Alright, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the WAN Show!
The show on the internet, that's why we called it WAN Show!
I started trying to come up with a different name for it, it was like the offline show,
and I was like nope, nope, technically it's online.
It's online!
It says it's my line is on, your line is on, you can touch our lines together if you want.
We could.
Well, okay, I've heard a conspiracy theory from the same guy who did the Jar Jar Binks
is a Sith Master conspiracy theory that actually, we called it WAN Show because we chickened
out on calling it the Weekly Analysis News and Gaming Show.
The same guy?
No.
You made this up?
No, I made that up entirely.
I was really excited because that guy's like famous in my mind.
Yeah, no, he's about as internet famous as like anyone who works here I think.
Yeah.
Like I don't know anyone who hasn't read that Reddit version.
I thought that would have been super cool, I thought you talked to him, I was like whoa,
that's pretty cool.
No, I'm not that cool, unfortunately.
Sorry.
Illusion shattered.
Oh, I'm not wearing my Christmas WAN sweater!
Oh no, oh no, maybe I'll change during the intro, but we got a lot of great- oh, excellent,
excellent.
When are you seeing it?
Uh, 28.
Oh, get rekt.
Yeah, I know, it sucks.
Get rekt.
I know.
I'm going with Brandon though, that's pretty cool.
I'm going with what the fucking boobies look like because I'm going to see it on the 19th.
Calm your tits, okay?
Woah.
So we got a great show for you guys today.
Apple released the iPhone battery case.
I'm not sure if they were thinking battery like thing that holds a charge or battery
like an assault on your senses.
Trump wants to close up that bare internet to fight terrorism.
Wow, I went to go talk to Twitch chat really quick without realizing that it was my turn.
Indiegogo, there's a campaign on Indiegogo right now for a computer that fits in your
pocket because that would be pretty groundbreaking actually.
I almost exclusively wear Linus Tech Tips shirts now.
I'm getting more though, I'm getting like four more or something.
It's gotten to the point where it's kind of ridiculous.
I'm either wearing my name on my chest or something that I did.
Or your name on your back.
Or something that Ed or Berkel designed with my name on my back.
Also troll insurance.
I'm not even going to say anything else.
There's other information that we said in the pre-show thing, I'm not even going to
bother.
We're going to get to that later on in the show.
For now we're going to roll that intro.
I hope this works.
Oh, I have all the wrong sponsors.
Maybe I can do this.
Go fast.
No, I'll pull this off.
Hold on.
You can shoot something while it's walking relatively not that fast.
Calm down.
But what about tribes where it's like going really fast?
Hold on, I'm working on this.
Linda.
Find the edge.
I gotta find the edge.
Yes.
Yeah.
Linda.
Fresh books.
Boop.
Yeah, baby.
And iFixit.
Boop.
Yeah.
Round of applause.
For Linus and his team, especially Linus, who was the one responsible for pulling that
out of the fire.
And also it was his fault that it was broken in the first place.
You put it in the fire, then you took it back out.
That's right.
You're playing like hokey pokey, but with literally a fire.
Does that count?
You put your right hand in, you take your right hand out, you scream, oh my god my hand.
And then you start up a Twitch thing and you're not signed in or paying any attention, so.
Hey, there's a Riot game stream going on, that means my stream's gonna get no viewers.
I think our stream's still doing, wow, we have only 2,600 viewers.
Oh, you know what?
That thing's always delayed.
The YouTube thing didn't go up.
Oh, derp.
That's interesting.
So this is all the hardcores only.
This is like hardcores only time.
Or just whoever Twitch decided to send an email to.
Yeah, that too.
That's a whole other issue.
There's nothing I can really do about that.
What is this thing doing?
Why are you broken, YouTube?
44% processed on like a one minute video.
Are you, oh, oh, oh, there it, 46%, 46%.
Someone must have thrown a USB drive at the server.
No, they're using the quantum computer.
The quantum computer.
No, we'll talk about that later though, the quantum computer is definitely quantum-y.
Or no, right, they were using the quantum computer, now they're comparing it to that
single core?
There's something, yeah, well that, well, we'll talk about that.
Okay, so actually, well no, let's talk about things, let's get into our first topic of
the day today.
Should we just start with the quantum computer?
No, let's do Donald Trump wanting to close up the internet.
Closing up the internet, because like, you can just close the doors.
You can call up Bill Gates.
Yeah, and Bill Gates can just build a digital wall.
Yeah, so the original article here is from Ars Technica, and to be clear, if you actually
watch, and like put some context around this, if you actually watch some of the speech,
he's obviously doesn't have a clear enough understanding of how the internet works to
have spoken correctly, but some of his sentiments were not entirely ridiculous either.
Not everything he said was completely stupid.
But you're talking to internet people about internet terminology.
Yes, some of it was really stupid.
I'm just gonna try and, I'm gonna go back to my show notes for a second here, because
I think I put down something that, blah blah blah, I mean, acknowledging that people are
vulnerable to being recruited, whether it's for ISIS or whether it's, I speak from some
personal experience without giving too much detail here, not myself, but someone that
was very close to me, you know, whether it's something like a pro-anna suicide society
or something like that.
People can be very susceptible to being drawn into someone who will make them feel like
they fit in, and I feel like the internet has made some of these very very extreme sects
a little bit more accessible, sects, not sects, it's made that more accessible too, but I'm
not complaining about that.
So some of what he's saying is, it comes from a good place I think, but obviously calling
up Bill Gates or other internet leaders to close up the internet in some way, and he
goes on to say, you know, free speech, what about free speech, we gotta deal with this
terrorist threat, that's not necessarily the right approach either, but I think the bottom
line is this, I hope in my deepest heart of hearts that Donald Trump wins the presidency,
because there will never be a slow news week, news week, news week for the entire four years
that he's in.
So you would, you just want it because it would be hilarious?
Yes.
Not enough to vote for him, and to anyone who's considering voting for Trump just because
you think it's hilarious, and you just want to troll the entirety of your country, I would
urge you to please reconsider, because there's so many trolls out there that he might actually
win.
I don't think we usually give political voting opinions.
We don't, but don't vote for someone to troll, I think is pretty safe political advice.
If you genuinely believe in Donald Trump and his principles, I'm not gonna tell you not
to vote for him, that is your prerogative.
That would be undemocratic.
But if you are voting for Donald Trump, because you're like-
Don't do that.
Because you just want no slow news week, news week, news week, no slow news weeks for four
years-
It would be kind of like a news week, because you would just like, it's just the wake of
Donald Trump as he just crashes through everything.
The entire internet news community- All the reporters just crawl into the office,
oh my god, he did more things.
They would die of laughter.
Their abdominal muscles would actually implode upon themselves.
My little joke that I want to throw in here is that people should just start feeding him
more, just not true stuff.
Start telling him about the series of tubes thing, and then just be like, you know, if
you just make the tubes a little bit smaller, then the bad messages will be delayed too
much, because they're coming from too far away, and they won't make it in.
Did you see the thing he posted about how it was mostly blacks killing whites or something
like that?
Some completely false, no one can figure out where it came from infographic, that was supposedly
attributed to the Seattle Police Department or something like that, but did not.
They're like, no, that didn't come from here.
That's brutal.
Yeah, and he retweeted it.
