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[Assistant] Why are, no, I guess there's one major question here. Uhm, who didn't know about this? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Why are we pretending that this is some kind of surprise?


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[Assistant] At one point or another, I might have been on Ritalin with a prescription. It did mellow me out by the way, but you know, I lost some of my energy.


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[Assistant] To have it in their regulations that you're not allowed to use performance enhancing drugs and they've also known enough to not build in any kinds of, of


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[Assistant] Yeah, major league, baseball, all over again, because everyone's roiding, so to speak, even though they're not roiding, because you don't actually need like a huge arm to operate on, you know, what is it, 63 grams for a final mouse?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you probably shouldn't be, like, professionally gaming on a wireless mouse, but that's a whole other, whole other conversation. Uhm.


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[Assistant] The point is, is that this is, this is just kind of hilarious. So there's a former Cloud9 player, Corey Simphiss Friesen, who said in an interview, quote, I don't even care. We were all on Adderall.


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[Assistant] And this, uh, this is, this is, this is great. So the interviewer then interjects with, everyone does Adderall at ESL One, right? To which he replies in the affirmative. And then...


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[Assistant] What an awkward moment that is, because, you know, I gotta give, I gotta give Freezin' credit here.


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[Assistant] Because this is totally not the way this story plays out. Usually, we're talking years or decades of denial and lengthy legal processes to, to, to prove that, you know, someone was, someone was doping.


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[Assistant] It's like, and this is again part of the reason why I am confused as to why anyone thinks that this was a secret because


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[Assistant] It's not like in an interview, it would be unusual to handle the question this way, but in casual conversation,


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[Assistant] I'm just popular. I'm just basically a cool guy.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, here's, uh, ugh. So we're, yeah, we wanna blah blah blah.


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[Assistant] You know, South Park did that great episode about, uh, the whole Tiger Woods cheating thing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where basically like every male on the planet is involved in this gigantic conspiracy where they're pretending that, you know, men with money and power


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[Assistant] Wouldn't, they have to be like sex crazed and like diseased in the head to leverage that to, you know,


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[Assistant] Sleeping with tons of women or anything, or any woman might, you know, I'm just, I'm just saying it's one of those basal, basal instincts is sowing the seed. And so anyway, it's this gigantic conspiracy that no one can understand.


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause you can, you can look at certain things about, about a sport, like barrier to entry, uhm, you know, regions where it's popular.


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[Assistant] I don't think even as much. Not as much, that's true, but you know compared to something like basketball where literally anyone can go shoot hoops at the local basketball court because there are lots of them.


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[Assistant] All these things actually happen in Adam Sandler's pixels. Well, this is a Kotaku article that we have to read. Happy Madison Productions. Oh, okay. As you've likely heard, it's a bad movie, almost pleasingly stupid. Act 1, a young Brenner and young Cooper


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[Assistant] We see Cabinets of Pac-Man Brenner enters himself into the 1982 Worldwide Arcade Championship where he loses a tie-breaking Donkey Kong title bout to Eddie Plant.


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[Assistant] Dan Ackroyd emcees the tournament and announces that footage of the games will be included on a probe that is being sent into space. Well, that's already completely incoherent.


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[Assistant] The president summons Brenner and Ludlow to the Oval Office, has been analyzing the alien attacks, and has invented light guns that can destroy them.


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[Assistant] Okay. Sees a couple of light guns. Alright, well, did you see it?


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[Assistant] Alrighty then. Uh, you know what? I actually kinda wanna sprawl-pull the whole, the whole eSports doping thing. Because, you know what? Sometimes we get caught up in that everyone knows this, when actually it's not that common knowledge. Uh, eSports doping. I knew. I didn't know.


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[Assistant] Uh, I suspected, but wasn't sure, and then...


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[Assistant] I have literally seen people who have literally told me that they literally did not have a legitimate prescription legitimately taking, in this case not Adderall, but it was Ritalin, so.


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[Assistant] That is a great question, uh, that I, that I think is, that I think is actually a pretty important one, because if esports is gonna pretend that we're gonna tackle, you know, performance enhancing drugs,


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[Assistant] Uh, do you think that, you know, chugging down energy drinks should be considered a performance enhancing drug? Like should you have a tolerable level of caffeine even?


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[Assistant] I actually don't know and it would be completely unprecedented because I think in, in, in most, uhm, like professional athlete type scenarios, you could make the argument that caffeine wouldn't necessarily be a performance enhancer, strictly speaking.


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[Assistant] The greatest endurance race has its own brand of energy drink.


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[Assistant] It is a special drink for drivers and helps them stay focused. Contains caffeine, ginseng extract, and vitamin B.


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[Assistant] Thing is, eSports events, uh, organizers, limit the drugs, blah blah blah, it will be super stupid if you run a cool drug that made you con- a cold drug that made you dequeued for being sick, it's a, uh, blah blah blah, can do blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah, you can't ban


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[Assistant] And I mean a lot of people are bringing up that lots of esports teams are sponsored by energy drinks. Oh yea. I mean energy drinks and gaming, they go together like, you know, peas and carrots, my friends. Orange and black.


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[Assistant] So we've got 50% of you saying no, but actually a surprising 30% of you saying yes. Excess caffeine should be considered a performance enhancing or... Nahancing drung is apparently what I wrote. I could probably use some caffeine.


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[Assistant] You can ban alcohol, well I guess that's technically a controlled substance, but the point is, you can ban whatever you want. You can ban people from wearing a specific type of t-shirt. I'm not, yeah. I went and played badminton at a local, like, like a country club. Like it was actually a-


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[Assistant] Get it out. Uhm, so I had never been to one of those types of places. Like, have you ever? To a country club? Yea, like that style of establishment.


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[Assistant] We were kind of snuck in, so it's kind of a long story, but I know someone who, who knows someone who


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[Assistant] Uhm, who got grandfathered into a membership here even though the sister club that they were a member of that got them grandfathered in is much less expensive. This one is apparently like tens of thousands of dollars to buy your initial membership PLUS your annual fee. Like, like BALLOON!


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[Assistant] So anyway, I uhm, I-I came to play badminton.


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[Assistant] On their like completely empty and like the floors were amazing. Like there's the, there's, there's, there's like gym floors, which kinda suck.


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[Assistant] Because the grip isn't great and the, the impact can be, is very heavy. It's kind of harder on your knees. Then there's the rubber floors, which have like kind of a padding. Those are the green ones that you've seen. And that's actually what they play on professionally. And then there's really good gym floors.


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[Assistant] Uh, some people don't know this, but you can design a gym floor so that it actually has, like, a suspension system basically to it. And, uh, that's where you get the, the cushion that you would normally get with, like, foam.


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[Assistant] Anyway, we didn't realize until our guest, or our host who allowed us in, didn't realize until we showed up.


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[Assistant] Red and gold for the Team China. Uhm, it's not a thing in Professional Badminton.


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[Assistant] This is just a snooty here's our house rules thing. So I guess I don't really remember where I was going with this. The point is that you can have whatever rules you want with respect to attire and substances and anything and that's basically it. I've got people bringing up Serena Williams.


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[Assistant] Interesting, hey? Uh, okay, so why don't we move on, uhm.


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[Assistant] What do we got here? Let's do a, let's do a rapid fire topic. This is interesting. So iOS 8 is at 85% adoption.


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[Assistant] Because I got lollipop 5.1 like a week and a half ago.


