Because it is a load of PC navel gazing pseudo-religious bullshit?
Just a guess, but hey.
Could it be any clearer that this is a bunch of 'oh my god the sky is falling!' anti nuclear scaremongers desperately trying to create a shred of link between unclear power (by FAR the least damaging base load power producer EVER) and some idea of 'mankinds rape of our our beloved earth mother'?
Other than that particularly transparent attempt at politicalisation, the particular date seems basically stupid, it certainly marks no major change in behaviour, society structure, technical capability (hint, use of radioactives, or even fission didnt start then..)... Hell, the invention of the first computer could be considered far more important, or international public networks, or about 10 dozen other developments that have global impact.
And if they want an accurate date marker, ffs, astronomy is well known as THE method, not BS approximate soil sampling.
Or are they childish enough to think that with modern land development approaches (burying waste, earthworks for construction, etc) that soil strata are work a shit for any future research?
Could you please let me know which Govt Department I go to in France to apply for the location I am allowed to live in? I seem to be having trouble finding it - hell - last time I was there I just lived where I damn well wanted to and could afford.. Lucky I wasnt tracked down, I assume the penalty for living in the wrong place ispretty damn severe!
Oh, sorry, you mean you were talking figuratively, not literally? or some BS excuse like that? Do you realise that the rhetoric you are spouting here is almost EXACTLY from the playbook of pre-soviet communism? Didnt work out too well then either, for those who believed it.. unless you consider life under stalinist russia, or maoist china to have worked out well for minorities (and I DO suggest you go and find out what did happen to them..).
In the end there is a certainly small percentge of ALL populations who will take up any excuse to do bad things. They are (some of) the rapists, the murderers, the arsonists, you get the idea... These particular ones just grabbed on a different excuse for their actions. Its not the voices in their heads, its not because society forced them to, its not to compensate for what their parents did to them, its to 'avenge their religion', and its about as BS as the other reasons - but these kinds of people will always find a reason.
THAT is the important thing to remember. This is no more 'Islam' than the crusaders were 'Christian' (even less so as it is not state sponsored). It is the scumm of humanity doing what they have always done.
And, unfrotunately, there is no law you can pass, no restructions you can place, no force you can empower to stop it. the best you can do is EDUCATE PEOPLE, and stop assuming that every nasty little arsehole is actually a wonderful person who just needs love and support to help them bloom. Some of them are just nasty little arseholes.
So, perhaps then you can explain how the firebombing of dresden worked out so well and got the germans to surrender?
Moron.
The Japanese didnt capitulate, their leaders decided to because they didnt want that much of their own blood on their hands. Point to the leaders who will be surrendering in the middle east?
Such efforts have been well studies, and attacking a population results in one thing - giving them stronger resolve.
Bloodshed has never EVER conquered a people, idiot.
Just in case you dont realise, the reason for that have absolutely NOTHING to do with technical or economic issues.
And if you think any similar issues are the main problem with tunneling through the core of the planet, may I suggest looking at a preschool picture of 'the inside of a planet'? you see that red stuff?......
Yes, they are. They are being fired, because paranoid parents assume that all male teachers are rapists, and schools are doing nothing to prevent that perception. (and of course ignoring the amount of female teachers committing rape, both statutory and direct).
Of course that is only part of the problem, the fact is that Male and Female teachers take different approaches, which is why having both is so important. And the 'educationalists' have a large bias to the Female approach (mostly because most of them are female).
Pull your head out of the closet and have a look at the teacher gender split figures, they are, shall we say, enlightening.
This, exactly this, and not just in the US, in pretty much every westernised education system.
Add to that of course addressing the HUGE gender imbalance in teaching (where is the effort to get more male teachers? yeah right, they are being actively removed...)
Schools have become comfortable little fiefdoms with a dirty mixture of self interest, paranoia, and financial incest. The system needs to be stripped open and scrubbed clean.
Once upon a time we had a media who would do the hard yards to achieve such things. Once..
ROTFL, written like a good little consumer. The koolaid is strong in this one;)
There is VERY little debate, it is often no more expensive to make something repairable, and thats not even the professors complain (or a good attempt at a strawman..), their complaint is that consumers are not bothering to even try and fix or have things fixed because they dont know how or that it is possible.
ie: they are well trained little consumers also.
Of course it is good for the companies selling items, but it is pretty damn stupid from ANY other point of view.
