The key of the splitter could be revoked. You can now make a splitter which cannot be revoked.

Although most of these strippers have sourced their chip from a factory who sold the same chip with the same key to a large television company, so in practice they couldn't revoke the key anyway.

When you are dyslexic it is very hard to remember information like telephone numbers, list of words or formulas. Luckily technical schools mostly allow you to bring a formula book with you on exams.

However on the occasion I forgot to bring a book, I had to recreate the formulas. Which took more time to figure out, but I often got more points because the teacher read the notes and thus knows I understand the material. But in that particular school the teachers are more interested in if you know how to solve the problem than if you got the correct answer (I once had every answer wrong on a test and I still got an 8 because they way I got to the answer was different (not how it was thought) and correct).

HDR means you use more bits when recording the image. More than the usual 8 bits per color component. One can already do a bit of HDR when you take the raw image from most photo cameras that have 10 to 14 bits of depth. However these 10 to 14 bits are linear light (as opposed to gamma corrected for the display, so their dynamic range is not much better).

The real improvement comes from taking multiple exposures of different lengths of the same subject. Then combine these exposures into a single image; basically you would try to use the pixels from the long exposure (more accurate measurement) unless the pixel is over exposed, then you would use the same pixel from the short exposure; in reality you would use a weighted average to smooth it out a bit more. The more exposures you have the more range of accurate measurements you have.

In this case they took two cameras, set to a different exposure speed, then later they combined the two videos into a HDR image.

Now comes the interesting part, displaying the HDR image/video. You can now simply choose a virtual exposure time to show the image in a normal way, but more convenient than having to select the exposure during filming.

Or you use a special algorithm that changes the exposure of an image on a per pixel basis based on the surrounding pixels, in sort of the same way as a human eye would interpret the real world. This would show a picture with both dark a light patches very clearly, and more lively. However such algorithms always make it look fake, but it may just be conditioning that we have had looking at normal photographs (like a transistor amp compared to the valve amp).

Also from the video it looks like the algorithm used here causes flickering in the image (unless the flickering was caused by the cameras themselves), I guess the algorithm needs to be modified to take into account moving images.

I do not know exactly what the blind grenade does, but if the purpose to make the enemy invisible, then maybe the game server should not send update to the client for this enemy.

For looking through walls, it is the same thing, don't update persons that are not visible. This is not super simple, because you may not want to do accurate visibility culling on the server. But maybe there is a happy median.

I don't really have a solution for aimbots, nor can an anti cheat program help against this very well. If one makes one that no one has one, then the anti cheat software may not find the signature for it. Or the aimbot may be build completely outside of the computer; capture video and emulate a keyboard and mouse (I've seen eve online bots that could use this method).

I can see the problem for the games you guys mentioned, with a high twitch element and where the fog-of-war is hard to calculate by the server. I am actually much more puzzled about the aggressive use of anti-cheat software for games like world of warcraft.

I find anti-cheating software an unnecessary evil.

It is very basic software engineering: "never trust input from a user". As the client software of game is in the hands of the user this extends to the client itself. In fact this also extends to the anti-cheating software itself.

Like DRM, anti-cheating software is a mathematical impossibility.

It is far easier to just design your game so that you do not trust the client code, run the simulation/game on the server and let the client be a dumb terminal. Dumb being a relative term, as you do want to implement some sort of prediction in the game to what the game server will do, to make it a smooth user experience.

The Roomba has a quite small bin inside, which you open by pushing a button and sliding it out. The bin has two parts, one for large parts like hairs and a part for dust.

The large part has tooth which you need to clean with for example your finger. The small part you open up to show the filter, you can open this inside the trashcan and shake it out by tapping the filter.

There is also a compartment with two brushes, The two brushes need also to be cleaned from hairs getting stuck at the ends.

I have one (a 500) it works very well. It may not be as powerful as a normal vacuum cleaner, but it makes up for it by vacuuming longer and more often (you can run it daily). In fact it cleans better than I do myself, it also can go easily underneath the couch and bed.

It runs at my home on carpet and wood floor, and I know someone who has the scooba which cleans a wood floor using a water based solution as well. You do need to be sure there are no cable on the floor that it can suck up and get entangled with, also small objects on the floor can be dragged by it across the house, with mobile phones ending up in a corner behind the couch.

It can follow the sides of the room, but it can not reach deep into a corner, it also follows table legs. Also if it finds a lot of dirt it will make a small circle to try and clean it up.

When you run the roomba daily you need to empty it once every three days (but I get a lot of dust because I live across a park).

Oh, did he forgot to tell you that the family tree goes all the way back to Adam and Eve and includes every person who ever lived and died on earth? In other words the size of the tree is quite a few gigabytes in size.

In that case you may want to look at a graph database with its own query language that is designed for this kind of data. Not everything that can be stored in a RDBMS should be stored in one.

To be honest, I have not found a perfect graph database yet, but I have a feeling that one will be created quite soon.

I think we will have to wait until we have super-semi conductors. One where it either conducts perfectly, or not at all, depending on a third input (which itself has an infinite resistance).

Maybe I should patend this "idea" for a transistor, I am probably to late though.

Maybe it is just in the Netherlands, but everything is supposed to be taxed ones here.

A company that buys stuff does this basically tax free.

- He declares the VAT that it payed for the stuff and how much he sells, and then only pays the difference (which the customer is actually paying).
- Everything a company buys is subtracted from the profit so it only pays income tax over the profit it makes on selling products.
- The salary is also subtracted from the profit, so only the employee pays income taxes over that money.

In eve it is not possible to convert back virtual goods back to money. It is possible to buy a PLEX and pay for your subscription. But that PLEX was already taxed to begin with.

but the player who actually created the PLEX where not compensated by CCP, they where compensated by an other player.

Everyone, even CCP are saying that PLEX is just and item in the game, but it isn't, it is the only item in the game that can control something in your account, namely add 30 days of subscription.

Fact of the matter is CCP sold a subscription in the form of a PLEX that is now gone. On average customers now have to rebuy those 47 subscriptions from CCP (more subscriptions sold) or don't play (less business costs for CCP).

Now, I am not saying this is a good or a bad thing for the game as a whole.

You could argue that a PLEX is also a gift card, which was bought by an ETC gift card.

A PLEX is destroyed and the services need never be rendered by CCP.
I don't know about this gift card law, but I gather that even if you lose your gift card on the bus, or it is destroyed in a fire, Kohl still need to render the service to you.

Neither can you take cash back out of a gift card.

Someone already payed taxes to buy the PLEX in the first place.

The fact that a waring party or a griefer wants to make sure you loose your PLEX isn't a function of loot drop rate. However the motivation for a pirate to destroy your ship to take your PLEX is .

Therefor as a sum, a low PLEX drop rate lowers the chance of people destroying your ship because of the PLEX in your hold.

You see the same things with Orcas vs. Freighters, Orcas have a corp hanger to haul stuff in which don't drop loot. Pirates don't take down Orcas because there is nothing to gain. However in a war an Orca is still a sweet kill.