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South Korea criminalizes 'boosting' with new law
Boosting — basically one person playing on another's account to rank them up — is going to be a criminal offense in South Korea with some stiff punishments awaiting the booster.
The new measure comes courtesy of an amendment to the country's Game Industry Promotion Act, reports The Daily Dot. That law was passed in June 2017. This new measure was developed in collaboration with the video games industry in the country and will punish boosters with a fine of up to 20 million won, which is roughly $18,000. They also get a two-year suspended prison sentence.
[...] The act goes into effect in six months, and defines a "proxy game" as "an act that interferes with the normal operation of the game by arranging or providing the service to acquire the score or performance of the game in a way that is not approved by the game-related business operated."
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(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday December 11 2018, @02:24AM (3 children)
It's not a half second. Most martial artists I know are in the quarter second range.
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(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday December 11 2018, @02:40AM (2 children)
Note that I'm talking specifically about *fingers* - it takes less time to get a signal to your bicep for example, less still to get to the shoulder. So reaction times will vary based on exactly how you measure them.
Pretty sure they'd still fail the "half dollar test" - brace their hand motionless on a table with the midpoint of a dollar bill suspended halfway between their thumb and fore-finger, then drop the bill while they try to close their fingers fast enough to grab it. Can't be done - the nerve-signal propagation delay is greater than the time it takes for the bill to fall half it's length.
There's lots of things you can do to improve your effective reaction time - mostly revolving around getting better at anticipating things. But I've never heard any suggestion that you can actually improve your nerve signal propagation speed.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday December 11 2018, @06:27AM (1 child)
Check this out:
https://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/statistics [humanbenchmark.com]
Looks like most people are at around a quarter second.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday December 11 2018, @02:53PM
I stand corrected. Just looked up the dollar bill "test" again, and apparently I misremembered 0.2 seconds as 1/2 second.