all right it's WAN Show time again It's the most exciting show of the week that
I host with you We we launched the show
based on like degradation of radioactive materials so that we're like exactly
millisecond on time Everyone else just has incorrect clocks Yeah Well there's a
7 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 like really bad 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 like match because or or sorry event
organizer event organizer is going to bet on a time delayed match because they
are spectating in the game Like I
So anyways let's go ahead and uh let's get started We're going to have a great
show for you guys today Um we've got
actually tons of great topics I'm even
going to I'm even going to jump away from some of the ones that we did as our
teasers at the beginning Um some some smart TVs have started just inserting
ads into content on their own That's
smart France is deploying anti- drone
drones at their nuclear plants There's some stuff going on like a lot of stuff
going on at frozen CPU and no one is
sure exactly what kind of stuff's going on Also Apple's activation lock is like
seriously reducing theft of smartphones all kind of around the world And NVIDIA
is digging even freaking deeper and
disabled 900M overclocking with a new
driver So yeah Can you drive underground
Yes they do that for mining
And our sponsors for the show today are linda.com
Dollar Shave Club
and Oh is that a new one Oh what's that XSplit Is that that software we use Yeah
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 but now that we like Yeah Oh look
at that Cool All right guys So let's get
right into our first topic here Um
NVIDIA digs deep as latest 347.29
driver on the GTX 900M series disables
overclocking Are you in the Twitch chat Cuz I sure am not This was posted by
Kubaru I can post it I've got it No worries All right I just want to get the
Twitch chat open I'm using a different laptop this week because there was a bit
of an unfortunate occurrence last week thanks to me using my general purpose
personal and work laptop on the stream
and a technical complication that basically it's a long story And uh the
original article here is from Tech PowerUp I'm going to go ahead and screen
share with you guys so you can have a quick boo at this And some some
notebooks Um so notably we did a review of the G751 J something or other
Whatever The G751 ASUS's updated G750
that features Dang it Tech Powerup Just mute
I guess I can You're not screen sharing right now I'm not Oh you are How is that
not going through that I don't know Yeah I couldn't hear it Huh that's bizarre
Anyway okay So um so right So we have a G751 that we reviewed It did have albeit
very limited overclocking features enabled and NVIDIA has pushed out a
driver update that disables that Not only on the 970M and 980M but my
understanding is there's also um another
another graphics card I think it's the 860M has also had overclocking disabled
on it So you'll have to you'll have to correct me on that Someone in chat says
860M and 850M and 850M too So basically
NVIDIA so some users were upset because they kind of go "Yo dog Um so I was
overclocking my GPU and my temps were all cool Get it Temps were cool because
cool is good Lack of heat." Lack of heat or lower
amount of heat Excellent thermal dissipation 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 that GTX 900M series overclocking was
enabled by accident and has therefore since been disabled
Users were insensed uh arguing that they should be able to use their hardware as
they choose even if it does void the warranty Overclocking has been allowed
on mobile GPUs from NVIDIA in the past but we've seen them become a lot more
restrictive even on the desktop side in recent years and every architecture
seems to add some new functionality designed to let the GPU manage itself
versus paying really any attention to user intervention So um my take on this
is one you shouldn't be overclocking your notebook GPU anyway So there's that
Two I think it's a dick move because if
you want to break your stuff it should be your right to break your stuff
something that has always baffled me about the whole overclocking thing where
manufacturers will say overclocking voids your warranty Um and then they
never had any way to tell Like if you've ever taken like an iPad into an Apple
store and for 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 because if they're going
to say "Hey look your warranty is void if you drop it in the water," then they
better have a bloody way to actually back it up Otherwise it's all just this
It's just gum flapping So something that baffles me is why doesn't NVIDIA just
allow us to do whatever we want with it and then actually void the warranty
Huh Huh Why don't you just Why don't you
just enforce the policy you already had
instead of making a new policy that just makes people mad at you And if it was
enabled in the past oh man on like previous
if it was enabled on previous
if it was enabled on previous versions of NVIDIA mobile GPUs they should just
tell people they're having a big communications problem these days They
need to just tell people that it would not be enabled on the new one If it was
if they told people it would not be possible and then it was accidentally
possible and they took it away that's a totally different story I mean people
will still be upset Yeah and I would still get it Yeah but it's it's it's
it's 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 higherend
graphics cores being implemented in these like thin and light designs that
were going to thermal throttle or be on the edge of it like barely make it like
stuff like the GS70 like this these super thin designs Aoris's X7 Pro hyper
thin SLI enabled notebooks they actually
don't throttle but as soon as you go ahead and you start turning things up
they will So that's going to create a bad user experience going to potentially
make the chips run even hotter therefore reducing their lifespan And the thing
about a a a 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 they overclocked it they cooked it whatever the case may be If that dies
now that is kind of hard these days with a GPU boost but regardless if that dies
then that's a $400 RMA replacement that
the manufacturer then has to deal with You know your ASUS or Gigabyte or MSI or
whatever else the case may be If your laptop GPU dies all of a sudden we're
talking about a $2,000 replacement or let's say at the lower
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
Now you can 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 and there are arguments to be made for that If you've seen the kinds
of notebooks that feature replaceable graphics cards stuff like the GT80 Titan
from MSI it's like 2 in thick like also
and expensive There is more involved in
making that stuff modular and in designing an interchangeable system for
the cards and the cooling slots cuz 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 customuilt notebook Customuilt notebooks died ages ago Like
my laptop that I that I got for
university So this was back in uh how
old am I I
2004 I guess So this is about Man I'm
old Okay So this is over 10 years ago It was an ASUS M5NE
and uh this was back when laptop displays were like 5x4 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 Yeah
Exactly That's why I said they're awesome They were actually really good So those those were freaking awesome But
but aside from that so you know having like six hours of battery life on a
laptop back in those days was like amazing So that one I bare bones built
it So I bought my own CPU from Canada Computers I bought some RAM I bought a
drive And then I bought a barebones unit from from NCIX and um I I put it
together and I realized that I had saved exactly $0 And that was when custom
laptops died for me And the fact that they make them even less upgradeable and
customizable now doesn't cost the
consumer any more money It just gets us better designs things like the Razer
Blade uh the Razer Blade 14 would not be possible if they were going to try and
go "Oh well we also have to build in the ability to upgrade the graphics card Gee
how are we going to 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 the last edition that I covered but I think I've kind of gone
off on a tangent here Um
dick move poor communication Um also something that users are not uh
understanding clearly enough is I see a lot of people saying "Oh well hey my GPU
temps were great so there was no concern." It actually doesn't work that