Are you sure it was, okay it was a retweet, yeah, because there's been a lot of stuff
where he didn't actually say it.
Yes, and he didn't say it, but you also have to be responsible, you can't be retweeting
that stuff.
No, I don't mean that, the retweeting has value, I mean, I've seen a lot of jokes online
where people will share things from satire websites and be like, oh my god, I can't believe
he said this, and it's like, that's because he didn't.
Although to be fair, it wouldn't be that surprising at this point.
Yeah.
So, apparently they did figure out where it came from, alright, well, thank you for that,
either way, it didn't come from the Seattle Police.
Again, we're not political, whatever.
Speaking of not being political, whatever, European Commission officially presents plan
to address Netflix like geoblocking.
This I'm really excited about, so the original article here is from, oh I'm sorry Brandon,
I did not move that computer.
Okay, sorry, I was busy fixing this computer, actually, okay, before we get into the EU's
proposal, which is very cool.
I wish we could just turn the webcam thing on that we used to have and just show Brandon
trying to figure out how to walk with this thing.
I know, right?
Without destroying everything.
Oh, it's going to be great.
Good job, Brandon.
You know, he has, I was telling him this the other day, Brandon never trips anymore, remember
the way, remember he used to trip?
Whoa, I almost just said I know, and then I was like, wait, that changed at some point,
he doesn't though.
He's like, he's got cat-like agility now.
We put too many wires down.
We were going to, his nickname, his nickname was going to be Cables.
He just did the foot flick on that thing right there.
I know, I know, he's like a navigation master, and this place is easier than the old place,
so he's like, he's like effortlessly moving around here, other than that he has to carry
heavy things now.
Heavy things with like stuff coming out of them.
Okay, so the story I was going to tell is that I actually spent, okay, the show was
still late, I know, but I actually spent the hour and a half, so since 3 o'clock today,
okay, the show starts at 4.30, I was like, okay, I am getting this computer working once
and for all, it is happening.
So I was like doing something with capture cards, and we've known for some time, like
ever since I built the first capture PC I ever built, which was a shuttle with a couple
intensity pros in it, we realized that mainstream platforms, your Z87, Z97, whatever, with all
their PCI Express lane splitting and switching and whatnot, just don't cooperate well with
professional grade hardware sometimes, where it's just low volume hardware and not always
designed to work properly in consumer devices, and so I've always had trouble, and even sometimes
it's as simple as, okay, maybe I'll try the four PCI eLanes that are coming off of the
DMI interface versus the split ones that are coming off the CPU or whatever the case may
be.
So today, I was like, I ran into some weird issue, it was a minor issue, I was just like,
no, no, that's enough.
So I went and got an X79 motherboard, so we are running a 3960x, six core extreme edition,
we are running an X79 workstation board, like P9X79WS, whatever from Asus, 32 gigs of the
most stable RAM that we've had on all of our benchmark systems, that 1866, Ripjaws, G.Skill
stuff that we've never had any issues with, and then I put in four capture devices, a
Decklink 4K Extreme, an Elgato Pro 6D HD60, a Blackmagic Intensity Pro, and an Avermedia
Live Gamer Portable attached via USB, and I was like, okay, I'm gonna get this stable.
There's gotta be some combination of two.
Yes.
We just gotta figure it out.
So they're all in there, and I finally got it, I'm pretty sure it's working, I got the
audio synced, needed only a slight delay, so I'm pretty sure that we're in pretty good
shape.
So now that I've said that, I'm sure that I've jinxed it forever now, but it can't be
any worse than it was before.
Oh no, no, I'm gonna make it worse.
Yeah, knock on, there's no wood around here.
This isn't really wood.
Yeah, this isn't wood, this is like, the closest thing to wood that's in my lap is in my lap.
Where are you going?
Thank you.
Thank you for that, Luke.
I did it for you.
So the EU has issued a proposal that would ban Netflix-style geo-blocking and restrictions,
which sounds like fantastic news on first glance.
Do you wanna run through what this is exactly?
Basically, you know how the EU is a lot- people might take offense to this, I don't know,
it's a grouping of a bunch of smaller countries.
Yeah.
I come from Canada.
We're really big.
Every country's a small country together.
Yeah, I'm not trying to say anything negative.
Not in terms of population, they have more people than us.
Oh yeah, we don't have that many, we just, I mean like, land mass.
There's a great song by the Arrogant Worms, we've got rocks and trees and trees and rocks
and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and trees
and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks and water.
Come on, everybody!
It's a Canadian song.
Anyways, basically, it's enabling you, if you have a Netflix subscription, to be able
to watch it anywhere within the EU, which is pretty sweet.
Yes, but there are some caveats.
Which I don't understand, actually.
Okay, I can explain this.
So basically, the way that they want it to work, is they want it to be illegal.
If I'm a British citizen, for example, and I subscribe to British Netflix, they want
it to be illegal for when I travel to France, for my subscription to stop working.
Yeah.
Awesome!
Love it!
The problem is that with these new regulations, it would actually become more difficult for
people who use a VPN to access a broader library of films and videos from another EU country.
That would no longer be possible under the new rules.
How?
I don't know.
That's what I don't know.
I don't know.
So that I don't know, but the new rules would make it so that accessing the library
that should be available in your home country is fine, but accessing other libraries would
not be fine.
The thing that worries me about this is, are you now going to have to sign up with citizen
IDs or something?
I don't know.
See, I'm not sure how they're going to handle it.
That's weird.
I'm not sure how they're going to manage it.
I feel that over the years, it's become more difficult, for example, to use a credit
card that isn't issued by a bank in the country that you are.
Yeah, but that's still not that hard.
They're saying it's impossible.
You could still find a way, it would still be impossible.
What I'm hoping for is that under the new rules, not possible, like not allowed, but
I'm hoping that it would still be somewhat fakeable.
Not possible, like not allowed is fine, because I'm pretty sure that's already a thing.
So whatever.
Go ahead.
People are going to do it anyways.
Good job.
I don't care.
There you go.
There you go.
There you go.
And then the other one.
I just got a hilarious private message from John for Lakers, John Rettinger, Techno Buffalo.
There was a particular partner that we worked with once that I kind of, off the record,
I was like, dude, don't work with them.
I'm not going to indicate anything, but yes, yes, Matt.
So I just got a message from him.
He's like, dude, I should have listened to you.
Have a great WAN show.
I like our new one.
We have a replacement one, it's good.
All right.
So where were we at with this?
Okay, so the last one is people who are in countries where Netflix and services aren't
available still won't have access.
That's not, that was already a thing.
It's just a not better thing.
Basically this is like a really small, really tiny step towards reforming the way that geo-blocking
and regional restrictions are handled, and honestly it feels kind of like one step forward,
one step back.
Just because if it does legitimately make these other forms of access more difficult,
then we're not really helping anything.
And it forces the content owners to go and rewrite a bunch of their licensing deals for
what is in my mind, not really that helpful.
I'd like to see, I'd like to see that stuff rewritten more broadly.
It's at least acknowledges that there's a problem.
That's what I'll say.
We're acknowledging a problem, which is better than nothing.
So I've got people suggesting that it's hotspot shield.
No, it's not hotspot shield.
Oh, good.
That was just, there's okay.
So this is funny.