Actually the amplifier chips are usually easier to source and replace than they used to be, certainly a lot easier to diagnose. The problem is people dont care, they consider the cost to be low enough they dont bother to try, and unless you try (and inevitably often fail) you dont build up the skill set to be able to repair things.
In fact I would suggest that over half of modern electronics failures are bad capacitors, or power supply issues - even after the ones that are purely mechanical (wires, switches, etc).
Sony got hacked and very embarrassing emails for leaked. Sony's spin doctors went in to overdrive.. And devised that threats against a movie that was looking like a loser anyway could help..
And it has.. No one is talking about the emails any more.. The us govt is rushing to support Sony as are the us sheeple.
So basically a successful move by Sony.
Who cares of it causes an international incident... A few execs can get a little more bonus next year!
I am sorry, what data does it have? Oh, you mean it has unsupported assertions that match your desired worldview?
Let me make my own suggestion: Pre mid 90s, CS was a rather unpopular course, generally filled with people who had a true interest in it, and in quite low numbers. Therefore it tended to have a moderately (more) balanced gender participation, although that does vary quite strongly depending on location.
During the later 90s, the 'tech boom' made it a much more popular course for a lot of people who through it could be a path to 'success', the content was watered down, the attendance went through the roof, and more of a male bias was seem.
HOWEVER, what to know where the opposite happened? business courses, MBAs, Laywers, Doctors. Thats right, women CHOSE to avoid tech because they saw a larger payout in other areas - and women in general are better at long term planning. Women went for the established, known risk long term payout of those kinds of course (at least as viewed at the time), whereas Men tended to bias more towards the 'excitement and risk' of tech, with a lower probable payout.
But history meant a few of the tech people ended up making it big - so not its 'unfair' that more women didnt choose that path, and its the mens fault.
Get real, CS, and other tech courses, were most certainly NOT sexy in the early-mid 90s, and women were not excluded - most people who took them were looked down on by much of the rest of the faculty.
Or, should we perhaps look at the current gener in bio-research, and advanced medical? a HUGE bias to women - who is screaming out about fixing that equality? yes? please? no one? thought not.
Its just more of the usual - if something does well, women want 'equality' inforced there, but if it doesnt, they are happy to ignore it. Or should be be trying to fix the gender gap in trades and manual labour areas? more women working in mines and fabrication?
No, it appears that YOU know nothing about IT. Or more, likely, the shill is strong in this one.
It is a pretty normal and well understood process these days of requesting user permission for a specific upload of information to a vendor (for exmaple 'this program has crashed, can we please send the crash report back for analysis'
Them being allowed to scrape anything they damn well feel from your computer without any direct permission is, as anyone with a functioning brain knows, a HUGE step beyond that.
So.. Tell me How is the pay as a teachers union rep these days?
That's quite a good collection of complete rubbish.. But hey what ever you need to rationalize increasing teachers benefits and protections at the cost of children's education.. Right?
You have forgotten that the principle under your theory is looking after all the kids in the school.. They must be underpaid even more! And I just realized! Obama is in charge of the whole population right? My god that man needs a pay rise!
The fact is these days teaching has become more and more secure (bad teachers are not only not removed.. They are almost impossible to even identify any more). Schools are spending more and more on their internal staffing and management and facilities and teaching 'aids' ( most of which are designed to reduce teacher effort rather that increase quality of actual teaching) at the direct cost of actual education.
I truly feel sorry for the last few true teachers holding on in the system as they watch this show motion train wreck destroy what was one a highly respected profession.
Sad.. Bit that's the end game of the paranoid knee jerk media driven frenzy that modern American life has become.
Think of the children.. Start making teachers and schools actually responsible for their Poor performance.
You need to learn some basic comprehension I am afraid.
An Advocate is someone actively pushing for something. Not being an advocate in NO way means you are apathetic to something or against something. You can be a supporter without being an advocate.
However what you have done is demonstrated your actual bias by trying to tar anyone who is not a feminist as being against women, a common dirty trick.
Or do you really believe that you are against everything in this world that you dont actively work to support? When was the last time you actively worked to support starving africans? homeless people? abused children? abused animals? male rape victims? (yes, they exist) the land rights of Austalian Aborigines?
See how it works? not being an advocate for something does not mean you dont support it.
Journalists are also in a position of power and trust, and as they are quite willing to dig in to the 'background' of others and public report it from that position of power, they should be willing to accept the same.