way There's that that's one temperature
for one component It has nothing to do
with monitoring the health of the entire rest of the graphics card because even
if it's integrated into another board and it's just like a sight cordoned off
part of the PCB it's still a full graphics card with VRM and memory
modules and a GPU and and all the other stuff that goes with that So if any of
those other components were running out of spec and just plain weren't designed
for it due to cost constraints or cooling constraints or whatever else the
case may be it could meet an untimely death even if the GPU itself was fine
and running at a frosty 60° Yeah So
frosty That's pretty good for a graphics card I know but it's not frosty
Anyways my laugh right now is amazing That's all I have to say That was
beautiful You You have like the um that video that was going around um about the
GTX 970 memory fiasco with the guy that laughs Oh yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Like I can't even do that Like the we laugh I don't Yeah I don't know how to
do that Yeah Yeah
Oh my god Yeah Pretty good we laugh going on there Oh man that video was
actually hilarious All right so that was posted in the forum by uh Kabu Kabaru
I've never seen that before All right we've got one of our one of our classic
posters here This is it is official Posted by Good Bites RadioShack is
closing down permanently Files for bankruptcy Uh so our original article
here is from the verge.com
Um Oh I thought I had a touchcreen I went to scroll the page I hate my life
Wrecked Okay my life isn't bad My great life You have page down page up Yeah I
prefer function up down for that Yeah I'm a big fan of that Um anyway Radio
Shack clearance blowout 20% 50% off They
don't know how many% it is It's everything Um yeah just everything's
everything blows for them right now Um so basically let's Okay I thought that
Radio Shack was already gone Canada Yes Okay Cuz I was reading this article
going like what Circuit City acquired them acquired all the stores except I
think maybe like a couple or something Correct me if I'm wrong Didn't rebrand
some of them Rebranded it into the source which I'm not sure if it has ever
turned a I mean Canadians out there love to hear from you guys in the Twitch chat
Okay Have you ever bought anything from the source I have gone to the source
once I didn't buy anything there because they didn't h it was what was it NZX had
the exact same thing and at the source it was like $45 and at NZX I think it
was like three Okay like a huge difference We have got some people in
the Twitch chat that are actually kind of bothering me because you guys are
clearly new We got people saying Radio Shack sucks or sucked or whatever Radio
Shack might suck now but Radio Shack Radio Shack was the the the
[ __ ] was the [ __ ] It was awesome Like Radio Shack when when I was young Yeah I
know Oh I'm so No I Every story is going to be me being old today Uh I was I'm
old too then Okay Radio Shack was awesome when we were younger Like they
were the one place you could go to find that weird stupid battery that fits in
that weird stupid thing that you really need to get running Now open the cool
like remote control toys and whatnot as well 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 be like a Shapeways shipping portal and like all the like Yeah they used to
be really cool If Radio Shack hadn't forgotten who they were and started
trying to be Best Buy and sell TVs and cell phones cell phones Yeah Like has
anyone ever bought a cell phone at Radio
Shack Like why would you ever do this I don't understand And so okay Okay Now
we've got Now we've got some people that are that are Yeah Radio Yes Radio Shack
did take a massive dump around the year 2000 This is true They did It's just
that they used to be cool You see Flying Trout you cannot buy a resistor at
Walmart Just saying Exactly It was the
place you could go to buy a specific resistor or capacitor and they might
actually have it And then they stopped having that stuff and I stopped walking
in the door and then the game the game was over for them at that point pretty
much Um Yeah I feel like in the last 15 years they could have figured out how to
go back but they did not Yeah 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 car or a joystick or some weird battery
or resistor or a game or I need like something cool to play with." Or they'd
have like you know like back when those those clocks that had like the things
that went back and forth and the the timing of the LEDs was just so that you
could read a clock and it looked like it was kind of hovering in midair Like they just have like stupid cool crap and uh
now now they're dead So they're selling off 2400 of 4,000 US stores Uh rumors
that Sprint and Standard General may pick some of them up 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 Um so Radio
Shack had an overall desk deficit of 0.19 billion as of November 1st 2014
and have failed to post a profit since 2011
So um someone in the there's a mini argument going on in Twitch chat about
whether or not Amazon is better Radio Shack they're not even the same at all
They have nothing to do with each other Yeah you can get resistors and stuff off
Amazon but like someone in the chat said you can't just drive there Yeah you
can't get it at 8:00 p.m when like you have a school like Okay here Perfect
example So like a school project Let's say for example totally hypothetical
you're making a wooden cutout dinosaur
that has like uh one of those one of
those mazes where it has like the wire thing maze and then you want to build
like a wand that you go and follow the maze with and then if you fail it
completes a circuit and lights up the eyeball of the dinosaur Let's say
hypothetically you ever wanted to build something like that Radio Shack would
probably be the place to go if you're like for like all of that for like all
that stuff It's like I need a weird stupid light bulb that goes in the eye
of a dinosaur radio shack and like the wand thing and the wire thing and
everything and then just get the other stuff from a craft store or just make it
out of wood or whatever All right So um
so that that's pretty much it for that So sad day but then I was sad back when
they died I was going to say it would have been a sad day if it was 15 years
ago Yeah Um you Oh this is interesting So Aming posted this on the forum Our
original article here is from Yahoo You got the uh you got the link All right
I'm gonna go ahead and screen share with you guys I actually one thing that's
nice about using this laptop is that I actually have an HDMI output now instead
of relying on um a DisplayPort 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 techsavvy are not going to be surprised
by I'm sure a lot of our viewers are sitting there going "Why are you even talking about this?" Duh
Uh but mainstream folks like the you
know government officials that are calling for this um are just kind of
going to kind of going to go "Oh well you know it's must be easy." No actually
like a big really difficult problem If you've got thousands of videos like
we're talking we're talking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours a week
even thousands of hours a week you deploy these on you know Okay so in Duth
Minnesota I probably pronounced that wrong I don't care Sorry to everyone from Minnesota Um 110 officer warn
cameras are generating 8,000 to 10,000
videos per month And you got to store
this stuff You can't store it forever for one thing Okay So you got to store
this stuff for at least some period of time So 30 30 days They're thinking 30
days but but longer in many cases apparently In many cases longer because
what if you got rid of something on day 30 that someone sends in a complaint
about on day 31 all of a sudden Wait we
need a system for oh we can only delete
the stuff that um absolutely nothing
happened but we can't review all the footage at the time that it happens
which Oh hold on a second Now we need an administrative system Now we need some
kind of software archival management
thing Just upload all of it to YouTube
I had two plans One of them was upload all of it to YouTube If that doesn't
work throw Daily Motion a bone They want some videos They'd be happy with 8,000
more videos a month Throw them on Daily Motion The other one is maybe repurpose
some NSA data centers
I'm sure the American citizenry would be happy with that That's a big problem