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[Assistant] So the odds that I'm gonna get M&M or marzipan or marshmallow or whatever it is they're calling it, the odds that I'm gonna get that ever,


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[Assistant] I consider to be fairly low, and I don't know, I think it's some app that I'm using that got an update recently or something, but


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[Assistant] No, I'm not using Android Trooper right now. S6 Active. I hate the way that Lollipop piles up your, like, notifications as just little icons instead of just letting you scroll through them. Who thought it was a good idea to make one touch, wait for an animation, and then scroll through your notifications? It's a good idea.


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[Assistant] Cause I get a lot of notifications. People are always giving me crap in my phone reviews about like, haha, you've got so many like, things in your things, and like, you know what, I never clear them because there's literally no point.


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[Assistant] So, Apple has managed to get 85% of their active users on iOS 8, 13% are running iOS 7, and a mere 2% are running an earlier version of iOS.


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[Assistant] Part of this is you could probably make the argument that Apple does an okay job of planned obsolescence through degraded performance, like my iPhone 4 runs way worse than it used to.


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[Assistant] An Android device from that kind of era is gonna be horrible. Like, absolutely horrible for everything. So uhm, Google, it looks like their numbers, Android 5 is accounting for a mere 11.6% of devices, with 5.1 just 0.8%.


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[Assistant] So Lollipop is a flop for whatever reason, and uh, hopefully the next version of Android. Is this T-Rash?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I don't know, I had a lot of people rubbing their Nexus phones in my face when I was, uh, running the Droid Turbo on KitKat. And I was just like, K.


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[Assistant] Let's go ahead and pull that up. It's not a very picture heavy, uh, article here, so there's not a whole lot for me to visually show you guys, but here's the Jeep, uh, after its brakes were remotely disabled, sending it into a ditch.


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[Assistant] So we'll give you guys the whole skinny on this. I'll make my way through the very detailed, uh, summary that I think Nick has been quite hard at work on and would be upset if I didn't somewhat make my way through it. So basically it was a showcase piece, uh, done by Wired featuring hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek.


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[Assistant] Um, it's a result of some car hacking research that they've done over the last year. It's a zero-day exploit that's targeting Jeep Cherokees that give the hacker wireless control of the vehicle. And it's not full control. For example, the hacker cannot take control over steering, unless the vehicle is going backwards. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So if you're going forward, the hacker cannot take over your steering. Uh, but there's a lot of other stuff they can do. So they're able to send commands to the 2014 Jeep's dashboard functions, steering, brakes, and transmission through its entertainment system.


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[Assistant] Uh, in this case, they were 10 miles away from the vehicle, but the exploit is not limited by distance.


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[Assistant] So they were able to mess with air conditioning, radio, windshield wipers, and then they cut the transmission. They can also kill the engine entirely at low speeds, abruptly engage the brakes, or completely disable the brakes. It can also track GPS coordinates, measure the speed of the vehicle, and drop pins behind it on a map, tracking where it is going.


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[Assistant] So this isn't the first time that Wired has done a piece with these hackers about car hacking, but it is the first time that the hack could be carried out wirelessly.


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[Assistant] Which is obviously a much greater concern than if someone


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[Assistant] Which is, uh, hold on, let me just see, I wanna, I wanna get, like, the wording for all this right. Cause it's kind of a serious topic. Uh, so that's the entertainment, nav, phone management, and wifi hotspot aspect of Chrysler, and their sub-brand vehicles. And it is estimated,


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[Assistant] That there are as many as 471,000 vehicles on the road with vulnerable Uconnect systems in the US.


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[Assistant] Now, now it's only been fully tested on a Jeep Cherokee, but the hackers believe that they could access any car with a Uconnect head unit. Now, the big concern to me about this,


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[Assistant] Is not that a car got hacked, but it's that the automakers live in such a different world.


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[Assistant] Then the high, then the high technology companies that we generally talk about, whether it's your Googles or your Apples or your Microsofts, where they'll see something like this and with exceptions,


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[Assistant] Which probably looks like all the other ones. So, so we're, we're talking like best case scenario. The vehicle that you're driving today.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so but, but that's just, that's just something that we have to understand though, is that these guys work on a very, very different cycle, whereas...


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[Assistant] For example, or you go talk to someone at McAfee, they're gonna be like, uh, yeah, you need to be on that stuff like right away or it's a huge problem. And so Chrysler's statement really underlines that difference in attitude to me in a terrifying


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[Assistant] The way that, the fact that they thought it was okay to address this this way. So they stated that they appreciate Miller and Valasek's work, but under no circumstances does FCA condone or believe it's appropriate to disclose how-to information


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[Assistant] That would potentially encourage or help enable hackers to gain unauthorized and unlawful access to vehicle systems.


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[Assistant] They think it's okay to release that statement.


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[Assistant] That they don't even understand why it's important for the code to be out there and for people to understand the exploit for it to be closed.


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[Assistant] They just wanna, they just wanna, you know, hide in their shell of that people won't do it, so we can just ignore this. And if we just don't talk about it, then it will go away. It is not going away.


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[Assistant] But instead of acknowledging that no one's perfect and you gotta get your act together and create an internal task force and publicly talk about the internal task force that you're creating to address this and keep an eye on it for the future, uhm,


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[Assistant] I don't remember how I started that sentence, so it's hard for me to finish it coherently, but the point is...


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[Assistant] That's the way to deal with it, not to just go, well hey, you know, you guys, we don't condone you guys releasing this because now everyone's gonna know about it.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, including you, so fix it. That's how you do this. Uhm, ugh.


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[Assistant] So yea, the hackers had the usual sort of response as like, yea, hey, this would be pretty good for a hacker, uhm, and, you know, we, that they think it's, they believe that releasing the portion of the code is important since it allows their peers to prove their work, uhm, and holds automakers accountable for their digital security. I mean, remember guys, there,


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[Assistant] So this is really scary. Uhm, US Senator Markey, uh, one of the leads on the new security legislation for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Federal Trade Commission, uh, sent a letter to 20 automakers. So again, this, this underlines sort of my point about the automakers and how they approach technology.


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[Assistant] Of 16 respondents said they hired independent security firms to test their vehicles digital security. And only two said their vehicles had monitoring systems that checked their car internal network networks for malicious digital commands.


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[Assistant] So the takeaway here is not that Chrysler and Jeep, uhm, are dumb and their cars are bad and super hackable. That's not the point. The point is this is a huge attitude shift that needs to happen in the automotive industry and right now is


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[Assistant] Scary to the point where, like, I'm not, I'm not much of a fear monger. I tend to mostly live my life without the tinfoil hat. But, this could affect-


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[Assistant] Alright, so I just dropped a straw poll on you guys. Does this news affect the way you'll shop for a tech-heavy car? Because, I'm gonna be honest guys, like,


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[Assistant] I wouldn't know a TLX from a hole in the wall. I'm not a car guy. I thought that was why you were po- I thought it was a Tesla.


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[Assistant] I can't believe I didn't even know that one. They don't look that similar, do they? I think it is. Whatever. I don't care. Okay, the point is that Ed's- Ed was shopping for a car, at least, and- Might still be. So what I said was, okay, well does this news affect-


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[Assistant] And I've gotta say, for the first time ever, I felt like my mom. Where she kind of has this, she has kind of this innate distrust of social media, and posting information on the internet, stuff that my generation doesn't really think about the same way that hers does, about technology. And I kinda went,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel pretty good that there's no camera in my car and there's no, and like, the brake pedal's connected to the brake pedal thing, the brake pedal thing connected to the disc thing, the disc thing's connected to the wheel thing, and the car just stops like that, no outside interference.


