In that case they should do what MS did in this instance, and only treat specific, outside-of-game manipulation of the score as a cheat, and leave the rest up to game design and balance.
It's a score. You earn points and your score goes up. You can compare your score to your friends. Or you can ignore it. Pretty much the same way games worked in the 1980s, but applied at a platform level rather than a game one.
what are the avenues of cheating that would motivate them to use what are presumably statistical outlier detection models?
You assume wrong: the "cheater" flag is for specific technical cheats that they can detect. My understanding is that the go-to cheat for boosting one's gamerscore is to copy someone else's savegame with the achievements unlocked. If it's anything like the original Xbox, the savegame is signed with the console's unique ID, so it's trivial to figure out whether someone's saved game was their own work, or just duplication.
There are various tricks, all the way back to the original Xbox. Microsoft's policy has always been to learn detect them and punish people using them, rather than apply technical measures to fix them that might disrupt other people's gameplay.
Since about 2008 MS has had measures in place to establish whether an achievement unlock happened during gameplay, and they consequently delete the relevant achievements and apply the "Cheater" flag. I don't think anyone, autistic, dyslexic, or neurotic, is good enough at Xbox to unlock achievements without actually playing.
Yes, it's the old savantism thing. My understanding is that the tasks that profoundly autistic individuals display an unusual aptitude in are mostly related to memory and recall.
Yeah, MS' comments that they "corrected" his Gamerscore, and their prior remarks on the subject in other cheating cases, imply that they can distinguish between achievements obtained legitimately and those obtained by nefarious means. I doubt they simply looked at his score, said "that's impossibly high" and wiped it.
I saw a study recently that showed Fox News viewers held significantly more incorrect beliefs about recent news than viewers of other channels, and that this effect scaled with the amount of viewing. Very neatly showed a causal effect. If it had been about a food additive and brain damage, we'd already have people screaming about a ban. Perhaps there should be a mandate that Fox carry a disclaimer at every ad break: "Studies show that watching Fox News results in you believing things that aren't true." The research is just as solid and incontrovertable as the research on violent video games.
Those benefits are only felt where the need exists. The need does not currently exist, and the time when such a need might arise is arbitrarily far into the future. Achieving control of the moon - if such a thing is even possible - would be gambling vast amounts of resources, opportunity, and political ill-will against completely unknown odds. We might as well talk about taking military control of L3, or a black hole, at this point.
The WB response includes some misinformation of its own: the school in question quite definitively does exist. In fact, the director of that school has debunked the rumour elsewhere!
I'm reminded of when Vodafone, like so many others before it, decided to put an unedited twitter feed on its site following a hashtag for some launch or something. Usually this just leads to a lot of piss-takes but in this instance it became a nonstop expose on their £3Bn tax dodge and the subsequent slap on the wrist from a government that claimed we all had to pitch in and knuckle down to get out of the recession.
So I guess, if you see a company actually doing this, make sure anything you say about them on Facebook is pejorative.
No, you know you're getting old when you look at the submission, say that, and then log in to post about it. Give it a few years and you'll be writing scathing letters to local politicans about the state of the roads and just how much it costs to gas up.
The judge in the case appears to have strong feelings on that matter, and has yet to have his final word on the case. He refused to let ACS:Law withdraw their prosecution earlier because he felt the heinous mess needed to see a courtroom, so things might get more interesting.
"Idealistic" doesn't mean "perfect" anyway. That word would be "ideal". "Idealistic" refers to ideals, and the fact that people are willing to go off and form an entirely different project to keep to those ideals speaks volumes.
Well, that's a pain in the ass. For all that I agree (provisionally) with the TV licence, the enforcement is a bunch of shit. The last time I moved, I shifted my TV licence over, and about two days later got the most incredibly patronising, threatening and accusative letter about how I was a thief and they were going to take me for £1000 and all the rest. I called up to complain about it. Their legitimate explanation was that the letter had been sent out earlier when the property was unoccupied and unlicenced, and wasn't intended for me, but the guy's attitude when he was telling me this was completely unacceptable. As though sending a huge legal threat to a valid customer was something to be shrugged off. He didn't even say sorry about it.
I like Wikipedia, and I like h2g2, but I think merging the Guide into the hive-mind would be one step above throwing the server into a hole and pooping on it.
You'd be surprised. I once had a lengthy argument here about where I was actually a geek, because the other party had stated that "no true geek" could like my particular model of smartphone. Never mind that I was arguing on the internet about a fucking phone.
What version of Bones are you watching? My wife views it religiously and I think we must be watching a different show. Not that I wouldn't prefer yours.
Out of curiosity, did you try writing to them and stating that you did not own a television and were not receiving broadcasts? I know many people who did that, had a single inspection to confirm, and haven't had a single visit since.
"Flash-in-the-pan" in terms of internet fame, but it has rumbled along quite happily after its 15 minutes were over. A project doesn't have to be an all-consuming Facebook-grade monstrosity to be a success. The internet's strength is heterogeneity.
"without the downsides such as democratic control"
The BBC must obey its Charter as a condition of its existence, and the government sets the Charter, so it's under a similar degree of democratic control to anything else. It has various obligations and its conformance to those obligations was one of the key topics in the 2005 General Election.
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In that case they should do what MS did in this instance, and only treat specific, outside-of-game manipulation of the score as a cheat, and leave the rest up to game design and balance.
