What does your hate of FTDI have to do with your love of PICs?

Here's a list of microcontroller brands which include built in USB in their lineup:

PIC
AVR 90, mega and xmega
AVR32 UC3
STM32
MSP

Actually the only standout I really could find was Parallax Propeller series. They don't seem to produce one with USB support built in.

Prolific had some counterfeiting problems too, and while they didn't brick devices by changing them they did release a never ending stream of updates with the only improvement being that they no longer worked with counterfeits.

The real alternative is to stop working with USB bridges. With so many microcontrollers come with native USB support and excess memory to implement it. They only real problem then is you need a VIN, something you got automatically when using a bridging chip.

I don't know what's worse, that you think this is how Ebola works, or that someone modded you up for your clueless opinion.

People don't try OSes out. People buy a computer and the OS is incidental. The end result is you either use the OS you have or install another one. Nothing is forcing you to use OSX once you buy a Mac.

Tell it to the GP. The RPi is the fastest embedded system in my house. Most of the others sit between 8 and 20MHz, all of them serving useful functions.

My RPi has no problem decoding 1080p video as a media centre.

You don't need to connect to a WiFi network for this to work, you just have to have WiFi enabled on the phone.

If you think a mac address can help or is needed to help with ad tracking then you need to do some real reading on how networks and how ad services work.

Yes he did. Most of what he said is very quotable in the Anals of stupidly funny crap said by leaders.

Specifically in this case the timeline is as follows:

- Australia joins the US lead attack on IS.
- ASIO steps up the local terror alert.
- IS publishes a video saying Australia will pay for what they are doing.
- Tony Abbott said straight from the G.W.B book of stupid crap: The IS threat has nothing to do with Australia's announcement, "They hate our freedom, our tolerance, our democracy."
- The government runs out and arrests some 63 muslims claiming to have foiled a massive terror plot.
- The courts free 63 muslims the day after saying there's no evidence of wrongdoings.
- Tony Abbott's government announces a reduction on our freedom by means of Patriot Act style laws, presumably he does this to foil the terrorist plots since they can't hate us if we no longer have freedoms right?

I believe it is legal to "borrow" another vendors VIN and identify to the OS as another vendor's product. However it would then be a licence violation to put the USB logo anywhere on the device as using an unlicenced VIN is against spec.

They are. The fakes look like FTDIs, same package, FTDI name, FTDI model numbers, fake serial numbers, and when plugged in will be recognised by the FTDI driver and report FTDI's USB VIN.

This is not a case of second-sourcing. That said FTDI's actions should be legal actions against the supplier. Bricking devices in the hands over end users is at best unethical and at worst criminal.

You know who's fault it isn't?

The person who will be most affected by this action.

A favour that resulted in millions of Pi sales. I could do with a slow favour like that.

For all the endless talks about how slow the RPi is you'd think that the competitors would be outselling them. I guess some people don't care about things like speed.

Same in Australia. We raised our domestic terrorism threat level and the day after an IS video was released threatening Australia.

Then our Prime Minister went full retard and with a serious face quoted .... George W Bush. I nearly died of shame.

Being a fanboi and having a good sense of perspective are two very different things.

All of the examples of the parent show that there is a company which releases patches to solve issues. It shows a sense of a company which has had 1 serious issue which they fixed out of a line of about 60 smartphones they have released in the past 5 years. Quite interestingly some of the bugs had strange edge cases, e.g. installing CM causes issues due to firmware design and this is supposed to be Samsung's problem who have released a fine working product? Really?

No I care about one thing and one thing only, what is the affect on me? I have yet to experience a problem with a Samsung product that wasn't resolved by a patch issued by them. Yet that label makes me some kind of fanboi for calling out the GP who claims they can't code for shit because of {insert barely related bug here}?

You and I are the same, I too reward corporations that do good, I also do so by recommending their products to others and hosing down what appears to be either a grossly missinformed post or an intentional troll.

Still a better love story than the one with OCZ.

Before you go attacking a company on a general sense, take a look at what they make. In the case of Samsung which make... Everything from what I can tell, it's little wonder that the occasional product has an issue. Calling out 5 products out of the several thousand they make is hardly a cause of concern, much like 5 bent iphones isn't either