In my fantasy world, you wouldn't defend a corporation for damaging people's hardware.

They're rendering your device unusable, which they may not do knowingly.

That is irrelevant. You cannot give yourself rights with shrinkwrap license. The law still wins.

If only one of them does it, they will have lost money over this.

Yes, if they did it by accident. If it can be shown that they did it on purpose, and that is almost certainly the case here, then it doesn't matter what they put in the license.

I think you mean "superior to", because "better than" is based on a judgement by others. You could make an objective judgement based on numbers of some sort, there.

So who decides if it's "troublesome"?

A jury?

It's GM's fault that they only have two or three cars worth buying, and that they're not selling an EV.

it means none of those things but storage cost. The insurance for the second vehicle is reduced, and often the insurance on your primary vehicle is reduced when you add another vehicle to your policy, even if you don't decrease the primary vehicle's mileage. And you get an older vehicle for the second car, and it costs you less to buy, less in depreciation, etc.

It still might not work out, but it doesn't cost twice as much.

Then they definitely get smacked down for dicking with interstate commerce.

in the short term, sure. But injecting refinery wastes into the ground was illegal before fracking for a reason, and that reason is that it's toxic waste.

If you cannot find workers who are worth something as workers who will work for the wage that you're paying, then you're not paying enough. You don't need to pay less, you need to pay more.

HAHAHAHAHA

It's not socialism, it's oligarchy. Socialism is where the wealth is redistributed to serve the people. The wealth is being redistributed upward in this system, there's nothing socialist about that.

Why? A fully aware human being can also be aware while the car is driving. But most people drive in a state of at least partial distraction. You're setting the bar awfully high.

So what? they already mandate that the maps be correct, but roads are often shown going through (or not going through) when they don't (or do.)

I live in the sticks. I have a shitty ISP that shits on my interactive sessions in favor of long-running connections like Netflix, and then tells me they don't do any shaping. But obviously they do shaping, because we have bandwidth limits. And it looks like shit. The traffic chart looks like a row of fenceposts because they flood me with packets, then send none, then flood me with more of them in order to limit my rate. This of course means that I can't do any meaningful queueing on my end, because the rate is totally inconstant.

But atop that, they offer me only an "up to 6Mbps" connection. That's not even enough to watch HD video reliably. A page full of images takes ages to load, especially since most people are still just spewing the images onto the page and they all load at once. And if that weren't enough, the connection goes down regularly, I often have to power cycle the CPE...

FTTH is not going to create a new digital divide. We already have one, and the only content lurking in the wings waiting to eat up all the bandwidth is 4k video. Most of us don't have a 4k set, so it's irrelevant.

Every troll dies, children. Not every troll truly lives.

This article is a troll. Trolling will remain alive and well unless we ban it. But if we eliminate anonymous speech (as wags like David Brin suggest) then we will harm free speech. The only way to solve this problem utterly is to change the way we feel about women, and if that could happen overnight, it probably would have done so already.

There's evidence presented in this thread, by people familiar with reimplementing their interface. I see you didn't bother to read the thread.

But in this case you're celebrating denial of service to a user who may have acted in good faith. That's a shitty thing to be happy about. Why do you like taking advantage of people?

Only due to ignorance. The decent job was done by the people who make clone chips who implemented their interface. If they had written the driver to support disparate chips, that would have been a significant accomplishment. Writing a driver for their chip was not. In addition, software is expecting to see that driver.

Ironically, writing drivers, and packaging them for versions of Windows with driver signing. It was literally years after the release of Windows 7 before they had a decent package of Windows 7 drivers that would reliably work with their hardware. But because applications expect to see their driver, the only option would be to write a driver which supported their driver interface. Microsoft proved in the past that chasing a software interface is a fool's game, because it can be updated periodically solely for the purpose of decreasing interoperability.

Nobody is expecting anyone to contact FTDI for support, but now that they've done this to their driver, they will be contacted. So in fact, if their goal was to avoid support contacts, this was a staggeringly stupid move.

Necessary for meaningful interoperability.

FTDI became a de facto standard, and they are reaping the results now. They are using copyright (AFAICT, no patents are involved, this is deeply old technology) as a bludgeon in a way that will harm users and achieve none of your stated goals. As the only thing they will accomplish is harm to users and the generation of ill will, the fact that you are pleased by these actions is unsurprising, at least to me. You seem to revel in such abuse.