There was a wan show at one point where we accidentally still had like an ancient hotspot
shield logo baked into our intro and showed it, but we hadn't been working with hotspot
shield for over a year.
And it happened that tunnel bear was a brand new sponsor starting on that show.
And they were just like, yo, bro, what was that?
We're like, Oh, that was like a really old legacy thing.
Don't worry about it.
There's also the time with Squarespace.
We give them a freebie.
Oh, well yeah.
Squarespace I it's a miracle.
Squarespace still advertises with us.
Why?
Because we screwed up everything with them so many times.
Oh, I got people asking, I got people asking how my lip feels.
They saw the GoPro dodge ball incident.
So people are geniuses.
Everyone has great ideas and they love sharing them with us to like, you know, you're supposed
to have the GoPro facing up on those mounts, right?
We know we are putting the GoPros in front of our eyes in the most annoying, in the most
annoying possible way, not because we think that that's a stroke of genius and it helps
us see better or anything, but because it gives a more natural feel like point of view
perspective on what it is that we're doing.
That's why we're doing it.
It destroys your depth perception.
Yeah.
We tried to put it on the people who were showing some amount of accuracy already so
that it would like bring them down a little bit and make things a little bit more equal.
And deliver better footage.
This is what we do.
This is what we do for you.
Okay.
Is, and yes, Dennis still has a job.
No, Dennis has not been deported.
No, that was a joke.
Dennis is a valued member of our team.
We are not, we are not deporting him.
The problem is that POV sucks.
Well, if POV sucks, then eight inches above POV is definitely not better.
So why is that search term used so much?
I'm gonna leave you with that.
Bro.
So let's go ahead and move into our next topic here.
This is cool.
So, I mean, if it wasn't cool, we probably wouldn't be talking about it on the show except
sometimes we talk about stuff that's totally not cool for the sake of talking about stuff
that's stupid.
So Google's D-Wave 2X quantum computer, a hundred times faster than regular computers.
Now, now, okay.
Excuse me.
A hundred million times faster.
Sorry, sorry.
I misread that.
So it makes the point that we're going to make here not really matter, but it's still
a valid point.
Yeah.
Okay.
So basically this was acquired by Google and NASA in 2013.
They're keeping it in there like, like a super computing lab in Silicon Valley, somewhere
underground, something along those lines.
And basically in a nutshell, it was able to achieve 10,000 years of computing in seconds.
The thing is, they're not actually really showing what they're comparing it to.
And sometimes they're like, yeah, you know, classic computer.
A classic single core computer was what it was compared to.
Well, in one place they say classic computer and another place they say, I think like consumer
and then somewhere else, they're finally like single core and I'm like, ooh.
So it'd be really nice to know what it's being compared to.
But it is a hundred million times faster.
Yes.
And at the same time, it's like, still very cool.
Yeah.
But with that said, we're still a long ways away from it being useful for any kind of
practical, practical, practical matters.
Well, okay.
Broadly useful.
And we'll, we'll explain that a little bit more in a minute.
So basically for just as a refresher, regular computing uses zeros and ones or bits.
Quantum computing uses qubits.
And in the case of the D-Wave 2X, you can have up to 1,097 qubits.
So that's, that's that many more different states.
And then it's like quantum nonsense with like, it can have this value and this value and
all this kind of very complicated stuff that quite frankly, I'm not enough of a scientist
to really properly understand talk about anything in this realm.
I try to give like a simplified version and the people try to murder me.
So I'm just not even going to bother.
So let's not bother.
But the point is that what it's really good for, what, what they were, what they were
able to find that the D-Wave 2X was able to do really, really well with solving an optimization
problem.
So an optimization problem could be something like, let's, let's come up with something
very, very simple.
So if I want to make the best possible, oh, I don't know, soup can, okay.
So you've got, you've got a bunch of different variables.
You've got the height, you've got the circumference, you've got the, you've got the ridges that
you can put in the side.
You've got having a curvature or no curvature to the top and the bottom.
And so you could come up with a value that you want.
Like I want the strongest soup can that holds X amount of volume or, or whatever the case
may be.
So, so that would be an optimization problem.
So you can have a lot of different variables that the computer has to solve for many different
scenarios of all of them to get the best possible result.
That would be an optimization problem.
In this case, the problem that the D-Wave 2X solved had about a thousand variables.
And then each one of those, like, I'm sure a lot of people in the audience know what
a variable is, but each one of those will have crazy amounts of values.
So that's an entry for a value.
Or any value.
Yeah.
Like, like it could be a variable is just, is, is a placeholder.
It's what X or Y or whatever else.
So you had a thousand X's, Y's, Z's, you're going to run out of letters of the alphabet.
Don't worry too much about that part though.
And it found the optimal answer for all of those variables.
The problem right now is that there's only a handful of people in the world who are qualified
to actually input information, input information into the D-Wave 2X to tell it to do things,
which makes sense.
If you know things about computers, that's kind of, yeah, yeah.
So they're good.
They're going to have to work on making it a little bit easier to use, okay.
And then, yeah, and then, and then it'll be more useful.
Quantum computing is still very, like, look at who has it.
It's a long way away from you playing, you know, Half-Life 3 on one, although probably
less far away than Half-Life 3.
Oh, rip.
Okay.
Sorry.
Sorry everyone.
Sorry to those who are still holding out hope.
Rough.
Speaking of that troll that you just did.
Oh my goodness.
So this, what I'll say in advance of this topic is that I don't think there's a way
for us to cover this that won't upset the particularly sensitive of our social justice
warrior viewers.
So someone's going to be upset by the end of this, and that's a shame.
And if the social justice warriors aren't upset, which they probably already are because
we said their name.
I did call them that.
If they're not upset, then the people who aren't in that category will probably be upset
because we probably talked about it too lately.
Yeah.
So basically, let's run through what this is.
Let's run through what this is in a nutshell.
Yeah.
We're damned if we do, we're damned if we don't.
Yeah.
So Chubb, which to be clear is not the company that makes locks.
I wonder if they're doing this because someone called them fat.
Wow.
I was wondering if we were going to go there or not.
No, no.
We're not going to go there.
I thought about that before the show.
I was like, you know.
We aren't going to go there.
If you troll the company that offers troll insurance.
Yeah.
What happens?
I don't know.
Like troll-ception?
Do they have the troll insurance on their own?
I don't know.
Can you do that?
I don't think you can do that because you'd have to have some-
That sounds like fraud bait all over the place.
Yeah.
Okay.
Anyway, so Chubb, the insurance company, not the company that makes locks and security
stuff, is offering this to their clients in the UK starting in 2016.
They're defining it as three or more acts by the same person or group, wondering how
that's defined, to harass, threaten or intimidate a customer.
So claims of up to $75,000 can be made for counseling, relocation due to online abuse
or missed work.
And they offer certain things like a reputation management, which can help restore your public
image, or a hiring of a forensic specialist who can try to trace the origins of the trolling.
So the policy, so they see it as a way to help clients get back to where they were before
the incidents occurred.
Wow.
Now that I've kind of vomited all that into the microphone, I'm left sort of speechless.
Okay.
So there's certain things in here, I don't know if I'd get insurance for it, but there's
certain things in here that I can actually totally defend.
I'm going to advocate this a little bit.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Hit me.
