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We launched the show based on degradation
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millisecond on time.
Everyone else just has incorrect clocks.
Yeah, well there's a seven minute time delay
so that we can place our bets about the outcome of the show
before the betting closes, everyone else is on a delay.
You heard about that, right?
Yeah, yeah, that was like,
Really bad.
That was some bush league stuff going on there.
That's like, yes, we wanna be taken seriously as a sport.
Oh, also our athletes are gonna bet on a time delayed
like match because, sorry, event organizer,
event organizer is gonna bet on a time delayed match
because they are spectating in the game.
Like, so anyways, let's go ahead and let's get started.
We're gonna have a great show for you guys today.
We've got actually tons of great topics.
I'm even gonna jump away from some of the ones
that we did as our teasers at the beginning.
Some smart TVs have started just inserting ads
into content on their own, that's smart.
France is deploying anti-drone drones
at their nuclear plants.
There's some stuff going on,
like a lot of stuff going on at frozen CPU
and no one is sure exactly what kind of stuff's going on.
Also, Apple's activation lock
is like seriously reducing theft of smartphones
all kind of around the world.
And Nvidia is digging even freaking deeper
and disabled 900M overclocking with a new driver, so yeah.
Yeah.
Can you drive underground?
Yes, they do that for mining.
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All right, guys, so let's get right
into our first topic here.
Nvidia digs deep as latest 347.29 driver
on the GTX 900M series disables overclocking.
Are you in the Twitch chat?
Because I sure am not.
This was posted by kubaru.
I can post it, I've got it, no worries.
All right, I just want to get the Twitch chat open.
I'm using a different laptop this week
because there was a bit of an unfortunate occurrence
last week thanks to me using my general purpose
personal and work laptop on the stream
and a technical complication
that basically it's a long story.
And the original article here is from TechPowerUp.
I'm gonna go ahead and screen share with you guys
so you can have a quick boo at this.
And some notebooks.
So notably we did a review of the G751J something or other,
whatever, the G751 Asus's updated G750
that features, dang it, TechPowerUp.
Just mute.
I guess I can do that.
What are you sharing right now?
I'm not.
Oh, you are.
How is that not going through?
I don't know.
Yeah, I couldn't hear it.
Huh, that's bizarre.
Anyway, okay, so right.
So we have a G751 that we reviewed.
It did have, albeit very limited, overclocking features
enabled and Nvidia has pushed out a driver update
that disables that not only on the 970M and 980M,
but my understanding is there's also another,
another graphics, I think it's the 860M
has also had overclocking disabled on it.
So you'll have to correct me on that.
Someone in chat says 860M and 850M.
And 850M too.
So basically Nvidia, so some users were upset
because they kind of go, yo dog,
so I was overclocking my GPU and my temps were all cool.
Get it, temps were cool because cool is good.
Lack of heat.
Lack of heat.
Or lower amount of heat.
Excellent thermal dissipation.
So my temps are great.
I was getting all this extra performance.
I got a new driver update so I could play
whatever new game it is that the kids play these days.
And boom, no overclocking all of a sudden.
So Nvidia has clarified that GTX 900M series overclocking
was enabled by accident
and has therefore since been disabled.
Users were incensed,
arguing that they should be able to use their hardware
as they choose even if it does void the warranty.
Overclocking has been allowed on mobile GPUs
from Nvidia in the past,
but we've seen them become a lot more restrictive
even on the desktop side in recent years.
And every architecture seems to add some new functionality
designed to let the GPU manage itself
versus paying really any attention to user intervention.
So my take on this is one,
you shouldn't be overclocking your notebook GPU anyway.
So there's that.
Two, I think it's a dick move
because if you wanna break your stuff,
it should be your right to break your stuff.
Something that has always baffled me
about the whole overclocking thing
where manufacturers will say overclocking
voids your warranty.
And then they never had any way to tell.
Like if you've ever taken like an iPad into an Apple store
and for warranty replacement,
the first thing they do is they whip out a flashlight
and they look inside the connectors for those moisture,
those moisture strips
and those moisture color change things.
Because if they're gonna say,
hey, look, your warranty is void
if you drop it in the water,
then they better have a bloody way to actually back it up.
Otherwise it's all just this, it's just gum flapping.
So something that baffles me is why doesn't Nvidia
just allow us to do whatever we want with it
and then actually void the warranty?
Ah, ah, ah, ah, why don't you just,
why don't you just enforce the policy you already had
instead of making a new policy
that just makes people mad at you?
And if it was enabled in the past,
oh man, on like previous,
if it was enabled on previous.
I was just thinking.
If it was enabled on previous versions
of Nvidia mobile GPUs, they should just tell people,
they're having a big communications problem these days.
You need to just tell people
that it would not be enabled in the new one.
If they told people it would not be possible
and then it was accidentally possible and they took it away,
that's a totally different story.
I mean, people will still be upset.
Yeah.
And I would still get it.
Yeah.
But it's incredibly frustrating
how incorrectly Nvidia goes about a lot of this stuff.
And you know what?
I get it.
Honestly, this is probably something that comes about
due to higher and higher end graphics cores
being implemented in these like thin and light designs
that we're gonna thermal throttle or be on the edge of it.
Like barely make it.
Like stuff like the GS70,
like these super thin designs,
AORUS X7 Pro, hyper thin SLI enabled notebooks.
They actually don't throttle.
But as soon as you go ahead
and you start turning things up, they will.
So that's gonna create a bad user experience.
Gonna potentially make the chips run even hotter,
therefore reducing their lifespan.
And the thing about something that's meant to be implemented
into a finished goods product, like a notebook GPU,
is that when that dies, like let's say your desktop,
GTX 970, that's a what, $400 graphics card.
Let's say that GPU burns out
because someone was irresponsible
and they overclocked it, they cooked it,
whatever the case may be.
If that dies, now that-
Which is kinda hard these days, the GPU boost.
But regardless.
If that dies, then that's a $400 RME replacement
that the manufacturer then has to deal with.
You know, your Asus or Gigabyte or MSI
or whatever else the case may be.
If your laptop GPU dies, all of a sudden,
we're talking about a $2,000 replacement.
Or let's say at the lower end of these high-end GPUs.
You know, a $1,500, $1,800, even up to $3,000 device
that is now effectively bricked.
Now you can make arguments for,
oh, well then they should be doing mobile GPUs
on MXM modules anyway.
So that I could just replace the graphics card.
And there are arguments to be made for that.
But if you've seen the kinds of notebooks
that feature replaceable graphics cards,
stuff like the GT80 Titan from MSI,
it's like two inches thick.
Like- Also.
And expensive.
There is more involved in making that stuff modular
and in designing an interchangeable system
for the cards and the cooling slots.
Cause none of that stuff's standard
and it's never going to be.
I get people messaging me all the time
suggesting that we do a video about
doing a custom built notebook.
Custom built notebooks died ages ago.
Like, my laptop that I got for university.
So this was back in, how old am I?
I, 2004 I guess.
So this is about, man I'm old.
Okay, so this is over 10 years ago.
It was an Asus M5NE.
And this was back when laptop displays
were like five by four.
It was a 12 inch, which was a big deal at the time.
And you could get an extended battery
that stuck out the bottom like this much.
Yeah, and acted as a keyboard incline.
Yeah, exactly.
That's why I said they're awesome.
They were actually really good.
So those were freaking awesome.
But aside from that, so, you know,
having like six hours of battery life
on a laptop back in those days was like amazing.
So that one, I bare bones built it.
So I bought my own CPU from Canada Computers.
I bought some RAM, I bought a drive,
and then I bought a bare bones unit from NCIX.
And I put it together, and I realized
that I had saved exactly zero dollars.
And that was when custom laptops died for me.
And the fact that they make them even less upgradeable
and customizable now doesn't cost the consumer
any more money, it just gets us better designs.
Things like the Razer Blade 14 would not be possible
if they were gonna try and go, oh, well,
we also have to build them the ability
to upgrade the graphics card, gee,
how are we gonna do that, we can't.
Things like RAM and storage still really need
to be upgradeable, and that's something
that really irked me about the Blade 14,
the last edition that I covered.
But I think I've kind of gone off on a tangent here.
Dick move, poor communication.
Also, something that users are not understanding
clearly enough is I see a lot of people saying,
oh, well, hey, my GPU temps were great,
so there was no concern.