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[Assistant] This is like some scary stuff. We've actually got 57% of you, and this is a tech-savvy audience, I think.


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[Assistant] 57% of you saying yes, this affects the way you'll shop for a tech-heavy car. With 22% of you saying turnip.


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[Assistant] And only 20% of you saying no, this won't affect the way you shop. Incredible, hey?


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[Assistant] Uhm, in related news, Fiat issues a software patch after hackers take over that car, so there you go. Uhm.


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[Assistant] There's actually no, there's no evidence that the particular model that they were patching is, is affected in any way, but, uh, there you go. I mean, here's another, here's another thing where like, again, the carmaker's


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[Assistant] You know, you see so many things, whether it's your phone or your computer or...


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[Assistant] Or, you know, your game console, or even your TV. You know, TVs traditionally move a lot slower than computers, but even they're caught up, uh, over the air firmware updates, over the air patching. You know, cars don't even have that.


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[Assistant] So if all of a sudden you have to install, you know, security updates for your car every month. Tesla's do. Uh, Tesla's do, but...


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[Assistant] No one's even, no one's even thought of this. They were, they were so far behind in their thought process that they built all this networking functionality in and literally didn't build in a way for users to just patch it by pressing a button. So yeah. Uhm, wow.


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[Assistant] So, uh, affected cars include Dodge Vipers, Ram Trucks, Jeep Cherokees, and Grand Cherokees, Dodge Durangos, Chrysler 200 and 300, uh, Dodge Chargers, Dodge Challengers, and uh, Chrysler owners can enter their VIN at a provided website to check if their vehicle is included in the recall.


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[Assistant] It's like, it's like they think that tech savvy coders


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[Assistant] Great quote from The Verge. Uhm, it's not clear if the message about the importance of this was fully received as Chrysler insists it's only taking this step out of an abundance of caution.


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[Assistant] Ugh. Like, why did the American automotive industry just collapse?


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[Assistant] Because they've got their heads completely up their own butts. Still. Still. This is the reaction.


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[Assistant] To a potential, to an opportunity for them to turn this into awesome PR.


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[Assistant] Like, hey, we've allocated this many millions of dollars to this bounty program and this, and like a quick reaction, not we'll discuss it in a month, because this patch is an overabundance of caution.


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[Assistant] Okay, well I just got some good news. We're getting like a sick, like, uh, conference cam from Logitech for our, for our boardroom at the new office. It's like an $800 webcam. Nice. Essentially with like a bunch of connected features and like a ball and microphone.


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[Assistant] Logitech is so proud of this particular one that they've basically discontinued the entire rest of their webcam line up. And they're just focusing


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[Assistant] Yeaah. So uhm, oh right, right, sponsor spots! I should probably do that. Uhm, uhm,


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[Assistant] What can we say about iFixit other than that they have great tutorials on their website. It's ifixit.com and the site is pretty self explanatory. It's so that you guys can ship your stuff to me and I'll fix it.


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[Assistant] That you need are available right on the same site. So that's iFix. It's big push with us is the ProTech Toolkit. But quite frankly, I've talked about the ProTech Toolkit enough that you guys should probably know it has most of what you will need to


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[Assistant] Uh, smartphones and laptops that have a lot of different kinds of screws. I used it in my iMac disassembly. Uh, they've got like, they've got stuff like the adhesive strips that you need to put stuff back together. Cause a lot of the time modern electronics are not assembled just with screws and snaps.


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[Assistant] A lot of it's glues and adhesives, so they'll sell, you know, the suction cup things that you need to remove that, they'll sell the strips that you need to put back together, and all that kind of stuff. So, great guys, save $10 with offer code WEN on an order of $50 or more so you can get your own Pro-Tech Tool Kit today.


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[Assistant] And then, this is a sponsor that you haven't heard from in a long time. Is it because we thought you guys needed a break?


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[Assistant] Yep, so phantomstore.phantom.glass is the place to go if you want to get a screen protector for your phone.


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[Assistant] That is easy to apply, basically impossible to get bubbles under, and just plain works really really well. It's made of Gorilla Glass, so it's got that same feel, that same transparency as the screen that was already on your phone, not to mention that same scratch resistance,


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[Assistant] And it's super thin, except that you don't even have to worry about your phone at all. And it actually got a lot of different options. Uhm, I am really liking the iPhone 6 edge to edge.


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[Assistant] This one's cool because normally with a screen protector, whether it's phantom or anyone else, the screen protector sits on the screen and then you'll have a ridge around it, no matter how thin your screen protector is. With the edge to edge one, it's actually a complete glass panel for the entire front of the phone, and then it's just colored.


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[Assistant] In the same spots as the original one. So other than the, uhm, the fingerprint sensor home button being a little bit recessed, which, like I've got one of these on my iPhone 6 that I use intermittently all the time, making it a little bit harder to get my touch ID to pick up sometimes,


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[Assistant] It just feels like holding my phone exactly the way it was. So they support a whack ton of different phones and tablets and all this kind of good stuff and you guys can check it out at store.phantom.glass if you're looking for a rocking new screen protector. I think their pricing is lower than last time we looked at them as well.


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[Assistant] So there you go, guys! Store.Phantom.Glass, as good as ever. Uhm, so, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, well, yeah. So we wanna move on to yet another...


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[Assistant] Here's one from the register. This one is just kind of based on a quote from John McAfee.


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[Assistant] So if you guys didn't hear about this earlier in the week,


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[Assistant] There were 37 million some odd people plus that had a pretty stressful morning on Monday this week.


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[Assistant] I, I don't know man, uhm, you know, if I, if I suspected already or something like that,


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[Assistant] I would be- I would be following this whole thing pretty darn closely. So for those of you who are not familiar with Ashley Madison, it's a site that is all about- Okay, I'll start- I guess I'll open with their tagline. Life's short. Have an affair.


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[Assistant] So the site is a dating site for married people. Uhm, and not for married people with each other. For married people with other more different married people.


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[Assistant] So basically, the hackers submitted a, uhm, submitted a demand list that was pretty much, look, you need to shut down this site.


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[Assistant] Shut down, uh, I forget what their other sites are called, they're not as famous, they're not as common, but shut down your other sites, where we are going to release, they had not only the user database of the current active users,


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[Assistant] But Ashley Madison had a service for I think 18 or 19 dollars that supposedly wiped all of your information from everywhere. They still had it. So the hack...


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[Assistant] I can't find the dollar count.


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[Assistant] So, uh, this is, this is good. I mean, there's articles all over the place. So to be clear, I don't, I haven't been following it all week, unfortunately. I really wish I had, and I really wish that I sort of had, had checked on it before, uh, before this again. So the 37 million users are, are worldwide. I think they operate in something like 40 countries.


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[Assistant] So, uh, but the other ones aren't quite as, uh, quite as targeted towards, uh, well I guess established men in a lot of cases probably would be.


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[Assistant] They're gonna keep pushing it out as the site stays online. So of course there's all kinds of- so people are getting outed already.


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[Assistant] So just two were outed on an infidelity vlog- a blog after a hacker group calling itself- oops, hold on a second. Dagnabbit.


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[Assistant] Hold on, hold on, hold on. Yeah, well they, they didn't, uh, they didn't


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[Assistant] Let's go full force right away. So they leaked two people. Uhm, so yeaah, so they blah blah blah, they threatened, oh so, and there's a lot of other stuff stored in the accounts as well. And the scariest thing about this is that it's validated by credit card number, like your credit card number's in there, so you can't just be like, uh, someone else signed up with my account.


