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Comment Re:Completely unnecessary (Score 2) 46

Congratulations, you just coded an unplayable lagfest. This has been tried, this has failed.

False. Most major online competitive games actually already work under a zero-trust model. Though, without working directly on the games themselves, I can't make any assumptions about how thorough their zero-trust models are.

And above all, even with your zero trust model you haven't covered a SHITLOAD of different forms of cheating which do work with zero trust as well as it turns out computers are faster than people.

True. Pure server-side enforcement and authority isn't perfect. But it's biggest weakness is visual cheats based on the data the server sent you. However, kernel level access for an anticheat is still completely unnecessary.

Any time you think something is unnecessary and propose an alternative in an industry that has been battling these problems for decades, and has actual real money on the line (competitive Valorant players earn 6 figure salaries) know that someone has tried your idea and found it wasn't sufficient.

And all those competitions for that real money are offline, in-person, and use tournament provided PCs - so Vangaurd means nothing when money is actually on the line. Not to mention, games like Dota 2 and CS:GO have even *more* money on the line and neither of them find it necessary to run kernel-level anti cheat. Why? Because Vanguard is a over-engineered solution to a problem that A) wasn't that big and B) can be solved in easier ways. Riot is a lazy company with lazy developers. Instead of upgrading their code base and patching the holes that allowed for cheaters to begin with, they created half-baked, inefficient ideas that cause almost as many problems as it helps solve. And they're not going to back down now, because too much money has already been spent on it.

It's like trying to get rid of Denuvo. Players know it causes issues. The game developers know it causes issues. Denuvo knows their product causes issues, but, of course, the company continues to lie and peddle it's shitware to the *publishers* (who know nothing about game design or coding) who still think pirating costs them money. Denuvo isn't going to just pack up and leave on it's own. They will instead continue to lie about their product while hoping to actually get said product improved to support the lie in the meantime. Riot is no different with Vanguard. Both put the cart before the horse. Both made promises about their software before the software was proven to work and now they are stuck chasing that promise that they'll probably never obtain.

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 46

Nothing wrong with drug testing, but they don't implant a mystery device inside your body to constantly monitor for drugs, which is essentially what Vanguard does. Vanguard creates more problems than it solves, and wouldn't even be necessary if they Riot knew how to design a decent game correctly to begin with. Bunch of lazy graphics designers who can't code worth shit (and their designs are subpar too).

Comment Filled with morons (Score 4, Informative) 118

Arkansas doesn't know the first thing about education. Nor does the child predator known as Carlton Wing - who has a degree in radio broadcasting. He knows nothing of politics, education, or running a business.

Arkansas Ranked:
33/50 for Pre-K - 12.
35/50 for higher education
47/50 for quality of education
45/50 for public schools
49/50 for rate of 4yr degrees earned
41/50 for reading proficiency
43/50 overall education

Comment Re:Good riddance. (Score 1) 137

Kids should have communities in real life

Real life communities are not always possible, or appropriate, for every child.

where people behave less like assholes

Eh...not really. The types of assholery just shift.

Under light supervision of adults

Can't supervise them 100% of the time, nor should they be.

And a little bit of supervised internet on a family PC in a common room

Overkill. And bypassable.

Comment Disgusting (Score 1) 144

Checks are a disgusting form of currency and should disappear from the face of the earth. That being said, the fees that are charged for replacements to checks is even more disgusting. I've worked with payment processors before, and sometimes the fees being passed on to the consumers are significantly higher than what the payment processor is charging the merchant for said payment - which should be illegal to do. There's a $70 flat fee to use my credit card to pay my rent and there is no way in hell that the payment processor is charging a 10% transaction fee, and if they *were*, then more than just me is getting ripped off.

Comment Re:Australia (Score 1) 144

If they have a bank account with any major US bank, and even most smaller ones, there is always Zelle, which only requires the correct phone number or email address. They'll get a message to setup Zelle to receive the money if they don't already have it setup. Otherwise it's basically only CashApp or Venmo. If anyone is using any other option, in the US, then they're either dumb or have some sort of vested interest (equally dumb).

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