Absence of confirmation is not confirmation.

"Luxembourg demands clarification on NSA allegations"
http://www.wort.lu/en/politics...

"NSA spying | Luxembourg threatens military action against America"
http://worldnewsdailyreport.co...

Also didn't your PM have to quit over a spying scandal just a short two years ago?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

If the Swedish Justice System was so bad why did he go to Sweden instead of some other country?

Because he hadn't committed any crimes in Sweden before he went there????

You can read whatever agenda into my posts you feel like, by admitting he didn't know what the Swedish system was like you're agreeing with every damn thing I just said.

Willfully obtuse? He wasn't accused of any crimes before traveling to Sweden, aside from the purely political ones whined about by the United States. So the "why did he go to Sweden instead of some other country" is the first of many non-sequiturs..

If the Swedes wanted to turn him over to the US they could do so simply by lying

And Obama could order the USAF to launch drone strikes on both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump tomorrow, but that's not going to happen either. There is no way the Swedish government survives if they've spent years crying rape only to say "just kidding, guys! It was really just a pretext to hand Assange over to the U.S. the whole time!"

OTOH, if you have ever actually dealt with Swedes, you know their obsession with proper rules and procedure borders on OCD (their shock when someone is so gauche as to cut in line has to be seen to be believed), and it's quite credible for them to claim they can't sign such an agreement since it would not be valid under Swedish law.

Even the top paid hack on this subject, Rei, admits that Swedish laws don't allow deportation for "intelligence crimes". Sweden, like most civilized countries, could vow not to deport a suspect to a regime that's fond of executing and torturing people they don't like. Regimes like the United States.

Again, you're not understanding how it works in Sweden. Sweden is not an Anglo-Saxon country with a legal system based on Jury trials. It's its own country, based on a completely different legal tradition, which uses Swedish. The terms can be translated into English, but that doesn't mean they magically become the same English-language concept anyone who watched CSI is familiar with.

Ad hoc canard #347. Swedish authorities have done exactly that - traveled to other countries to question suspects without bringing them back home in handcuffs. Hell, they've offered to do that with Assange in London.

You're delusional.

You're a fool and a tool for an empire.

Look, this isn't hard. If Sweden says this is about rape, then fucking make it about rape and promise not to hand Assange to the United States.

Wow, I guess the Hillary fans are out in force, marking a comment that is true as troll because it is inconvenient.

Even Hillary admits that she was wrong now:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

When he arrived back in Paris with news of the cure he was told by everyone in the medical community they have no use for the words of savages and was in fact not until 1933 that we isolated vitamin C, enabled by Linus Pauling's 1931 paper (that Einstein could not make head nor tails of) that explained the atom in terms of living things enabling the fields of molecular biology and quantum chemistry and leapfrogging the infancy of biochemistry to the next quantum level.

"Explained the atom in terms of living things"? No, this is just babbling.
Also, it is not true that Einstein could not make heads or tails of the paper. I know what you're referring to, and you got it wrong.

Here's an example. You wrote:

"29 January 2015 Last updated at 00:55 - We've now seen several cases that don't have any symptoms at all, asymptomatic cases," said Anavaj Sakuntabhai who suggested the virus might be mutating.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health... [bbc.com]

Giggle. The virus didn't change. People did.

That is wrong. The virus does and did change. Here are some details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Rates of genetic change are 8*104 per site per year and are thus one fourth[20] as fast as influenza A in humans. Extrapolating backwards, Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus probably diverged several thousand years ago.[21] A study done in 1995 and 1996 found that the genes of Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus differed by about 55% at the nucleotide level, and at least 67% at the amino acid level. The same study found that the strains of Ebolavirus differed by about 37-41% across the nucleotide level and 34-43% across the amino acid level. The EBOV strain was found to have an almost 2% change in the nucleotide level from the original 1976 strain from the Yambuki outbreak and the strain from the 1995 Kikwit outbreak.[22] However, paleoviruses of filoviruses found in mammals indicate that the family itself is at least tens of millions of years old.[23]

And this:
http://www.nature.com/news/ebo...

Crick and Watson wrote it up (they didn't discover jack shit, they literally did acid all the time, bored, looking for a grad school thesis and literally pocketed Roz's notes when she was at lunch. Nice Jewish girl doesn't get the credit and this is why people hate England, prats like this. But I digress.

I already knew the Franklin, Wilkins, Watson and Crick story. Your version is gross mis-statement of the events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Read the section on DNA
http://www.nature.com/scitable...

Stonehenge was for music. BOOONG said stonehenge. Stonehenge goes BOOONG. BOOOOONG. BOOOONG. You are Stonehenges. Say BOOONG. Say BOOOOONG you stonehenges!

You're absolutely right, except the number of cyclists who break the laws vs motorists is really unbalanced. I live in Toronto and the number of times a cyclist doesn't stop at a stop sign, traffic light, or will dart amongst traffic, really is getting ridiculous.

France is changing the law with new signs that indicate when a cyclist can run a light - with caution (i.e. blinking yellow).
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

"It is important to note that the change only affects right turns or going straight on at a T-junction - in other words where the cyclist can hug the pavement.
At a crossroads, even if there is no traffic, bikes will still have to wait for the green to go straight on."

