"When you send your fake Rolex (that you think is real) into Rolex for service, they don't send it back to you, they confiscate it as a counterfeit and it's destroyed."

That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. If it's not your product, you send it back to me. You don't go "Oh, you bought a knockoff, we're just going to destroy it and not give you a choice in possibly getting your money back." No, you give me my fucking product back and that's the end of story unless I tell you otherwise.

"pay for"

And here is where you demonstrate yourself to truly be an FTDI shill.

And in what magical world of yours does a device NOT need a driver?

That's what the fuck I thought.

Hence, it is broken.

If something will no longer work, it is broken, no matter how technical or semantical you try to get.

This was INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.

No Os will mount a device with a 0 PID. Therefore it is fucking broken.

"For example linux has a patch that allows the chips to work as a PID of 0"

And for the rest of us non-Linux users? Oh, you didn't bother to think of that because you're too busy shilling for FTDI.

"That would work until the counterfeit chip makers goes so far in their work to create a clone that it would cost as much as the real thing"

Did you even read the prior article? The counterfeit chip is in fact MORE COMPLEX (two banks of SRAM, some other stuff) and should already cost more.

That doesn't stop Chinese knockoff outfits from undercutting.

Displaying one price to a person while displaying a different price for a second person is what I would classify as false advertising.

Especially if they're in the same area, shopping the same store. Being logged in or not should have zero effect on the price.

and $170 more than HP's cheapest laptop which still competes on features, hardware, and usability versus the Mac Mini.

You're just an uninformed Apple Shill. Ever since Apple went Intel, I've ALWAYS been able to find the same or better hardware combinations CHEAPER from other manufacturers. And I used to be an Apple repair tech at Flextronics while Apple was still using G3 and G4 processors in their iBook series laptops.

That STARTING AT $499 is a laughing fucking joke at 1.43 GHz when the Pentium N3540 quad core is pretty much the same thing at $125 cheaper in an HP laptop at HALF the power draw and 2.1GHz, and the HP laptop comes with an optical drive, remote control, a quick-launch OS for easy access to media and such without needing to boot Windows, and a bunch of other shit the Mac Mini won't come with, including A SCREEN and a webcam - STARTING AT $329.

Give. Me. A. Fucking. Break.

Please, I came REALLY close to doing that much while I was in Texas constructing a hydroponics building.

And I'm like half-crippled.

And it was 7 days a week, by my choice. Prevailing wage, room and board, plus spending cash for when I wanted to go out and treat myself. Start work at 3AM, done by 7-8PM, hit the town for a couple hours, come home, sleep hard, wake up, pop coffee down gullet, repeat!

I did that almost a full straight month.

"UAC will display a warning, this exploit only touches users who run as admin."

I run as admin on my Windows7 machine and I get UAC prompts.

Next.

" It's not like spoiled food is not instantly recognizable. "

As former head chef of Jack's Bar and Grill, BULLSHIT.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why some states require licensing for food handling jobs, even if you're working for McDonald's as a janitor.

The nasal cells were responsible for guiding the direction of nerve growth.

Next time they threaten you, shove the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in their face and go "I can take you to court over this, if you want to talk about some billing issues, assholes. We gave you billions in taxpayer dollars for a product you didn't deliver. Guess who owes who right now?"

See, I'm not ignorant like the rest of these morons writing stories.

http://map.ipviking.com/

What's happening right now is Anonymous and Corporate interests (the whole gamergate bullshit) doing DDoS attacks and penetration attacks. Corporate America (Merck and other companies) tossed a solid DDoS at Anon/Chan servers.

Anon said 'U wot m8?' and has brought about every botnet across every major ISP and host in the USA and UK that they have online, and have been attacking.

This isn't China doing shit, you stupid fucks. Get into the REAL security hotlines and learn what the fuck is REALLY happening.

Note: Give that URL 10 minutes to collect data. Watch how the USA is primary attack target and primary attack origin.

Get your fucking false flag bullshit out of here, and Slashdot editors need to start finding new jobs because they sorely suck at this one.

That's from a specific machine IN ANOTHER ISOLATED ROOM. You're only seeing the insertion aperture of the polarizer inside of the clean room.

Also, I hit the video record button while the screen was oriented in landscape, but the phone was facing downwards towards the floor and likely thought I meant to do it in portrait. As soon as I realized it (almost instantly) I just went with portrait since there was no way I was likely to get that happening again that day.