It actually doesn't work that way.
That's one temperature for one component.
It has nothing to do with monitoring the health
of the entire rest of the graphics card.
Because even if it's integrated into another board
and it's just like a cordoned off part of the PCB,
it's still a full graphics card with VRM
and memory modules and a GPU and all the other stuff
that goes with that.
So if any of those other components were running
out of spec and just plain weren't designed for it
due to cost constraints or cooling constraints
or whatever else the case may be,
it could meet an untimely death,
even if the GPU itself was fine
and running at a frosty 60 degrees.
Yeah, frosty.
That's pretty good for a graphics card.
I know, but it's not frosty.
Anyways, my laugh right now is amazing.
That's all I have to say.
That was beautiful.
You have like that video that was going around
about the GTX 970 memory fiasco with the guy that laughs.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like I can't even do that, like the wheeze laugh.
I don't, yeah, I don't know how to do that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh my god, yeah.
Pretty good wheeze laugh going on there.
Oh man, that video was actually hilarious.
All right, so that was posted in the forum by Kabaru.
Yeah, I've never seen that before.
All right, we've got one of our classic posters here.
This is, it is official, posted by Good Bytes.
Radio Shack is closing down permanently.
Files for bankruptcy.
So our original article here is from theverge.com.
Oh, I thought I had a touchscreen.
I went to scroll the page.
I hate my life.
Okay, my life isn't bad.
I have a great life.
Page down and page up.
Yeah, I prefer function up down for that.
I'm a big fan of that.
Anyway, Radio Shack clearance low, 20%, 50% off.
They don't know how many percent it is.
It's everything.
Yeah, just everything blows for them right now.
So basically, let's just.
I thought that Radio Shack was already gone.
Canada, yes.
Okay, because I was reading this article going like, what?
Circuit City acquired them, acquired all the stores,
except I think maybe like a couple or something.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Maybe they just didn't rebrand some of them.
Rebranded it into the source,
which I'm not sure if it has ever turned a problem.
I mean, Canadians out there,
love to hear from you guys in the Twitch chat, okay?
Have you ever bought anything from the source?
I have gone to the source once.
I didn't buy anything there because they didn't have.
It was, what was it?
Enziak had the exact same thing.
And at the source, it was like $45.
And at Enziak's, I think it was like three.
Okay.
Like a huge difference.
We have got some people in the Twitch chat
that are actually kind of bothering me
because you guys are clearly new.
We've got people saying Radio Shack sucks
or sucked or whatever.
Radio Shack might suck now, but Radio Shack.
Radio Shack was the, the.
It was.
The shit.
It was awesome.
Like Radio Shack, when, when I was young.
Yeah.
I know.
Every story is going to be me being old today.
I was, I'm old too then.
Okay.
Radio Shack was awesome when we were younger.
Like they were the one place you could go
to find that weird, stupid battery
that fits in that weird, stupid thing
that you really need to get running now.
And Radio Shack had all the cool
like remote control toys and whatnot.
Yep.
Like that was the place where if,
if Radio Shack still had their mojo,
that would be the place where you go
to buy all like your DJI drones
and like all that kind of cool stuff.
Like they would have all the like
the weird drone accessories for DIY,
repairing them and stuff.
Like they used to have all that cool stuff.
Like if you just had to buy like.
Like a Shapeways shipping portal
and like all the, like, yeah.
They used to be really cool.
If Radio Shack hadn't forgotten who they were
and started trying to be Best Buy
and sell TVs and cell phones.
And cell phones, yeah.
Like has anyone ever bought a cell phone at Radio Shack?
Like why would you ever do this?
I don't understand.
And so, okay, okay.
Now we've got, now we've got some people
that are, that are, yeah.
Radio, yes.
Radio Shack did take a massive dump
around the year 2000.
This is true.
They did.
It's just that they used to be cool.
See, Flying Trout.
You cannot buy a resistor at Walmart, just saying.
Exactly.
It was the place you could go
to buy a specific resistor or capacitor.
And they might actually have it.
And then they stopped having that stuff
and I stopped walking in the door
and then the game, the game was over for them
at that point, pretty much.
I feel like in the last 15 years
they could have figured out how to go back.
But they did not.
Yep.
And like Radio Shack used to have like PC games and stuff.
Like it, they, yeah.
And like they used to have like joysticks
and like stuff that like geeky dudes would like.
That was Radio Shack.
It wasn't a specific category,
but it'd be like, yeah, I need some,
I need some like batteries.
Or RC car or a joystick or some weird battery
or resistor or a game or.
I need like something cool to play with.
Or they'd have like, you know,
like back when those clocks that had like the things
that went back and forth and the timing of the LEDs
was just so that you could read a clock
and it looked like it was kind of hovering in midair.
Like they just have like stupid cool crap.
And now they're dead.
So they're selling off 2,400 of 4,000 US stores.
Rumors that Sprint and Standard General
may pick some of them up.
So they'll live on apparently
through a store in a store agreement
with Sprint and Standard General.
So based on that Sprint is one of the purchasing entities,
I'm guessing cell phones aren't coming off the menu
at Radio Shack.
So Radio Shack had an overall deficit of 0.19 billion
as of November 1st, 2014
and have failed to post a profit since 2011.
So.
Someone in the, there's a mini argument going on
in Twitch chat about whether or not Amazon is better.
Radio Shack, they're not even the same at all.
They have nothing to do with each other.
Yeah.
You can get resistors and stuff off Amazon,
but like someone in the chat said,
you can't just drive there.
Yeah, you can't get it at 8 p.m.
When like you have a school, like,
okay, here, perfect example.
So like a school project.
Let's say for example, totally hypothetical.
You're making a wooden cutout dinosaur
that has like one of those mazes
where it has like the wire thing maze
and then you wanna build like a wand
that you go and follow the maze with
and then if you fail, it completes a circuit
and lights up the eyeball of the dinosaur.
Let's say hypothetically
you ever wanted to build something like that.
Radio Shack would probably be the place to go
if you're like.
For like all of that.
For like all that stuff.
It's like I need a weird stupid light bulb
that goes in the eye of a dinosaur.
Yep.
Radio Shack.
And like the wand thing and the wire thing
and everything and then just get the other stuff
from a craft store or just make it out of wood or whatever.
All right, so that's pretty much it for that.
So sad day, but then I was sad
back when they died to me anyway.
I was gonna say it would've been a sad day
if it was 15 years ago.
Yeah.
Oh, this is interesting.
So Ah Ming posted this on the forum.
Our original article here is from Yahoo.
You got the link?
All right.
I'm gonna go ahead and screen share with you guys.
I actually, one thing that's nice about using this laptop
is that I actually have an HDMI output now
instead of relying on a display port adapter.
So I think it should be more stable
and more likely to work.
So for police body cameras,
big costs loom in storing the footage.
Something that people that are tech savvy
are not gonna be surprised by.
I'm sure a lot of our viewers are sitting there going,
why are you even talking about this?
Duh, duh.
But mainstream folks like the, you know,
government officials that are calling for this
are just kind of gonna go,
well, you know, it must be easy.
No, actually.
Like if you've got thousands of videos,
like we're talking hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of hours a week,
even thousands of hours a week,
you deploy these on, you know, okay.
So in Duluth, Minnesota,
I probably pronounced that wrong.
I don't care.
Sorry to everyone from Minnesota.
110 officer-worn cameras are generating
8,000 to 10,000 videos per month.
And you got to store this stuff.
You can't store it forever for one thing, okay?
So you got to store this stuff
for at least some period of time.
So they're thinking 30 days, but, but.
Longer in many cases, apparently. In many cases, longer.
Because what if you got rid of something on day 30
that someone sends in a complaint about on day 31,
all of a sudden, wait, we need a system for,
oh, we can only delete the stuff
that absolutely nothing happened,
but we can't review all the footage
at the time that it happens, which,
oh, hold on a second.
Now we need an administrative system.
Now we need some kind of software archival management thing.
Just upload all of it to YouTube.
I had two plans.
One of them was upload all of it to YouTube.
If that doesn't work, throw daily motion a bone.
They want some videos.
They'd be happy with 8,000 more videos a month.
Throw them on daily motion.
The other one is maybe repurpose some NSA data centers.
I'm sure the American citizenry would be happy with that.