though because the the municipalities are saying "Hey you guys are throwing
the burden on us to pay thousands of
dollars for these cameras," which are nothing not even approaching the cost of
running the program But we're supposed to you know have these contracts and
licensing uh 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
obstruct them So that something they let's say an officer did something
inadvertently where they covered it up and all of a sudden they're you know the
latest you know plastered all over signs
and everywhere because they whatever You got to train the officers on how to use
these They're police officers not like camera operators Um and the
municipalities are going "Well hold on a second You guys are telling us we have to do this Where's this money coming
from Like is it is it coming out of the you know military budget where they're
buying tanks and planes and whatever crap they're buying Like do we get some
of that money No So it just comes out of 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 This needs to be a better properly laid out
plan so that this can actually work or an actual plan Yeah Yeah A plan cuz they
just said you have to do it They didn't really give any information about how or
anything did they So so um Sergeant Jason Halifax actually has a great quote
Everyone is screaming we need body cameras but no one is saying where is
the money coming from What are you going to do with all the data Who is going to
manage it Are we going to cut personnel Are we going to increase taxes Great
point Great point Sergeant Halifax I uh
agree completely So that's basically just it's it's another one of those give
every officer their own YouTube channel their own private YouTube channel It's
another one of those things where it's like seriously though it's it's like
this hairbrain scheme that someone well-intentioned comes up with like uh h
what was it Is it Toronto where they banned plastic shopping bags 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
less easy to use and like all these other problems Um yeah it's like we got
to we got to or or or the whole um crap
I forget what it is but there's some there's some food like it's a vegan or
vegetarian like it's a popular food that's actually more environmentally
harmful to produce than beef What And
the argument for I I can't I can't remember what it is exactly but it's a
lot of these well-intentioned things that in practice actually just don't
make an ounce of sense At least not yet and not without a proper plan I think
this does They just need to figure out their data storage makes a ton of sense
because the amount of like you look at how bloated the legal system is now to
get anything done anything done cameras
are an excellent solution And then the funny thing is though it's it's it's
always it's always hilarious because as soon as law enforcement tries to use
cameras to back up any claim they make against the civilian or whoever it is
that they're trying to enforce the law against it's probably the same group of
people getting buttthard about traffic cameras as the people who are calling
for the cops to have cameras monitoring what they're doing You understand Like I
I hope people understand what they're asking for here You are asking for your
complaint about the police officer to be
basically thrown out immediately because it's like yeah we got we got a camera
There's no debate to be had here But the good news about all of this is that the
savings is going to come about eventually I'm not going to get into
politics but those are two very different conversations that you just tried to merge into one They are Okay
like very different because you're talking about observing people who are
currently employed to be administering other people No you're talking about
observing the people that they're observing but your main action that
you're observing is the officer It is but it's also the stationary camera is a
very different situation It's both And the the Yeah it's both I'm just saying
that the people who are upset about being filmed Yes But the traffic cameras
thing is traffic cameras The whole automated thing okay most of the
argument against traffic cameras that I think really holds water is that they're
an outright money grab They have nothing to do with safety They have nothing to
do with upholding the law They have to do with planting them in places where
for nothing for the cost of a van sitting next to the road or in some
cases now it's gotten even less expensive back when they implemented in BC before they got rid of the whole
photo radar van thing They were they were stationed in vans Um I don't know
if I've ever told this story on the WAN Show before but I knew someone who knew
someone 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 a month later or whatever Um so
one of the cops who was off duty arranged not sure how to borrow another
photo radar van because he knew that one
of his colleagues would just sleep in the van So what he did was he waited
until that colleague was on photo radar duty borrowed another van
drove up made sure he was sleeping swapped the plates
on the two vans and then spent the next couple hours speeding past
his own trap repeatedly
So while that officer was on duty there
was like a couple dozen speeding violations for the van that he was
supposed to be driving
That's actually so awesome That is It was like It's like the most amazing
troll that I think I have ever heard of That's great It's fantastic Yeah know
there's again I don't think we should talk about politics too much but there's
there's things with like the u public should not be automatically assumed
guilty and therefore not observed blah blah blah I don't know it's a very deep
conversation the thing about the photo radar though is that there is no assumption the radar is first the photo
comes later that's not the conversation so so there's so anyway so the whole the
whole thing is that the police officers
are being monitored it's a difficult IT question that they didn't expect yes
pretty much and everyone's being more monitored and that's what's happening
I'm just I'm just interested in how they're going to deal with it Right now they have their contracting agreement
Yeah So they have a three-year contracting agreement for 78 grand for
storing uh I think that was what um 110
officers 84 cameras Yeah This was Duth Minnesota Yeah Um like I I think they
need to localize that a little bit
I think that might be better Yeah I don't I don't know I don't I don't know
what or honestly I I wasn't I was maybe a little bit joking when I was talking
about YouTube but seriously a private account that isn't uploading the videos
to the public that is like that is like a terrible stupid solution
that might actually work Like but but but but I mean the the 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 it's completely untenable
Completely untenable but
it's just all right It would work if you weren't like actually the police Posted
by nine shadow Uh this original source here is global.samsungto.com
Samsung has updated their um uh their
ULA to basically say "Look we are not monitoring your living room
conversations." Uh because no one believed ever
hopefully Um like "Look we're the only
thing we're listening to is voice commands Uh because there was kind of a
a sketch looking a sketch looking warning about not talking about personal
information in front of Samsung smart TVs um their privacy policy was updated
warning users they shouldn't talk about sensitive information and then now it's
saying whoa hold on a second um yes you
know information could be among data captured transmitted to a third party
but hold on blah blah blah they we take our users information privacy very
seriously users can opt out of voice recognition whenever they please um no
longer mentions any sensitive information reiterates that users can disable voice recognition whenever they
please so I I suspect Heck actually nothing has changed It's just Yeah it's
just a ULA reversion designing it differently or whatever This one's
pretty good though This was posted by Victoria Secret and there's a great
Reddit thread There's always a great Reddit thread for just about anything isn't there Um where someone posts well
hold on a second Plex stopped playing my
video halfway through and played a Pepsi ad Um 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 in the two months I've been using Plex but
today all of a sudden it began I'm glad I'm not the only one Every movie I play
