Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:42:35 +0200 |
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On Thu 24 Apr 03 23:28, Jamie Lokier wrote: > This is how a game server can verify it is working with a known game > client and the client is connected to a known type of monitor and > input device. I.e. it can verify there is no electronic frame grabber > using the video signals and driving an AI assist through the input > device.
For the forseeable future, you might as well let people grab frames and try to analyze them: this is something people still do much better than machines.
A more mundane goal would be to prevent the 3D driver from letting you see through polygons that are supposed to be opaque.
> ... > Substitute "broadcaster" for "game server" and you see that the same > methods ensure that you really have the TV switched on and you are not > recording the show. > > They also ensure you are not recording a screenshot of a politically > sensitive article about Iraq that was accidentally shown on CNN's web > site for 10 minutes. We can't have people recording things like that. > > Also that day, that same article doesn't load from Al-Jazeera or > anywhere else, on the PC you bought from the only affordable store in > town. Is the net flaky today, or is somebody remote-controlling your > PC to control your "browsing experience"?
Did I mention I was grasping at straws? I don't want this junk in my hardware any more than you do, I'd much rather have the transistors spent on more megahertz than on controlling me, thankyou.
Regards,
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