That's a big problem though,
because the municipalities are saying,
hey, you guys are throwing the burden on us
to pay thousands of dollars for these cameras,
which are nothing, not even approaching
the cost of running the program.
But we're supposed to have these contracts
and licensing agreements for data storage,
and we're supposed to buy these cameras.
We're supposed to train our officers on how to use them
and how to not obstruct them so that something they,
let's say an officer did something inadvertently
where they covered it up,
and all of a sudden they're the latest,
plastered all over signs and everywhere because they did,
whatever, you gotta train the officers on how to use these.
They're police officers, not like camera operators.
And the municipalities are going, well, hold on a second.
You guys are telling us we have to do this.
Where's this money coming from?
Like, is it coming out of the military budget
where they're buying tanks and planes
and whatever crap they're buying?
Like, do we get some of that money?
No.
So it just comes out of our budget.
So are we supposed to lay off police officers
so that we can big brother the rest of the police officers?
And I'm not saying, to be clear,
I am not saying that law enforcement officials
do not need to be held accountable
for what they're doing.
There just needs to be a better, properly laid out plan
so that this can actually work.
Or an actual plan.
Yes, yeah.
A plan.
Because they just said you have to do it.
They didn't really give any information
about how or anything, did they?
So Sergeant Jason Halifax actually has a great quote.
Everyone is screaming, we need body cameras,
but no one is saying where is the money coming from?
What are you going to do with all the data?
Who is going to manage it?
Are we going to cut personnel?
Are we going to increase taxes?
Great point.
Great point, Sergeant Halifax.
I agree completely.
So that's basically just, it's another one of those.
They just give every officer their own YouTube channel,
their own private YouTube channel.
It's another one of those things where it's like,
it's like this harebrained scheme
that someone well-intentioned comes up with.
Like, what was it?
Is it Toronto where they banned plastic shopping bags?
And then it turned out that the waste
from all the paper shopping bags that replaced them
ended up being much more harmful to the environment
and also just less easy to use
and like all these other problems.
Um, yeah, it's like, we gotta, we gotta,
or the whole, um, crap, I forget what it is,
but there's some, there's some food,
like it's a vegan or vegetarian,
like it's a popular food
that's actually more environmentally harmful
to produce than beef.
What?
And the argument for, I can't,
I can't remember what it is exactly,
but it's a lot of these well-intentioned things
that in practice actually just don't make an ounce of sense,
at least not yet and not without a proper plan.
I think this does.
They just need to figure out their data storage.
It makes a ton of sense because the amount of,
like you look at how bloated the legal system is now
to get anything done, anything done,
cameras are an excellent solution.
And then the funny thing is though,
it's always, it's always, it's always hilarious
because as soon as law enforcement tries to use cameras
to back up any claim they make against the civilian
or whoever it is that they're trying
to enforce the law against,
it's probably the same group of people
getting butthurt about traffic cameras
as the people who are calling for the cops
to have cameras monitoring what they're doing.
You understand, like I hope people understand
what they're asking for here.
You are asking for your complaint about the police officer
to be basically thrown out immediately
because it's like, yeah, we got a camera
and there's no debate to be had here.
But the good news about all of this
is that the savings is going to come about eventually.
I'm not gonna get into politics,
but those are two very different conversations
that you just tried to merge into one.
They are, okay.
Like very different because you're talking about
observing people who are currently employed
to be administering other people.
No, you're talking about observing the people
that they're observing as well.
Your main action that you're observing is the officer.
It is, but it's also the other one.
And these aren't stationary cameras,
a very different situation.
It's both.
And the, yeah.
It's both, I'm just saying that the people
who are upset about being filmed.
Yes, but the traffic cameras thing is different.
Traffic cameras, the whole automated thing.
Okay, most of the argument against traffic cameras
that I think really holds water
is that they're an outright money grab.
They have nothing to do with safety.
They have nothing to do with upholding the law.
They have to do with planting them in places
where for nothing, for the cost of a van
sitting next to the road, or in some cases now,
it's gotten even less expensive.
Back when they implemented in BC,
before they got rid of the whole photo radar van thing,
they were stationed in vans.
I don't know if I've ever told this story
on the land show before, but I knew someone
who knew someone who had just an utterly epic story
about photo radar.
So all photo radar vans were these white vans.
They were these white windowless vans,
and they would park on the side of the road.
And then basically, it was autopilot.
There was an officer sitting in there,
but they didn't have to do anything
because it would just mail you a violation notice
in the month, a month later or whatever.
So one of the cops who was off duty
arranged, not sure how, to borrow another photo radar van
because he knew that one of his colleagues
would just sleep in the van.
So what he did was he waited until that colleague
was on photo radar duty, borrowed another van,
drove up, made sure he was sleeping,
swapped the plates on the two vans,
and then spent the next couple hours
speeding past his own trap repeatedly.
So while that officer was on duty,
there was like a couple of dozen speeding violations
for the van that he was supposed to be driving.
That's actually so awesome.
It's like the most amazing troll
that I think I have ever heard of.
That's great.
That's fantastic.
Yeah, I know.
Again, I don't think we should talk about politics too much,
but there's things with like the public
should not be automatically assumed guilty
and therefore not observed, blah, blah, blah.
I don't know.
It's a very deep conversation.
The thing about the photo radar though
is that there is no assumption.
The radar is first, the photo comes later.
That's not the conversation, yeah.
So there's, anyway, so the whole thing
is that the police officers are being monitored.
It's a difficult IT question that they didn't expect.
Yes. Pretty much.
And everyone's being more monitored
and that's what's happening.
I'm just interested in how they're gonna deal with it.
Right now, they have their contracting agreement.
Yeah.
So they have a three-year contracting agreement
for 78 grand for the storing.
I think that was what, 110 officers, 84 cameras.
Yeah.
This was Duluth, Minnesota.
Yeah.
Like I think they need to localize that a little bit.
I think that might be better.
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what the solution is.
Honestly, I was being a little bit joking
when I was talking about YouTube.
But seriously, a private account
that isn't uploading the videos to the public?
That is like, that is like a terrible, stupid solution
that might actually work.
But I mean, the agreement you'd have to enter into
with YouTube about who that footage belongs to
and privacy and all that, like it's completely untenable.
Completely untenable, but.
I know, it's just.
All right.
It would work if you weren't like actually the police.
Posted by Nine Shadow.
This original source here is global.samsungtomorrow.com.
Samsung has updated their EULA to basically say,
look, we are not monitoring your living room conversations.
Because no one believed ever, hopefully.
Like look, the only thing we're listening to
is voice commands, because there was kind of
a sketch looking warning about not talking about
personal information in front of Samsung Smart TVs.
Their privacy policy was updated, warning users
they shouldn't talk about sensitive information.
And then now it's saying, whoa, hold on a second.
Yes, you know, information could be among data
captured and transmitted to a third party,
but hold on, blah, blah, blah.
We take our users' information privacy very seriously.
Users can opt out of voice recognition whenever they please.
No longer mentions any sensitive information.
Reiterates that users can disable voice recognition
whenever they please.
So I suspect actually nothing has changed.
It's just a EULA reversion.
We're designing it differently or whatever.
This one's pretty good, though.
This was posted by Victorious Secret,
and there's a great Reddit thread.
There's always a great Reddit thread
for just about anything, isn't there?
Where someone posts, well, hold on a second.
Plex stopped playing my video halfway through
and played a Pepsi ad.
So this was posted by Beans90,
and there's a 34-point upvote comment that says,
yep, just Googled this to find out what's going on.
Never had this in the two months I've been using Plex,
but today, all of a sudden, it began.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Every movie I play, 20 to 30 minutes in,
plays this Pepsi ad, no audio, but crisp, clear ad.
It has happened on six movies today.
Oh, yes, mine is a Samsung TV also.
Six movies today.
This guy's going ham.
Who watches six movies in a day?
What is he watching?
Sorry, completely unrelated.
That just blew my mind a little bit.
This is crazy.
So now, to be clear, Plex has already said,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, not us.
Actually, we had nothing to do with this,
and this is not the only application
that users have experienced this in.
So native smart TV apps,
so the Foxtel TV service app in Australia
is experiencing the same commercials.
So there's a Foxtel employee that was quoted as saying,
this absolutely should not be happening
and is being escalated immediately.
