Isn't that exactly the problem that BitTorrent solves? You can't "grab all you can and go", you have to pass on a similar volume of data to the volume you take in.
Any system where users are expected to donate their outgoing bandwidth for no returns might be nice in theory but it clearly overestimates human altruism, especially in a large group of people who don't know each other.
The more expensive the lock, usually the harder it is to pick, because they cost more to make
You mean like Windows boxes are harder to hack than Linux boxes, because Windows cost more to make? Or would that contradict your tiresome and irrelevant Windows-bashing?
I don't know what the article means about "complete control over the game", the server does not allow illegal moves
But the server does allow bad moves. Perhaps the idea is that you can intercept your opponents moves and change them to something worse. I agree that this seems a bit silly because it's not like they aren't going to notice.
And finally, I fear that a "robustification" of timestamp, to use accepted open security mechanisms, would end up in greater lag for the players
It wouldn't. The time required to encrypt and decrypt with OpenSSL et al is barely perceptible.
Even 20ms is noticeable in a speed game of chess
I really doubt that. 20ms is about the human reaction time. Over 50 moves, it adds up to one whole second. Even in speed chess, that seems like pittance to me. The point of timestamp is that this extra delay wouldn't matter anyway.
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You don't read the SpamAssassin changelogs? What are you doing on Slashdot?!
Isn't that exactly the problem that BitTorrent solves? You can't "grab all you can and go", you have to pass on a similar volume of data to the volume you take in. Any system where users are expected to donate their outgoing bandwidth for no returns might be nice in theory but it clearly overestimates human altruism, especially in a large group of people who don't know each other.
Because "nought point ten" is bigger than "nought point nine". It's hard to recognise jokes without the magic "5, Funny" isn't it?
Might be worth having a new Internet just to stop all the "Al Gore invented the Internet" jokes, perhaps?