Hit me, hit me, bro.
Come at me, bro.
Loser.
That's one.
We're going to need like a counter.
Okay.
If I had insurance on this and I was like the specific person and pointed out you, you'd
lose in like a day.
Right.
But this is online harassment.
I harass you in person.
Hangouts and stuff.
That is online.
Is it online if you're in the same building?
Yes.
Really?
Yes.
So, so, so still going out to the server and then coming back.
So snapping like dick pics and hang out, sing them to you.
That would be, hold on, hold on, that's all mine if you're in the same building, but,
but if you're in the same room, what if I'm in the same room, we're literally like, and
it was both of us that would still be online.
Okay.
Okay.
So if I was a willing participant, then that wouldn't be harassed.
Carry on.
Carry on.
Okay.
So, so defend it.
Anyways.
So if you are someone, uh, like say, remember the Boston bombing?
Yes.
Okay.
Not cool thing.
Yep.
We did it, right?
If you're one of the people that they targeted and you get death threats and stuff and you
did nothing, that sucks.
And having a team of people backing you up and doing, what is this one?
Reputation management team.
Yep.
That would probably be helpful because that totally wasn't their fault and they got massively
trolled on and that probably sucks on like many different levels.
The thing is while there's definitely cases where online trolling goes way too far and
is like super not okay.
Like the Boston bombing thing where they pick the wrong person and there's definitely other
examples of this.
I think the vast majority of the usage for this is going to be projected to be claimed
on things that are totally bull crap.
And one of my notes on here is that I'm hoping it's only for ultra aggressive cases, uh,
like where I'm talking about with the Boston bombing thing.
Totally wasn't their fault.
Totally got slammed on really, really badly and totally wasn't their fault.
I think it's mostly going to be like kids on COD yelling at each other and then one
of them getting sad and someone's parents being like, well, I have this troll insurance
thing.
Let's just, I don't know.
They're all COD players, so that's a group.
So I mean, it's one of those things where like, and it comes back to like, I was making
light of it before, but the line between online harassment and in person harassment is very,
very gray.
Um, like it's, you know, people who don't believe in cyber bullying will often say,
well, just unplug your internet connection.
But it is very rarely, I don't believe in a lot of what people define as cyber bullying.
No.
And that's true of me as well.
But, but it does exist.
Something that people have to be aware of is that when the line is gray, it can be,
it can, it can be something that can't be gotten rid of as easily as unplugging an ethernet
cable like, or just not playing that game.
If you, if you like aren't very good at league of legends and people make fun of you for
it a lot, maybe ignore chat or just if that affects you that much, just don't play league
or play against bots or something.
And another option would be to get better.
Yeah.
Like I don't count that as like, you just need to, but there, but there are many instances
where the online cyber bullying can bleed over into real life.
Like it's, you know, someone sharing a, uh, uh, and you know, improperly obtained picture
of you and then having to deal with the fallout of that at school for example.
So the line, the line is very gray between what is, what is online harassment and what
is in person harassment because they can, they can become one in the same and it's not
always as simple as just like, Oh, well I just won't go online if I put my head in the
sand.
I mean, it's funny because it's the same group of people saying, well, just ignore it as
the same group of people that would make fun of people for putting their head in the sand
and ignoring a problem.
So like if, if, if literally the forensic specialist that's tracing the origins of your
trolling is like, Oh, you're bad at video games, then I don't know, man, if it's random
anonymous people on the internet talking to you in a very contained situation and once
you stop playing that game, it's over.
Maybe find a solution.
I don't know.
Leave chat.
Don't read chat.
Do something.
If you're actually being like improperly obtained picture, we did it Reddit.
If it's like one of those types of situations, like, sure, I think this makes sense.
Yeah, but I mean, they're, they're, they're gonna, there's going to be at least for troll
insurance because you think that's going to happen to you is insane.
Most insurance is set up like that where the odds are so slim that you'd actually kind
of like, I mean, you look at the, the way the math works is there have to be enough
suckers who are paying for it and don't need it to compensate for everyone who claims it
and lots more.
That's the whole idea.
That's insurance.
So I did get a, I did get like stop playing league.
Oh, I got, I got a message.
I have to interrupt this program to bring you a shout out for marks.
I don't know if he wants me to give his last name, but I promised him a shout out on the
dual quad core old server gaming rig thing.
I thought you did.
I thought I did too, but it didn't make it into the final cut and then I, I asked for
it to be added to the YouTube one and then I never, I never watched the YouTube one,
so maybe it did get added.
Maybe he's trolling me.
I swear it said something someone gave me this anyways, whatever, whatever it was Mark
who provided the Xeons, no, not Mark's work warehouse.
No, not Karl Marx.
Okay.
Well anyway, the point is he provided the motherboard and the Xeons and the Ram and
the idea for doing that video.
So I wanted to give a massive, massive shout out to, uh, to, to, to marks here who is apparently
watching the show.
So good job watching the show.
Hi Mark.
You excellent person.
He also does some writing now for us.
Maybe I watched like a pre cut.
Can this, can this finish processing?
The YouTube announcement is not done processing yet.
I don't know what they're doing.
They've got hamsters running the servers right now apparently.
So I'm going to, I'm going to try uploading it again and see if, Oh, that's from last
week.
I do not want that to go up to the, Oh, why, why do you hate me internet?
We should do the thing after this, do the thing.
You are the thing to me.
I don't know.
I don't even know what you're talking about.
I'm sure you don't know.
I'm fairly sure you don't know what you're talking about because I don't know what you're
talking about.
Don't make me put my head in the sand.
Don't make me ignore this really hard.
Um, all right.
Why don't we get into, why don't we get into this?
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So it was so good that someone from work just took it.
No one better had like taken it home.
Also you did.
Well, I took them.
I took one of them.
I'm the boss.
And I took part of one.
I didn't take like the whole, check it out.
No, we don't enter tools in the system.
Wow.
So I can just take tools home?
Well, you have to let me know.
I let you know, see communication, but it wasn't here when we needed it.
That's true.
It wasn't here.
The new one's really nice.
It is.
That's magnetic.
It's got more stuff and it's, it's really nice.
Anyways.
So let's get into our next somewhat touchy, somewhat touchy topic here.
Okay.
This is so stupid.
With how 2015 is going, everything's a touchy topic.
2015?
Yeah.
Oh, oh balls.
Okay.
I just screwed up the thing.
Well, you know what?
It's some balls.
Touchy topic.
Touchy?
Are you, are you propositioning me?
I thought I already did that.
Oh, right.
But on, on air?
All right.
So this is, this is worth, this is worth having a look at.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
So the national crime agency, this is what UK or something, right?
Yeah.
Released this TV ad spot, which we can have a quick look at.
Basically it's the kind of the two over enthusiastic parents.
I don't know if you guys have audio.
I'm just going to turn it off regardless.
Right.
I turned off the wrong thing.
So they're bragging about how when he loses an online game, he just takes down the server
and all those DDoS things, he does them all the time.
He's so smart.
They actually, I thought they did a really good job of this spot overall.
So they're bragging about what he's doing, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
And the punchline is bippity boppity.
So yeah, I guess that's what else do, what else do you want to know?
And they're like, start at the beginning and then, yeah, now we're in an interrogation
room.
Now to be clear, there was some scare tactics involved here.
