Yes and no. Someone like Ian with the experiences and expertise is best suited to lead the work, and those of us who had only been users till now are expected to contribute also.

Damn straight.

Ian Jackson, if you choose to accept the mission ...

Fuck me. I bit tim's troll.

Slashdot, the TMZ of tech web, and that's an insult to TMZ.

"for variety of reasons". Who are we kidding? It's the fucking systemd by Redhat's Poettering.

A new magazine says it will donate half the "profit."

Why not 257%?

This should be a trillion dollar suit.

And bogus FTDI marking on the package.

It's their damn driver for their own damn chip. Don't like it? Use something else.

Transfer my ass. Don't use their driver if you don't want it.

"A reasonable company would go after the manufacturers of fake chips, not the consumers who are most likely unaware they have a fake chip."

You go try to chase down random Chinese outfits pumping out fake chips.

Quantifying something as dubious as IQ ... and then linking to genes ... makes astrology look respectable.

Send them to fed for couple months at least. The fine is not even a slap on the wrist. What's the point?

If we stop eating octopus because they are smart, should we eat dumb humans?

Another issue with Z80/8080 instruction set, if I remember correctly, is that they are not orthogonal in regards to the registers. Some opcodes only work with registers B and C, others only with D and E, and so forth.

The ugliness of x86 instruction set has a long root.