Neither party should enter in to any kind of smear campaign, or falsely report anything, or hopefully sensationalise anything, however there must be balance.
And part of that balance is that journalists should be willing to be held up to the same level of scrutiny as the people they report on.
From what I could tell there was no reported evidence that their private life was going to be investigated, just their background - and that IS entirely valid, in the same way that it is valid for a journalist to investigate the background of those they report on. It is quite clear here that there are suspicions, quite possibly valid, that certain people in the media are intentionally targeting a company - it is ENTIRELY valid for the company to put similar effort in to investigating those journalists to see if there is an underlying reason for the targeting - of course hopefully they will find nothing.
It is rather precious for a journalists to cry foul about having their 'private lives' attacked when they are reporting comments that were made in a private context, especially when the journalists in question have reported also on a number of details of the CEO in questions private life themselves.
All part of the poisonous angry world of distrust and low morals that is the public face of the US these days, I guess. Deal with it.
Increasing diversity in THE TEACHING OF OUR CHILDREN would be pretty damn good also. Unfortunately, no one seems to care about this.
After many decades of chasing just about any man out of the teaching profession, we are left with a huge bias presented to children at their very most sensitive age. And we are worried about diversity in Tech? why not ponder the elephant in the corner, instead of the mouse hole.
How do we expect to develop a well balanced and unbiased society when our children are taught, almost without exception, by women?
I am NOT claiming, of course, that women cannot teach well - that is far from the truth. I AM claiming that having only women teachers IS A BAD THING.
Of course the knee jerk reactions will not flood in - but face it, it is an inexcusable situation. Where are the big well funded pushed to get more men in teaching? ha! they are being actively excluded.. Many schools now actively avoid employing men 'as it makes the parents uncomfortable'.
I dont think you quite understand... Why would they use it to craft who wins elections? They only need it to drop a few hints to the politician of choice at the time, that they know all their secrets, so they better vote X on Y. You think any career politician is going to stand up to them with that hanging over their heads? Not a chance.
The interesting thing with all of this is how much evidence of criminal activity must they be IGNORING in this data, to keep their capabilities quiet.
They are of course now solidly and effectively above all laws, including international law (thanks to their cooperation).
Or JUST POSSIBLY it could be like all the 60s/70s end of the world nuclear Apocalypse fiction.. Or in fact the 70s 80s 'big freeze' Apocalypse fiction. Or, well, zombie plague fiction, etc, etc.
Its 'insightful' that in their own description of the book they appear to complain about the limits of non-fiction for discussion of 'scientific ideas' Damn those limitations of, you know, actually having true facts and not just making shit up.
Really, this is one step below gutter science, its embarrassing to the whole debate.
no, SOME of the chips are marked FTDI... Many of the chips are not - they are differently marked or in fact not marked AT ALL. That makes them FTDI compatible, not counterfeits. Care to try again?
It is entirely legal to produce a FTDI USB/API compatible chip - as long as it is not branded with FTDI, or containing FTDI owned design. Or are you claiming that somehow USB IDs are legally protected? because they are not.
Many of the chips that have been found affected do not carry FTDI branding, they are COMPATIBLE PRODUCTS, not 'Fake Chips' Some are of course fake chips - that is another matter, however most certainly not all.
FTDI supplied Microsoft with an autoinstalling patch that you have no control over that that breaks devices that commit no more sin that be USB API/ID compatible with FTDI devices (which is NOT illegal in any way). This patch modifies your FTDI device inoperable intentionally - a device that quite possibly (as loing as it was not falsely labeled with a trademarked FTDI label) is entirely legitimate. I can think of at least 2 or 3 laws that crashes straight through.
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Because it is a load of PC navel gazing pseudo-religious bullshit?
Just a guess, but hey.
Could it be any clearer that this is a bunch of 'oh my god the sky is falling!' anti nuclear scaremongers desperately
trying to create a shred of link between unclear power (by FAR the least damaging base load power producer EVER)
and some idea of 'mankinds rape of our our beloved earth mother'?
Other than that particularly transparent attempt at politicalisation, the particular date seems basically stupid, it certainly
marks no major change in behaviour, society structure, technical capability (hint, use of radioactives, or even fission
didnt start then..)... Hell, the invention of the first computer could be considered far more important, or international public
networks, or about 10 dozen other developments that have global impact.
