Not me. I would avoid a chip where the counterfeits are known to be hard to spot but where the end user may find their device (that I made) sabotaged later with the customer expecting me to refund their money (and I get a bad reputation in the process).
OTOH, if FTDI distributed a fool proof counterfeit detector free to manufacturers INSTEAD, that would increase my confidence when selecting their chip.
No. The PIDs are just a number. The one and only control is that honoring the voluntary allocation is a requirement for licensing the USB logo. If you don't use the logo, there is nothing at all to legally compel you to voluntarily honor the ID allocations.
It's like choosing some random already assigned/24 for your home network. Nobody cares, the police will not be visiting. At worst, you will create a problem for yourself.
Simple reason, the people who get screwed that way are not the people who wronged FTDI in the first place.
Because when the FTDI driver is bricking counterfeits but you can't tell the counterfeit from legit until that happens, the most rational approach to avoid trouble is to use anything but an FTDI chip.
In other words, they stopped because they realized they weren't just shooting themselves in the foot, they were emptying the magazine.
That's because the one thing it must correctly identify is the lane markers. Pretty much everything else is just 'object' It doesn't matter what the object is, it just has to not hit it.
Actually, the papers lobbied hard for the law and got it. Then they held up the law and made their demand. Google replied, "your wish is my command". Then the papers collectively said "EEEEEEEKK!, er, uh, could we go back to the way it was before?". Google kindly obliged.
Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
Yes, and by the same token, I never accepted being in debt to Snidely. I don't get the opportunity to vet his character to make sure he is the sort of person I am willing to be indebted to. I never met him, he never gave me a dime. I am claiming the opposite of what you understood, that I should have the opportunity to vet the party my loan might be sold to.
As for credit, I was speaking primarily of mortgages (since those are the loans that are typically bought and sold. Few if any can afford to buy at least their first house with cash.
Note that the crazy financial instruments that precipitated the big crash were based on buying and selling time bomb mortgages. I argue that CDOs never should have existed because mortgages shouldn't be so liquid in the first place.
In general though I agree that avoidable debt should be avoided.
I really don't think debt should be transferable at all without consent of the debtor. I may take out a loan with a community bank reasoning that if I have trouble, they have a friendly reputation to maintain (let's face it, anyone can find themselves unable to pay a debt if bad things happen, no matter the intent). That doesn't mean I agreed to owe Snidely Whiplash and his robosigning minions money.
Let's apply a transitive test. I take out a loan after the bank examines every facet of my life for ability to pay. I then get a homeless man to accept my debt for a fifth of Jack. No problem, right? The bank will definitely not try to deny that the transfer happened and come after me, right?!?
Apparently, you missed that the quintile is annual wages, not population. Thus it is entirely possible to have half of the population in the bottom quintile of wages.
Plotted as a bell curve, the peak is skewed.
If you start with the working assumption that someone is making perfect sense, it is often possible tyo figure out where your disconnect is. If you are just looking to call them wrong, you care more likely to end up with egg on your face.
A real attraction to that future is the probability that a fair number of people will take advantage of the ability to devote their time to pursuits that don't have to pay off in the short term and as a result create great advances for our society. There's probably a lot of great ideas out there that will never come to anything because people have to wear themselves out meeting basic needs.
The problem is that such work quite often doesn't pay as well or offer as much opportunity for advancement. The result will push an ever increasing share of the population into the bottom quintile.
There would need to be a significant hike in the minimum wage to prevent turning that into a powderkeg of social unrest.
Except that government is big enough that if it really tried it could defeat the tactic of bid low and pad the bill later. It's size also gives it disproportionate power in negotiations.
You have just described a significant portion of the population.
The booth in the video was enclosed, so would be no more exposing than a dressing room. The files are sent off for the actual printing with the result sent back a week later. So by the time anyone sees what you did, the (possibly illegal) deed is done.
It may not come to anything, or it might be the next internet fueled fad.
While most users will be more or less what they expect, they will likely have more than a few nudes. So far, no big deal, but I'll bet they won't all be over 18.
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So what's your alternative? Let them live in squalor until they realize you are the enemy?
Automation is good. We need more of it. Raise minimum wage and bring it on!
In the process, we need to implement the basic income. Stop punishing the people who have been taking one for the team for years now.
In Chinese court? Good luck with that, assuming you can prove who did it in the first place.
Not me. I would avoid a chip where the counterfeits are known to be hard to spot but where the end user may find their device (that I made) sabotaged later with the customer expecting me to refund their money (and I get a bad reputation in the process).
OTOH, if FTDI distributed a fool proof counterfeit detector free to manufacturers INSTEAD, that would increase my confidence when selecting their chip.
