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I'm uncertain on the technical aspects of it, but allegedly it has to transit to a downloadable client in order to implement the system. I don't know the answer to why this is the case, unfortunately. The comparisons between WoW is mainly made because that's the system Blizzard uses to catch bots. Allegedly it may monitor other information, such as what's currently on your screen. I honestly don't think it's a wise idea - the system in question would monitor system processes and could allegedly take screenshots of your computer at any given time (needs verification). As a lot of us have a lot of confidential information on our computers - it's definitely considered a security risk. @TS; Given that a large amount of revenue is offset by the costs of the business, even a small decrease in revenue (30-40%?) may be catastrophic for JaGex. The only real solution would either be - a 'fixed' GE with trade limits, or free trade existing without the same incentive to bot. The market for RS gold is huge - reduce the demand for the market and the problem becomes exponentially smaller thus easier to deal with. The level of botting is so high at current rates that regardless of JaGex's efforts, there's no noticeable change in terms of play-ability.

Humans don't bite. Unless you're dating Edward. What have you got to be worried about?

Brb 20 minute nap. FUUUUUUUUUUU- slept through entire day.

I'd like to hear an atheist's view on faith, on both religious faith and non religious faith. Whilst I personally don't have faith in a deity, I do have an ounce of faith in most of humanity's desires - to create a better world, for the greater good. What about you, Duff?

My menu is full of 'Asian' foods - my favourite being of the Cantonese cuisine and the Sichuan cuisine. Cooking is such an invaluable life skill that I'm amazed how many people still lack it. How do you go about your life if you're so dependent on others to cook :|. Although, this is coming from someone who spent most of his life in a food orientated business.

Lmao. How much of it was true and not blatantly obvious? Some of the content may be perceived as 'obvious' - but he still raises valid points nonetheless. The video in question: Edit - W00t!

I guess you've never studied Business. If a company's cashflow allows their balance to hit 0 (with no alternative methods of funding), it must liquidate it's assets and halt operation. Losing 70% of their playerbase almost certainly spells doom - that's millions of pounds worth of revenue gone. I'm not too sure on the technical solutions, but I'm sure there could be something that tricks the BCEL Injectors they use to gather data every time the ID's get switched (which they do, every update). Or... use hidden surface algorithms at the graphical rendering pipelines, making interactable but invisible items that only a bot could see. However, every proposed solution has a workaround. We are only delaying the inevitable. Why couldn't JaGex realise that we must tackle the problem at it's roots, rather than treating the symptom?

It should be acknowledged that it's not about the quantity of posts which determines who's a 'good' user - it's the quality of our posts. It's not difficult to reach an extremely high post count. It's difficult to write extraordinarily well thought out posts, detailing viewpoints that has never previously been discussed. On Topic: Today, I watched some of Obama's speeches. It's amazingly inspirational EDIT - Is it not possible for people to get 'nominated' for a 'veteran' rank, based on how inspiring/motivational/funloving/persuasive a user's posts are?

You're failing to realise that it has to transit from a browser based game to a downloadable client based game in order to use that system. Even though there's an official RS client - it's still nothing like a downloadable game like WoW. Also, please refrain from making unfounded allegations.

Ah, Croce's article is finally released. Again - it's a good piece of work there.

A game without bots at a cost - more bandwidth consumption, higher hardware costs (e.g. better RAM, graphics cards, etc.), and other such issues. You have to realise that we're talking about the average player here. Based on what I know of Blizzard's methods, it's not 'just a game/program' - it's something that scans your active memory at any given time. It may or may not compromise security - but I wouldn't want to take that risk. I wouldn't be so certain of how secure JaGex keeps their data either - the incentive may be much stronger if the data in question had a lot of value.

As the most recent religion thread was created almost a year ago, I've decided to make a separate thread for it. I shall admit I don't know all too much about the reasoning behind why people believe in religious deities, for I'm an agnostic atheist. To sum up my view upon religion, I quote my post in 'Things that annoys the HELL out of you' Please do enlighten me, and discuss. EDIT - Here's a relevant link: http://forum.tip.it/topic/172416-is-god-real-post-your-thoughts/

That's not surprising. It's highly unlikely to see fault in one's own arguments. If you feel I don't understand - then enlighten me. I'm more than willing to listen, you don't need to come off as so brash to deliver a point. I still don't see how you've supposedly justified your actions by claiming that my post came off as 'disrespectful'. Personal attack in question: [hide] [/hide] You're suggesting that we 'atheists' are incapable of understanding the concept - as if we're of lesser intelligence. That's clearly not so. I see that as a personal attack.