It's a score. You earn points and your score goes up. You can compare your score to your friends. Or you can ignore it. Pretty much the same way games worked in the 1980s, but applied at a platform level rather than a game one.
what are the avenues of cheating that would motivate them to use what are presumably statistical outlier detection models?
You assume wrong: the "cheater" flag is for specific technical cheats that they can detect. My understanding is that the go-to cheat for boosting one's gamerscore is to copy someone else's savegame with the achievements unlocked. If it's anything like the original Xbox, the savegame is signed with the console's unique ID, so it's trivial to figure out whether someone's saved game was their own work, or just duplication.
There are various tricks, all the way back to the original Xbox. Microsoft's policy has always been to learn detect them and punish people using them, rather than apply technical measures to fix them that might disrupt other people's gameplay.
Since about 2008 MS has had measures in place to establish whether an achievement unlock happened during gameplay, and they consequently delete the relevant achievements and apply the "Cheater" flag. I don't think anyone, autistic, dyslexic, or neurotic, is good enough at Xbox to unlock achievements without actually playing.
Yes, it's the old savantism thing. My understanding is that the tasks that profoundly autistic individuals display an unusual aptitude in are mostly related to memory and recall.
Yeah, MS' comments that they "corrected" his Gamerscore, and their prior remarks on the subject in other cheating cases, imply that they can distinguish between achievements obtained legitimately and those obtained by nefarious means. I doubt they simply looked at his score, said "that's impossibly high" and wiped it.
I think you'll find that we can do that, if by "we" you mean the human race. IKAROS has passed Venus, and is still going strong.
I saw a study recently that showed Fox News viewers held significantly more incorrect beliefs about recent news than viewers of other channels, and that this effect scaled with the amount of viewing. Very neatly showed a causal effect. If it had been about a food additive and brain damage, we'd already have people screaming about a ban. Perhaps there should be a mandate that Fox carry a disclaimer at every ad break: "Studies show that watching Fox News results in you believing things that aren't true." The research is just as solid and incontrovertable as the research on violent video games.
Those benefits are only felt where the need exists. The need does not currently exist, and the time when such a need might arise is arbitrarily far into the future. Achieving control of the moon - if such a thing is even possible - would be gambling vast amounts of resources, opportunity, and political ill-will against completely unknown odds. We might as well talk about taking military control of L3, or a black hole, at this point.
The WB response includes some misinformation of its own: the school in question quite definitively does exist. In fact, the director of that school has debunked the rumour elsewhere!
I'm reminded of when Vodafone, like so many others before it, decided to put an unedited twitter feed on its site following a hashtag for some launch or something. Usually this just leads to a lot of piss-takes but in this instance it became a nonstop expose on their £3Bn tax dodge and the subsequent slap on the wrist from a government that claimed we all had to pitch in and knuckle down to get out of the recession.
So I guess, if you see a company actually doing this, make sure anything you say about them on Facebook is pejorative.
They have to nominate something in the animated category, and TS3 was very well-received. I'd like to see The Illusionist get it though.
No, you know you're getting old when you look at the submission, say that, and then log in to post about it. Give it a few years and you'll be writing scathing letters to local politicans about the state of the roads and just how much it costs to gas up.
The judge in the case appears to have strong feelings on that matter, and has yet to have his final word on the case. He refused to let ACS:Law withdraw their prosecution earlier because he felt the heinous mess needed to see a courtroom, so things might get more interesting.
"Idealistic" doesn't mean "perfect" anyway. That word would be "ideal". "Idealistic" refers to ideals, and the fact that people are willing to go off and form an entirely different project to keep to those ideals speaks volumes.
Not to mention that the Charter refers to the Agreement and the other specific obligations which are set explicitly and directly by the government.
In much the same way that the Crown declares wars and elections.
Well, that's a pain in the ass. For all that I agree (provisionally) with the TV licence, the enforcement is a bunch of shit. The last time I moved, I shifted my TV licence over, and about two days later got the most incredibly patronising, threatening and accusative letter about how I was a thief and they were going to take me for £1000 and all the rest. I called up to complain about it. Their legitimate explanation was that the letter had been sent out earlier when the property was unoccupied and unlicenced, and wasn't intended for me, but the guy's attitude when he was telling me this was completely unacceptable. As though sending a huge legal threat to a valid customer was something to be shrugged off. He didn't even say sorry about it.
I like Wikipedia, and I like h2g2, but I think merging the Guide into the hive-mind would be one step above throwing the server into a hole and pooping on it.
You'd be surprised. I once had a lengthy argument here about where I was actually a geek, because the other party had stated that "no true geek" could like my particular model of smartphone. Never mind that I was arguing on the internet about a fucking phone.
What version of Bones are you watching? My wife views it religiously and I think we must be watching a different show. Not that I wouldn't prefer yours.
Out of curiosity, did you try writing to them and stating that you did not own a television and were not receiving broadcasts? I know many people who did that, had a single inspection to confirm, and haven't had a single visit since.
"Flash-in-the-pan" in terms of internet fame, but it has rumbled along quite happily after its 15 minutes were over. A project doesn't have to be an all-consuming Facebook-grade monstrosity to be a success. The internet's strength is heterogeneity.
"without the downsides such as democratic control"
The BBC must obey its Charter as a condition of its existence, and the government sets the Charter, so it's under a similar degree of democratic control to anything else. It has various obligations and its conformance to those obligations was one of the key topics in the 2005 General Election.