Yes, but.... with all the "greenies" also trying to force the food chains into dropping GMO at the same time... it looks like GMO labelling is just a way to make the green agenda that much easier to accomplish.
First we scare people into fearing GMO. Then we force the food to be labelled GMO so that people "will have a choice".
Some choice. Personally I would just buy anything labelled GMO. But I fear that I won't have the choice because the food retailers will have dropped those because of lobbying from the greens.
The only people that won't like this are the companies pushing CurrentC and the scammers stealing credit card numbers.
Its a good thing for both Apple and Android users as it will help push the marketplace towards supporting sane and safe and private credit card transactions.
Well China is fast on its way to becoming the wealthiest nation in the world. So lets wait about ten years and then try and convince them to pay for it out of their pocket change.
The death rate for first time climbers on Mount Everest is something like 5-10% (lower now, used to be higher.) People going a second time have a better survival rate but the percentages are still single digits for deaths. And paid guides (Sherpas) get killed every year.
By comparison to adventure space flight, adventure mountain climbing is just a bit cheaper. Do we condemn one and not the other?
How about base jumping? Or even sky diving? A small, but consistent number of planes crash delivering people to the jump point. So adventure sky diving? Do we condemn it as well?
Pretty much any sport we engage in has its dangerous elements and people die all the time (albeit slightly less spectacularly!)
You can withhold something which is in your mind. E.g. a pin.
Since only one (or two?) of your fingers unlock your phone. Your knowledge of the finger print possibly qualifies as secret knowledge. And multiple attempts will ultimately prevent use of finger prints.
The police would not (I think) be able to force you to disclose. They would be free to instruct you to use a specific finger and hope that it unlocks. But if it fails I don't think they would have any recourse.
So don't use your thumbs or index fingers. Which would be their starting point.
First, many people will use a driver-less taxi. That allows each "car" to service multiple people during the day. That allows for a factor of N reduction of vehicles required (where N is the average number of people serviced per day.)
Second, for people that do want to own their own driver-less car, the car can driver itself empty to a distant parking lot. And because the "driver" of each car remains with the parked car, the cars can be quadruple parked. So density of cars in the (already cheaper because it is farther away from dense down town area) parking lot can be higher.
Third, it is likely that lower cost and efficient smaller cars (think one or two passenger) will be used. Again they are more efficient and achieve a higher parking density.
Or 100 devices per developer license. Which at $99 per license means a $.99 tax per copy. Plus of course an administrative burden.
So you probably don't want to try and commercialize a cheap $1.99 app via that mechanism. But it would certainly work for limited hobbyist distribution.
Apple Pay gets Apple some cash from the Credit Card companies (already charged) transaction fee.
This is justifiable from the Credit Card companies point of view because there will be a lower fraud rate associated with transactions initiated via Apple Pay.
Apple Pay is still only available in the US With Respect To being able to sign up for it.
You must have a US Apple ID and you must have a participating US credit card that can be enrolled into Apple Pay.
Once you have set up Apple ID on your device, you can then use Apple Pay at any NFC enabled terminal world wide. They treat it as the exact equivalent (because that is what it is...) to a credit card transaction.
They don't bring much except some additional convenience IFF you want that. Tap and Pay without a phone is great.
I already choose stores that support Tap and Pay simply because I'm in and out faster.
If (when) Apple Pay comes to Canada, then I'll try Apple Pay. IFF that proves to be more convenient I'll use it. Otherwise I'll continue to Tap and Pay with the card.
The point is that I would be truly pissed if a store that supported Tap and Pay turned that off simply to prevent me from using Apple Pay.
Well because most stores will make you sign a receipt if you are swiping.
And swiping is being eliminated for fraud and security reasons in favour of (minimally) Chip and Pin or contactless (NFC aka Tap and Pay aka Apple Pay).
And even if Baby Mom is willing to do it.... will WE want to go to stores where people take a LOT longer to pay. That means longer lines.
I'm already at the point where I get annoyed if people pay with cash because it slows the line down. Chip and code is slightly faster. Tap and Pay (which is what Apple Pay is using) is by far the fastest. At best CurrentC will be slower than everything else.
So at a guess this will just drive customers out of those stores in droves.
Even if you want to dispute whether FTDI has ownership of their Vendor ID.