And if they want an accurate date marker, ffs, astronomy is well known as THE method, not BS approximate soil sampling.
Or are they childish enough to think that with modern land development approaches (burying waste, earthworks for construction, etc)
that soil strata are work a shit for any future research?
Hmmm..
Could you please let me know which Govt Department I go to in France to apply for the location I am allowed to live in?
I seem to be having trouble finding it - hell - last time I was there I just lived where I damn well wanted to and could afford..
Lucky I wasnt tracked down, I assume the penalty for living in the wrong place ispretty damn severe!
Oh, sorry, you mean you were talking figuratively, not literally? or some BS excuse like that?
Do you realise that the rhetoric you are spouting here is almost EXACTLY from the playbook of pre-soviet communism?
Didnt work out too well then either, for those who believed it.. unless you consider life under stalinist russia, or maoist
china to have worked out well for minorities (and I DO suggest you go and find out what did happen to them..).
In the end there is a certainly small percentge of ALL populations who will take up any excuse to do bad things.
They are (some of) the rapists, the murderers, the arsonists, you get the idea...
These particular ones just grabbed on a different excuse for their actions. Its not the voices in their heads, its not because
society forced them to, its not to compensate for what their parents did to them, its to 'avenge their religion', and its about
as BS as the other reasons - but these kinds of people will always find a reason.
THAT is the important thing to remember. This is no more 'Islam' than the crusaders were 'Christian' (even less so as it is not
state sponsored). It is the scumm of humanity doing what they have always done.
And, unfrotunately, there is no law you can pass, no restructions you can place, no force you can empower to stop it.
the best you can do is EDUCATE PEOPLE, and stop assuming that every nasty little arsehole is actually a wonderful
person who just needs love and support to help them bloom. Some of them are just nasty little arseholes.
So, perhaps then you can explain how the firebombing of dresden worked out so well and got the germans to surrender?
Moron.
The Japanese didnt capitulate, their leaders decided to because they didnt want that much of their own blood on their hands.
Point to the leaders who will be surrendering in the middle east?
Such efforts have been well studies, and attacking a population results in one thing - giving them stronger resolve.
Bloodshed has never EVER conquered a people, idiot.
Just in case you dont realise, the reason for that have absolutely NOTHING to do with technical or economic issues.
And if you think any similar issues are the main problem with tunneling through the core of the planet, may I suggest looking at a preschool picture of 'the inside of a planet'? you see that red stuff? ......
Yes, they are. They are being fired, because paranoid parents assume that all male teachers are rapists, and schools are doing nothing to prevent that perception.
(and of course ignoring the amount of female teachers committing rape, both statutory and direct).
Of course that is only part of the problem, the fact is that Male and Female teachers take different approaches, which is why having both is so important.
And the 'educationalists' have a large bias to the Female approach (mostly because most of them are female).
Pull your head out of the closet and have a look at the teacher gender split figures, they are, shall we say, enlightening.
This, exactly this, and not just in the US, in pretty much every westernised education system.
Add to that of course addressing the HUGE gender imbalance in teaching (where is the effort to get more male teachers? yeah right,
they are being actively removed...)
Schools have become comfortable little fiefdoms with a dirty mixture of self interest, paranoia, and financial incest. The system needs to be stripped open
and scrubbed clean.
Once upon a time we had a media who would do the hard yards to achieve such things. Once..
ROTFL, written like a good little consumer. The koolaid is strong in this one ;)
There is VERY little debate, it is often no more expensive to make something repairable, and thats not even the professors complain (or a good attempt at a strawman..), their complaint is that consumers are not bothering to even try and fix or have things fixed because they dont know how or that it is possible.
ie: they are well trained little consumers also.
Of course it is good for the companies selling items, but it is pretty damn stupid from ANY other point of view.
With a toaster it is almost certainly a simple mechanical or electrical connection issue, so its usually a 5 or 10 minute fix.
Or, you know, just dont bother and add it to the landfills, I know which path I wold prefer.
Actually the amplifier chips are usually easier to source and replace than they used to be, certainly a lot easier to diagnose.
The problem is people dont care, they consider the cost to be low enough they dont bother to try, and unless you try (and inevitably often fail)
you dont build up the skill set to be able to repair things.
In fact I would suggest that over half of modern electronics failures are bad capacitors, or power supply issues - even after the ones that are
purely mechanical (wires, switches, etc).
