I'm not sure what the civil service laws are in your state, but in Washington they are so laughably vague that all they can reasonably be interpreted to mean is that the director of any particular service must create an employee handbook. Union protections far outstrip what the Washington state civil service laws offer.

Citation needed, because that statement reeks of pure FUD. I can refute that, at least anecdotally. My local county employees have no additional protections other than their union agreement. Even their union protections are occasionally short circuited as all county employees (including managers) are members of the same union.

Actually watching the video, you're right. It doesn't look like a stuck backspace key. However, you should take note that (due to horrible vertical video) the right side of the keyboard is never even seen. She could easily be pressing the backspace key herself when convenient. That video should in no way be taken as evidence of anything other that the fact that she owns a Mac laptop.

What it will require is the government taking the last mile. Either via eminent domain or regulations requiring the current monopoly holder to lease spectrum. The chance of the first happening is zero and the chance if the second is vanishingly small.

They give most any tourist attraction this same tax break. So, while I personally find this particular attraction distasteful, to refuse them a tax break simply because they are a religious organization is almost certainly unconstitutional.

If you think behemoths like Target and Wal-Mart pay the same 2-3% that a corner convenience store does then you're crazy.

No, each religion has it's own dogma, so each one needs to be tested for internal and external consistency individually. It just so happens that the Judeo-Christian God is supposedly omnipotent. This allows for all kinds of mental gymnastics around scientific fact.

Mohammed is certainly far more credible than Xenu. That doesn't mean I can disprove the existence of Xenu. And it certainly doesn't mean I believe in any of them, but I'm not going to misrepresent what science is by claiming that science doesn't allow for their existence.

I'm not sure what belief in the resurrection of Christ had to do with agnosticism. I'm agnostic and I don't believe in the immaculate conception or resurrection, but I'll admit, assuming existence of an omnipotent being (which, while hardly plausible, is not falsifiable), they are possible. And yes, resurrection would be impossible for all but an omnipotent being. That's kind of the point though, isn't it?

Are there really password managers that don't purge the clipboard a few seconds after copying a password?

I think you are seriously overestimating the products affected by this issue. If you're shipping a finished product you're using your own VID & PID, right? If you're not you're already changing the PID to one issued by FTD for your product (you did read the license didn't you?) This (admittedly boneheaded) moved is aimed at the $1 USB to serial adapters being sold on eBay with counterfeit chips. It doesn't affect consumer products at all, but it's got the maker community hopping mad.

This will does not affect consumer devices. Almost all devices containing this chip will ship with the manufacturers VID/PID. Those that ship with FTDI's VID will (if they're complying with FTDI's Iicense) ship with a different PID than the raw chip.

While I agree with this.

This,

is patently false. They are changing the PID on counterfeit chips to 0. Which causes Windows to flat out refuse to enumerate the device and breaks driver compatibility on all OSs.

Comsumer products with this chip in them won't ship with FTDI's VID and PID. They provide a utility for that purpose. This is not a problem that comsumers are going to encounter.

There is no need for a driver for anything other than Windows. Windows requires a .inf file for anything USB (why do you think it claims to be installing a device driver every time you plug in a new USB drive?) This FTDI chip works just fine in Linux without a driver.

No (since all they are doing on the counterfeit chips is rewritting the PID to 0, which is reversible) it's more like ripping the Gucci label off.