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[Assistant] No, it's like, it's like a huge deal. And like, they apparently have documentation of people's sexual fantasies and stuff like that. Like this is a huge...


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[Assistant] Deal. So, uh, so there's a couple guys here, an exclusive interview. The Mississauga man said he looked, but never cheated.


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[Assistant] Uh, he said he's been a husband for 20 years, he works in the city, has a young child, he was clearly shocked and looked panicked while talking about the impact the release of his name has had on his life.


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[Assistant] So he denied that he wrote anything about liking to give and receive oral sex, liking light kinky fun, erotic tickling, and role-playing.


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[Assistant] Pretty much. Uhm, and then, and then here's, here's like, here's a super, here's a super scary thing. Did you know that Ashley Madison is actually the second largest dating site behind Match.com?


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[Assistant] So there's just a horrifying number for people who believe in the sanctity of marriage and all of that. Yikes. Yikes, eh? Uhm, so this is, there's some great quotes from, uhm, from John McAfee, you know, former security wear maker, you might have heard his name once in a while.


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[Assistant] So, uh, this is, this is a great quote. He says, this hack threatens to destabilize society. Oh yeah, and I hacked it again myself. It was easy peasy. So since Ashley Madison said that they have, you know, they're addressing it, he has apparently been back in, but, uh, you know, I don't know, I don't know if that's necessarily true. Uhm,


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[Assistant] So, he figures it was definitely the work of an individual acting alone, because, whether he's saying because of the motive behind something like this, or whether he's saying because of the ease, because he said he was able to breach the site again, himself. Uh, he also said that, uh,


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[Assistant] Sorry, excuse me, so the pronouncement follows his earlier judgement that May's adult friend finder hack was one of the scariest hacks since the existence of computers. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Is it? Okay, hold on, cuz I saw a lot of- I saw a lot of people say, well, they deserve it, filthy cheaters. I'm not necessarily saying they deserve it.


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[Assistant] You could say karma's a bitch. You could say that.


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[Assistant] Potentially an additional 37 million people


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[Assistant] I'll let you, I'm sure you're gonna have a lot to say about this.


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[Assistant] I would also make the argument that no, no illegal theft of someone else's personal information is justifiable.


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[Assistant] Like, I'm, I, I am so very thankful that I have nothing to worry about here, and I don't envy anyone who woke up Monday morning who has an Ashley Madison account.


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[Assistant] That is like, can you imagine the amount of sick to your stomach?


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[Assistant] Because, because the thing is, is that unless you're one of the couple unlucky people that they're, that they're leaking, you know, and that they're trickling out, there is still potential, and I don't think it's gonna happen, for Ashley Madison to just seize operations and for the rest of the names to get buried down an internet hole somewhere, uhm, so to speak.


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[Assistant] You hear about the Ashley Madison hack Monday morning. Yup. Uh, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you a full scenario, okay? You have been using AshleyMadison.com. Actively? Actively.


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[Assistant] Tell me how you react on Monday morning. What's your damage control?


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[Assistant] Knowing what you know about hackers, what's your damage control?


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[Assistant] Because- But then I'm not going- yeah, I dunno. Because-


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[Assistant] If it comes from you, even if...


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[Assistant] There was external pressure. I think you have a better chance to salvage the situation.


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[Assistant] What if it's not that simple? What if I throw a kid into your scenario? Sometimes life's not simple.


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[Assistant] I don't know, as, as a broken home survivor, uhm, I can say that both of them have their own challenges. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And the toxic relationship between the parents can certainly continue just fine if they're not living in- No, I would fully expect it to.


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[Assistant] So we've got 47% of you, uh, going with the 8 turnips action plan.


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[Assistant] It's not because of like a suspicion on her part because she straight up knows where I am. Like she wouldn't even need a GPS tracker on my phone. She knows exactly where I am any time of the day because my life is just really busy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and like she manages the finances not just of us personally, but also Linus Media Group. So if an unknown charge shows up, she's emailing me about it, not because she thinks it's for, you know, some adult dating site, but because she just wants to know what it is so she can reconcile the books. So...


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[Assistant] I think we could do it. I think we've got enough clever camera people that we could count on them to, uh...


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[Assistant] Scrubs the footage? Oh yeah, like I go through the reaction, yeah. Well, you know what, no, I know her pretty well, like I think that, you know, I think that it would be... Oh gee, I don't know. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well it's 6 o'clock already and I've got some stuff to do after work today, so uhm, Apple stops beta testers from reviewing apps. That's a really good thing, because if you're beta testing a new version of iOS, you shouldn't be, like, leaving reviews on apps about how they crash and are terrible. Yup. Uhm. I'm super not against that. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh, there's some interesting- You know what, some of the stuff we might just have to tackle next week, cause, uh, YouTube's apparently gonna remove free videos if creators don't publish them to the subscription-based platform, too.


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[Assistant] Good luck, buddy guy. What's the female version of bro?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah. I mean, who's ever actually used-


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[Assistant] Barely. There you go. Alright, what's up?


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[Assistant] Okay! Wancho time again, so I've got a terrific story for you guys if you're not tired of my excuses for why this show is always late.


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[Assistant] That zap strap was in- is incredibly reliable technology. Plastic never fails.


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[Assistant] I realized about half an hour before today's stream was supposed to start that we had a guest skyping in this week and-


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[Assistant] To make the computer actually work and not drop frames all over the freaking place. So, I actually did a motherboard, CPU, RAM swap, reinstalled all the capture cards, reconfigured XSplit because all the capture settings are messed up because they're all in different slots, they've got different IDs now because when you have multiple capture cards,


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[Assistant] Has someone's chair in it and desk now because we've added another body here at Linus Media Group, so we had to move the entire thing. It's a miracle we're live at all, but of course, what I really meant to say is, I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] And thank you for tuning in and we're gonna get on with the show now. So we've got a lot of great topics today. Windows 9, excuse me, 10, 10, Windows 10. There's a technical preview. You can go ahead and download it. We'll talk a little bit about what's new in Windows 10 or more specifically what is old.


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[Assistant] And not the new thing that we hated anymore. Also, Tesla is pretty sure that when they show you the D, they are, you are gonna want it.


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[Assistant] Think of Project Aura kind of like a multi-bit screwdriver. You see? I could have kept using this screwdriver while I swapped component- Well, okay, not quite. Okay, Project Aura?


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[Assistant] Alright, so we had no audio for the first part of this, and I'm supposed to be introducing our sponsors for today, so...


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[Assistant] Oh. I could hear them. That's weird. Well, at any rate, Dollar Shave Club!


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[Assistant] Blog, or a portfolio, or a store, they're adding more functionality all the time, always making it easier to use, and you can get 10% off with offer code Linus. So big thanks to Dollar Shave Club and Squarespace for sponsoring today's show. Look at this, look how fast I can move them around.


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[Assistant] Twitch chat! Horrible. Alright, so guys, we're not gonna waste too much time because we told Scott he was gonna be joining us at around 5 o'clock, and uh, it is now 5 o'clock. That was supposed to be half an hour into the show.


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[Assistant] The show just started, so. Scott, you're live! Welcome to the show! Wanna do a quick introduction to who exactly this Scott guy is and why he's on their screens?


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[Assistant] I will introduce you. Okay, so Scott is basically, uh, like a gray hair of the industry, you know?


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[Assistant] I would have called him a grey beard, but I don't think he can grow a beard any more than I can, so.