Of course.
It's like, this kid could be yours and it's got to do one of those cyber crime wrecks
lives kind of thing because I think those are mandatory by law in any kind of public
service announcement or, or like, like warning type thing.
I guess PSA would probably be the correct term for this.
And, but the issue that I have with how people are receiving this is, is, is okay.
Well, first, first let's, first let's get into this.
So I'm going to start with our source here.
So blogs are taking this campaign and I think running completely in the wrong direction
with it.
Yeah.
It's a really obnoxious ad.
Yeah.
So this blog, the next web.
Yeah, I know.
It's a really obnoxious site.
The writing isn't much better.
Goes okay.
According to the national crime agency, the UK version of the FBI, they have a new campaign
that's aimed at cutting cyber crime, especially amongst teams, teams, teens, teens, teens,
not teams.
Cyber crime teams are by the, so this is where it, this is where it goes all full on sensationalist.
Never go full sensationalist by the NCA is definition.
We might all be super hackers.
Here's what to look for.
Is your child spending all of the time, all of their time online?
Are they interested in coding?
Do they have independent learning material on computing?
Do they have irregular sleeping patterns?
Do they get an income from their online activities?
Do you know why and how are they resistant when asked about what they do online?
Do they use the full data allowance of the home broadband?
Have they become more socially isolated?
Hey mom.
In fact, I know, right?
Me too.
Everything.
In fact, all these warning signs would apply to my friends and colleagues, blah, blah,
blah.
But I'm not a, I'm not a cyber criminal.
As you can see, no parent should assume that any of these things are precursors to a life
of infamy and really bad-ass scenes of movie hackery.
They're not saying these things.
And the bottom line, hold on, the bottom line, according to this blogger, talk to your kids.
Well this blogger never read the actual, the actual NCA page.
Nice flowers, Dennis.
Cause that's exactly what they said.
Here it is.
Here's the actual article that people should probably look at before crapping all over
what I think is actually a fairly well put together little piece here.
So what is cyber crime?
They give examples of cyber crime, gaining access to someone's computer network without
their permission, making supplying or obtaining malware, carrying out DDoS, distributed denial
of service attacks.
They don't even include, I mean, I think probably the most outstanding thing about this, this
article here in this campaign is that they're not even going after piracy.
They're ignoring piracy.
They don't even mention it.
They're not like, they're not even including piracy under the same umbrella as cyber crime.
Something that I wish more people had noticed and would have realized is actually a pretty
important distinction because they're really not the same thing.
Okay.
So in the chat it said, rip Tintu, who will save us now.
That's actually kind of funny.
Acting into the system in 2,000, ahh.
Access connected.
Yeah.
Um, so then they go on to say, okay, well here's the consequences and they don't even
say you're going to go to jail forever.
You could get a visit and warning from police or NCI officers.
You could get arrested.
Their computers could be seized and they could be prevented from being allowed to access
the internet.
Penalties are fine.
Up to 10 years in prison for serious offenses.
Things to look out for.
Are they resistant when asked what they do online?
Do they get an income from their online activities?
Do you know why and how?
It's funny how when I read this in a different voice, it doesn't sound like such a crazy
thing.
Are they spending all of their time online?
Do they have irregular sleeping patterns?
Have they become more socially isolated?
Okay, many of these things are just normal teenage behaviors.
This is right out of the freaking article.
Basically the second line.
Taken in isolation.
They don't necessarily suggest that a young person is at risk of being involved.
They are just possible indicators that your child is getting into the wrong activities.
If you're MLG pro, it's fine.
If a young person is showing several of these signs, try and have a conversation with them
about their online activities.
This will allow you to assess their computer knowledge proficiency so you can understand
what they're doing, explain the consequences of cybercrime, and help them make the right
choice.
There's nothing wrong with the way that this is written.
And then there's another video if you scroll down a little bit.
This is great.
Ways to use cyber skills positively.
So here's a bunch of stuff and then this video is great.
Former hacker, ex-hacker, went to jail, he was like, yup.
If I had realized- If someone, well he said if someone had presented
opportunities to me.
I would have done it.
The whole idea here isn't actually about like, oh my god, you're a kid, it's a criminal.
It's like maybe talk to them and show them like, hey, you're interested in this stuff.
That's cool.
There's a whole bunch of different job paths you can go down.
And so, you know, I think a lot of the time people will go like, oh, they're saying that
if I have computer skills, I'm a hacker, ha, yeah, anyone with coding skills is a hacker.
Well, no.
But not everyone with lock picking skills is a burglar.
So with that said- Or you are a hacker but not in the bad way.
Yes.
And if my son or daughter is picking up a lot of lock picking skills, spending a lot
of time out late at night and has inexplicable new possessions, which is pretty much what
that list was saying, that doesn't mean that they're a burglar.
They could have a lock picking job on the side for a locksmith.
And know someone that works a lot and can only hang out at night time.
Or whatever.
But that doesn't mean I shouldn't have that conversation, hey, what are you up to?
You know that if you're doing something that's not a good thing to be up to, that that can
be a problem.
These are the consequences.
This is your life.
You need to- And honestly-
Then that's all the NTA is saying.
If your parenting style happens to be one of those ones where you're like ultra involved
with your kid's interests, there's a lot of really cool hacking stuff you can do.
That's like not criminal even remotely.
And they outline a lot of that stuff.
Yeah.
And there's some really cool shit you can do.
Making things work the way you want them to work is a very cool thing, and it's fun.
So there you go, I just wanted to throw another voice into the mix of people that are trash
talking this because they apparently didn't take the, it's not even a long article.
It took me like a minute and a half to read it and go, this is perfectly fine.
They've actually tackled this in probably the best way they possibly could.
Because the reality of it is, is a lot of the people leaving comments on that video
are being elitist to douches about it, quite frankly.
This campaign is designed for not you tech-savvy youngsters.
Yeah, I know that you guys are, I know what a DDoS is, blah, blah, blah.
If it's in this context, whatever.
You understand all this stuff, but they were trying to present it in terms that my mom
would understand.
Or maybe someone slightly younger than my mom.
I'm not exactly a teenager anymore.
Someone in chat was like, Luke, they're called network professionals or app developers.
No, they're not.
That's not the only types of hacking at all.
Well, that's not the only types of ethical hacking at all.
There's stuff you can do at home that affects literally zero other people that is hacking
that has nothing to do with networking and has nothing to do with app development, and
it's fun.
And they even define the cybercrime, what is a cybercrime really, really well.
It's when you access someone else's network without permission.
You can access someone else's network with permission and that can be hacking if they're,
if you're saying, okay, I'm going to try and keep you out.
You try and get in.
That's, that's practice.
Think of it that way.
I think there's still relative laws around that, but if you do it like in a contained
environment and stuff.
You have a hackathons, which are actually hacking in some cases.
And they're like, good, it's helpful.
So yeah, there you go.
Tesla has like huge bounties on if you can hack something in the model S, tell them how
you did it, maybe work with them on how to solve the problem.
Great.
All right, so let's get into the funniest topic of the week.
Probably completely unintentionally funny, although part of me really does wonder like,
are they just seeing how far they can push things?
Is that what Apple is up to at this point?
This has been making the white case is literally hilarious.
It reminds me of a scene from alien.