20 to 30 minutes in plays this Pepsi ad No audio but crisp clear ad It has
happened on six movies today." Oh yes Uh mine is a Samsung TV also Six movies
today This guy's going ham Who watches six movies What is he watching
Sorry completely unrelated That just that blew my mind a little bit This is
crazy So now to be clear Plex has
already said "Wo not us." Uh actually we had nothing to
do with this And um this is not the only
application that users are experienced have experienced this in Uh so native
smart TV apps uh so the Foxtel TV service app in Australia is experiencing
the same commercials So there's a Foxtel
employee that was quoted as saying this absolutely should not be happening and
is being escalated immediately Uh there's no word from Samsung as of
February 11th when the article was posted but it is speculated that it may
be a new ad insertion platform that may have been accidentally turned on by
default in certain apps Although none of this has been confirmed
Wow Yeah I have at this at no point in
time have I ever wanted a smart TV I can't think of a reason that I would
need it to exist Although um crap I feel
like a terrible person I think it's Sony
is using Android TV for all of their
smart TVs now like instead of the stupid like phenomenally stupid propri
Interesting But like I just I want a good dumb TV and then I just want to
plug uh chcast into it Yeah that's all I
want Dumb TVs don't even exist anymore I mean every single TV is a smart TV now I
know So get wrecked I know Yeah Well
wait What What are those Uh what's that cheap Korean brand Uh Samsung
No no that's the expensive Korean brand Sorry No they uh crap They came up with
like the really affordable 4K stuff really early Um Oh
some It starts with an S Those are all not smart right Yeah I don't think they
are See Seyo Seyo something Seyo's
watches No I think it is See those lines
I I don't think those are smart TVs Okay
man Talking is hard Got people saying
Vizio I don't think Vizio is a Korean brand
I don't know what Vizio is Um all right So basically this is this is a big load
of crap Um so Samsung there's nothing
else even really to say This is just stupid We're on the record as this is an
completely ginormous load of crap Like I literally bought a piece of hardware
from you and you actually don't get to
serve me ads on it
Mind you I mean okay if we if we if we
break this down a little bit is it different from buying a laptop with a
Trial of Norton on it That is an ad At least you know that's coming
Well maybe they put it on the box now with 30% more ad Jen But it's not right
But what if they did Would you feel any better about it No But I wouldn't buy
that TV What if they all did it Then I
wouldn't buy a TV You already don't buy a TV Okay Well so the point is
we we strongly disagree with this and I think we may just might as well move on
because it's not like you and I are going to debate this point Um
so in the sketchiest thing ever Oh Oh are
we moving on to that This is a sketchy weird article This is like this is like
a horrible horrible horrible list of may
I don't know Um so FCC commissioner says
this was posted by commandman7 Um the article that we've got here is
breakitbart.com and
uh there's a there's an autoplay Oops
There's an autoplay video here that I would really like to I guess it doesn't
really matter because I have my audio muted So here we go Here's a picture of
one of the two one of the two Republican FCC commissioners with President Obama's
332page plan to regulate the internet
That is very strong wording designed to
incite upset I wish the public could see what's inside It's got about 4500
retweets Um 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 Um
and I guess the only thing I really have
to say about this article and then the
fantastic one high taxes heavy-handed controls and the status quo uh linked at
the bottom here is that the amount of
the the Okay I think I don't know if we
want to use this site as a reference anymore 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 like about how the you know
title two is is going to basically all
that stuff that you know gets written by
executives at telecoms and then signed
by government officials who are in their pocket It's like paring of that It's
fantastic I love it I thought we were streaming this I'm kind of happy we're
not No we're not streaming it because basically it's a whole lot of terrible I
was like pretty sure what they were and I was like why are we showing this So um
President Obama's plan marks a monumental shift I think I already said
that the plan saddles small independent
businesses and entrepreneurs with heavy-handed regulations that will push
them out of the market Something Okay Something I don't like about any of this
is here's this thing you can't read and you can't know what's in it except
here's what's in it I have a feeling all this stuff that they're telling us might
not even be right Um okay I'm not agreeing with or disagreeing with it
Just we would need to be able to see what's in it before This is no accident
Title 2 was designed to regulate a monopoly If we impose that model on a
vibrant broadband marketplace
I guess if we did impose it on a vibrant broadband marketplace this might be
applicable Um a highly regulated monopoly is what we'll get now That's
what we have right now To be clear they have right now That is a that is that is
a valid point other than the vibrant marketplace bit the whole bit about
regulated monopolies not really being great either because that's that's
basically what we've got on the telco side as it is So title two remember the
thing that we're all sort of going harrah about is reclassifying the
internet with under title 2 as um as a
utility which honestly hasn't worked out that great for us on the phone up till
now either because you still have no choice
Yay Um so so that is a valid point but
the the part where this really misses the mark is calling the vibrant
broadband marketplace vibrant and a marketplace because it it's not It it it
is horrible It's even more horrible than a regulated monopoly So it is is it
perfect No Is it a step in the right direction Yes Is treating it as anything
other than a step in the right direction just
nonsense And to reiterate we have no idea what this thing says Yeah that's a
big problem We have no clue I'm not I can't agree or disagree with
it because what the hell is inside Well I can disagree with the way it's being
spun which tells me what I sort it gives me it gives me some idea what the
credibility is here If we're going to call if we're going to call Telos a
vibrant broadband marketplace then we're wrong We have no idea what's going on We
were wrong before we opened our mouths and that's unfortunate All right so
let's move on to more unfortunate news
Sorry sponsors Oh yeah Yeah yeah 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 posted by Cat
Butts I actually didn't mean to whisper that as hardcore as I did It just wasn't
Um also Cat Butts is awesome He has a YouTube channel that I used to watch
before I started working with you and was a member of our forum and stuff Yeah
Wow cool Yeah Um who else were we
supposed to do a shout out for today Right Yeah Shout out for Paul 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 Um look at him with his blatant
advertising his how to build a computer video that is clearly inferior to our
how to build a computer video Uh this is the silent build giveaway So it's like a
4770K and uh some card with a GTX and uh
some 8 gigs of RAM and some pretty cool stuff And I you probably have to be
subscribed or something which is unfortunate cuz look at this guy and the
t-shirt he wears Wow he wears a shirt with himself on it What a nerd
I wear that shirt too Yeah it also has you on it I know Okay So as long as
we've understood as long as we've understood the the layers of irony here
it is 100% collateral damage myself
That would be a great name for a band 100% collateral damage
You like have to smash your whole set every show no matter what I'm adding
that to our intro slogans There's a dock I should get you added on
it We're just gonna like continue adding to it For the Mayo one it's going to be
like Luke is sick or something 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 um do as we say not as we do being
under our logo saying it was unprofessional And I was like people
came up with a couple other ones that make us sound like idiots I was like "Oh
these are great These are comedy gold I'm I'm putting these in the thread."