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[Assistant] He's extremely experienced and basically if you wanted to get on, you know, a video call with someone and kinda, you know, hey, can you talk technical to me?


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[Assistant] You know, that kind of thing. You would want, you would want Scott on your Skype. So we're gonna hit some pretty hard tech topics, and, uh, you guys can find him over at thetechreport.com. They have lots of great articles about, uhm, I think Furbies?


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[Assistant] I was still looking at like the local computer paper.


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[Assistant] And you were reviewing graphics cards. So Scott, why don't we kick things off with actually something that we, that we didn't really put in your guest section as far as I know. Have you heard the rumor? Have you heard the news? Sort of news. We're not sure. Rumor right now about AMD potentially partnering with Samsung to produce 14 nanometer chips.


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[Assistant] So here's uh, here's kind of an interesting thing. This would be the first time in even as long as you've been covering tech that someone might potentially be at the same level as Intel for an extended period of time. I mean, Intel's...


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[Assistant] They're not that close to, or wait, excuse me, so they're on 14 now, but they're not that close to 10, are they? Like we just heard about them announcing a 10 nanometer fab that they're building in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in Israel. But that means that AMD, Apple, Samsung could all be on the same process node as Intel for a little while here.


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[Assistant] When was the last time? You might remember this.


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[Assistant] Fx lineup. So is that what we're looking at here? And if so, any idea when? What do you think?


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[Assistant] It's all about how much, how many dies you're gonna get out of a wafer. So wafers are pretty much an industry standard size, and if you build a CPU that maybe you put mountain loads of cash on and you put a ton of cores in it,


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[Assistant] And you make one that's really big, ultimately you have to buy a lot of these wafers in order to end up with X number of dies.


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[Assistant] All aspects of the chip so that they can fit more chips onto a wafer.


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[Assistant] So AMD, by being a process node or even two behind Intel, is at a huge disadvantage because they get far fewer chips out of these wafers, so their costs are inherently much higher. If they reached process node parity,


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[Assistant] And AMD was willing to take the kinds of margins that they've been taking on their CPUs for quite some time. Scott, do you think they could build?


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[Assistant] A CPU, let's say not an APU, let's say an FX CPU, cause we've seen Intel spending so much of their die space on graphics. If AMD built a CPU at the same process node as Intel and crammed that much more logic into it,


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[Assistant] Could we see a legitimate leap forward in CPU performance, the likes of which we haven't seen in four or five years?


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[Assistant] Well, I hope we see that. I would, I would love to see someone build a balls to the wall CPU again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I mean, I love Intel and Nvidia as much as anyone, but I think that we've seen enough times throughout history, even as long as I've been paying attention to this stuff, they're pretty content to sit and wait for AMD to make a move before they drop price or before they release something more competitive or whatever the case may be.


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[Assistant] Yep. That was cool. There was always something to talk about, you know?


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[Assistant] Speaking of people glomming onto 980s, I had a chat with someone at a- at an un- undisclosed, uh, retailer.


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[Assistant] And they, they let me know that the GTX 970 Strix, the ASUS card, you reviewed that one, right Scott? Yup. Yup. They, uhm, so they have 300 back orders on that one SKU.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they were telling me they've never seen anything like this since 8800 GT. Wow.


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[Assistant] You know what's funny is, again, undisclosed, not gonna say who it was, but I talked to someone at Nvidia


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[Assistant] What do you mean? The 980 is gonna have the performance crown. And I kinda went, well yeah, but the 970 is only cut down by what, 20%? And it's gonna overclock like a bat out of hell?


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[Assistant] And it's like almost $200 cheaper. What a fantastic card. And he kind of goes, oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I guess you mean disruptive in that way.


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[Assistant] What people should choose for 4K gaming? Because I've gotten a lot of questions about this in the comments on our 980 performance overview, in PMs on the forum, in threads I've seen posted on the forum. Is 970 okay for 4K?


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[Assistant] Really differently from how I've typically looked at either monitors or video cards from a performance perspective before. I did it no numbers because we lack the high speed camera equipment that we would need to properly


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[Assistant] Quantify G-Sync in a way that would be meaningful to viewers. And... Fcat's not working for it and...


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[Assistant] I sat down and I cranked the detail on my games without any FPS counter.


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[Assistant] And then I reduced it until it felt like I was playing at 60 FPS smooth. Then I alt tabbed out, fired up fraps, and had a look at my framerates. And I discovered the exact same thing that you did. I was getting dips down to 42, 43, and that felt butter smooth to me.


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[Assistant] Okay, so sometime in the next three months, so we'll see.


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[Assistant] So, speaking of not a good deal right now, it's, it's kind of, it's, there's so much confusion right now about AMD's project FreeSync.


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[Assistant] Maybe you can clarify this, because honestly, I've even found myself getting a little bit lost in the misinformation about it. So there's a lot of people saying, okay, it's built into DisplayPort now, we're just gonna see it built into the next generation scalers.


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[Assistant] And we're gonna have support for FreeSync across the board. Then there's other information out there, some of which is coming from AMD themselves, saying, well actually hold on a second, it's only a small subset of our graphics cards that are actually gonna support the tech.


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[Assistant] And it's not necessarily just gonna be part of DisplayPort, and Nvidia's coming out saying, yeah, we're not gonna support it, it's not just part of DisplayPort. What the hell is FreeSync?


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[Assistant] Yup, I mean I had plans with Nvidia to potentially do like, uh, like a wine tasting style event in Q1.


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[Assistant] 15 bucks is in my mind, for a 24 inch monitor, what the adder needs to be in order for me to really tell people, guys,


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[Assistant] You know what, I, I, it depends on, it depends on what you want out of your watch. If you just want the functionality, the functionality of them is literally exactly the same. They actually have the same hardware in them. I mean, they didn't even bother to upgrade the battery on the Steel.


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[Assistant] Which in my mind is, is a little bit frustrating. Like I don't see any reason why they couldn't have made the steel, you know, a nine day battery or something like that. Give me some kind of extra functionality. The steel is all about the look. So if you wear your watch as a purely functional piece,


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[Assistant] Because you would like to know what time it is and read text messages and all those other cool pebble apps, get a regular pebble. Right.


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[Assistant] And they weren't even self-aware enough, as far as I can tell, to realize that just because they didn't call it one doesn't mean that what they did was any less stupid.


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[Assistant] Come on, they can't even hold it together for three releases in a row. Actually, yes they can. 95, 98, 2000. There you go. Okay, so they can't even hold it together.


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[Assistant] Hold off for a couple months, now we're gonna throw you guys this Windows 10 preview. Which isn't gonna come out until late 2015.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're, we're months away, we're almost a year away from Windows 10 actually being something you can install on your system and run as a production OS.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we'll have to look into it. I mean, honestly, I've been gearing up for the trip to Germany, making sure that we're gonna have some videos while we're gone. We've actually got some great videos queued up. We're gonna be taking a look at the 5820K.


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[Assistant] Cause I mean, it's not like other car manufacturers aren't talking about self driving, or excuse me, as Musk calls it, autopilot. Which I personally think is way cooler. Oh yea.


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[Assistant] It's not like other guys aren't talking about it. GM's promised a hands-free mode for some 2017 models, and most are speculating 2020 as a reasonable year for the release of self-driving cars. I want autopilot cars.


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[Assistant] And you know the funny thing about it is these things that self-driving or autopiloted cars have to overcome now are mostly to do with other drivers being hazards. So they have to overcome this


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[Assistant] Duffy! You know, have some fun with it. I mean, I'm sure that at least a handful of you have noticed that our secondary channel is called Tech Quickie.