It's like, I feel like, I feel like a battery alien is going to like push itself out of
the back of the phone.
There was a point in time where like we can hate on Apple as much as you want, but there
was a point in time that if you walked into an Apple store, you could pretty much assume
that everything, especially directly from Apple was probably solid in terms of like
design manufacturing.
This is not for like a bunch of reasons.
One of them, the material that it is picks up things and clings to it.
So there's a video Lou has on box therapy where he puts the white one in his jeans pocket
and he shows like these are, they're not the loosest jeans ever, but they're definitely
not skinny jeans ever either drops the phone in his pocket, pulls it back out and it's
like covered in lint like what it's like.
I've given a lot of crap to companies over the years that have released products that
I like.
What I like to say is obviously no one ever actually used it.
Like Antech had a case.
What was it?
The the dark force DF 85 or something like that where I remember talking to, I think
you about it, where I was just like, did anyone at Antech build a computer in this tower?
And I was pretty sure that they did not.
This really feels, this really feels like one of those kinds of things where, where
abouts in this video is that part?
You'll see him standing up.
He's standing up.
I don't think it's, yeah, he puts the phone in first.
So it's a little bit after this.
Where does he stand up?
Dang it Lou.
I think it's before that.
Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
Okay, so Linus screen share.
There we go.
There's our buddy Lou.
So he puts the white phone in his pocket, takes it back out and then look at this.
He doesn't even get that close in on it.
Yeah.
And like, but it's like covered in junk.
So it's just like, what, what are you, what are you actually doing?
Um, this is, this is really great.
I was reading, um, I was reading the comments under, someone in the chat has a DF 85.
Oh, okay.
Pretty upset.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Um, okay.
So, uh, this was really great.
I was reading comments on someone's article about this somewhere and they're just like,
yeah, at the Apple store I work at, we're all just still recommending the Mophie case
that we still stock.
That's like way, way slicker in terms of design has a higher capacity battery.
And just, we like, we can't figure out any advantage to the first party accessory here.
So apparently it's been nicknamed the hump already.
Um, saw a really great meme already.
Someone photoshopped a picture of, uh, uh, Apple's new lead designer and it's just a
camel in the middle of the desert and compare it.
This is sexy now.
So here's what I have to say.
My favorite thing about this, and I don't remember if I already said this on the show
or if I said this in the, in the show announcement or whatever, but this, this is what I had
to say about this.
I had a really great week because this week, I guess a couple of weeks I got my hands on
the surface book.
Yeah, I know you didn't have a great week.
I got my hands on the surface book, Microsoft's clear acknowledgement, clear message to me
directly that I was right and that the surface pro three is not a replacement for a laptop
because if it was, they wouldn't have needed to release a laptop.
So I really enjoyed that.
Like it made me feel so warm and fuzzy inside, not warm and fuzzy enough to not return the
surface book.
I did end up doing that.
I was prepared to keep it if it was good enough, but I still prefer the blade 14, um, even
though I don't game really much at all on it.
Um, and then this clear indication that Apple is acknowledging that I was right.
It is time to acknowledge that the iPhone's battery is not good enough and that if that's
what it takes, if a kludgy solution with a hump hanging off the back of it is what it
takes, it's time to lose the snobby attitude about making it, making it thinner and making
it more flat or whatever and just make a slightly thicker phone.
It could even be a different model like the iPhone success extended or whatever you want
or the six E or whatever you want to call it.
One that has better battery, that would be great, thanks.
So uh, yeah, I guess that's all there.
Wow.
Is that all there is to really say about it?
It's really stupid, man.
What were they thinking?
There's nothing.
It picks up a lint.
It doesn't look very good.
I've heard that it doesn't feel very good in terms of material, but I'm not sure about
that.
I've heard that it feels awkward to hold in your hand.
This is great.
Also Apple's acknowledgement that a curved shape at the back is probably easier to hold,
although Apple, you went about it all wrong.
Just throwing that out there.
You could see the LG G4 for pointers, a curved back without also having a flat back and some
weird like spandex leotard that it wears that is like stuffed to make its junk look bigger.
And like a lot of people have been saying, it's super just looks like they had a whole
bunch of batteries and they're like, hey, we can put some material around it.
Sell them.
I guess.
Like it doesn't look like a product design thing.
It looks like a, hey, we have a lot of these.
Let's find some way to get rid of them.
Which I don't believe is what happened.
No.
To be very clear.
No, but it looks that way, which is bad.
Yeah.
It really looks awful.
You don't want it to look that way.
Compatibility.
At least it works with the 6.
So at least they didn't be like, yeah, it's only for 6S customers.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah.
This is great.
Oh yeah.
Wired couldn't even get a full charge off the case.
It's only about a 75% charge.
So that puts it somewhere in the neighborhood of probably around 1600 milliamp hours.
It's not even equivalent to the onboard battery.
So wow.
So full of fail.
So I guess we're into kind of rapid fire topics for the day.
It's going to be kind of a short show today, I guess is okay.
Not that short.
Liking the wrong picture on Facebook can get you imprisoned in Thailand.
To be clear, this is something that Thai people are mostly aware of, but defaming the monarchy
is illegal under the Thai Criminal Code 112.
So yeah, basically in a nutshell, this guy was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
His Facebook activity was deemed insulting to the monarchy.
People were just making fun of 10 years in prison for hacking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That is some pretty, that's some pretty brutal stuff.
I was reading an article about this and one of the comments under it was, what about freedom
of speech?
Yeah.
Freedom of speech is like not a thing in a lot of parts of the world actually.
This is cool.
Actually, I had not seen this.
I must have skipped over this.
Speedtest.net now allows users to check their internet speeds using HTML5.
No more flash required.
Very excellent.
I wonder if the test works better.
That website felt so old.
I want to do a speed test right now.
I'm going to do one.
Remember, it's not going to be 100%.
I know.
I know.
But I'm going to do it anyway.
I'm going to do it anyway.
Don't screenshot it.
Don't screenshot it.
I will not screenshot it.
Oh, what do you have to do?
They've got an HTML5 beta site that you have to access, so I'm going to have to, I'll go
find that.
Is it just beta dot?
I don't know.
I'll find it.
You keep doing things.
I want to find it.
You do a thing.
Get rekt.
What if we just both try to find it?
What if we just both try to find it?
Good idea, Linus.
I think it is beta dot.
Yeah.
Oh.
I think so.
Way to go, Luke.
I blame you for this.
No, no, it's not.
Or it's not.
Oh.
Oh.
So bad.
WWW doesn't work.
How long did it take you to resolve that on linustechtips.com, 10 minutes?
Did we have that problem?
Yeah, exactly.
We didn't have it set up correctly for like a bit, and I was like, hey, Luke, when you
type in the WWW, it doesn't work.
You're like, oh, yeah, right.
Okay.
I don't even remember.
All right.
All right.
Are you doing it?
Yeah, I'm doing it.
So it doesn't look like there's nothing really going on.
So they're like HTML5, we'll do basically nothing.
Yeah, it looks kind of different.
I can add like a don't worry, don't worry, I got this.
I got this.
I got this.
Boop.
So there you go.
Looks a little something like that.
High speed interwebs.
It doesn't work properly for us.
