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Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

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Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

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Post by kakacik »

i_think_so wrote: post #7
charcircuit wrote: post #5

One big problem is that the verification is trying to estimate your age instead of looking up who is the actual person and then checking what the age is of that person. If the lookup returns that the face is that of a video game character it should reject as opposed to trying to estimate the age of that character.

That's one idea. I have a different one. What if we...now hear me out....what if we didn't try to shoehorn a stupid and unworkable technological solution into this problem space and just...made parents responsible for their kids?

Nono too radical, parents dont have time, they need it to scroll some shitty social media cash grab to feel themselves even more shitty about their lives.

... and we would like to call our generation 'smart'. While knowing deep inside very well what a failure as a parent many of our generation are. The proof for/against are our kids right in front of our eyes and there is no escaping from this basic truth, thats why its so crushing.

Sorry gotta go, need to check some shitty sites who spy on me and try to push in vain on me some primitive ads.

/s

Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

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Post by bandie91 »

i_think_so wrote: post #7
charcircuit wrote: post #5

One big problem is that the verification is trying to estimate your age instead of looking up who is the actual person and then checking what the age is of that person. If the lookup returns that the face is that of a video game character it should reject as opposed to trying to estimate the age of that character.

That's one idea. I have a different one. What if we...now hear me out....what if we didn't try to shoehorn a stupid and unworkable technological solution into this problem space and just...made parents responsible for their kids?

whaaat? parents?? being responsible? let alone to their kids? what are you? some kind of backward medieval luddite?

btw, yes, we must not lose the skill of parenting. no any technology give it back to us.

Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

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Post by Dylan16807 »

croes wrote: post #9
i_think_so wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's one idea. I have a different one. What if we...now hear me out....what if we didn't try to shoehorn a stupid and unworkable technological solution into this problem space and just...made parents responsible for their kids?

Parents who work fulltime, some even more than one job?

It's possible to design something parents can control without using lots of their time to do so.

Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

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Post by crote »

croes wrote: post #9
i_think_so wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's one idea. I have a different one. What if we...now hear me out....what if we didn't try to shoehorn a stupid and unworkable technological solution into this problem space and just...made parents responsible for their kids?

Parents who work fulltime, some even more than one job?

What if we...now hear me out....what if we paid people a living wage?

Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

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Post by bandie91 »

croes wrote: post #9
i_think_so wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's one idea. I have a different one. What if we...now hear me out....what if we didn't try to shoehorn a stupid and unworkable technological solution into this problem space and just...made parents responsible for their kids?

Parents who work fulltime, some even more than one job?

well, everyone need to clarify their priorities.

Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

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Post by jochem9 »

croes wrote: post #9
i_think_so wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's one idea. I have a different one. What if we...now hear me out....what if we didn't try to shoehorn a stupid and unworkable technological solution into this problem space and just...made parents responsible for their kids?

Parents who work fulltime, some even more than one job?

Says a lot about the state of society when parenting is outsourced to technology, so that the parents can be further enslaved (because almost no one chooses to work two jobs).

Re: Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

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Post by distances »

21asdffdsa12 wrote: post #4
distances wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think it was Leisure Suit Larry that asked multiple choice history questions that I guess were meant to be impossible for fifth graders to guess. I'm from a non-English-speaking country. We didn't understand the questions at all, but all us kids in the neighborhood got into the game just fine with some brute forcing. Also, coming up with the expected commands in the game was way beyond our skills so we'd only adv…

Nowhere does the us "center of the universe" mindset shine more through, then when to expect the world to remember the presidential dogs name.

Well, the main hurdle was that we were 7-9 years old iirc and didn't know any English at all, beyond the memorized "knock knock" etc. So the topic of the questions wasn't on the table :-)
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