There's no word from Samsung as of February 11th
when the article was posted,
but it is speculated that it may be a new ad insertion
platform that may have been accidentally turned on
by default in certain apps,
although none of this has been confirmed.
Wow.
Yeah, I haven't, at no point in time
have I ever wanted a smart TV.
I can't think of a reason that I would need it to exist.
Although, crap, I feel like a terrible person.
I think it's Sony is using Android TV
for all of their smart TVs.
Like instead of the stupid,
like phenomenally stupid proprietary ones.
But like I just, I want a good dumb TV,
and then I just want to plug Chromecast into it.
Yeah.
That's all I want.
Dumb TVs don't even exist anymore.
I mean, every single TV is a smart TV now.
I know.
So get wrecked.
I know, yeah.
Well, wait, what are those?
What's that cheap Korean brand?
Samsung.
No.
No, that's the expensive Korean brand, sorry.
No, they, crap.
They came up with like the really affordable
4K stuff really early.
Oh, it starts with an S.
Those are all not smart, right?
Yeah, I don't think they are.
Seiki?
Seiki, Seikyo, Seikyo something.
Seiko's watches.
Oh.
I think it is Seiki.
Seiki, sure.
I don't think those are smart TVs.
Okay.
Man, talking is hard.
Now people saying Vizio.
I don't think Vizio is a Korean brand.
I don't know what Vizio is.
All right, so basically this is a big load of crap.
So Samsung.
There's nothing else even really to say.
This is just stupid.
We're on the record as this is
in a completely ginormous load of crap.
Like I literally bought a piece of hardware from you
and you actually don't get to serve me ads on it.
Mind you, I mean, okay, if we break this down a little bit,
is it different from buying a laptop
with a trial of Norton on it?
That is an ad.
At least you know that it's coming.
Well, maybe they put it on the box.
Now with 30% more ad gen.
But it's not.
Right, but what if they did?
Would you feel any better about it?
No, but I wouldn't buy that TV.
What if they all did it?
Then I wouldn't buy a TV.
You already don't buy a TV.
Okay, well, the point is we strongly disagree with this
and I think we might as well move on
because it's not like you and I
are gonna debate this point.
No.
I'm the sketchiest thing ever.
Oh, are we moving on to that?
This is a sketchy, weird article.
This is like a horrible, horrible, horrible article.
Giant list of maybes, I don't know.
So FCC commissioner says,
this was posted by Command Man 7.
The article that we've got here is breakbart.com
and there's an autoplay, oops,
there's an autoplay video here
that I would really like to,
I guess it doesn't really matter
because I have my audio muted.
So here we go.
Here's a picture of one of the two,
one of the two Republican FCC commissioners
with President Obama's 332 page plan
to regulate the internet.
That is very strong wording,
designed to incite upset.
I wish the public could see what's inside.
It's got about 4,500 retweets.
So inferred in a tweet that the document
is basically a scheme for federal micromanaging
of the internet to extract billions
in new taxes from consumers.
And I guess the only thing I really have to say
about this article and then the fantastic one,
high taxes, heavy-handed controls, and the status quo,
linked at the bottom here,
is that the amount of the,
okay, I think, I don't know if we wanna use this site
as a reference anymore because it looks like the folks
that are relying on these articles for their information
have some information to gain about the internet and stuff.
The comments under this second article in particular
are fantastic, like about how the, you know,
Title II is going to, basically all that stuff
that, you know, gets written by executives at telecoms
and then signed by government officials
who are in their pocket, it's like parroting of that.
It's fantastic.
I love it.
I thought we were streaming this.
I'm kinda happy we're not.
No, we're not streaming it because basically
it's a whole lot of terrible.
I was like pretty sure what they were,
and I was like, why are we showing this?
So President Obama's plan marks a monumental shift
between blah, blah, blah, I think I already said that.
The plan saddles small independent businesses
and entrepreneurs with heavy-handed regulations
that will push them out of the market.
Something, okay, something I don't like about any of this
is here's the thing you can't read
and you can't know what's in it except here's what's in it.
I have a feeling all this stuff that they're telling us
might not even be right.
I'm not agreeing with or disagreeing with it,
just we would need to be able to see what's in it.
This is no accident.
Title II was designed to regulate a monopoly
if we impose that model on a vibrant broadband marketplace.
I guess if we did impose it
on a vibrant broadband marketplace,
this might be applicable,
a highly regulated monopoly is what we'll get.
Now.
That's what we have right now.
To be clear.
That's what they have right now.
That is a valid point
other than the vibrant marketplace bit.
The whole bit about regulated monopolies
not really being great either
because that's basically what we've got
on the telco side as it is.
So Title II, remember,
the thing that we're all sort of going hurrah about
is reclassifying the internet under Title II
as a utility,
which honestly hasn't worked out that great for us
on the phone up till now.
Either.
Because you still have no choice.
Yay.
So that is a valid point,
but the part where this really misses the mark
is calling the vibrant broadband marketplace
vibrant and a marketplace,
because it's not.
It is horrible.
It's even more horrible than a regulated monopoly.
So is it perfect?
No.
Is it a step in the right direction?
Yes.
Is treating it as anything other
than a step in the right direction
just nonsense.
And to reiterate,
we have no idea what this thing says.
Yeah, that's a big problem.
We have no clue.
I can't agree or disagree with it
because of what the hell is inside.
Well, I can disagree with the way it's being spun,
which tells me what I,
sort of, it gives me some idea
what the credibility is here.
If we're gonna call telcos
a vibrant broadband marketplace,
then we're wrong.
We have no idea what's going on.
We were wrong before we opened our mouths
and that's unfortunate.
All right, so let's move on to more unfortunate news.
Sorry?
Sponsors.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's telling me to do sponsors.
It's okay, we'll do sponsors in a bit.
This one is pretty good.
This was posted by Catbutts.
I actually didn't mean to whisper that
as hardcore as I did.
It just wasn't the thing.
Also, Catbutts is awesome.
He has a YouTube channel that I used to watch
before I started working with you.
And I was a member of our forum and stuff.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
Who else were we supposed to do a shout out for today?
Paul.
Right, yeah.
Shout out for Paul, Paul's Hardware.
Youtube.com Paul's Hardware.
Let's just go ahead and screen share this.
So Paul is doing a giveaway.
Look at him with his blatant advertising,
his how to build a computer video
that is clearly inferior to our
how to build a computer video.
This is the silent build giveaway.
So it's like a 4770K and some card with a GTX
and some eight gigs of RAM and some pretty cool stuff.
And you probably have to be subscribed or something,
which is unfortunate because look at this guy
and the t-shirt he wears.
Wow, he wears a shirt with himself on it.
What a nerd.
I wear that shirt too.
Yeah, it also has you on it.
I know.
Right, so as long as we've understood,
as long as we've understood the layers of irony here.
It's 100% collateral damage myself.
That would be a great name for a band.
100% collateral damage.
You like have to smash your whole set
every show no matter what.
I'm adding that to our intro slogans.
There's a doc, I should get you added on it.
We're just gonna like continue adding to it.
For the Maya one, it's gonna be like
Luke is sick or something.
I saw a couple of great ones on the forum thread
where someone was complaining.
I saw you responded to it already.
Where someone was complaining about do as we say,
not as we do, being under our logo,
saying it was unprofessional.
And I was like, people came up with a couple other ones
that make us sound like idiots.
I was like, oh, these are great.
These are comedy gold.
I'm putting these in the thread.
That's awesome.
So intro, oh, bloody hell.
Intro thing.
100% collateral damage.
Yeah.
You actually have the voice for it right now.
Too bad I can't sing at all.
That's fine, I think, for that style.
All right, so our source here is the JayzTwoCents forum.
So we've got a post from this guy.
Oh, so is this like worse than WCCF Tech or?
I don't know.
But basically Jay's saying I've had some discussions
with people.
This has been all over the place.
So we're gonna treat this whole thing
as basically none of this information is confirmed.
It is all hearsay.
But basically a post showed up on overclock.net
where someone was saying, I am a former employee.
The owner has suffered, has struggled with addiction
or something along those lines.
And there is no reason to believe that frozen CPU
will be back up and running.
There has been damage to the premises.
And then sort of, there's nothing on the site to this day.
There's nothing on the frozen CPU.com website.
And then other people have allegedly posted,
here I have pictures of the alleged damage
inside the frozen CPU headquarters.