Dont forget the elephant in the corner, which is is OH so fashionable to ignore.
Who is teaching our children?
Really, especially in younger education, go and look at the male/female TEACHER ratio.
Any women claim they are unfairly treated in education? BS. They ARE education now, if they are unfairly treated it is by themselves.
It is boys that are getting hammered, by a even increasing demand of a feminised education system for them to conform to feminine standards.
Want equality? Show me the push for more men in teaching!
Stop showing off about how much better off you are than the masses!
Damn skite!
Think of the children! ( who may actually have to SEE this film!)
You missed which part was the stunt.
Sony got hacked and very embarrassing emails for leaked.
Sony's spin doctors went in to overdrive.. And devised that threats against a movie that was looking like a loser anyway could help..
And it has.. No one is talking about the emails any more.. The us govt is rushing to support Sony as are the us sheeple.
So basically a successful move by Sony.
Who cares of it causes an international incident... A few execs can get a little more bonus next year!
I am sorry, what data does it have?
Oh, you mean it has unsupported assertions that match your desired worldview?
Let me make my own suggestion:
Pre mid 90s, CS was a rather unpopular course, generally filled with people who had a true interest in it, and in quite low numbers.
Therefore it tended to have a moderately (more) balanced gender participation, although that does vary quite strongly depending on location.
During the later 90s, the 'tech boom' made it a much more popular course for a lot of people who through it could be a path to 'success', the
content was watered down, the attendance went through the roof, and more of a male bias was seem.
HOWEVER, what to know where the opposite happened? business courses, MBAs, Laywers, Doctors.
Thats right, women CHOSE to avoid tech because they saw a larger payout in other areas - and women in general are better at long term planning.
Women went for the established, known risk long term payout of those kinds of course (at least as viewed at the time), whereas Men tended to bias more
towards the 'excitement and risk' of tech, with a lower probable payout.
But history meant a few of the tech people ended up making it big - so not its 'unfair' that more women didnt choose that path, and its the mens fault.
Get real, CS, and other tech courses, were most certainly NOT sexy in the early-mid 90s, and women were not excluded - most people who took them
were looked down on by much of the rest of the faculty.
Or, should we perhaps look at the current gener in bio-research, and advanced medical? a HUGE bias to women - who is screaming out about fixing that
equality? yes? please? no one? thought not.
Its just more of the usual - if something does well, women want 'equality' inforced there, but if it doesnt, they are happy to ignore it.
Or should be be trying to fix the gender gap in trades and manual labour areas? more women working in mines and fabrication?
Thought not..
No, it appears that YOU know nothing about IT.
Or more, likely, the shill is strong in this one.
It is a pretty normal and well understood process these days of requesting user permission for a specific upload of information to a vendor (for exmaple 'this program has crashed, can we please send the crash report back for analysis'
Them being allowed to scrape anything they damn well feel from your computer without any direct permission is, as anyone with a functioning brain knows, a HUGE step beyond that.
So, you are saying that China and Japan rule?
So.. Tell me
How is the pay as a teachers union rep these days?
That's quite a good collection of complete rubbish.. But hey what ever you need to rationalize increasing teachers benefits and protections at the cost of children's education.. Right?
You have forgotten that the principle under your theory is looking after all the kids in the school.. They must be underpaid even more! And I just realized! Obama is in charge of the whole population right? My god that man needs a pay rise!
The fact is these days teaching has become more and more secure (bad teachers are not only not removed.. They are almost impossible to even identify any more). Schools are spending more and more on their internal staffing and management and facilities and teaching 'aids' ( most of which are designed to reduce teacher effort rather that increase quality of actual teaching) at the direct cost of actual education.
I truly feel sorry for the last few true teachers holding on in the system as they watch this show motion train wreck destroy what was one a highly respected profession.
Sad.. Bit that's the end game of the paranoid knee jerk media driven frenzy that modern American life has become.
Think of the children.. Start making teachers and schools actually responsible for their Poor performance.
You need to learn some basic comprehension I am afraid.
An Advocate is someone actively pushing for something.
Not being an advocate in NO way means you are apathetic to something or against something.
You can be a supporter without being an advocate.
However what you have done is demonstrated your actual bias by trying to tar anyone who is not a feminist as being against women, a common dirty trick.
Or do you really believe that you are against everything in this world that you dont actively work to support?