I've talked to our ISP about the fact that our internet never tests at the speed that
it's supposedly rated at, and they're just like, well, cold hard truth is this.
The servers that are hosting speed tests services, they're not exclusive to that, and they've
got gigabit pipes.
So unless you're speed testing to a server that has a gigabit pipe, has nothing else
going on, and has no one else running a speed test, you're not going to see your full speed
because you're on a gigabit pipe.
And I'm like, that makes sense.
I just kind of assumed that like they were more powerful.
Because it seems to be working, like we get the effective speeds.
Yeah.
But like I can upload something faster than 285.98 megabit per second right now.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
It's not...
Like our internet's working.
It's just, it's speed test is like, nope, your internet's too fast, I can't measure
it.
And there are cases where you can measure full gigabit.
Like for example, in Google's campus, I was able to get one millisecond paying gigabit
up gigabit down, but that was because the speed test server is probably in the same
damn building.
Yeah.
Wouldn't be surprised.
So...
At all.
So there you go with that.
Wouldn't that just kill you if you lived like 10 blocks away from like a Google building
or something like that, and you couldn't get Google fiber?
It's like, can I just run like a really long ethernet cable?
Speaking of running a really long ethernet cable, it's confirmed.
Ubiquiti Networks is sending us their dish-based point-to-point gigabit gear.
I was just gonna actually say, I wonder if you just got close enough that you could have
like an access point or a repeater, grab their wifi, send it to a landline, and then like
shoot it to your house.
Try to feed off of Google's internet.
Not that you should ever do that.
I don't condone anything that I just said.
Fairly sure that breaks at least several laws.
Yup.
So, but anyway, back to the thing that we could do that would be legal.
Not a good plan.
Is this gear is capable of like 40 kilometer links.
I don't know if you can get full gigabit with a 40 kilometer link, but there's a couple
different ways we're gonna try and tackle it.
We're either gonna do like a moving vlog, like a project vlog style thing, where we
try and get a gigabit link to my house from the office, which I would absolutely love
and would be awesome.
I'll just, I'll keep-
I don't think that's gonna work.
I don't think it's gonna work either.
Just cause of like-
We'd have to get really high-
Obstructions, yeah.
Like physically high because of obstructions.
Like-
Like up.
Vertical-
You have to like Minecraft it.
Yeah.
Like this isn't really gonna work.
With that said, I am on the Strata Council.
Oh my god.
Our neighbor- hold on, just, just, just hold on, just hold on, just bear with me for a
second.
What about your house?
Hold on, hold on.
Or you just wanna go high enough that you can like angle it down.
Okay, just, just wait.
Just calm down for a second, okay?
I'm on the Strata Council.
Our neighbor's the-
Our neighbor, our BA neighbor, who's like besties, he's on the Strata Council.
I'd be like, I'd be like, yo dog, can you vote with me on this?
I wanna put a giant antenna on top of our unit.
He'd be like, yeah whatever man.
You just offer it, yeah, to be fair he would.
And two, if you were like, if you buy the equipment I can put one up for you too, he'd
be super down.
So, so yeah, so yeah, so it's like, it's like, he's a cool guy, and there's a tree near my
house that is like, pretty tall, and I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to do this, but like-
I was gonna say, is it yours?
No, but it's really close to my house.
The antenna green.
Yeah, yeah, I've got camo tape-
I mean, don't listen to me!
I've got, I've got camo duct tape, dog.
So-
Oh my god, there you go!
So if it can be done, we're either gonna do that, or if that's just a total disaster and
isn't gonna happen, we can't get approval or whatever else-
You've heard of like, pirate radio stuff, right?
Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Then my parents live on the 39th floor or something of a high-rise, so I'm gonna put
a unit up there, and I'm gonna try and get a link to like, my house or something.
So that's the backup plan.
You're just gonna make your own giant local network.
It's gonna be frickin' awesome, one way or another, I'm super stoked.
We did get two units.
But one of them is not, one of them's like the consumer-y grade one, so I don't know
if it's gonna do that long of a link.
Anyway, um-
That would be super cool.
That's gonna, I'm so, I am so down for a gigabit link to the office.
So yeah.
This is pretty cool, this was posted on the forum by Kimesh- I'm sorry, we've been really
bad about that lately.
Someone in the chat just said, where I work uses this a lot, that's cool.
It's cool stuff.
I'm assuming it's either shorter and or clearer runs though.
Or they have access to towers and permission to use them.
That's what this gear is used for a lot of the time, is for mobile internet service providers,
like cellular data carriers, is they're gonna have these on their towers, so they'll have
point-to-point links all over the place.
If you look at a cell tower, it's gonna have tons of dishes on it, so one of the ones that
we got is kind of a consumer-grade-y one that's actually fairly affordable, and could be great
for if you have a back shed or a barn or something.
Super cool solution, we might do a separate video about that.
There was a guy that I knew in high school, now keep in mind, this sounds like a huge
amount of property, but where I went to high school was pretty far out, and then where
they lived was beyond that, so this is deep in Farmville, not the game.
So way back on his property, pretty far, there was this giant building where they did metal
fabrication.
I did a website for them when I was in high school.
Would have been super helpful for them, it wasn't very good.
That probably would have helped them a lot, because they had to run this terrible, I think
they had a dedicated internet line for that building, because switching it was not a good
option and all this kind of stuff.
So if they could have just done that, that would have been super great.
Anyway, so the other unit we're getting is a carrier-grade one, so that's the one that
will be running to my house, because I'm the boss if we end up doing this.
Look at this guy, look at this guy, shaking his head.
I am terrible.
Alright, so let's go ahead, meet the Android phone with a humongous 10,000 mAh battery.
Now to be clear, I'm giving Apple crap.
You should see one year if you can just, you know how you got your parents this Onos thing?
Yeah.
You should see if you can just cover all of your present needs.
With what?
Your gifting present needs.
With like samples?
Including like your own.
So the entire month of December should be presents for Linus and his family and his
friends, and his employees?
Is that where you're getting at with this?
I wasn't actually, but that works.
Okay, so to be clear, I'm giving Apple crap for shipping 1800 mAh batteries in their flagship
like thousand dollar devices, but I'm also not saying that this is necessarily the solution.
I think Apple's battery should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 3000 to 3200 mAh.
That would get you through an actual heavy use day, where you actually want to navigate
somewhere.
This is pretty extreme.
There's not that many pictures.
That's what I mean.
Like I was trying to look this up.
All I can really tell is that it looks like it's kind of from the 90s.
No, no, there's I found more pictures of it somewhere else.
This article just doesn't have a lot of I couldn't find any thickness pictures because
if it's not that insanely thick, and it happens to have 10,000 million powers on it.
I did it.
It's thicker than a Droid Turbo.
Like it's pretty it's pretty hefty.
The thing that the thing that actually both bothers me about it, though, and is also really
cool about it, is that I wouldn't want to use it because the specs for it are quite
low.
It's using like one gigahertz MediaTek quad core or something like that.
16 gigs of like total overall storage memory.
Yeah, it's not very good.
It is expandable 720p display five and a half inch display two gigs ram like it's it's very
not amazing.
But what's cool about that is that a 10,000 milliamp power battery is going to power that
forever.
Like you would actually probably be able to go about a week on this thing.
Seriously, it supports 4G LTE on both of its SIM card slots.