If you want to create your own driver and get it into Windows Update that requires that you also pass the USB Logo tests and that will require that you follow the rules from USB.org with respect to their allocation of Vendor ID's.
The only reason to use somebody else's vendor id without their permission is to allow you to illegally access their drivers (discounting the small possibility that you are developing a product for exclusive use with linux.)
And in what magical world do you expect somebody else to provide a driver for your device.
The manufacturer of YOUR device did not and does not provide a driver and you are complaining that FTDI is to blame?
Even if (sounds like when as they are going to release another update) a new FTDI driver arrives that simply doesn't work, how will that help the vast majority of end users whose devices will no longer work (except for the very small number that have Linux systems...)
So you are right. If it doesn't work it is BROKEN.
It is NOT legal to use a vid/pid for your device and plug it into Windows expecting to use somebody else's driver that you have no license for.
You are creating a device that pretends to be something that allows you to be liable for theft of services. At least if you bought it the manufacturer would be the one on the hook.
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Yes, but.... with all the "greenies" also trying to force the food chains into dropping GMO at the same time... it looks like GMO labelling is just a way to make the green agenda that much easier to accomplish.
First we scare people into fearing GMO. Then we force the food to be labelled GMO so that people "will have a choice".
Some choice. Personally I would just buy anything labelled GMO. But I fear that I won't have the choice because the food retailers will have dropped those because of lobbying from the greens.
I'll say. I avoid "organic" labelled products because I know they are a rip off. More money for generally the same or less quality.
Simply avoid organic. It's easy to do. You'll save money!
The only people that won't like this are the companies pushing CurrentC and the scammers stealing credit card numbers.
Its a good thing for both Apple and Android users as it will help push the marketplace towards supporting sane and safe and private credit card transactions.
And how is that working for you....
There is more coal in the ground than we can burn over the next few centuries.
Well China is fast on its way to becoming the wealthiest nation in the world. So lets wait about ten years and then try and convince them to pay for it out of their pocket change.
Its no different than any other dangerous sport.
The death rate for first time climbers on Mount Everest is something like 5-10% (lower now, used to be higher.) People going a second time have a better survival rate but the percentages are still single digits for deaths. And paid guides (Sherpas) get killed every year.
By comparison to adventure space flight, adventure mountain climbing is just a bit cheaper. Do we condemn one and not the other?
How about base jumping? Or even sky diving? A small, but consistent number of planes crash delivering people to the jump point. So adventure sky diving? Do we condemn it as well?
Pretty much any sport we engage in has its dangerous elements and people die all the time (albeit slightly less spectacularly!)
You cannot withhold your finger print.
You can withhold something which is in your mind. E.g. a pin.
Since only one (or two?) of your fingers unlock your phone. Your knowledge of the finger print possibly qualifies as secret knowledge. And multiple attempts will ultimately prevent use of finger prints.
The police would not (I think) be able to force you to disclose. They would be free to instruct you to use a specific finger and hope that it unlocks. But if it fails I don't think they would have any recourse.
So don't use your thumbs or index fingers. Which would be their starting point.
The iPhone does not care what angle you use the finger print scanner at. It recognizes your finger however you put it on the sensor.
Only for two additional attempts.
After that pass code only.
After three tries the iPhone goes to the keypad. You still have two tries via cancel to get your finger print correctly registered.
After that the iPhone will refuse to unlock without the pin.
First, many people will use a driver-less taxi. That allows each "car" to service multiple people during the day. That allows for a factor of N reduction of vehicles required (where N is the average number of people serviced per day.)
Second, for people that do want to own their own driver-less car, the car can driver itself empty to a distant parking lot. And because the "driver" of each car remains with the parked car, the cars can be quadruple parked. So density of cars in the (already cheaper because it is farther away from dense down town area) parking lot can be higher.
Third, it is likely that lower cost and efficient smaller cars (think one or two passenger) will be used. Again they are more efficient and achieve a higher parking density.
Assume a solution reducing the number of people killed in traffic accidents from 30,000 per year to some other smaller arbitrary number. Say 10,000.
Those 10,000 might be killed from a different type of accident. But overall there are 20,000 less people killed.
So do you convert to that solution or stay with the current solution? This is as much a moral decision as anything else.
