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Comment Re:"inactive during gameplay" (Score 4, Informative) 105

Windows doesn't have TSRs. This isn't MS-DOS;.

Every TPM has a unique endorsement key. Requiring a TPM allows them to ban your hardware if you cheat. That means you'll be buying a new motherboard or a new TPM module if you get banned and want to play again. In addition, having secure boot enabled disables debug mode which means you can't load unsigned kernel mode drivers.

Comment Re:Now... whose backdoor was used for salt typhoon (Score -1) 43

It's not about security, it's about banning the competition. The American oligarchy is terrified of China because a strong China means that the US government will no longer able to bully the entire world and engage in economic terrorism by sanctioning any country that doesn't allow American corporations to exploit it.

Comment Re:5-20 years... (Score 1) 94

He won't get anywhere near that amount.

This is a common mistake that news outlets make. They look at the statute for each charge where it says the person shall be punished for a term not to exceed X years and then say that person faces X years in prison. What they don't ever read or mention is the sentencing guidelines which the judge generally has to follow unless there is a justifiable reason to depart from them

https://www.sentencing.us/

Comment Re:Valve is wrong (Score 1) 93

AMD is hooking into the games Win32 API calls and intercepting them. Of course, it's going to trip up anti-cheat because those systems are literally designed to prevent external programs from tampering with the game in that manner. That's why NVIDIA's solution, Reflex, actually requires the game developer themselves to implement support.

Comment Re:Windows Driver model is broken (Score 2) 93

The majority of the driver is Ring 3. The only part that is Ring 0 is the miniport. That's why NVidia drivers can be updated without a reboot (AMD is too lazy to make their code properly re-entrant).

It's not going to be the driver itself that is hooking the DLLs, it'll be some non-driver related process that is bundled with the driver, similar to the Geforce Experience stuff.

Comment Re:These are not even "large" expenses (Score 3, Interesting) 134

Workers have been gaining too much power thanks to the pandemic. Capitalism depends on the reserve armor of labour in order to keep workers under control, knowing that they can be replaced at any time. The tech sector needs to increase the unemployment rate so that they can regain control over the remaining employees.

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