A Texas pastor has been arrested after investigators say he repeatedly sexually assaulted a family member when she was a child, news outlets report. The 40-year-old man was arrested Oct. 9 on charges of sexual assault of a child and continued sexual abuse of a child, according to court records.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A former Portland pastor was indicted on multiple counts of sex abuse on Wednesday after being accused of inappropriately touching two young girls, the Beaverton Police Department announced.
A now-former Baptist pastor was sentenced to well over a decade in a New Hampshire prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges related to child sexual abuse materials....
… “Even though Ms. Koutantos had committed no crime, never presented any threat, and complied with all police orders, she was surrounded by approximately a dozen sheriff’s deputies, held at gunpoint, forced to kneel in the middle of the street, handcuffed, and detained in an unventilated police car for approximately one...
maybe these companies could move their cheat detection to the server where they control the code. maybe don’t just send all player positions so wall-hacks become impossible.
That’s not how video games work. If you want interpolation of positions then you have to send the positions of the players that you can’t see but are heading towards a place you can see. You could take a bunch of difficult math to do and filter out who to send the data to or not. It would create a lot of bugs. So you could just send just the people who are within X distance of you and call it good. Most, if not all game engines do it this way.
You have to have interpolation on the client side, it’s the only way you can play the game on the internet. It’s what Quake did to get multiplayer working and we’ve never been able to find anything better.
maybe use some machine learning to look at input patterns and detect when a player is sending things that don’t look human.
They already do that. It’s called heuristics.
the list of things companies could do to actually fix cheating in pvp games is long and all they want to do is pay for ridiculous anti-cheat that impacts normal users.
I wrote a snarky response because of the final insulting comment in yours but then thought better of it, going to try to address a couple of your points legitimately even after the unnecessary personal attack.
Sorry, It’s not meant as an attack. I am simply calling it as I see it because I get a lot of gamers who think they’ve arm-chaired thought far more about my job as a networked gameplay engineer than I have. I’ve been doing this for a very long time and I know where developers cut costs. Anti-cheat isn’t just a slap-it-on and call it a good solution. There are a lot of reasons you want to trust the client and it makes the gameplay feel far better.
It’s a lot cheaper to make your server dumb. It costs you less in programmers with deep multiplayer programming experience, it costs you less in ongoing hosting because of reduced CPU usage, and it makes the problem less “yours” as a developer.
Typically, the server, especially in counter-strike’s case, isn’t dumb. In all games, the server still handles the dealing of damage which typically includes validations of that damage. In counter-strike’s case, very little data is calculated on the client. Most of it is raw data sent from input to the server.
Your argument seems to be that a quake-style predictive algorithm is the only solution possible for online games. I doubt that is the case, but even if it were, using some raycasts on the server for some basic sanity checks on what data to send to players is an example of where lots of developers just can’t be bothered.
Lots of game engines including source include and utilize ways to ensure the player is reporting sane inputs. Also, interpolation is different than extrapolation. Lastly, you don’t need to do raycasts to double-check this data. A lot of the time the raycasts are done on the server itself. In counter-strike’s case this is also true. Raycasts are done on the client typically for cosmetics only. You can see this with 3kliksphilip’s videos on sub-tick.
If you want to dismiss machine learning as heuristics, I’m sorta ok with that, as I think they are just glorified heuristics, but even the most basic analysis isn’t done by most developers. Instead, they rely on the sales pitches of various anti-cheat software and don’t implement anything beyond it, even when there might be some low hanging fruit.
Heuristics haven’t been done by developers in a long time. A lot of that is actually done in Valve’s case by Overwatch. Also, Valve makes it’s own anti-cheat called VAC. They aren’t getting sales pitches.
I am not saying developers are lazy, there’s tons of stuff to work on. I am mad that this problem gets repeatedly pushed onto the users rather than the developers, though, and I think it’s reasonable for me to offer some pushback when both my CPU cycles and my privacy are being abused.
Frankly, I feel like it’s wrong for you to say that the problem is pushed onto users when you don’t understand the code and effort the developers are writing to solve this issue specifically with counter-strike. VAC is probably the anti-cheat with the least amount of client code. It rests almost entirely on the server. One thing VAC does do is lock down the client on Windows to prevent modifications. One thing you can easily do is replace assets for walls with transparent textures to see through walls. That’s why things like the code and assets can’t be tampered with. Most game engines only send updates to the positions of actors in a network bubble. Maybe Counter-Strike’s network bubble is too large at the time but that’s not an argument you made.