That's awesome Um so intro Oh Oh bloody
hell Uh intro thing 100% collateral
damage Yeah you actually have the voice for it
right now Too bad I can't sing at all I
That's fine I think for that style All right so um our source here is the Jay's
two cents forum So we've got a post from
this guy Wow So is this like worse than
WCCF tech or I I 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 going to treat this whole thing as
basically none of this information is
confirmed It is all hearsay But
basically a post showed up on overclock.net where someone was saying
"I am a former employee the owner has suffered has struggled with addiction or
something along those lines and there is no reason to believe that frozen CPU
will be back up and running There has been damage to the premises Um and then
sort of there's nothing on the site to this day There's nothing on the frozen
CPU.com website Um and then other people
have allegedly posted
here I have pictures of the alleged
damage inside the frozen CPU
headquarters So there's like parts of the office look pretty pretty trashed Um
so I like that picture This is like oh okay Here's this broken thing Here's
some like here's a beer bottle and all that kind of stuff Um
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." Um I I I
actually I've exchanged emails with but never met the owner Mark from Frozen CPU
Um I I do know Matthew Buckner from Frozen CPU but honestly I just out of
sheer respect for the quantity of emails
that they're probably dealing with I have not emailed either of them I
probably will at some point here but I have not emailed either of them to ask
what's go what's going on Um
yeah it's really unfortunate
and like something's got to be going on if there isn't an official post
somewhere 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 Um the ex employee
said something like physical damage of the warehouse has occurred as well as
dismissal of all support and warehouse staff The site is still online still
accepting orders So we're going to take
a wait and see approach with this one Yeah that's pretty much all of them
Speaking of things that we'll need to wait and see about this was posted by a
Ming on the forum and this is the new
cutting edge my friends If you were running network cables that were not
Audioqu Quest Diamond RJ
whatever that is Ethernet cables before
then you were completely doing it wrong and you need to get your life back in
gear because this is the new standard These network cables are made of Here
hold on a second I'm going to bring up the uh I'm going to bring up the
Dang it Dang it Windows 8 All right
They represent a lifetime's research and
are the first so so the first you know twisted pair Ethernet standard just to
be clear 10bas t was published in 1990 so the relevant engineers are must be 25
years old max um these are directional
Ethernet cables I mean you wouldn't want birectional communication you know um
discombobulating the waveforms and the
beating heart of the audio quest diamond are the solid solid 100% silver perfect
surface conductors where raw silver raw
silver as opposed to cooked silver raw silver is processed by drawing through
at a much slower speed than normal to create an ultra smooth surface area
surface free of indents and grooves
because the way that we all know I mean we all know I hope we know do you know
that the way that it works is the electrons are like hurdle jumpers okay
they're like curling rocks in a race in a race Okay if an electron you know
traveling along a wire hits a hurdle all
of a sudden that electron is going to arrive out of phase with the rest of the
electrons And think about it this way That's how DOS works Did you know that
the Earth if shrunk down to the size of
a pool ball if it was shrunk down it would actually be smoother than an
actual pool ball Did you know that That's actually that's actually a fact
Um 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 agent It's also an antibacter that
actually is true but has nothing to do with Ethernet Um none of what else none
of this had anything to do with Ethernet So So these are $10,000
I think that conversion may have been done incorrectly Maybe it's like 10,000
Canadian rupees Um so 4700 Great Britain
pound 8 meter Ethernet cables for idiots
Um they have a 5year warranty Um they are supposedly Audio Quest brand which I
guess stupid like ridiculous junk We'll just throw audio file on it 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 Um so what
what so I'm I'm just going to read the blurb because it's hilarious The diamond
is a top grade Ethernet cable which is the result of a lifetime's research by
Audioqu Quest made from the very best materials available This really is a
money is no object cable for the dedicated hi-fi enthusiast that has
extended into a world of digital audio sources by extending the thought process
of quality cabling from a server PC or
media streamer to the router Extending the thought process from a server to a
router further detail can be realized and restrictive shackles loosened
Audioqu Quest's Diamond RJ 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
I think I think they got dyed wrong there That's a very different dye Dyed
in the wool What does that mean Another upgrade is
the complete plug redesign You don't get to redesign the RJ45 connector
Made from silver with tabs that are virtually unbreakable The plug comes
with added strain relief and firmly lock into place ensuring no critical data is
lost Critical data Am I listening to music or is it critical data
Directionality All audio cables are directional
The correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal
conductors used in every audio quest audio cable Are you serious I arrows are
clearly marked on the conductors to ensure superior sound quality For best
results have the arrow pointing in the direction of the flow of music
So for best results so you don't even have to really all insulation slows down
the signal on the conductor inside Man
that sentence When insulation is unbiased it slows down parts of the
signal differently A big problem for time-sensitive
multioctave audio
You should be able to get sued for this stuff
Wow
I hadn't actually read the product page yet I hadn't finished I hadn't gotten to
that part That was fun I didn't either I
read this and was like "Oh it's another one of those things." That was really
fun Like you know monster cables Okay Sometimes you can get monster cables on
promo for like twice as much as a cheapo
cable And I would I would argue for buying them at that point because they are going to tend to have like better
strain relief connectors and they're nice sle They might have sle on them
which sle on HDMI cables which you have to run potentially through like wooden
cut holes and stuff can actually be helpful Can actually be nice We're
talking physical damage to the cable Longer HDMI connectors with a better
quality connector thicker gauge wire It may make a difference It may be the
difference between it works at all or doesn't work at all which by the way for digital is the only standard it works or
it doesn't work for a video cable Um so
I Okay you know what I'm done and I don't want to talk about it anymore That was that just they're BS That was fun
but I need to I need to move on with my life Um so speaking of moving on with my
life linda.com is the way to move on with your life How do you segway
Actually that's actually a really good segue It definitely could be good
Probably has been for a lot of people I I have good segways every once in a
month week year of time Um so linda.com
has Oh you know what Okay Okay Hold on Hold on I'm going to use my notes this
week because wow Nick the the level the
amount of butt hurt that went on over last week when I forgot the sponsor spot
was pretty was pretty intense So linda.com is used by millions of people
around the world They have more than 3,000 courses available They have topics
like web development photography visual design and business They also have
