True, however, are they supposed to test
No. But it turns out they did. Because they actually spent quite a bit of effort to write code that permanently breaks counterfeit chips and not their own. They did lots of testing on everyone else's chips.
Of course the liability is with FTDI, they intentionally modified the chip to make it stop working!
They are well within their rights to make their driver detect counterfeit chips and refuse to use them.
That is nowhere near the same as actually maliciously writing invalid configuration settings to the chip.
Why would FTDI have to ensure their driver doesn't break chips that aren't theirs?
It's not that they didn't ensure that. It's that they ensured it did break them, very intentionally.
The NSA kills people now, does it.
So if you're in a store, you fully support the right of the property owner to eavesdrop on everything you say and do?
That's ridiculous. Ownership does not take precedence over the requirements of privacy.
It's the Slashdot Reality Distortion Field in effect, I think.
It's the exact game he and journalists have been playing with them for a while now. Release some information, wait for official to make statements, release the next bit of information that showed they lied.
It's been hilarious to see people lose really, really badly at this.
And, while we're at it, memory of all kinds is always expressed in GiB,
I think you'll find that this is not actually the case.
The TI datasheets are not really "full". They are quite extensive, but there are large parts they leave out too.
the Amiga had a nice version
It did not. IFF is entirely unrelated to TIFF.
You are also over-romanticising the TIFF format quite a bit. In actuality, it is quite a mess and mostly supports a million complicated features exceedingly few people actually want, making supporting it a completely nearly impossible.
If you just let Slashdotters think that they are smarter than someone, such as by calling that person an "idiot", their brains will turn off and they'll accept anything you feed them.
Oh, you want to be pedantic? Let's be pedantic, then!
Scandinavian languages don't have "umlauts". "Umlaut" is a concept from German, where vowels are modified into different forms and marked with an umlaut mark. Other languages, however, just borrow these typographical forms to represent vowels with similar sounds. However, while German considers the vowels a and ä to be variations on the same letter, Scandinavian languages consider these to be separate letters entirely, and place them differently in alphabetical orderings.
Thus, there is no "umlaut" in Eyjafjallajökull, there is merely an "ö" rather than an "o".
What part of the site needs a tablet?
They are actual physical concepts, unlike fractals which are mathematical?
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