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[Assistant] He wasn't gonna do the deal with me until he, uhm, until he saw our primary channel. And he was like, oh, yea, you guys are like, you guys are pretty cool. You guys do cool stuff. You need this more than I do. But I would definitely like some hardware for it. And I was like, okay man.


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[Assistant] So he was like, yeah, I'm not using the YouTube channel, but I'd really rather keep this. And I kinda went, dude, please, we've got big plans, we've got stuff we wanna do, this is important. And he went, yeah, okay, okay.


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[Assistant] One of the most trustworthy voices in the entire tech industry. He's a true journalist. He cares so much about the truth.


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[Assistant] And the real information, so you guys should definitely check out the tech report. Definitely pay attention to what Scott's doing, especially if you were captivated by his presence here on our show. He does have a podcast, so you guys should check that out as well. Normally I would like for him to be able to outro himself, but unfortunately our Skype connection was lost, and we can't bring him back on, so.


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[Assistant] I know, I wanted to bring him back, I wanted to come back to that while we were actually live on the show. So Scott was talking about PCI Express 4.0, which is basically


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[Assistant] I reviewed the G3. There's a lot more to a display than resolution. So much more. There's a whole world of contrast and color reproduction out there that has nothing to do with how many pixels you can cram into a space.


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[Assistant] The uhm, the HTC One M8 is an LCD screen, but it's got great contrast, which makes it easier to use outside than the G3 in spite of all the pixels, because it's contrast ratio.


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[Assistant] What kind of site will you win? Great question. Any kind of site you want because you build your own site with your two week free trial.


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[Assistant] Low. You may actually find it just flat out more cost effective, especially once your site starts to scale up and get more traffic to just host it through Squarespace versus trying to admit it yourself. Even if you paid yourself minimum wage to admit a website,


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[Assistant] Yeah, we need to update it. I think it has three employees under our team. I actually know, maybe we added Brandon to it.


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[Assistant] And our new sort of innovative thing the Dollar Shave Club never told us to say is even though they market to men pretty much exclusively, like you look at their silly humor in their advertisements and you look at the kinds of podcasts that they're sponsoring, they, they look to be going after men.


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[Assistant] DollarShaveClub.com slash Linus, head over there and, uh, give the gift of getting yourself slapped in the face, but then potentially it turning into something worthwhile later on down the road. Yes. Wow. Wow. Yeah, I went there.


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[Assistant] His baby must be quite a bit older now. Yeah, John, John Rettinger from Technobuffalo. He was one of the best guests we've ever had. We gotta, we gotta bring him back. Maybe when, uh, maybe when Nexus 6 drops or something like that. We'll bring him on to talk about it. I haven't checked with him, so obviously no promises, but he did say he'd come on the show again at some point.


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[Assistant] Okay, so Project Aura, I've gone from being extremely skeptical, to being extremely hopeful, to being extremely not interested because I was sure it was going to be very very low end stuff, to being pretty interested again all of a sudden.


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[Assistant] Well the issue here was that it seemed to be, uh, uhm,


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[Assistant] Speaking of automated and Facebook and scary, uh, Facebook's developing giant unmanned planes that are designed to fly for months at a time. This was posted by Ethnod on the forum, thank you for that. And the original article here is from the


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[Assistant] Bill learned to code computer kits to the first batch of backers. We actually got one. Yeah. So we did back it and, um, I'm actually going to have Luke probably do the review on this when he gets back. But do you want to tell people a little bit about the Kano?


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[Assistant] Yep, they're gonna get into modular components at some point in the future here. Screens, batteries, sensors, lights, robotics and all kinds of stuff like that, so.


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[Assistant] I'm really excited to play it. I've seen some complaints about the combat, still being kind of simplistic, but I want to really play it for myself before I judge it here. There was a good post on the forum comparing it to the Batman series, especially the combat, saying it's just


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[Assistant] Not as deep, and it's very frustrating to play without, uh, telegraph attack indicators, because the telegraphs are not as clear, and it ends up a lot of the time just being a cluster hump of bad dudes around you, and it's kinda hard to manage. And then playing with telegraphs on, pretty easy, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, make it fair. I mean, not like Warcraft 2, where you would play a 1v1 against a computer on an 8-player map, and then if you watched the replay, or just turn off Fog of War with a cheat, you could watch their first Soldier or Grunt walk straight to your base.


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[Assistant] Come on! At least search, like at least try to search. At least pretend to like hard code it in so they look in one place that you're not before. So you always knew you had to build one guard tower before anything else so that you could deal with that stupid first and second attack.


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[Assistant] Alright, well I think that's pretty much it for the show here today, guys. Uhm, thank you for watching. Again, big thanks to Scott for being our guest. Big thanks to Squarespace for being our sponsor. And Dollar Shave Club for being our other sponsor. And, uh, we'll see you guys again next week.


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching, and uh, if you missed any of the show today, the whole thing uninterrupted will be up in the archive on YouTube.


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[Assistant] Oh, there's a lot of people asking about the 1 million subscriber giveaway. That's already been announced, and the winners are linked under last week's WAN Show. That's- that's done.


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[Assistant] I've actually got the, uh, the, the gaming notebook sitting at NCIX ready to ship out to the winners, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well there's a seven minute time delay so that we can place our bets about the outcome of the show before, you know, the betting closes, everyone else is on a delay. You heard about that, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that was...


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[Assistant] That was some, that was some bush league stuff going on there. That's like, yes, we want to be taken seriously as a sport. Oh, also our athletes are going to bet on a time delayed.


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[Assistant] Event organizer is going to bet on a time delayed match because they are spectating in the game.


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[Assistant] So anyways, let's go ahead and, uh, let's get started. We're gonna have a great show for you guys today. Uhm, we've got actually-


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[Assistant] Tons of great topics. I'm even gonna, I'm even gonna jump away from some of the ones that we did as our teasers at the beginning. Uhm, some, some smart TVs have started just inserting ads into content on their own.


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[Assistant] That's smart. France is deploying anti-roam drones at their nuclear plants. There's some stuff going on, like a lot of stuff going on at frozen CPU. No one is sure exactly what kind of stuff's going on.


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[Assistant] And our sponsors for the show today are linda.com, Dollar Shave Club, and, oh, is that anyone? What's that? Xsplit? Is that that software we use? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Is that, is that that software that we've been using since we like, started on the WAN show that we always used to complain about? Now that we like? Yeah. Oh, look at that. Cool. Alright guys, so let's get right into our first topic here, uhm,


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[Assistant] Nvidia digs deep as latest 347.29 driver on the GTX 900M series disables overclocking. Are you in the Twitch chat? Cause I sure am not.


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[Assistant] Some notebooks, uhm, so notably we did a review of the G751J something or other, whatever, the G751 Asus' updated G750 that features... Dang it TechPowerUp! Just mute. I guess I can do that. You're not screen-sharing right now. I'm not?


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[Assistant] Huh, that's bizarre. Anyway. Okay, so uhm, so, right, so we have a G751 that we reviewed, it did have


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[Assistant] I'll be 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, uhm, another, another graphic. So I think it's the 860M has also had overclocking disabled on it.


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[Assistant] Lack of heat. Lack of heat. Or lower amount of heat. Excellent thermal dissipation. Uh, 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


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] Versus paying really any attention to user intervention. So uhm, my take on this is, one, you shouldn't be overclocking your notebook GPU anyway. So there's that.