So there's like parts of the office look pretty, pretty trashed.
So.
I like that picture.
This is like, oh, okay.
Here's this broken thing.
Here's some like, here's a beer bottle
and all that kind of stuff.
And so someone from a water cooling manufacturer said,
yes, this is confirmed in the thread.
Then the owner of the aforementioned
water cooling manufacturer went in and said,
whoa, hold on a second.
We cannot speak for frozen CPU.
None of this is confirmed.
I actually, I've exchanged emails with,
but never met the owner, Mark, from frozen CPU.
I do know Matthew Buckner from frozen CPU,
but honestly, I just out of sheer respect
for the quantity of emails
that they're probably dealing with.
I have not emailed either of them.
I probably will at some point here,
but I have not emailed either of them
to ask what's going on.
Yeah.
It's really unfortunate.
And like, something's gotta be going on
if there isn't an official post somewhere.
So the site is still online.
So, okay, so rumors have it that frozen CPU
has said that they are running on a skeleton crew
and they'll be back up and running.
The ex-employee said something like physical damage
of the warehouse has occurred,
as well as dismissal of all support and warehouse staff.
The site is still online, still accepting orders.
So we're gonna take a wait and see approach with this one.
Yeah.
That's pretty much all of them.
Speaking of things that we'll need to wait and see about,
this was posted by Ah Ming on the forum,
and this is the new cutting edge, my friends.
If you were running network cables that were not
AudioQuest, Diamond, RJ slash E, whatever that is,
ethernet cables before,
then you were completely doing it wrong
and you need to get your life back in gear
because this is the new standard.
These network cables are made of,
here, hold on a second.
I'm gonna bring up the, I'm gonna bring up the,
dang it.
Dang it, Windows 8.
All right.
They represent a lifetime's research
and are the first, so the first
twisted pair ethernet standard, just to be clear.
10Base-T was published in 1990.
So the relevant engineers must be 25 years old max.
These are directional ethernet cables.
I mean, you wouldn't want bi-directional communication
discombobulating the waveforms.
And the beating heart of the AudioQuest Diamond
are the solid 100% silver perfect surface conductors
where raw silver, raw silver as opposed to cooked silver,
raw silver is processed by drawing through
at a much slower speed than normal
to create an ultra smooth surface area,
surface free of indents and grooves
because the way that we all know,
I mean, we all know, I hope we know,
do you know that the way that it works
is the electrons are like hurdle jumpers, okay?
So in a race, in a race, okay?
If an electron, you know, traveling along a wire
hits a hurdle, all of a sudden that electron
is gonna arrive out of phase with the rest of the electrons.
And think about it this way.
That's how DDoS works.
Did you know that the earth,
if shrunk down to the size of a pool ball,
if it was shrunk down, it would actually be smoother
than an actual pool ball?
Did you know that?
That's actually, that's actually a fact.
And so these tiny wires for these tiny electrons
to not hit a hurdle need to be completely smooth
and the silver surface is reflective,
which aids their travel.
It's also an antibacterial agent.
It's also an antibacterial, that actually is true,
but has nothing to do with ethernet.
None of what I also- None of this.
None of this had anything to do with ethernet.
So these are $10,000.
I think that conversion may have been done incorrectly.
Maybe it's like 10,000 Canadian rupees.
So 4,700 Great Britain pound,
eight meter ethernet cables for idiots.
They have a five-year warranty.
They are supposedly audio quest brand, which I guess-
All the stupid, ridiculous junk
will just throw an audio file on it.
I guess if you're streaming,
if you're streaming from a NAS music files,
then you want those electrons to not get hurdle blocked.
So I'm just gonna read the blurb because it's hilarious.
The Diamond is a top grade ethernet cable,
which is the result of a lifetime's research by AudioQuest
made from the very best materials available.
This really is a money is no object cable
for the dedicated hi-fi enthusiast
that has extended into a world of digital audio sources.
By extending the thought process of quality cabling
from a server, PC, or media streamer to the router.
Extending the thought process from a server to a router?
Further detail can be realized
and restrictive shackles loosened.
AudioQuest's Diamond RJE is a directional ethernet cable
made with the same hallmark materials, philosophy, care,
and attention that is applied to all their internet connects
whether it's an entry-level introduction to hi-fi
or a dyed in the wool music connoisseur.
And I think they got dyed wrong.
It's a very different dye.
Dyed in the wool?
What does that mean?
Another upgrade is the complete plug redesign.
You don't get to redesign the RJ45 connector.
Made from silver with tabs that are virtually unbreakable.
The plug comes with added strain relief
and firmly lock into place,
ensuring no critical data is lost.
Critical data, am I listening to music
or is it critical data?
Directionality, all audio cables are directional?
The correct direction is determined
by listening to every batch of metal conductors
used in every AudioQuest audio cable, are you serious?
Arrows are clearly marked on the connectors
to ensure superior sound quality.
For best results, have the arrow pointing
in the direction of the flow of music.
So for best results, so you don't even have to really.
All insulation slows down the signal
on the conductor inside.
Man, that sentence.
When insulation is unbiased,
it slows down parts of the signal differently.
A big problem for time sensitive multi-octave audio.
You should be able to get sued for this stuff.
Oh, wow.
I hadn't actually read the product page yet.
I hadn't finished, I hadn't gotten to that part.
That was fun.
I didn't either.
I read this and was like,
oh, it's another one of those things.
That was really fun.
Like, you know, monster cables, okay?
Sometimes you can get monster cables on promo
for like twice as much as a cheapo cable
and I would argue for buying them at that point
because they are going to tend to have
like better strain relief.
Better connectors and very nice sleeving.
They might have sleeving on them.
And sleeving on HDMI cables which you have to run
potentially through like wooden cut holes and stuff
can actually be helpful.
Can actually be nice.
We're talking physical damage to the cable.
Longer HDMI connectors with a better quality connector,
thicker gauge wire, it may make a difference.
It may be the difference between it works at all
or doesn't work at all, which by the way,
for digital is the only standard it works
or it doesn't work for a video cable.
So I, okay, you know what, I'm done.
I don't want to talk about it anymore.
That was-
They're BS.
That was fun, but I need to move on with my life.
Everybody knows that.
So speaking of moving on with my life,
lynda.com is the way to move on with your life.
How do you live that segue?
That's actually a really good segue.
Yeah.
It definitely could be.
I have good segues.
It probably has been for a lot of people.
I have good segues every once in a month week period of time.
So lynda.com is, oh, you know what?
Okay, okay, hold on, hold on.
I'm going to use my notes this week
because Nick, the level, the amount of butt hurt
that went on over last week
when I forgot the sponsor spot was pretty intense.
So lynda.com is used by millions of people around the world.
They have more than 3000 courses available.
They have topics like web development,
photography, visual design, and business.
They also have software training
like Excel, WordPress, and Photoshop.
All courses are taught.
See, this is way worse than the way that I do it.
lynda.com is cool because you learn cool stuff
and you can either get better at your hobby
or get better at your job or learn a new job
and really take investing in yourself to the next level.
Their subscriptions start at $25 a month.
I tried to look up knowledge is sexy
so I could hold up an image of it
and I got not what I was looking for.
No, you didn't at all.
The lynda.com subscription started only $25 a month
and you can learn at your own pace
according to whatever appetite you have.
So they have a 10 day free trial
which gives you unlimited access to every course
on lynda.com so you can find out if it's right for you
before you go ahead and commit to it.
Our next sponsor today is Dollar Shave Club
and this one is pretty straightforward.
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Then you could buy a Dollar Shave Club membership
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And we used to actually have.
So Nick.
We used to have Dollar Shave Club stuff
to like hold up while we did these spots
but all of it got taken
because Dollar Shave Club razors are actually,
well, they're pretty great.
They're great.
We have no problems with them.
What else can we really say about it?
You save money.
I should probably re-up my subscription.
You probably should.
I've been using the same blade
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Why do you have to do everything wrong?
I'll re-up my subscription.
Tell you what, tell you what.
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and you can save a few bucks while you're at it.
I think the best thing about Dollar Shave Club for me
is that the countries that they exist in,
so Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the US,
funny story about the New Zealand thing, by the way,
they price things reasonably.
They don't just go, oh, arbitrary,
it costs three times as much tax because you're from Canada.
