Yes it does. But unless you're on a ridiculously high latency connection the transmission and cpu overhead is trivial. I would rather wait the extra 60 to 80 milliseconds that https requires to gain the extra security.
Chip has the right to have the words he speaks and the images he draws to be presented as he intended them.
No, he does not, especially if he's going to lie about the facts that he's speaking and drawing about.
In fact, he has an internationally recognized legal and moral right to protect the integrity of his work.
Again... No, he does not. In the US this is legally protected fair use, and only a few countries recognize any moral right in their copyright law (the US is not one of them).
If you want to parody his cartoons, then at least take as much time and skill as he did. Cutting and pasting your own words on top of his, is not clever or creative.
Your opinion does not matter in this. It is protected fair use in the US with large quantities of case law confirming this.
Option A: Get some of the revenue from a simultaneous release of these movies.
Option B: Throw a fit and get nothing.
How does option B make any kind of valid business sense?
For people who want to see movies in a theater, I highly doubt the availability of a movie for streaming (or on DVD for that matter) is going to stop them from going to the theater.
What concerns me about all this is the timing. Obama's had 6 years to do something but waits until near the end to do anything, and all the FCC commissioners were appointed by Obama.
Hmmmm....is someone pushing for a lucrative post government career in the telecommunications industry?
What really worries me about this crap is...What happens when these supposed terrorists finally get out of prison? Their mild dislike of the government will have most likely have turned into a burning hatred--and they're gonna start looking for an outlet.
The US government is turning into the best terrorist recruitment program ever.
As an astrophysicist, he shouldn't be commenting about fields he knows little or nothing about. With 30 years experience in computers and networking, I'm barely qualified to even enter into high-level technical discussions on network security. I would not comment professionally about any astrophysical discussions, and he shouldn't comment about network security.
There are no first amendment protections for threats. And if he wasn't police officer he would have been arrested for making threats like that, where's the balance there?
No. Because the device is not really "bricked". All the driver update does is change the Hardware PID that identifies what it is. The device still works, the drivers just no longer identify it as valid for that driver. Most if not all other consumer hardware does not have changeable PIDs.
They do check. They don't have the personnel and resources to test every possible hardware configuration. And how would they test the fakes?
Add in the fact that the newer drivers for the real chip were already breaking the fake ones without changing the hardware PID of the fakes. All that changing the Hardware PID of the fake chip does is let the FTDI's support staff see that the non functional chip is a fake.
Does it suck? Yes. Could FTDI have done something else to identify the fakes? Maybe. But these chips are buggy as hell even when they were semi-functional with FTDI's drivers (they were not a counterfeit with the exact design of the original, but a cheap hack pretending to be something that it is not). This will hopefully stop shoddy manufacturers from using the fake chips just to shave a couple of cents off of manufacturing costs.
It's not Microsoft's fault. They are merely offering the drivers that were provided by the device manufacturer on the Windows Update service (they do this for all manufacturers). This is a service that makes Windows much easier to configure than Linux (try finding some non standard driver in Linux). Microsoft can't possibly test every possible piece of legitimate hardware--let alone the counterfeits. So how can they be at fault?
Because this dumb guy is getting a lot of press saying he's something he's not. Some other idiot (in the government or the military or some corporation) will listen to this idiot and fuck something royally up. This isn't some fool bragging about how he's a Navy Seal on some unknown forum. He's trying to get people to give him money by claiming to be something he's not, and able to do things that he can't.
Hopefully by writing about his lies it will filter up to the "mainstream media" that keep letting him spout his nonsense without fact checking.
Would you let a person claiming to be a top medical expert keep spouting bull-crap if you knew he's never been to a doctor's office let alone med school?
For the same reason they didn't mention that 3 of the 4 books they downloaded were public domain--they can now make the statement: "Oh noes, pirates is stealin' ur textbooks!!!!!111".
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Nope.
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Option B: Throw a fit and get nothing.
How does option B make any kind of valid business sense?
For people who want to see movies in a theater, I highly doubt the availability of a movie for streaming (or on DVD for that matter) is going to stop them from going to the theater.
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What concerns me about all this is the timing. Obama's had 6 years to do something but waits until near the end to do anything, and all the FCC commissioners were appointed by Obama.
Hmmmm....is someone pushing for a lucrative post government career in the telecommunications industry?
/tinfoil hat off
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The US government is turning into the best terrorist recruitment program ever.
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Add in the fact that the newer drivers for the real chip were already breaking the fake ones without changing the hardware PID of the fakes. All that changing the Hardware PID of the fake chip does is let the FTDI's support staff see that the non functional chip is a fake.
Does it suck? Yes. Could FTDI have done something else to identify the fakes? Maybe. But these chips are buggy as hell even when they were semi-functional with FTDI's drivers (they were not a counterfeit with the exact design of the original, but a cheap hack pretending to be something that it is not). This will hopefully stop shoddy manufacturers from using the fake chips just to shave a couple of cents off of manufacturing costs.
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Hopefully by writing about his lies it will filter up to the "mainstream media" that keep letting him spout his nonsense without fact checking.
Would you let a person claiming to be a top medical expert keep spouting bull-crap if you knew he's never been to a doctor's office let alone med school?
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