software training like Excel WordPress and Photoshop All courses are taught See
this is way worse than the way that I do it Linda.com is cool because you learn
cool stuff and you can either you know get better at your hobby or get better
at your job or learn a new job and really take investing in yourself to the
next level Their subscriptions start at $25 a month I tried to look up knowledge
is sexy so I could hold up an image of it and I got not what I was looking for
No you didn't at all Um the linda.com
subscription started only $25 a month and you can learn at your own pace
according to whatever appetite you have So they have a 10-day free trial which
gives you unlimited access to every course on linda.com So you can find out
if it's right for you before you go ahead and commit to it Our next sponsor
today is Dollar Shave Club And this one is pretty straightforward Do you like
shaving Do you like it when people you know shave then you could buy a Dollar
Shave Club Club membership for yourself or someone else you know who you think
should shave And we used to actually have we used to have Dollar Shave Club
stuff to like hold up while we did these spots but all of it got taken because
Dollar Shave Club razors are actually they're well they're they're they're
pretty great They're they're great We have no problems with them They're What
else can we really say about it You save money You should probably reup my subscription You probably should I've
been using the same blade for like two months I think
Why do you have to do everything wrong
I'll I'll re tell you what Tell you what I will I will buy you a Dollar Shave
Club subscription Okay Because it's important You're going to you're going
to like hurt your skin with like dull razors It's bad It's bad Anyway for only
a few dollars a month Dollar Shave Club saves you the hassle of going to the
department store or wherever they keep all the razor blades under lock and key
nearby you If you happen to be too lazy to buy razors then having the monthly
subscription makes sure that you're using a fresh blade every week and
getting the best shave possible so you can look 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 Um 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 so much worse this is how much our product
costs us and this is this is how we're going to do it Love that That's a high
integrity way of doing business So the New Zealand story um I called out in a
Dollar Shave Club sponsor spot online as tech tips that they're available in
Canada US and New Zealand Nick spazzed
because we had they they didn't say that they
were in New Zealand and like freaked out and was like "Yo dog what's going on and
he like sent an apologetic email to Dollar Shave Club and they're just like
"How did you know that?" Yeah we we just rolled it out
And Nick's like "Yeah we're paying really close attention." Okay And he
asked me about it and I'm like "Yeah no I straight up screwed it up I I I
screwed up I thought Australia and New Zealand." Telepathically connected I
knew it was I knew it was somewhere butt wipes I knew it was somewhere butt wipes
gives you a mental connection Oh yeah They don't just have razors They also
have butt wipes for men They have after shave They have their shave butter All
all kinds of good stuff So okay Okay I I think we should move on to This is new
Yeah this is very new Uh Nick you can go
Whatever you have to say isn't going to be nice to me I wanted to say thank you
for sticking to the script And also you're the worst
You know how it is Love you buddy Um
look my mountain kind of goes with the logo So this is a product that we have
been using very extensively over the
last couple of years and XSplit has actually launched a new version of
XSplit V2
that uh actually I mean we didn't really have any complaints about XSplit for a
long time like in the early days once we figured out how to use once we mostly
well they did have some issues too it didn't used to be 100% So we've been
streaming the WAN Show on XSplit since the very first WAN Show I believe Yeah
since since before the WAN Show was the WAN Show we've been using XSplit We
really like the software It's stable It's feature reasonably rich There's
still a couple things that I might want to ask for but for game streamers or for
like proumer grade broadcasters like us
you've got a ton of options Being able to stream at any resolution having it be
easy enough to configure in only a couple of minutes and being extremely
affordable makes XSplit definitely our platform of choice which we don't have
to we don't have to like say it's our platform of choice because we just
switched to using it because they sponsored us No we've been using it for a long time You can learn like video
editing and like video management stuff from Linda Make yourself look better
with Dollar Shave Club and then stream to the world with XSplit Yeah it all
goes together really well So XSplit V2 uh they have some notes for
for me to kind of call out because we've been using it for a little bit here but
it has powerful new production tools built to meet the needs of today's
content creators Um makes audio video It
has an audio video mixing application that allows anyone to create
professional quality live broadcasts and video recordings like what we're doing
right now It supports all kinds of different Okay I'm just Okay I'm
abandoning their notes because I like my way better Uh it supports all kinds of
different broadcasting modes So you can broadcast at different frame rates and
different resolutions You can broadcast at different bit rates according to
what's going to work out best for you and the service that you happen to be
broadcasting on It's fantastic It has so many more options compared to free stuff
like NVIDIA's Shadow Play that for many game streamers it's sort of competing
against but in my mind it's not really a competition if you're trying to have a
professional looking stream because the options are extremely limited And an
exploit gives us the ability to do all kinds of stuff like bring in uh bring in
video callers very easily Um capture portions of the screen and mix and match
them and switch them around and have like transitions
That's all automatic We don't actually do that stuff Um what else am I talking
about Yeah I'm supposed to talk about Gamecaster Game cer is one I haven't
used as much just because we have the full broadcaster but it's great for
gamers that are looking to get started You can easily stream and record your greatest gaming moments can broadcast to
live streaming services such as YouTube Live Twitch Ustream and more And the
best thing is that XSplit the free license is
you guessed it free So visit xplit.com/Linus
to try it out The paid license the one we have allows like more scenes and
higher quality audio and uh probably a number of other things but those are the
big ones for us that are why we go with the with the professional license So we
can have like all these different lower thirds So thanks to Flip Dollar Shave
Club linda.com and Linus TechTips for
powering the WAN Show today All right let's go ahead and uh move into our next
topic here which is awesome What's our next topic You go ahead The drones in
France Oh I love this thing My voice is like super done Yeah it's super super I
need water Um Nick I don't know if he's going to
hear you Anyways I posted it in the Twitch chat No one's going to hear you
I'm still trying to find it I want to play that video There have been people
that have been Oh it's it's just control F4 dude Uh this was posted by Victoria
Secret on the forum Yes And this video is amazing I like I love this thing Um
so basically there's been an issue with um let's go ahead and screen share
People flying drones over top of French uh nuclear reactors
like DJI drones So uh Wow So they're
deploying anti- drone drones to go find
those drones and break their [ __ ]
Wow I expected to like fly it down but nope Holy crap Nope Love it Absolutely
Absolutely love the way that uh the way that that just got done So um I guess
