Stephen’s Comments

• Oct 24th, 2014 @ 9:55am

  Won't this drive business away from FTDI?

  on IP Is No Excuse: Even If Someone Is Using Fake Chips, It's Not Okay To Kill Their Devices
  Most people who are going to read the articles and ask, "Who's chip does this use?" And pretty much everyone will say, "Oh these are FTDIs!" whether or not it's true.
  
  So won't the result have people shying away from any of their chips in the future?
  
  Seems like another reason why killing the devices is a bad move.
• Jul 9th, 2014 @ 5:53pm

  Re: Re: DC isn't wrong in this case.

  on DC Comics Refuses To Let Superman Logo Adorn The Headstone Of A Young Child Who Was Starved To Death [Updated]
  Marketplace or not, it just means that the boy will be forgotten, and that's the real shame of it.
• Jul 9th, 2014 @ 7:24am

  DC isn't wrong in this case.

  on DC Comics Refuses To Let Superman Logo Adorn The Headstone Of A Young Child Who Was Starved To Death [Updated]
  Think about it. When someone who doesn't know anything about Jeffery Baldwin sees the statue, what do you think they'll see? What do you think they'll always call it?
  
  "That's the Jeffery Baldwin memorial", says nobody ever.
  
  Most people are going to say, "That's the Superboy statue."
  
  That's the confusion it'll cause. It will no long be a memorial to the tragically short life of a little boy. It's going to forever be remembered as a Superboy statue by everyone who'll forget about the details of his life and death in the future.
  
  The Gutters had a great commentary about this. http://www.the-gutters.com/the-truth-amongst-the-outrage/
• May 1st, 2014 @ 9:17am

  Re: Re:

  on DOJ Morality Police May Be Behind Chase Closing Bank Accounts Of Adult Film Actors
  Christians already are warned against usury in the Bible, but they keep using banks anyway.
• Mar 20th, 2014 @ 1:56pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Trademark Insanity: Sparkfun Has To Destroy $30,000 Worth Of Multimeters Because They're Yellow [Updated]
  At first glance, if it wasn't for the cheap packaging, I would have thought Fluke too.
• Sep 24th, 2013 @ 7:48am

  Newspapers have 2 customers

  on Surprise: Paywalls Cause Massive Falls In Number Of Visitors - And Boost Competitors
  I've had this debate with newspapermen before. Newspapers have 2 customers: Readers and Advertisers.
  
  The reader side of the revenue stream is pretty well covered, but people often neglect the negative impact that paywalls have on advertisers.
  
  Advertisers pay for eyeballs. Paywalls reduce the eyeballs on ads, making adspace on their sites less valuable. Either advertisers won't want to pay existing rates for the now-less-valuable opportunity, or they'll just go straight to Google Adwords and host their own business site that's under their own control.
  
  Paywalls are just a faster death to the paper, making the news site less relavent both in terms of a source of news, and as a marketplace for advertising.
• Mar 20th, 2013 @ 7:14am

  (untitled comment)

  on Super Meat Boy Developer To EA: DRM Hurts Your Bottom Line More Than Piracy Does
  Another issue may be that EA is publicly traded. It isn't just their management that needs to be convinced that DRM is bad, but their shareholders need to be educated too.
• Dec 24th, 2010 @ 2:33pm

  Parallels the tech industry

  on TSA Punishes Pilot For Videotaping Security Problems At Airports
  The TSA seems to be practicing what the tech industry called, "Security by Obscurity". It fails in tech. It fails everywhere else too.