I love that.
Companies that are like, look, we have a margin target.
This is how much our product-
Our dollars are already so much worse.
This is how much our product costs us
and this is how we're gonna do it.
Love that, that's a high integrity way of doing business.
So the New Zealand story.
I called out in a Dollar Shave Club sponsor spot
on Linus Tech Tips that they're available
in Canada, US, and New Zealand.
Nick spazzed because they didn't say
that they were in New Zealand and freaked out
and was like, yo, dog, what's going on?
And he sent an apologetic email to Dollar Shave Club
and they're just like, how did you know that?
Yeah, we just rolled it out.
And Nick's like, yeah, we're paying really close attention.
Okay.
And he asked me about it and I'm like, yeah, no,
I straight up screwed it up.
I screwed up.
I thought Australia and New Zealand-
You telepathically connected.
I knew it was-
It's the butt wipes.
I knew it was somewhere in the-
The butt wipes gives you a mental connection.
Oh yeah, they don't just have razors.
They also have butt wipes for men.
They have aftershave, they have their shave butter,
all kinds of good stuff.
So, okay, okay, I think we should move on to,
this is new.
Yeah.
This is very new.
Nick, you can go.
Whatever you have to say isn't gonna be nice to me.
Oh, I wanted to say thank you for sticking to the script
and also you're the worst.
You know how it is.
Love you, buddy.
Look, my mountain kind of goes with the logo.
So this is a product that we have been using
very extensively over the last couple of years.
And XSplit has actually launched a new version of XSplit,
V2.
That actually, I mean, we didn't really have any complaints
about XSplit for a long time.
Like in the early days-
Once we figured out how to use it.
Mostly, well, they did have some issues too.
It didn't used to be a hundred percent.
So we've been streaming the WAN Show on XSplit
since the very first WAN Show, I believe.
Yeah, since before the WAN Show was the WAN Show,
we've been using XSplit.
We really liked the software.
It's stable, it's feature, reasonably rich.
There's still a couple of things
that I might want to ask for,
but for game streamers
or for like prosumer grade broadcasters like us,
you've got a ton of options
being able to stream at any resolution,
having it be easy enough to configure
in only a couple of minutes
and being extremely affordable makes XSplit
definitely our platform of choice,
which we don't have to like say it's our platform of choice
because we just switched to using it
because they sponsored us.
No, we've been using it for a long time.
You can learn like video editing
and like video management stuff from Linda,
make yourself look better with Dollar Shave Club
and then stream to the world with XSplit.
Yeah, it all goes together really well.
It's a combo package.
So XSplit V2, they have some notes
for me to kind of call out
because we've been using it for a little bit here,
but it has powerful new production tools
built to meet the needs of today's content creators,
makes audio-video,
it has an audio-video mixing application
that allows anyone to create
professional quality live broadcasts and video recordings,
like what we're doing right now.
It supports all kinds of different,
okay, I'm abandoning their notes
because I like my way better.
It supports all kinds of different broadcasting modes
so you can broadcast at different frame rates
and different resolutions.
You can broadcast at different bit rates
according to what's gonna work out best for you
and the service that you happen to be broadcasting on.
It's fantastic.
It has so many more options compared to free stuff
like NVIDIA's ShadowPlay that for many game streamers,
it's sort of competing against,
but in my mind, it's not really a competition
if you're trying to have a professional-looking stream
because the options are extremely limited
and XSplit gives us the ability to do all kinds of stuff,
like bring in video callers very easily,
capture portions of the screen and mix and match them
and switch them around and have transitions.
That's all automatic.
We don't actually do that stuff.
What else am I talking about?
Yeah, I'm supposed to talk about GameCaster.
GameCaster is one I haven't used as much
just because we have the full broadcaster,
but it's great for gamers that are looking to get started.
You can easily stream and record
your greatest gaming moments,
can broadcast to live streaming services
such as YouTube Live, Twitch Ustream, and more.
And the best thing is that XSplit,
the free license is,
you guessed it, free.
So visit xsplit.com slash Linus to try it out.
The paid license, the one we have,
allows more scenes and higher quality audio
and probably a number of other things,
but those are the big ones for us
that are why we go with the professional license
so we can have all these different lower thirds.
So thanks to XSplit, Dollar Shave Club,
lynda.com, and Linus Tech Tips
for powering the WAN Show today.
All right, let's go ahead and move into our next topic here.
Which is awesome.
What's our next topic?
You go ahead.
The drones in France.
Oh, I love this thing.
My voice is like super done.
Yeah, it super, super is.
Nick, I need water.
Nick.
I don't know if he's gonna hear you.
Anyways, I posted it in the Twitch chat.
No one's going to hear you.
I'm still trying to find it.
I wanna play that video.
There have been people that have been,
oh, it's just Control F for it, dude.
This was posted by Victoria Secret on the forum.
Yes.
And this video is amazing.
I love this thing.
So basically, there's been an issue with,
let's go ahead and screen share with Linus.
People flying drones over top of French nuclear reactors.
Like DJI drones.
So they're deploying anti-drone drones
to go find those drones and break their shit.
Wow, I expected to like fly it down, but nope.
Holy crap.
Nope, love it.
Absolutely, absolutely love the way that that just got done.
So I guess the real conversation here is not,
is not-
You know what they should do?
They've probably done this to a certain degree,
but I want them to bring it to like TV
and make it mainstream.
You know how they had robot wars?
They had drone wars.
I think someone must be trying to do that.
On TV though?
Oh, dang.
I'm not sure.
I know that, I know that,
what's that show that's coming back?
BattleBots is coming back.
Did you hear that? Really?
Yeah, BattleBots is coming back.
That's awesome.
I don't know if they're still gonna have
like Carmen Electra and stuff,
but-
Oh, I don't care.
But the format is coming back.
All I care about though is the robots.
I didn't even know she was on there.
Me neither.
Someone else told me.
They had no clue.
I was like, I think I was young enough
when BattleBots was cool-
To not care?
Hadn't matured yet, so to speak.
That's cool.
I loved that show.
That show was awesome.
I remember my favorite,
my favorite BattleBot ever
was this completely OP spinning one
that just like, it went up against
some like elaborate contraption that was like,
yes, I will do this and I will do that.
And then it was just like this,
like super fast spinning one.
It basically like went up to it
and just like broke pieces off of the other one.
It's like, it would like try to attack it
and the spinning one just cracked pieces off it.
Love BattleBots.
Let's go ahead and...
Oh yeah, so right.
So drones and privacy and all that kind of stuff.
I actually posted this on Twitter last night.
That's good footage, holy crap.
Here's some footage of,
yes, I know I'm live on Twitch.
Like it should not show me that.
I'm me.
Just like how it shows me-
Lots of verification that it's working.
Ads on, ah, I guess so, fine, fine.
But ads on my own videos?
Verification that they're enabled.
Verification that they're enabled,
but I'm not technically allowed to click on my own ads
or as far as I know, watch my own ads.
Like I think that's against the user anyway.
That's why I have ads enabled for my account on the forum.
So this is 1080p.
So this isn't the most interesting part.
I think I go up quite a bit higher.
So as drone cameras get better and better and better,
the ability to spy on people and things
is going to become more and more and more of a concern.
So, I mean, you know,
right now maybe it's a nuclear power plant,
which is like enough of a problem,
but you know, hey, you wanna keep track of the route
that kid takes home from school,
or like there's all kinds of-
This is amazing.
Creepy stuff that you can do with this.
And this, I didn't even go that high.
I still had the 30 meter cap on.
I increased it to-
I don't know how stable it is.
I increased it to 60 on my next flight,
and I didn't upload that one unfortunately,
but this is me and my son down here.
Yeah.
It's absolutely incredible the kind of video quality
that we're getting off of these drones these days.
So I think it's cool that the French have come up
with a creative solution to eliminating-
Look how medieval that net is.
I know, I love it.
That's so cool.
It's like, we just wrecked your stuff.
Oh, get dunked.
So, so far 13 of the country's 19 facilities
have been buzzed,
so they're looking for a way to stop quadcopters
from messing with nuclear reactors.
Blah, blah, blah.
The drone that was photographed is an Interceptor MP200.
So you gotta check out, where is it?
And they used the Interceptor to catch a DJI Phantom
that was piloted by Dave Dubois, the company's CEO.