the real conversation here is is not uh
is not You know what they should do They've probably done this to a certain degree but I want them to bring it to
like TV and make it mainstream You know how they had robot wars Like drone wars
I think someone must be trying to do that on TV though
Dang I'm not sure I know that Uh I know that uh what's that show that's coming
back Battlebots is coming back Really Yeah Battlebots is coming back I
don't know if they're still going to have like Carmen Electra and stuff but Oh I don't care But the format is coming
back All I care about was the robots I didn't even know she was on there Me
neither Someone else told me I had no clue I was like I think I was young
enough when Battlebots was cool but hadn't you know matured yet Yeah So so
to speak Uh
that's cool I loved that show That show was awesome I remember my favorite my
favorite battlebot ever was this completely OP spinning one that just
like it it it went up against some like elaborate contraption that was like yes
I will do this and I will do that and then it was just like this like super
fast spinning one It basically like went up to it and just like broke pieces off
of the other just like it would like try to attack it and the spinning one just
crack pieces off it Love that bots Um
let's go ahead and
uh Oh yeah So right So drones and and
privacy and all this kind of stuff I actually posted this on Twitter last
night That's good footage Holy crap Uh here's some footage of Yes I know I'm
live on Twitch Like it should not show me that I'm me just like how it shows
That's a verification that it's working Ads I guess So fine Fine But ads on my
own videos verification that they're enabled Verification that they're enabled but I'm not technically allowed
to click on my own ads or as far as I know watch my own ads Like I think
that's against the user So that's why I have ads enabled for my account on the
forum So this is 1080p Um so this isn't
the most interesting part I think I go up quite a bit higher
So as drone cameras get better and better
and better the ability to spy on people
and things is going to get become more
and more and more of a concern So I mean you know right now maybe it's a nuclear
power plant which is like enough of a problem but you know hey you want to
keep track of the route you know that kid takes home from school or like
there's all kinds of this is amazing creepy stuff that you can do with this
And this I didn't even go that high I still had the 30 m cap on I increased
I'm amazed how stable it is I increased it to 60 on my next flight and um I
didn't upload that one unfortunately But this is uh this is me and my son down
here Yeah it's absolutely incredible the
kind of video quality that we're getting off of these drones these days So I I
think it's cool that the French have come up with a creative solution to
eliminating I love how medieval that net is I know I love it That's so cool It's
like we just wrecked your stuff Get dunked Uh so so far 13 of the country's
19 facilities have been buzzed So they're looking to for a way to stop
quadcopters from messing with nuclear reactors Um
blah blah blah The drone that was photographed is an Interceptor MP200 So
you've got to check out uh
where is it And they used the Interceptor to catch a DJI Phantom that
was piloted by Bill Dubois the company CEO I think it's this So the Interceptor
is a much larger and faster drone with six rotors and the net it carries is uh
pretty BS Um Luke has another link to a
to an effective method for taking out drones This is the kamicazi kamicazi So
this little guy just goes nuts and smashes itself into the other one And
you can see still frame shots of how it works So if you scroll down
so it flies into the other drone and just mashes into its propellers breaking
stuff off and then they both crash It's a lot cheaper than the one with the net
because the one with the net has to be very strong has six propellers to be able to carry the net cuz the net is
really happy uh heavy Sorry This one is very inexpensive and just nails into
other ones Hilarious Um wow Yeah it's
just this little quadwing little thing
And you can see just Yeah they're both just super wrecked
Wow Awesome I love it I got to imagine
firing a projectile would be easier than carrying a net Part of the Yeah And
you're kind of firing projectile with this The reason why you don't want to fire something like a bullet is because
it could miss No bullet No No But I I didn't mean bullet I meant like uh like
um like some kind of like like if you could if you like and I don't know if
this exists but like a goopy surf sur like a goopy substance Like if you could
just fire like like a ball of like stringy/goopy stuff that tangles it or
something like basically Yeah If you could fire like a ball of yarn at a
drone that would be very likely to take it down yarn is going to have troubles
flying Yeah So unless it's actually a
tight ball and it's not going to do anything or if it impacts and like
unfolds or something like if it was like a spring-loaded like all the yarn kind
of goes everywhere and you hit something or whatever Yeah Yeah Yeah Like you
could probably make something that is an entanglement mechanism that you could
fire at other drones Um but I mean you
know this works Yeah Boom Yeah Um speaking of things that work uh this was
posted by Victoria Secret The article we've got here is from TechCrunch
Apple's activation lock leading to a
significant decrease in iPhone theft in
major cities This is one of those why didn't we do this before things It's
like you know Apple and the carriers are running around all worried about you
know us using the phone on the wrong carrier with absolutely no regard for
all these years for the wrong person using the phone on the right carrier And
so California mandated these kill switches and said they were going to
bring a bill into law something something It's not actually active yet
but Apple has proactively started
enabling this lockdown feature by default on iPhones And uh there's some
really interesting numbers to go along with this So the number of stolen iPhones dropped by 40% in San Francisco
and 25% in New York And smartphone theft
dropped by 50% in London in the 12 months after Apple added That's amazing
That's awesome because basically it turns a stolen iPhone even if you can
unlock it into like a glorified like
iPod touch So it's not worth not not a brick but
yeah no one's really going to want it So
so far Apple Samsung and Google have implemented kill switches on their
smartphones Microsoft is expected to release an operating system for its
Windows phones that has one this year Um but some of the smartphone systems
require consumers to opt in and uh blah
blah blah blah blah blah Attorney General called on all manufacturers to
make the technology active as a default position as Apple has done with the iPhones I mean I don't think anyone's
going to force you Um except as law requires in the area that you happen to
live I don't think anyone will force you to use the kill switch anytime soon but
having the uh having it on by default I think makes a ton of sense
That's cool Yeah I like that a lot Go Apple on that one Uh FCC now requires
American carriers to unlock consumers handsets Also posted by Victoria Secret
Are you posting these Okay cool I wasn't sure if you were keeping up I try not to
you know glance at your screen because then it looks like I'm you know looking at something else And I I did this and
everyone thought I was looking at your butt which is not possible when you're sitting on a couch But yeah
FCC now requires American carriers to unlock consumers handsets This is not
quite as awesome as it sounds initially So it's not like you can walk into your
local carrier store and you know go get
some other carrier to bail you out of your contract fees and then you can just
take your device over to the other carrier Um it has to be it has to be
fully paid off and blippity blippity blop and there's all this other stuff A