Maybe 100 players who legitimately play, wont use it. Of course lots of people will say they won't download it to scare Jagex because they want to keep botting. I don't know how this program would work, but I think it will work better than their current bot detect system that detects all those bots at the moment. You seem to be missing the point - a lot of the appeal to playing RuneScape is the accessibility of it. Forcing consumers to download an official client will not only alienate players - it'll also be alarming for parents that their child is using a browser which scans through the computer's memory. It's also a privacy concern, which is very serious given the amount of information on many home computers these days (even the minute chance is still worrying, as the consequences are so grave should it happen). The point of fighting bots is to improve gameplay - if by attempting to remove bots, JaGex creates an alternate problem (which, given JaGex, isn't unlikely), then it's a complete waste of time and effort. I see bots as a symptom - start tackling the real problem at hand, and the problem with bots will be gone. It also raises the question - was free trade ever necessary, and if so, worth it?

It's not that we don't understand at all - we choose not to believe because there is nothing there that persuades us. The Russell's teapot analogy is made to prove a point - by not being able to disprove something, it doesn't mean it's automatically proven. Whilst I acknowledge it's not quite the same - as the concept of God is supposed to be an intangible, omnipotent divine being - it merely illustrates how the defense that you can't disprove God is proof of it's existence. I'm more of an agnostic atheist than anything else - I don't believe in a specific deity, but I wouldn't deny it's existence given sufficient proof. I just think it's all unknowable - which is what the concept is about; having faith in the unknown. I fully respect theists who believe in something greater existing out there - it's just that many theists like to preach their beliefs and attempt to convert others, a practice which I see just as disrespectful as the way theists see atheists. EDIT - Oh, and please refrain from using personal attacks.

Knowing Blizzard's methods - I don't think too many people will agree to it. Anonymity and such exists for a reason, and RuneScape has a completely different audience (mostly young teenagers, whereas WoW is mostly late teens). Besides - it wouldn't even be very effective, all people have to do would be to sandbox a single file. It'll stop botters for a very short time.

Much of RuneScape's appeal would be lost if such a system is implemented (downloadable client). The only viable way is to reverse the Wilderness, and make the GE work properly. It's that, or a complete overhaul of the system mechanics. Frequently obfuscating would depend on whether that requires a system update. If it does, it'll greatly damage gameplay - which is counterproductive since that goes against the fundamental thing that drives people to hate bots.

My motto: If you can't prove what you say, I have no reason to believe you (applies to non falsifiable claims, e.g. existence of God and other superstitious ideas) Besides, I have a flying China teapot between Earth and Mars which even the strongest telescope couldn't pick up.

I'm addicted to tvtropes. ... and Cracked, tip.it, failblog, etc.

Why would you date someone so paranoid? It just spells trouble in the long term. What makes it worse is if there's an allegation of domestic violence after a row - police wouldn't believe you regardless of what your pleas are. ('All abusers are male' stereotype still continues to perpetuate) Anywho - I went to a Eurogamer conference in place of my lessons yesterday. It was rather fun - it was essentially go play games until you die. RAGE looked pretty good, might actually get that later this year. Hmmm.

As the title suggests - this thread is about the various issues the English language has. (Please move if it's in the incorrect section). I find it quite amusing that English is perhaps one of the most difficult languages to fully learn, as it seems so simple. I hope you guys could come up with some humorous examples of how terribly wrong something could be interpreted. Ambiguity: Police helped dog bite victim. They are hunting dogs. Hole found in changing room wall; police are looking into it. etc. Do you think the English language needs some tweaking? Do you think there's a lack of words? Post anything related to the English language here!

If you kite Graar whilst flashing soulsplit, would this be superior to CR + Defender?

Disclaimer: This is not safe for work, and probably not safe for sanity. Do NOT click if you don't want to be somewhat scarred by what you see (subjective, but it may not be suitable for the younger audience) [hide=Byford Dolphin Diving bell accident]Although relatively painless and instantaneous, this is a rather... cruel and unusual death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_accident[/hide] [hide=BE WARNED: VERY GRAPHIC]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yfd_7jrnMk [/hide] [hide=THIS MAY GIVE YOU NIGHTMARES] I'm sure most of you have heard of the Indian girl who lost her face from getting her braids caught in a lawn mower... Well, here's what was her face: http://patrishka.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/human-face-transplant/ [/hide] I'm sure I could find more, it would take a little time though >.>

I'm interested in some barrows calculations concerning the SOA against the melee brothers.

Incite fear or terror to maintain control and order. More seriously: I simply mentally block them. It works a charm as it seems to drive them even madder than they initially were (for some unprecedented reason).