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[Assistant] Two, I think it's a dick move. Because if you want to break your stuff, it should be your right to break your stuff. Now, something that has always baffled me about the whole overclocking thing, where manufacturers will say overclocking voids your warranty, uhm, and then they never had any way to tell.


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[Assistant] 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, uh, those moisture strips or those moisture color change things.


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[Assistant] Because if they're gonna say, hey look, your warranty's 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.


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[Assistant] 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?


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[Assistant] Why don't you just enforce the policy you already had instead of making a new policy that just makes people mad at you?


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[Assistant] I mean, people will still be upset. Yeah. And I would still get it. Yeah. But it's, it's, it's...


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[Assistant] 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,


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[Assistant] 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, you know, GTX 970, that's a, what, $400 graphics card, let's say that GPU burns out because someone was irresponsible and they,


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[Assistant] $400 army 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,


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[Assistant] 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, you know, $3,000 device that is now effectively bricked.


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[Assistant] Now, you could make arguments for, oh, well then, you know, 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


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[Assistant] The kinds of notebooks that feature replaceable graphics cards, stuff like the GT80 Titan from MSI, it's like two inches thick, like- Also...


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] Man, I'm old. Okay, so this is over ten years ago. It was an ASUS M5NE.


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[Assistant] And, uh, 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. Yeah. And, and acted as a keyboard incline.


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[Assistant] So those were friggin' awesome, but aside from that. So, you know, having like 6 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 uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, the Razer Blade 14 would not be possible if they were gonna try and go, oh, well, we also have to build in the ability to upgrade the graphics card. Gee, how are we gonna do that? We can't. Uh, 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.


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[Assistant] But, I think I've kind of gone off on a tangent here. Uhm, dick move, poor communication.


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[Assistant] Uhm, also, something that users are not, uh, understanding clearly enough is, uh, 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. There's, that's one temperature.


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[Assistant] 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 set cordoned off part of the PCB, it's still a full graphics card.


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[Assistant] 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,


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[Assistant] You, you have like the uhm, that video that was going around uhm, about the GTX 970 memory fiasco with the guy that laughs. Oh yea yea yea yea yea yea. Like I can't even do that, like the wheeze laugh.


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[Assistant] Alright, so that was posted in the forum by, uh, Kabu-Kabaru. You've never seen that before. Alright, we've got one of our, one of our classic posters here. This is, it is official. Posted by Goodbytes. Radio Shack is closing down permanently. Files for bankruptcy.


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[Assistant] Uh, so our original article here is from theverge.com.


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[Assistant] Oh, I thought I had a touch screen. I went to scroll the page. I hate my life. Okay, my life isn't bad.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I prefer function up-down for that. I'm a big fan of that. Uhm, anyway.


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[Assistant] Circuit City acquired them, acquired all the stores, except I think maybe like a couple or something, correct me if I'm wrong.


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[Assistant] We have got some people in the Twitch chat that are actually kind of bothering me because you guys are clearly new.


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[Assistant] We got people saying Radio Shack sucks. Or sucked or whatever. Radio Shack might suck now, but Radio Shack-


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[Assistant] 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 then you open it at 8pm.


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[Assistant] 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-


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[Assistant] 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, yea.


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[Assistant] They did. It's just that they used to be cool. See? Flying Trump. 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.


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[Assistant] Yup, and like Radio Shack used to have like PC games and stuff, like it, they, and, and like, uh, 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.


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[Assistant] Or they'd have like, you know, like back when those, 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.


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[Assistant] And, uh, now, now they're dead. So they're selling off 2400 of 4000 US stores. Uh, rumors that Sprint and Standard General may pick some of them up.


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[Assistant] Uh, so they'll live on, apparently, through a store-in-a-store agreement with Sprint and Standard General. So, uh, based on that Sprint is one of the purchasing entities, I'm guessing cell phones aren't coming off the menu at Radio Shack.


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[Assistant] Uhm, 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.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can't get it at 8pm, when like, you have a school li- Okay, here, perfect example. So like a school project, let's say for example, totally hypothetical, you're making a wooden cutout dinosaur,


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[Assistant] That has like, uh, one of those, 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.


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[Assistant] Radio Shack would probably be the place to go if you're like-


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[Assistant] It's like, I need a weird stupid light bulb that goes in the eye of a dinosaur. Yep. Radio shower.


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[Assistant] Alright, so uhm, so that's pretty much it for that. So sad day, but then I was sad back when they died to me anyway.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Uhm, oh, this is interesting. So Ah Ming posted this on the forum. Our original article here is from Yahoo. You got the, uh, you got the link. Alright.


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[Assistant] 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, uhm,


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[Assistant] 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?


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[Assistant] Uh, but mainstream folks, like the, you know, government officials that are, you know, calling for this, uhm, are just kinda gonna, kinda gonna go, oh well, you know, big bids, must be easy.


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[Assistant] You know, okay, so in Duluth, Minnesota, I probably pronounced that wrong. I don't care. Sorry to everyone from Minnesota. Uhm, 110 officer worn cameras are generating 8,000 to 10,000 videos per month.


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[Assistant] And, you gotta store this stuff. You can't store it forever, for one thing. Okay? So you gotta store this stuff for at least some period of time.


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[Assistant] 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


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[Assistant] Oh, we can only delete the stuff that, uhm, 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.


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[Assistant] 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, you know, 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, you know,


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[Assistant] 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?


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[Assistant] So it just comes out of, it just comes out of our budget. So what are we supposed to, 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.


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[Assistant] Great point. Great point, Sergeant Halifax. I, uh, agree completely. So, that's basically just, it's, it's another one of those...


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[Assistant] 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, uh, what was it? Is it Toronto where they banned plastic shopping bags?


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[Assistant] And then it turned, 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


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[Assistant] Less easy to use and like all these other problems.


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[Assistant] 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?


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] You are asking for your complaint about the police officer to be basically thrown out immediately because it's like, yea, 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.


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[Assistant] It's both. It's both. I'm just saying that the people who are upset about being filmed,


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[Assistant] 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 grabbing. 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


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[Assistant] Before 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 it in BC, before they got rid of the whole photo radar van thing, they were, they were stationed in vans.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't know if I've ever told this story on The Land Show before, but I knew someone who knew someone


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[Assistant] Who, uh, 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, uh, it would mail you a violation notice in the month, uh, a month later or whatever.


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[Assistant] Uhm, 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.


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[Assistant] So what he did was he waited until that colleague was on photo radar duty, borrowed another van,


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[Assistant] Drove up. Made sure he was sleeping. Swapped the plates.


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] That is like a terrible, stupid solution that might actually work. But, but, but, but, I mean, the agreement you'd have to enter into with YouTube about, you know, who that footage belongs to and privacy and all that, like, it's completely untenable. Completely untenable, but.


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[Assistant] Posted by 9shadow, uh, this original source here is global.samsungtomorrow.com. Samsung has updated their, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, there you led to basically say, look, we are not monitoring your living room conversations. Uh, cause no one believed ever.


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[Assistant] Like, look, the only thing we're listening to is voice commands, uh, because there was kind of a sketch looking warning about not talking about personal information in front of Samsung Smart TVs.


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[Assistant] Uhm, their privacy policy was updated warning users they shouldn't talk about sensitive information. And then now it's...


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[Assistant] 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, it's just a ULA reversion.


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[Assistant] This one's pretty good though. This was posted by victorioussecret and there's a great reddit thread. There's always a great reddit thread for just about anything, isn't there? Uhm, where someone posts, well hold on a second.