Bicyclists should wait at red lights just like everyone else, for example. It doesn't mean "stop, look, then proceed if you don't see a car crossing". It means you wait until it turns green.

Why? You make an assertion without providing a reason. Starting at the same time as cars exposes bicyclists to the risk of both right hooks and left hooks. Fully stoppimg also means that the bike is longer on the crossroads. If the crossing road is obviously clear of traffic, it can be safer to run the light. At least thats what a study conducted in Paris concluded. As a result, bicyclists are now explicitly allowed to run red lights at a few marked crossings.

The right-wing Indians are proving themselves to be in the mold of the old Italian fascists. If they don't like what you say, they kill you. LINK

Bad idea. You're making the assumption these things work. The idea is well intentioned, "oh those poor people that have no access to modern western medicine".

Pity the poor Baku in the coastal forest of west Gabon who have a natural immunity and cure for Ebola (There are tribes of Indians in the amazon in Bolivia too. Why? Riddle me this: what does the soil in Bolivia have in common with Senegal? That's the key to Gabon. Wouldn't you rather that than 40 years of trying to make a vaccine that at it's best is 25-75% effective. Note the death rate outside africa. Other than 2 (3?) we didn't hear about, or heard about when their liver had turned to soup, nobody else died of a disease that's up to >99% fatal (WHO).

http://en.ird.fr/the-media-cen...
I think its safe to say it's no longer a "possible" immunity. There's more than one way to skin a cat, and immunization technology from 1720 from the school of homeopathy ("like protects against like"; this remains unacknowledged but unverifiable) is one way but not the only way.

"29 January 2015 Last updated at 00:55 - We've now seen several cases that don't have any symptoms at all, asymptomatic cases," said Anavaj Sakuntabhai who suggested the virus might be mutating.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health...

Giggle. The virus didn't change. People did.

British nurse cured of Ebola credits new drug - and strawberries
"Back in Britain, the decision to try MIL 77 was not difficult. “I said ‘I have Ebola, so, yes, I’d rather have that than high-dose vitamin C,’” she said"
"“I reckon I’ve had 10 punnets,” joked Corporal Anna Cross, who smiled nervously as she talked for the first time after her treatment at the Royal Free Hospital in north London." (10 punnets would be about equal to two 1000mg injections a day)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

April 2015 - semen found infected after 175 days, twice the previous record.
http://io9.com/ebola-survivors...

The Ebola outbreak in Liberia is over
9 May 2015 -- Today marks 42 days since the last confirmed case of Ebola in Liberia was safely buried — the period of time set by WHO to declare an outbreak over. WHO now considers Liberia free of Ebola transmission.
http://apps.who.int/ebola/libe...

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - Ebola Not Mutating Beyond 'Normal' Rate, Scientists Say
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medline...

28 May 2015 | Did real-time epidemic modeling save lives in West Africa?
http://spectrum.ieee.org/compu...

Ask yourself what might have happened on October 17 2014.

"Pity the tribes in South America and North America who never suffer the effects of influenza.
"Folklore of past civilizations report that for every disease afflicting man there is an herb or its equivalent that will effect a cure. In Puerto Rico the story has long been told "that to have the health tree Acerola in one's back yard would keep colds out of the front door." 1 The ascorbic acid content of this cherry-like fruit is thirty times that found in oranges. In Pennsylvania, U.S.A., it was, and for many still is, Boneset, scientifically called Eupatorium perfoliatum 2. Although it is now rarely prescribed by physicians, Boneset was the most commonly used medicinal plant of eastern United States. Most farmsteads had a bundle of dried Boneset in the attic

>> Maybe they hired someone an paid $100,000 to do it, and he went and selected a different font in 30 seconds of work

Remember when Gap did that? I'll bet they paid more that $100K for their turd, making Google's font change a bargain!.
http://adage.com/article/behin...
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

Actually, autonomous cars are programmed to exceed the speed limit by up to 10 mph. This is done because Google deems it safer than driving at the speed limit and being slower than the other cars on the road.

http://gizmodo.com/googles-autonomous-car-is-programmed-to-speed-because-i-1624025227
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28851996

It's mentioned here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Here are some people who lived on a hill near the ocean. Hope you do better than they did.

Thats not a hill, it's a coastal sand dune. Building your home on a beach dune is idiotic at the best of times.

I live on a hill, so I guess I'm safe. Can't wait till I have waterfront property though.

Here are some people who lived on a hill near the ocean. Hope you do better than they did.

Just from a risk perspective, I trust Google far less than a random Chinese company. But, even ignoring the risks in each and looking at it from a technical perspective: Google has more technica prowess, more brand power, more politicians on their side, and they've been repeatedly caught doing EXTREMELY sketchy shit.

This why the Internet Of Things people keep talking about is going to be so awesome ! ;-)

Lot's of products are failing and it's going to get a whole lot worse soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cars are my 'favorite' topic right now:
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/g...
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/h...
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
etc.

They were already warned about the problems in 2011, there was a talk at Usenix conference about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They did say: business models are a problem.

So maybe that's the cause.