When was the last time you actively worked to support starving africans? homeless people? abused children? abused animals? male rape victims? (yes, they exist) the land rights of Austalian Aborigines?
See how it works? not being an advocate for something does not mean you dont support it.
Journalists are also in a position of power and trust, and as they are quite willing to dig in to the 'background' of others and public report it from that position of power, they should be willing to accept the same.
Neither party should enter in to any kind of smear campaign, or falsely report anything, or hopefully sensationalise anything, however there must be balance.
And part of that balance is that journalists should be willing to be held up to the same level of scrutiny as the people they report on.
From what I could tell there was no reported evidence that their private life was going to be investigated, just their background - and that IS entirely valid, in the
same way that it is valid for a journalist to investigate the background of those they report on. It is quite clear here that there are suspicions, quite possibly valid,
that certain people in the media are intentionally targeting a company - it is ENTIRELY valid for the company to put similar effort in to investigating those
journalists to see if there is an underlying reason for the targeting - of course hopefully they will find nothing.
It is rather precious for a journalists to cry foul about having their 'private lives' attacked when they are reporting comments that were made in a private context,
especially when the journalists in question have reported also on a number of details of the CEO in questions private life themselves.
All part of the poisonous angry world of distrust and low morals that is the public face of the US these days, I guess. Deal with it.
Its also a mini cab.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom
Is it only America that hasnt realised this trick shortly after the invention of the car? or thought that you needed a phone 'app' to use one?
Increasing diversity in THE TEACHING OF OUR CHILDREN would be pretty damn good also.
Unfortunately, no one seems to care about this.
After many decades of chasing just about any man out of the teaching profession, we are left with a huge bias presented to children at their very most sensitive age.
And we are worried about diversity in Tech? why not ponder the elephant in the corner, instead of the mouse hole.
How do we expect to develop a well balanced and unbiased society when our children are taught, almost without exception, by women?
I am NOT claiming, of course, that women cannot teach well - that is far from the truth.
I AM claiming that having only women teachers IS A BAD THING.
Of course the knee jerk reactions will not flood in - but face it, it is an inexcusable situation.
Where are the big well funded pushed to get more men in teaching? ha! they are being actively excluded.. Many schools now actively
avoid employing men 'as it makes the parents uncomfortable'.
What a sad state of affairs.
I dont think you quite understand...
Why would they use it to craft who wins elections?
They only need it to drop a few hints to the politician of choice at the time, that they know all their secrets, so they better vote X on Y.
You think any career politician is going to stand up to them with that hanging over their heads? Not a chance.
The interesting thing with all of this is how much evidence of criminal activity must they be IGNORING in this data, to keep their capabilities quiet.
They are of course now solidly and effectively above all laws, including international law (thanks to their cooperation).
Have a nice day.
Or JUST POSSIBLY it could be like all the 60s/70s end of the world nuclear Apocalypse fiction..
Or in fact the 70s 80s 'big freeze' Apocalypse fiction.
Or, well, zombie plague fiction, etc, etc.
Its 'insightful' that in their own description of the book they appear to complain about the limits of non-fiction for discussion of 'scientific ideas'
Damn those limitations of, you know, actually having true facts and not just making shit up.
Really, this is one step below gutter science, its embarrassing to the whole debate.
no, SOME of the chips are marked FTDI...
Many of the chips are not - they are differently marked or in fact not marked AT ALL.
That makes them FTDI compatible, not counterfeits.
Care to try again?
WHO says they are fake?
It is entirely legal to produce a FTDI USB/API compatible chip - as long as it is not branded with FTDI, or containing FTDI owned design.
Or are you claiming that somehow USB IDs are legally protected? because they are not.
Many of the chips that have been found affected do not carry FTDI branding, they are COMPATIBLE PRODUCTS, not 'Fake Chips'
Some are of course fake chips - that is another matter, however most certainly not all.
No, you are not.
FTDI supplied Microsoft with an autoinstalling patch that you have no control over that that breaks devices that commit no more sin that be USB API/ID compatible with FTDI devices (which is NOT illegal in any way). This patch modifies your FTDI device inoperable intentionally - a device that quite possibly (as loing as it was not falsely labeled with a trademarked FTDI label) is entirely legitimate.
I can think of at least 2 or 3 laws that crashes straight through.
This has big lawsuit written ALL over it.