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[Assistant] Plex! Stopped playing my video halfway through and played a Pepsi ad.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so this was posted by, uh, 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.


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] But crisp clear ad. It has happened on six movies today. Oh yes, mine is a Samsung TV also. Six movies today.


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[Assistant] So, now, to be clear, Plex has already said, wuh-ho-wuh-do-wuh-bo, not us. Uh, actually, we have nothing to do with this.


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[Assistant] And uhm, this is not the only application that users have experienced this in. Uh, so native smart TV apps, uh, so the Foxtel TV service app in Australia,


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[Assistant] So there's a Foxtel employee that was quoted as saying this absolutely should not be happening and is being escalated immediately.


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[Assistant] I can't think of a reason that I would need it to exist. Although, um, 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.


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] Samsung. No. No, that's the expensive Korean brand, sorry.


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[Assistant] It starts with an S. Those are all not smart, right? Yeah, I don't think they are. Seiki?


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[Assistant] Okay. Now people are saying Vizio. I don't think Vizio is a Korean brand.


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[Assistant] I don't know what Vizio is. Uhm, alright, so basically, this is, this is a big load of crap. Uhm, so, Samsung... There's nothing else even really to say. This is just stupid. We're on the record as this is a completely ginormous load of crap. Like, I literally bought a piece of hardware from you.


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[Assistant] And you actually don't get to serve me ads on it.


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[Assistant] Is it different from buying a laptop with a trial of Norton on it? That is an ad.


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so FCC Commissioner says, uh, this is supposed to buy Command Man 7. Uhm, the article that we've got here is Breitbart.com. And, uh, there's a, there's an autoplay.


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] That is very strong wording, designed to incite upset. I wish the public could see what's inside. It's got about 4500 retweets.


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[Assistant] Uhm, 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. Uhm, and I guess


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[Assistant] 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, uh, linked at the bottom here is that the amount of the, the, okay, I think


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[Assistant] I don't know if we want to use this site as a reference anymore.


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[Assistant] Uh, because it looks like the folks that are relying on these articles for their information have some, have some information to gain about the internet and stuff. The comments under this second article in particular are fantastic.


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[Assistant] Is going to be- 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.


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[Assistant] So uhm, President Obama's plan marks a monumental shift between blah blah blah, I think I already said that.


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[Assistant] The plan saddles small independent businesses and entrepreneurs with heavy handed regulations that will push them out of the market.


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[Assistant] This is no accident. Title 2 was designed to regulate a monopoly if we impose that model on a vibrant broadband marketplace.


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[Assistant] I guess if we did impose it on a vibrant broadband marketplace, this might be applicable, uhm, a highly regulated monopoly is what we'll get. Now, to be clear,


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[Assistant] That is a, that is a, that is a valid point, uh, other than the vibrant marketplace bit. The whole bit about regulated monopolies not really being great either, because that's, that's basically what we've got on the telco side as it is. So, Title 2, remember, the thing that we're all sort of going hurrah about is reclassifying the internet with, under Title 2 as, uhm,


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[Assistant] Which, honestly, hasn't worked out that great for us on the phone up till now either. Because you still have no choice.


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[Assistant] So that is a valid point, but the part where this really misses the mark is calling


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[Assistant] Well, I can disagree with the way it's being spun, which tells me what I sh- Sorry, it gives me- it gives me some idea what the credibility is here. If we're gonna call, if we're gonna call...


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[Assistant] Telcos, a vibrant broadband marketplace. Then we were wrong.


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[Assistant] We were wrong before we opened our mouths, and that's unfortunate. Alright, so let's move on to more unfortunate news so- Sorry?


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He's telling me to do sponsors. It's okay, we'll do sponsors in a bit. Uh, this one is pretty good. This was supposed to buy cat butts.


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[Assistant] Uhm, who else were we supposed to do a shout out for today? Paul. Right, yeaah. Shout out for Paul's Hardware. Youtube.com Paul's Hardware. Uh, let's just go ahead and screen share this. Uh, so Paul is doing a giveaway. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Some card with a GTX and some 8 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.


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[Assistant] I saw a couple of great ones on the, uh, on the forum thread where someone was complaining, I saw you responded to it already, where someone was complaining about, uhm, do as we say, not as we do, being under our logo, saying it was unprofessional.


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[Assistant] Alright, so uhm, our source here is the JaysTwoCents forum. So we've got a post from this guy, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't know. Uh, but basically Jay's saying I've had some discussions with people. This has been, this has been all over the place. So we're gonna treat this whole


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[Assistant] Thing, as basically none of this information is confirmed. It is all hearsay. But basically a post showed up on overclock.net.


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[Assistant] 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, uhm, and then sort of


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[Assistant] There's nothing on the site to this day. There's nothing on the frozencpu.com website. Uhm, and then other people have allegedly posted...


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[Assistant] 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. Uhm, so. I like that picture.


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[Assistant] Here's this broken thing, here's some like, here's a beer bottle, and all that kind of stuff, uhm.


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] I, I, I actually, I've exchanged emails with, but never met the owner, Mark, from Frozen CPU. Uhm, I, I do know Matthew Buckner from Frozen CPU, but honestly I


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] So the site is still online, uh, 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, uhm, the ex-employee


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[Assistant] 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,


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[Assistant] 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, uh, I'm gonna bring up the, dang it, dang it Windows 8. Alright. They represent a lifetime's research and are the first, so the first


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[Assistant] You know, twisted pair ethernet standard, just to be clear. 10BASE-T was published in 1990, so the relevant engineers are, must be 25 years old, max. Uhm, these are directional ethernet cables. I mean, you wouldn't want bi-directional communication, you know, uhm, discombobulating the waveforms.


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[Assistant] And the beating heart of the AudioQuest Diamond are the solid 100% silver perfect surface conductors where raw silver


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[Assistant] Raw silver is processed by drawing through at a much slower speed than normal to create an ultra-smooth surface area.


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[Assistant] 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,


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[Assistant] Did you know that? That's actually, that's actually a fact. Uhm, and so these, 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.


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[Assistant] I guess it, like, if you're streaming, if you're streaming from, you know, a NAS, music files, then you want those electrons to not get hurdle, hurdle blocked.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so what, what, so I'm just gonna read the blurb cause it's hilarious.


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] Extending the thought process from a server to a router?


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[Assistant] AudioQuest's DiamondRJE 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.


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[Assistant] 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?


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] A big problem for time sensitive multi-octave audio.


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[Assistant] 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.


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[Assistant] 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 nice sleevings. They might have sleeving on them, which...


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[Assistant] I have good segues every once in a month week. Um, so Linda.com is, oh, you know what? Okay. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. I'm going to use my notes this week because Nick.


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[Assistant] The level, the amount of butthurt that went on over last week when I forgot the sponsor spot was pretty, was pretty intense. So, Lynda.com is used by millions of people around the world. They have more than 3,000 courses available.


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[Assistant] They have topics like web development, photography, visual design, and business.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so lynda.com subscriptions start at 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.


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[Assistant] Our s- next sponsor today is Dollar Shave Club, and this one is pretty straightforward. Do you like shaving?


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[Assistant] Do you like it when people you know shave? Then you could buy a Dollar Shave Club membership for yourself.


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[Assistant] Like a well-groomed human being without ever having to actually step outside the house 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, uhm,


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[Assistant] They, 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-


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[Assistant] This is how much our product costs us, and this is, this is how we're gonna do it.


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[Assistant] Love that. That's a high integrity way of doing business. So, the New Zealand story. Uhm, 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