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Comment Re:"long distance" (Score 1) 234

Also, monitoring for this kind of accident is paying a lot more attention to individual customer bills and usage than I necessarily want AT&T monitoring. AT&T has already established that they cooperate extensively with monitoring US communications at NSA request, especially with the notorious "Room 641A". DO we want them collecting and acting on this kind of data?

Do I want AT&T keeping a record of the bills they've sent me? I sure damn hope they are.

"Hmm this bill is 24000% as much as their previous maximum bill, yeah there's no way this could have been auto-detected!" Your dad could code that after a week's intro to programming.

Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 1) 65

Again, in what scenario? In-person tournaments should be locked down so that you can't install an aimbot. Online, you can't require every user of your game to buy one of these. And even if the online tournament in question does (and somehow the device can't be spoofed or tampered with), you just make your aimbot spit out mouse movements/clicks and redirect them back in through the hardware interface.

Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 1) 65

Right, but I don't think there's any way to detect "illegal macros" in the hardware with this. If your keyboard does multiple actions with one button press, it'll look to the device like you pressed multiple buttons in order (and, if you program it right, with a realistic human-speed delay).

I just can't understand why he'd go to Kickstarter with something that nobody wants to buy.

Comment I don't understand (Score 2) 65

As I understand it, it uses hardware to try to catch software-based cheats. Anything that comes from your keyboard/mouse will be trusted. What's the use-case for this?

In one breath he cites tournaments - but shouldn't tournament organizers provide and lock-down the machines that people play on?

He also claims that cheaters were responsible for the death of DayZ and Rust - but it's not like Indie games are going to require you to buy a hardware anti-cheat device to play; and cheaters just simply aren't going to use the device.

(Also; if this adds any latency to your input, gamers won't use it. They're nerds like that.)

Comment Re:ion engine compare? [Re:This again?] (Score 1) 480

Ion Engines throw ions out the back at very high speeds. Those ions (matter) are the propellant, like xenon. This means you gotta accelerate all the fuel that you're bringing with you - and that it's possible to run out of fuel.

If this device works as claimed, you could conceivably convert any energy source (nuclear, solar panels, whatever) and turn that directly into acceleration, even in the void of deep space.

Comment Re:It wasn't the tweet (Score 5, Informative) 185

The idea that releasing the Q1 earnings after-hours allows people to make better judgments - they don't think "shit I have to sell all my stock RIGHT NOW", because they have a bit to think about it before the morning. Otherwise, you get a runaway effect, with some people selling early, people noticing the stock price dropping, and it starts crashing as more and more people try to sell before it "craters."

In theory, more time to react will smooth out your responses and make things less scary.

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