So the Interceptor is a much larger and faster drone
with six rotors, and the net it carries is pretty BS.
Luke has another link to an effective method
for taking out drones.
This is the Maloo Kamakazi.
So this little guy just goes nuts
and smashes itself into the other one.
And you can see still frame shots of how it works.
So if you scroll down,
so it flies into the other drone
and just mashes into its propellers, breaking stuff off,
and then they both crash.
It's a lot cheaper than the one with the net,
because the one with the net has to be very strong.
It has six propellers to be able to carry the net,
because the net is really heavy, sorry.
This one is very inexpensive
and just nails into other ones.
Hilarious.
Wow.
Yeah, it's just this little quad wing little thing.
And you can see just, yeah, they're both just super wrecked.
Wow.
Awesome.
I love it.
I gotta imagine firing a projectile
would be easier than carrying a net.
Part of the, yeah, and you're kind of firing projectile
with this, the reason why you don't wanna fire something
like a bullet is because it could miss.
No bullet, no, no, but I didn't mean bullet.
I meant like some kind of like,
like if you could, and I don't know if this exists,
but like a goopy surface, like a goopy substance.
Like if you could just fire like a ball
of like stringy slash goopy stuff
that tangles it or something.
Like basically, yeah,
if you could fire like a ball of yarn at a drone,
that would be very likely to take it down.
Yarn is gonna have troubles flying.
Yeah.
So if you-
Unless it's actually a tight ball
and it's not gonna do anything.
Or if it impacts and like unfolds or something,
like if it was like a spring-loaded,
like all the yarn kind of goes everywhere
and it hits something or whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like you could probably make something
that is an entanglement mechanism
that you could fire at other drones.
Yeah.
But I mean, you know, this works.
Yeah, boom, yeah.
Speaking of things that work,
this was posted by Victoria's Secret.
The article we've got here is from TechCrunch.
Apple's activation lock leading
to a significant decrease in iPhone theft in major cities.
This is one of those, why didn't we do this before things?
It's like, you know,
Apple and the carriers are running around
all worried about, you know,
us using the phone on the wrong carrier
with absolutely no regard for all these years
for the wrong person using the phone on the right carrier.
And so California mandated these kill switches
and said they were gonna bring a bill into law,
something, something.
It's not actually active yet,
but Apple has proactively started enabling
this lockdown feature by default on iPhones.
And there's some really interesting numbers
to go along with this.
So the number of stolen iPhones dropped by 40%
in San Francisco and 25% in New York.
And smartphone theft dropped by 50% in London
in the 12 months after Apple added the kill switch.
That's amazing.
That's awesome.
Because basically it turns a stolen iPhone
even if you can unlock it into like a glorified,
like iPod touch.
So it's not worth a whole lot.
Not a brick, but yeah.
Well, no one's really gonna want it.
So, so far Apple, Samsung and Google
have implemented kill switches on their smartphones.
Microsoft is expected to release an operating system
for its Windows phones that has one this year.
But some of the smartphone systems
require consumers to opt in.
And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Attorney General called on all manufacturers
to make the technology active as a default position
as Apple has done with the iPhones.
I mean, I don't think anyone's gonna force you,
except as law requires in the area that you happen to live.
I don't think anyone will force you
to use a kill switch anytime soon,
but having it on by default I think makes a ton of sense.
That's cool.
Yep, I like that a lot.
Go Apple on that one.
FCC now requires American carriers
to unlock consumers' handsets.
Also posted by Victoria's Secret.
Are you posting these?
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
I wasn't sure if you were keeping up.
Try not to glance at your screen
because then it looks like I'm looking at something else.
I did this and everyone thought I was looking at your butt,
which is not possible when you're sitting on a couch.
But, yeah.
FCC now requires American carriers
to unlock consumers' handsets.
This is not quite as awesome as it sounds initially.
So it's not like you can walk into your local carrier store
and go get some other carrier
to bail you out of your contract fees
and then you can just take your device
over to the other carrier.
It has to be fully paid off and blippity bloopity blop
and there's all this other stuff.
A lot of when you pay off your thing
is fully paying off your phone though.
So I wonder how that would work
because if you got bailed out
that is technically fully paying off your phone.
So this is only after the phone
has been paid off under contract
or if the phone was prepaid.
Under contract, okay.
Yeah, so once payment has been completed,
consumers can do what they choose with their devices.
So this is actually the result of talks
between the FCC and CTIA,
the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association,
which represents major carriers,
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless.
So, I mean, there's no guarantee
that carriers aren't still gonna be butt heads
and make you jump through hoops or whatever else,
but ultimately they have to do it.
So other than making you talk to a retention agent
or whatever the case may be,
I suspect we mostly won't have to deal
with too much nonsense.
Well, not we, we're in Canada.
We get no such kind of fit.
Yeah, not at all.
Americans, yeah, luckily.
America.
The Verge, wow, that is a big ad.
Yep.
I am viewing at 70% right now.
Oh, I'm at 100%.
They've had bigger ones.
That Ford one that you showed me was spectacular.
Pretty much the entire screen.
Wow, that is a big ad.
It's like, how does The Verge afford their baller CES,
their baller CES internet connection?
Like 500 main bit upload or whatever it was.
Like that?
Yeah.
Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil a new kind of battery
to power your home.
Why would they call him the eccentric CEO?
Oh, come on, is he more eccentric than,
well, lots of other innovative CEOs?
How many of those are there?
All right, fine.
So basically, something something,
Tesla didn't ship nearly as many cars as they predicted.
Something something, maybe they have more batteries
than they know what to do with.
Not really sure what the background is here,
but the company is working on a consumer battery pack
for the home.
Production could begin in six months
and they're still deciding on a date
for unveiling the new unit.
This isn't exactly a new idea.
The Toyota Mirai, which uses a hydrogen fuel cell,
gives owners the option to remove the battery
and use it to supply electrical power to their homes.
It can power the average home for about a week.
Which is crazy.
Which is awesome.
Some cool things that Tesla's planning to do
is they're planning on making the battery wall mountable
and having like kind of cool design
so it won't look really bad.
And knowing them, it'll be tall if you're wall mounting it.
So if it's not flat on the ground,
it would be tall but relatively skinny.
So it could actually maybe work somewhere.
Which is kind of cool.
Very easily put it in the garage and have no problems
or if you have a very like high tech looking area,
have it there and it'll probably be fine.
Fairly plug and play, which is kind of awesome.
Yeah, this stuff is really cool.
I'm totally down with having like cool.
I'd love to UPS my whole house.
That's essentially, yeah, what this would be.
And that would be awesome, yeah.
BMW developing new plug-in hybrid
named as i5 slash i7 to compete against Intel.
Excuse me, the Tesla Model S.
The i7 should have like four normal wheels
and then four like wheels beside them
but they're not like really the same.
And go slightly faster, very slightly faster.
Just a little bit faster, not too much faster.
Let's be really clear about not much faster,
just a little bit.
Four wheels help or something.
So our original article here is from carmagazine.co.uk
and it was posted by Ah Ming.
Did you post that in Twitch already?
All right, let's go ahead and fire this baby up.
So looks like this is to take on the Model S.
I guess that shouldn't be too unexpected, yeah.
It'll be priced to suit with target volumes
in the tens of thousands and a cost spanning
from just below the Tesla to more than 125,000.
I think it's cool the way electric cars
can actually span an enormous price range
and still make sense.
Because you can upgrade and downgrade them
and the performance still makes sense
for a higher priced car but we still get that,
mostly that or at least some of that down there
but then you can kind of go, yeah,
I don't need like the fetus cow leather.
Double stitched interior or whatever the hell, yeah.
All right, what else do we know about this?
I'm sure there's something.
I think this was added really late.
I didn't see this in the dark until we started going.
Oh, okay.
So four and a half percent of all units sold
in the pace setting US carb states
must be zero emission vehicles by 2018.
So yes, expect to see more electric models
and for them to become more and more affordable.
The E unit in front delivers 204 brake horsepower
and the smaller battery powered motor in the back
is good for 95 brake horsepower, sources say.
Whatever they are.
This brings the aggregate target output to 400 kilowatts
or 544 brake horsepower.
So right in the middle of Tesla territory.
Allegedly capable of a zero emission range of 80 miles,
this BMW is designed to operate in battery mode
most of the time.