So it actually looks pretty interesting.
But that said, I'm not I'm not running out to buy one either.
I don't know why I'm doing this.
But someone in the chat said help I can't get above 60 FPS and follow up for try turning
off the sync.
That's probably your problem.
Okay, let's continue.
Okay.
Spotify is reportedly considering making some music available only to paid users.
So yeah, so that it'll be like kind of a windowed thing that will withhold certain albums from
users who aren't paying who are accessing the service freely and purely ad supported.
So about Spotify has roughly 80 million users 20 million who pay and 60 million who don't.
And the Wall Street Journal reported that Spotify will test this new approach Spotify
did comment we are 100% committed to our model because we believe that a free ad supported
tier combined with a more robust premium tier is the best way to deliver music to fans create
value for artists and songwriters and grow the industry.
In that context, we explored a wide range of promotional options for the new Coldplay
album and ultimately decided together with management that Coldplay and its fans would
be best served with the full album on both free and premium this Friday.
So they're still committed to doing it the way they were going to do it.
It's okay.
But that doesn't mean that they aren't going to experiment with different monetization
models because that's the thing that the digital age allows us to do which is kind of cool
is do things that are new and different and give consumers choice.
I am not going to hate on them for this.
And yeah, I mean, I'm ultimately glad that they're still doing the free ad supported
model even though I personally pay for my music streaming service because I really don't
want to listen to ads in it and I plan to subscribe to YouTube Red as soon as I possibly
can and all of that stuff which who knows I really hope it comes to Canada soon.
But there you go.
It was maybe going to happen and then it didn't happen and speaking of things that were maybe
going to happen and didn't happen Firefox phone Mozilla has killed the Firefox phone
with that said they are not writing off the Firefox OS and we could see it pop up in other
devices in the future.
So Mozilla said to TechCrunch, well, we weren't able to offer the best user experience possible
so axe did which is a responsible thing to do and I guess that's pretty much all I have
to say for today.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think that's good.
Oh, actually, no, I have one more thing to hate on.
Yep.
Stick around for the hate.
This is that thing that I teased before that wasn't.
Oh, yeah.
I know nothing about this.
Yeah, that's fine.
It's really easy.
This is the most amazing thing that I've seen to date.
Get this.
Imagine this.
Oh, a pocket PC as portable and light as a smartphone yet as powerful as a desktop PC.
You can back it now on Indiegogo.
I would love to see what their Indiegogo page looks like.
Really learn more click the join button.
I'm in an endless loop join that one.
There we go.
Why have they raised $300,000?
Is it flex?
Oh, it's done.
Is it done?
Oh, yeah.
So they're done.
Original campaign was 2,945% funded.
Okay, so back to the site.
You shouldn't be allowed to say something this asinine on the internet.
Let's just let's just restrict that their internet.
Okay, I'm with Mr. Trump on this free speech, bro.
So it's portable.
No, but this is false advertising.
It's a completely different thing.
Why?
Yeah, I don't know what it is.
Okay.
Well, let's wait until I figure it's portable.
It's got super fast storage.
The flash storage is much faster than regular commonly used 5400 rpm hard disks.
It is silent.
It is Intel powered combined with two gigs of RAM and an Intel high definition graphics
card.
You shouldn't be allowed to call onboard graphics a graphics card by the way, it's
not on a card.
It is especially not on a card because you could make the argument that a motherboard
is just a big card.
Back in the days when the iGPU was on the Northbridge.
It is especially not a card now that it's on die.
With a super fast 2.4 and 5 gigahertz Wi Fi card also that probably is a card and integrated
Bluetooth 4.0 you can connect to devices within the blink of an eye and browse and watch online
videos.
Possessive.
Should have probably spell checked.
I mean, I try not to be a nitpicky person about that kind of stuff if you're not being
a complete asshole, but that's not what's happening here quicker than ever before.
Is it in this next picture?
Not really.
That's it.
So that's the PC quad core Intel Atom bay trail.
Okay, so a bay trail is not a desktop processor.
This is not faster than a desktop processor.
And while it isn't bigger than a phone, it also isn't more than a phone.
It's just a phone.
Also Intel has much more powerful PCs that are exactly the same size or very similar
and if maybe a little bit bigger, like a little bit, the knuck is thicker, but yeah, it's
not as long though.
A gigabyte has bricks ones that are thinner if I recall correctly.
So yeah, so there's this thing that totally exists.
There's also the Intel Compute Stick, which is smaller than this and I believe way more
usable.
I don't remember if it's a quad or a dual core though.
So what are you going to do on this that you can't do anything?
One HDMI output.
Why are we funding this?
This is stuff that exists already.
This is like the thing that really makes me mad is not that it's a tiny computer.
That's fine.
A pocket PC as portable and light as a smartphone yet as powerful as a desktop PC.
Come on.
Come on.
The super fast quad core.
It's literally the slowest quad core they make.
The super fast quad core Intel processor ensures you have enough power to use seriously for
any task.
People in chat are claiming that the Compute Stick is a quad core.
Yeah, I think, I think it might be.
I don't know.
I did the video.
I should probably know, but I don't remember.
Yeah, but we don't always remember everything that we, uh, everything that we make a video
about.
We make a video literally every day.
The Compute Stick was usable and it's kind of an interesting form factor and you can
plug it directly into a monitor and like.
But what it isn't is as powerful as a desktop.
No, but that wasn't the point.
Yes.
Whereas this, that's my issue.
Yeah.
Is there just being asshats about the whole thing.
So uh, yeah, I guess that's pretty much all I have to say about that.
There it is.
There's the Sirius B.
So the Fusion C is just probably what Zotac does.
Yep.
So are both of those probably.
Yep.
But that said, if they have a nice ID, like I can see them having a place, but I just,
I hate it when you're misrepresenting what it is entirely.
It's like it's no bigger or heavier than a smartphone.
Well, yeah, that's cause it basically is a smartphone without a screen or a battery.
I could make a smartphone that's, well, okay, I personally couldn't, but if I could take
a smartphone, take the battery and screen off of it.
There you go.
Business model.
Oh wow.
Sell the screens as replacement screens for people who need to fix their phones.
Sell the batteries for replacing batteries for people who need to fix their phones.
Sell the inside for more by claiming it's more than it is.
Oh wow.
All right.
Well thank you for watching the Land Show.
We will see you guys again next week.
Same bat time, same bat channel.
I'm going to stream tonight.
K bye.
I'm dedicated.
Are you?
I'm actually going to do it.
I mean, I know why they watch our videos, our videos are great, I just don't know why
they stop watching our videos.
I'll get them.
I'll get them.
I guess they're great.
Ah, that's true.
Is it wrong that I just kind of take for granted that people should watch our content and it's
not?
I don't know.
I think we've had good content lately.
I think so too.
I don't know.
Someone says we can hear you.
I know.
Yeah, we know.
We know.
You guys are cool.
You guys are like inner sanctum.
You stuck around until after the outro.
Yeah.
Actually this is pretty much everyone.
It seems like no one really tunes out until after the outro.
I think it's because we've made a habit of just we don't stop talking.
Right.
Because we do that like everyone.
Yeah, but I blame you.
Yeah.
That's probably fair.
Yeah.
What they can't do is see us.
We could be making out right now for all they know.