But be prepared for some parties to the two solutions to be trying to emphasize problems.
For example drivers unions will go to their graves (literally) claiming that the world will end if driver-less vehicles are allowed.
To the extent that car sales will drop if a driver-less taxi model takes off see all parts of the car sales and repair economy start to complain.
There will be disruption and that will generate a lot of negative feedback.
Or 100 devices per developer license. Which at $99 per license means a $.99 tax per copy. Plus of course an administrative burden.
So you probably don't want to try and commercialize a cheap $1.99 app via that mechanism. But it would certainly work for limited hobbyist distribution.
Apple Pay gets Apple some cash from the Credit Card companies (already charged) transaction fee.
This is justifiable from the Credit Card companies point of view because there will be a lower fraud rate associated with transactions initiated via Apple Pay.
Apple Pay is still only available in the US With Respect To being able to sign up for it.
You must have a US Apple ID and you must have a participating US credit card that can be enrolled into Apple Pay.
Once you have set up Apple ID on your device, you can then use Apple Pay at any NFC enabled terminal world wide. They treat it as the exact equivalent (because that is what it is...) to a credit card transaction.
They don't bring much except some additional convenience IFF you want that. Tap and Pay without a phone is great.
I already choose stores that support Tap and Pay simply because I'm in and out faster.
If (when) Apple Pay comes to Canada, then I'll try Apple Pay. IFF that proves to be more convenient I'll use it. Otherwise I'll continue to Tap and Pay with the card.
The point is that I would be truly pissed if a store that supported Tap and Pay turned that off simply to prevent me from using Apple Pay.
Well because most stores will make you sign a receipt if you are swiping.
And swiping is being eliminated for fraud and security reasons in favour of (minimally) Chip and Pin or contactless (NFC aka Tap and Pay aka Apple Pay).
And even if Baby Mom is willing to do it.... will WE want to go to stores where people take a LOT longer to pay. That means longer lines.
I'm already at the point where I get annoyed if people pay with cash because it slows the line down. Chip and code is slightly faster. Tap and Pay (which is what Apple Pay is using) is by far the fastest. At best CurrentC will be slower than everything else.
So at a guess this will just drive customers out of those stores in droves.
No, because FTDI is now providing me with drivers that will detect if I get a batch of product manufactured with counterfeit chips.
So I can immediately return the product to where I had it manufactured and have them review their supply chain issues.
Any boards that work I can happily sell because I know that the FTDI chip and driver will provide a reliable solution.
Huh?
Counterfeit goods are routinely seized and destroyed. Google counterfeit products seized.
You can be charged with fraud, possession of property obtained by crime, possession for the purpose of trafficking in stolen goods. Etc.
Even if you want to dispute whether FTDI has ownership of their Vendor ID.
If you want to create your own driver and get it into Windows Update that requires that you also pass the USB Logo tests and that will require that you follow the rules from USB.org with respect to their allocation of Vendor ID's.
The only reason to use somebody else's vendor id without their permission is to allow you to illegally access their drivers (discounting the small possibility that you are developing a product for exclusive use with linux.)
Nope. USB.org assigns (sells) Vendor ID's.
Assignment of Product ID's is 100% under the control of the vendor who owns the Vendor ID.
And in what magical world do you expect somebody else to provide a driver for your device.
The manufacturer of YOUR device did not and does not provide a driver and you are complaining that FTDI is to blame?
Even if (sounds like when as they are going to release another update) a new FTDI driver arrives that simply doesn't work, how will that help the vast majority of end users whose devices will no longer work (except for the very small number that have Linux systems...)
So you are right. If it doesn't work it is BROKEN.
And that is NOT FTDI's problem.
It is NOT legal to use a vid/pid for your device and plug it into Windows expecting to use somebody else's driver that you have no license for.
You are creating a device that pretends to be something that allows you to be liable for theft of services. At least if you bought it the manufacturer would be the one on the hook.
The pid is subsidiary to the vid.
Just like Slashdot owns slashdot.org and you don't get to create and use tlambert.slasdot.org.
The vid (vendor id) defines a space of 65535 possible pid's (product ids.)
There is some conjecture as well that using another vendors id may be illegal under DMCA.
Google usb vendor id dmca.