The combustion engine will typically only cut in
about 40 miles per hour when road and wind noise
out decibel it anyway.
So it should be very silent to drive
much like other electric vehicles.
I think manufacturers who fail to comply
by not offering enough zero emission vehicles,
transitional zero emission vehicles,
neighborhood electric vehicles or E vehicles
with range extenders have no choice
but to acquire clean air credits from sources like Tesla,
currently the major provider of such certificates.
And that makes German car makers very sad.
All right, I think that's pretty much it.
We've got some more stuff.
Nvidia is sending out press invitations
to a Mark Purdivant that I actually can't make it to.
Unfortunately, their CEO Jensen says
that what they're showing off will redefine
the future of gaming.
Let that sink in for a minute.
We'll redefine.
It doesn't say anything about a good definition,
but the picture shows a thin device.
It's speculated to be another Android tablet.
I doubt it.
If it's gonna redefine the future of gaming,
it won't be an iterative release
of something they've already done.
There may be a tablet.
We might get a Tegra X1 tablet or something
or whatever the latest one is, can't remember.
We might get a Tegra X1 tablet,
but it'll probably be something to do with cloud gaming
to go along with it.
That would be my guess.
Grid, I got a, as long as it's not embargoed,
I got absolutely nothing until I find out
something, nothing.
I learned nothing and nothing happened.
So anyway.
Can you close that?
I'm sorry?
Close that.
Why is that even open?
Because I was reading it.
So anyway, Konami PC game sales
surpassed their Xbox One sales.
They went from 2% to 10% year over year
and has surpassed Xbox One and all handhelds
now going head to head with the Xbox 360.
This was posted by, oh, the previous one was abhay6547
and this one was deathjester
and the original article here is from dsogaming.com.
Skip this ad.
Ha ha, no money for you.
Well, I'm in a hurry.
I think they get a little money for that.
No, I'm pretty sure they still do.
I mean, there's this ad.
No, they get a little money for you skipping.
And there's this ad.
Yeah, I know.
Oh yeah, I think they get a little bit on that
and they get money for these ads.
They don't really expect me.
Okay, how about I click swing copters
to make them feel better?
I'm legitimately interested in swing copters.
This looks excellent.
Okay.
Client download required.
Optional software included.
How can optional software be included?
Isn't that the definition of optional?
It says optional software included.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What does that mean?
That means you probably download this game
and then it's like, do you wanna also install this?
Why would they even put that in a banner?
That's very honest.
Yeah.
I've never seen anyone advertise
that there's optional software included.
All right, I'm gonna do a full review of swing copters.
Coming up very soon.
Channel super fun.
Yeah, channel super fun review of swing copters.
Facebook rolls out a feature for users when they die.
This was posted by Fknot on the forum.
Oh my God, we should do real life swing copters
with a drone.
Yes, absolutely.
Not sure exactly how this works
but gives users the option of having their account
permanently deleted when they die
or if they wish, they can appoint a friend or family member
to take control of some aspects of the account.
That's interesting.
An interesting note that was added to the doc too
is how do they confirm your death?
I don't know.
I don't understand why Facebook needs a,
gee, I don't know.
Just leave it.
What else we got here?
VESA publishes embedded DisplayPort standard 1.4a
includes adaptive sync.
So this will be good for devices
that need embedded DisplayPort.
Like say for example, small stuff.
Greater data rates, 8.1 gigabit per second per lane.
Theoretical limit of 32.4 gigabit per second.
We've got ultra HD support at 120 hertz with 10 bit color
because DisplayPort just isn't content
to wreck HDMI a little bit at every turn and everything else.
WhatsApp, that was posted by QwertyWarrior
and the original article here is from Tom's Hardware.
This is all our rapid fire topics by the way.
That's why I'm rapid firing them.
VESA publish, I already did this.
Well basically, that's what that website looks like.
You're welcome.
Next up, what do we got?
The WhatsApp thing.
Yeah, the WhatsApp thing.
WhatsApp may not be as private as some people thought.
It's supposed to buy iHammi.
It's very unfortunate.
Super not surprising at all.
You thought anything that you posted
to anything Facebook owns
or really anything on the internet was private.
So it's WhatSpyPublic is this app that,
I think it's a guy, yeah, some guy made.
And here's this project.
I made this for you to realize
how broken the privacy options in WhatsApp are.
I mean, this is something that anyone
from like the MSN messenger days
is probably already familiar with.
Like you could see if someone blocked you
just by entering their username into a website,
which by the way, Microsoft patched and became impossible.
Yet another way that MSN was way ahead of its time
and everything else that's come after it totally sucks balls.
MSN was great.
So anyway, you can see online and offline status,
profile pictures, privacy settings and status messages
from anyone, even if they have the most secure
private settings enabled in their account.
And so the point of this was just,
hey, we should probably draw some attention to this.
Feels a little, what would this be, gray hat?
Yeah, I guess.
Speaking of hats, anonymous attacks ISIS websites
and social media accounts.
This was posted online as tech tips forum by Sauron
and our original article here is from the hackernews.com.
And I mean, the thing about when anonymous does anything
is that that's not necessarily,
that doesn't mean that everyone in anonymous
is a united friend doing something.
It means someone saying they're anonymous
because that's the whole point, isn't they anonymous?
They declared what group within it it was.
I don't remember where it says, read something, I think.
Has launched a something, something, something,
something in a video.
I don't know what it is, but it's, they.
Red cult, anonymous group and red cult
announced the operation hashtag opISIS
and claimed to have carried out cyber attacks
against hundreds of Twitter and Facebook accounts
used by ISIS for its own propaganda
and to recruit new members.
According to the video, it's coordinated by
Muslims, Christians, Jews alike,
and a masked individual discusses the aim of the campaign.
So they're releasing lists of Twitter and Facebook accounts
suspected to belong to Islamic militants
and Twitter has already suspended more than 1500 ISIS
accounts since the group released the first list
in June 2014 and dozens of militant recruiting websites
were knocked offline using collective DDoS attack.
I gotta say, it's nice to see,
it's nice to see them doing something positive.
They do, sometimes. They do that.
Sometimes. Anonymously, so we don't know
who's doing good, who's doing bad,
who's doing something in between.
Who knows? But someone is doing
something and I think hopefully we can all agree
that ISIS is a bunch of butt holes
and anything we can do to make them
not be quite such butt holes is good.
Yes, taking down communication lines of any sort
is a very effective thing in these types of situations.
Yep. So it might not seem like much,
but it can actually do a lot. Yeah, it might be like,
oh, web activism is dumb.
Actually, not necessarily.
Not being able to get your message out there
when your entire thing is that you are broadcasting
this message in hopes of finding like-minded individuals
and inspiring them to do unspeakable things.
Actually, that's super, it's very effective.
It's like plant on rock effective.
It's super effective.
H.G. Barbs.
I mean, the only thing about anonymous
is that they're not employed.
They're not, like there's no long-term commitment
to 2018 when ISIS is still doing
whatever it is they're doing.
There's no long-term action plan or anything like that,
but it's good that they're doing something,
anything at all now.
I guess that's pretty much it for the key stuff today.
This was a short show.
Yeah.
Wow.
A short, painful show.
For you.
I had fun.
Not because it was painful for you.
That was just a bonus.
Oh, man.
I do have an exciting announcement, though.
I am going to be doing the first garage sale
in a very long time today.
It is going to be, as soon as I figure out
how all the tools work, the after party
is gonna be straight up garage sale today
because there is some stuff that needs
to not be here anymore and is here right now.
And I need it gone.
So that is why I am doing it.
So that's pretty much it.
We'll see you guys next week.
Same bat time, same bat channel.
Thank you for tuning in to the WAN Show.
I got some emails.
I thought I was just gonna say,
I think he's just on his phone now.
So I'm gonna cut this so that the archive
doesn't look super weird.
Wait, don't cut it.
You gotta do the outro.
Oh, oh, oh.
There we go.
All right.
All right.
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Color check box.
Do the things.
X-Men.
Watch the things.
Watch the things.
Learn the things, do the things, watch the things.
See, it works.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Learn, do, watch.
I think that's the-
Learn, do, broadcast.
I think it's actually, what is it?
Describe, demo, do.
That's like a teaching methodology.
Oh.
Yeah, I learned that in like swimming lesson instructors.
Next.