Agreed. And, again, I am not defending them based upon any legal reasoning. Let's just say things like this make me angry, and I understand why they took the approach they did.
Some of us work for large companies with a large amount of valuable IP that needs protection so I understand the exasperation in seeing clones proliferate but this was the 'No Mercy' nuclear option.
And some of us own those companies.
So would you authorize this if someone (a third-party who did not know) used a device with your stolen IP?
I said I understand it. I don't know what I'd do in this particular instance. When it happens to me, I'll let you how I beat the Kobayashi Maru scenario.
It is a well known established fact the sole method of beating the Kobayashi Maru scenario is to reprogram the computer, which is essentially what FTDI is doing here.
Sorry you stretched it past the breaking point. Any honorable manufacturer of human life critical equipment damn well better have their supply chain in line and not supplying counterfeit parts.
I wish that were true in all cases. In this case Microsoft pushed out a 'trusted' signed and certified driver from the OEM to the update server. Everybody in the world would have received that driver if the systems were on a network that connected to a public or private network that serves updates if that computer was setup to receive updates. Having isolated networks ,disabled driver updates and having locked down systems protects us for malware from hackers and configuration change bugs but we don't expect to see that stuff pushed into the 'trusted' update stream from an OEM in a heavy-handed manner.
Exactly my point, which is another reason Microsoft is not considered suitable for mission critical equipment.
If those tires are seen by a Goodyear dealer or distributor when your car is in for service, they will absolutely be removed in the US. Otherwise it shows that Goodyear is endorsing the tire and subject to product liability if the tires fail. Any service station (associated with Goodyear or not) should not remount, rotate, balance or even add air to a tire that they believe is not roadworthy (evidence of counterfeit is considered non-road worthy in most states).
That was once true but today most of the latest technology in semiconductor processing equipment and medical technology based on the same physics are now hosted on specific server versions of windows. That's mission critical for the production of products and services. The computer control system for these machines now require vast horsepower for precise control of dosing/imaging and most of the CS grads have cut their teeth in a windows programming environment so that's what they use to develop new systems.
I was rather thinking this would happen automatically while driving.
When I speak of "mission critical" think of a nuclear power plant or the like where failure means someone will die.
I need you on my side the next time a VP asks why there was a scrap due to a equipment problem.
Most of the higher energy machines (1MeV+) are capable of gamma radiation under the right conditions, they are shielded by thick lead plates that handle normal X-rays when in operation but under the right failure modes the software shuts down beam operations (I've seen it a few times) so we don't get cooked as gamma radiation will go through the lead shielding like tissue paper. Then there is the control of highly toxic dopants like Phosphine or Arsine. It's not a nuclear power plant but the potential for harm is real if we lose the control system interfaces but there are usually mechanical fail-safe systems like the big red EMO button that will kill the machine in an instant but still leave potential chemical hazards.
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