An IRS contractor pled guilty Thursday to leaking the private tax information of former President Donald Trump and thousands of other wealthy Americans to the news media....
Incidentally, they might try to bullshit their way out of a direct answer by saying some misinformation about how “there is a five-year waiting period before a person can apply for pardon,” but just remind them that’s not how it worked for Michael Flynn and a whole bunch of other people under the last administration. Whether or not this gets done comes down solely to the President’s willingness to order it.
The rejection notice from FMC Devens says the issue “is being rejected due to the nature of its content. The magainze [sic] contains an article about Bureau of Prisons staff at FCC Coleman including the names of Correctional Officers and victims. Such material jeopardizes the good order and security of the institution.”...
Its absolute evil. I can’t believe us citizens haven’t burned it to the ground in a fit of rage. Its blatant fucking bribery. I’m seein’ red just typing this post.
Actually their own studies proved RoundUp causes cancers that’s why they paid out $10,000,000,000.00 in lawsuits brought by cancer patients and their families. The proof used against them in court is their own records.
They refused to repeat them and organize campaigns to discredit and defund anyone doing work in the field that is not sanctioned and controlled by Monsanto. They have ghost written and funded a lot of research saying glyphosate is safe. They can’t say RoundUp is safe because they know it’s not.
Private charities do the repairs, after Louisiana police "drove a militarized unit through" man's house (12ft.io)
https://www.brproud.com/news/local-news/brave-cave-victims-home-getting-repaired-after-brpd-raid/...
Pastor accused of raping child over 600 times, getting her pregnant, Texas officials say (www.star-telegram.com)
A Texas pastor has been arrested after investigators say he repeatedly sexually assaulted a family member when she was a child, news outlets report. The 40-year-old man was arrested Oct. 9 on charges of sexual assault of a child and continued sexual abuse of a child, according to court records.
Former Portland pastor indicted on sex abuse charges: Police (www.koin.com)
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A former Portland pastor was indicted on multiple counts of sex abuse on Wednesday after being accused of inappropriately touching two young girls, the Beaverton Police Department announced.
Judge tears into ex-pastor who had 40,000 images of child sexual abuse material (lawandcrime.com)
A now-former Baptist pastor was sentenced to well over a decade in a New Hampshire prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges related to child sexual abuse materials....
Colorado officer found guilty in Elijah McClain death (ca.sports.yahoo.com)
A Colorado officer has been found guilty in the death of Elijah McClain, who was pinned down before a medic injected him with ketamine and he died....
Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept. gets sued over overpowering response to stolen U-Haul that wasn't stolen (patch.com)
… “Even though Ms. Koutantos had committed no crime, never presented any threat, and complied with all police orders, she was surrounded by approximately a dozen sheriff’s deputies, held at gunpoint, forced to kneel in the middle of the street, handcuffed, and detained in an unventilated police car for approximately one...
This is real life. (lemmy.world)
Valve warns Counter-Strike 2 players: use AMD's Anti-Lag feature, get banned (www.pcgamer.com)
AMD users should think twice before installing driver update 23.10.1.
IRS consultant pleads guilty in massive leak of wealthy Americans’ tax returns (www.politico.com)
An IRS contractor pled guilty Thursday to leaking the private tax information of former President Donald Trump and thousands of other wealthy Americans to the news media....
Federal prison censors ‘Reason’ issue about how federal prison employed serial rapists (reason.com)
The rejection notice from FMC Devens says the issue “is being rejected due to the nature of its content. The magainze [sic] contains an article about Bureau of Prisons staff at FCC Coleman including the names of Correctional Officers and victims. Such material jeopardizes the good order and security of the institution.”...
The Open Book - An open hardware reading device that's easy to build, easy to manufacture, and easy to make your own (hackaday.io)
This is a complete reimagining of the Open Book Project, but the original mission remains:...
Former IRS worker pleads guilty to leaking Trump's tax returns (www.bbc.co.uk)
A former US tax worker has pleaded guilty to the unauthorised leak of ex-president Donald Trump’s personal tax records to news organisations.
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery” (theintercept.com)
Glyphosate [Roundup], an herbicide linked to cancer, found in 98% of Ecudorian youth: study (www.salon.com)
The popular weedkiller has also been found in 80% of Americans’ urine, according to a 2022 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.