The fakes do claim to be genuine FTDI chips.
Their intent was to punish end users who probably won't have any idea how to re-program the ID (not an end user procedure anyway).
No. The PIDs are just a number. The one and only control is that honoring the voluntary allocation is a requirement for licensing the USB logo. If you don't use the logo, there is nothing at all to legally compel you to voluntarily honor the ID allocations.
It's like choosing some random already assigned /24 for your home network. Nobody cares, the police will not be visiting. At worst, you will create a problem for yourself.
Simple reason, the people who get screwed that way are not the people who wronged FTDI in the first place.
Because when the FTDI driver is bricking counterfeits but you can't tell the counterfeit from legit until that happens, the most rational approach to avoid trouble is to use anything but an FTDI chip.
In other words, they stopped because they realized they weren't just shooting themselves in the foot, they were emptying the magazine.
That's because the one thing it must correctly identify is the lane markers. Pretty much everything else is just 'object' It doesn't matter what the object is, it just has to not hit it.
Actually, the papers lobbied hard for the law and got it. Then they held up the law and made their demand. Google replied, "your wish is my command". Then the papers collectively said "EEEEEEEKK!, er, uh, could we go back to the way it was before?". Google kindly obliged.
Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
It isn't stolen property.
Yes, and by the same token, I never accepted being in debt to Snidely. I don't get the opportunity to vet his character to make sure he is the sort of person I am willing to be indebted to. I never met him, he never gave me a dime. I am claiming the opposite of what you understood, that I should have the opportunity to vet the party my loan might be sold to.
As for credit, I was speaking primarily of mortgages (since those are the loans that are typically bought and sold. Few if any can afford to buy at least their first house with cash.
Note that the crazy financial instruments that precipitated the big crash were based on buying and selling time bomb mortgages. I argue that CDOs never should have existed because mortgages shouldn't be so liquid in the first place.
In general though I agree that avoidable debt should be avoided.
So you're claiming that automation can not and will not EVER take over enough of the work that we no longer need everyone working 40 hour weeks?
Funny, it seems everyone else managed to understand what I was saying...
I really don't think debt should be transferable at all without consent of the debtor. I may take out a loan with a community bank reasoning that if I have trouble, they have a friendly reputation to maintain (let's face it, anyone can find themselves unable to pay a debt if bad things happen, no matter the intent). That doesn't mean I agreed to owe Snidely Whiplash and his robosigning minions money.
Let's apply a transitive test. I take out a loan after the bank examines every facet of my life for ability to pay. I then get a homeless man to accept my debt for a fifth of Jack. No problem, right? The bank will definitely not try to deny that the transfer happened and come after me, right?!?
Charles Manson is in for a stern talking to. They are considering finger shaking.
Excellent! The goal is to automate away anything that can be! Next step, cut hours and raise pay.
Apparently, you missed that the quintile is annual wages, not population. Thus it is entirely possible to have half of the population in the bottom quintile of wages.
Plotted as a bell curve, the peak is skewed.
If you start with the working assumption that someone is making perfect sense, it is often possible tyo figure out where your disconnect is. If you are just looking to call them wrong, you care more likely to end up with egg on your face.
A real attraction to that future is the probability that a fair number of people will take advantage of the ability to devote their time to pursuits that don't have to pay off in the short term and as a result create great advances for our society. There's probably a lot of great ideas out there that will never come to anything because people have to wear themselves out meeting basic needs.
So your solution is to declare that it's not worth finding a solution and waiting for the poor to burn your town?
The problem is that such work quite often doesn't pay as well or offer as much opportunity for advancement. The result will push an ever increasing share of the population into the bottom quintile.
There would need to be a significant hike in the minimum wage to prevent turning that into a powderkeg of social unrest.
Except that government is big enough that if it really tried it could defeat the tactic of bid low and pad the bill later. It's size also gives it disproportionate power in negotiations.
you'd have to be stupid or shameless
You have just described a significant portion of the population.
The booth in the video was enclosed, so would be no more exposing than a dressing room. The files are sent off for the actual printing with the result sent back a week later. So by the time anyone sees what you did, the (possibly illegal) deed is done.
It may not come to anything, or it might be the next internet fueled fad.
I'm not. Much of society is, particularly if it's under 18 years old.
While most users will be more or less what they expect, they will likely have more than a few nudes. So far, no big deal, but I'll bet they won't all be over 18.
There is evidence. There is no reason to exercise a function that can change the ID in the normal course of things.
I would like to see the bus sniffed to make the evidence iron clad, and I imagine that will happen before a suit.