lot of when you pay off your thing is
fully paying off your phone though So I wonder how that would work because if
you got bailed out that is technically fully paying off your phone So this is
only after the phone has been paid off under contract or if the phone was
prepaid under contract Okay Yeah So once payment has been completed consumers can
do what they choose with their devices So this is actually the result of talks
between the FCC and CTIA the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association
which is represents major carriers AT&T Sprint T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless So
um I mean there's no guarantee that carriers aren't still going to be
butttheads and make you jump through hoops or whatever else but ultimately
they have to do it So you know other than making you talk to a retention
agent or whatever the case may be I suspect we mostly won't have to deal
with too much nonsense Yeah Well not we We're in Canada We get no such benefit
Yeah Not at all Americans Yeah Luckily America Yeah All
right The Verge Wow that is a big ad Yep
I am viewing at 70% right now Oh no I'm at 100% They've had bigger ones That is
That Ford one that you showed me was like Yep spectacular Pretty much the
entire screen Wow Yep That is a big ad
It's like how does the Verge afford their baller CES uh their baller CES
internet connection upload or whatever like that Yeah Elon Musk says Tesla will
unveil a new kind of battery to power your home Why would they call him the
eccentric CEO Oh come on Is he more
eccentric than well lots of other
innovative CEOs How many of those are there All right
fine Um so basically something something
Tesla didn't ship as nearly as many cars as they predicted Something something
Maybe they have more batteries than they know what to do with Not really sure what the background is here but the
company is working on a consumer battery pack for the home Production could begin
in 6 months and they're still deciding on a date for unveiling the new unit
This isn't exactly a new idea No The Toyota Marai which uses a hydrogen fuel
cell gives owners the option to remove the battery and use it to supply
electrical power to their homes It can power the average home for about a week
which is crazy Which is awesome What some cool things that Tesla's planning
to do is they're planning on making the battery wall mountable and having like
kind of cool design so it won't look really bad and it knowing them it'll be
tall if you're wall mounting it So if you not not flat on the ground it would
be tall but relatively skinny right So it could actually maybe work somewhere
right Uh which is kind of cool Very easily put it in the garage and have no
problems Or if you have a very like high-tech looking area have it there and
it'll probably be fine Um fairly plugandplay which is kind of awesome
Yeah this stuff is really cool I'm totally down with having like I'd love
to UPS my whole house That's essentially yeah what this would be and that would
be awesome Yeah Uh BMW developing new
plug-in hybrid named as i5/ i7 to
compete against Intel excuse me the Tesla Model S Uh the i7 should have like
four normal wheels like and then four like wheels beside them but they're not
like really the same
And go slightly faster Very slightly faster Just a little bit faster Not too
much faster Let's be really clear about not much faster Just a little bit And
four wheels help or something Uh so our
original article here is from caragazine.co.uk and it was posted by a
Ming Did you post that on Twitch already All right let's go ahead and fire this
baby up So looks like this is to take on
the Model S Um I guess that shouldn't be
too unexpected Yep Uh it'll be priced to
suit with target volumes in the tens of thousands and a cost spanning from just
below the Tesla to more than 125,000
I think it's cool the way electric cars can actually span an enormous price
range and still make sense Yeah because you can upgrade and downgrade them and
like the performance still makes sense for high for a higher price car but like
we still get that mostly that or at least some of that down there But then
you can kind of go yeah I don't need like the you know like fetus cow leather
double stitched interior whatever the hell Um all right let's go What What
else do we know about this I'm sure there's something Actually this I think this was added really late I didn't see
this in the dock until we started going Oh okay So 45 four and a half% of all
units sold in the pace setting US carb states must be zero emission vehicles by
2018 So yes expect to see more electric
models and for them to become more and more affordable The e-unit in front
delivers 204 brake horsepower and the
smaller battery powered motor in the back is good for 95 brake horsepower
sources say whoever they are Uh this brings the aggregate target output to
400 kW or 544 brake horsepower So right
in the middle of Tesla territory Allegedly capable of a a zero emission
range of 80 m this BMW is designed to operate in battery mode most of the time
The combustion engine will typically only cut in above 40 mph when road and
wind noise out decibel it anyway So it should be very silent to drive much like
other electric vehicles I think manufacturers who fail to comply
by not offering enough zero emission vehicles uh transitional zero emission
vehicles neighborhood electric vehicles or e vehicles with range extenders have
no choice but to acquire clean air credits from sources like Tesla
currently the major provider of such certificates And that makes German car
makers very sad Um all right I think
that's pretty much pretty much it Uh we've got we've got some more stuff
NVIDIA sends uh has sending out press invitations to a March 3rd event that I
actually can't make it to Um unfortunately their CEO Jensen says that
what they're showing off will redefine the future of gaming
We'll let that sink in for a minute We'll redefine Doesn't say anything
about a good definition but uh the picture shows a thin device It's
speculated to be another Android tablet I doubt it if it's going to redefine the
future of gaming it won't be uh an iterative release of something they've
already done There may be a tablet We might get a Tegra you know X1 tablet or
something or whatever the latest one is Can't remember Um we might get a Tegra
X1 tablet but it'll probably be something to do with cloud gaming to go
along with it That would be my guess Um grid I got a I got a Oh as long as it's
not embargoed got absolutely nothing until I find out um
something nothing I learned nothing and nothing happened Um so anyway close that
I'm sorry Close that Why is that even open Uh because I was reading it Uh so
anyway Konami PC game sales surpassed their
Xbox One sales They went from 2% to 10%
year-over-year and um has surpassed Xbox
One and all handhelds now going head-to-head with the Xbox 360 This was
posted by Oh the previous one was Abh 6547 and this one was Death Jester and
the original article here is from DS DSogaming.com
Skip this ad Haha no money for you
Um well I'm in a hurry I think they get
a little money for that No I'm pretty sure they still do I mean there's this ad No they get a little money for you
skipping And there's this ad Yeah I know Oh yeah They I think they get a little
bit on that and they get money for these ads They don't really expect Okay how about I click swing copters to make them
feel better I'm actually I'm legitimately interested in swing copters This looks excellent Okay Client
download required Optional software included How can optional software be
included Isn't that the definition of optional
It says optional software included Yeah Yeah What does that mean That means you
probably download this game and then it's like "Do you want to also install this?" Why would they even put that in a
banner That's very honest Yeah I've never seen anyone advertise that there's
optional software included All right I'm going to I'm going to do a full review
of Swing Copters coming up Channel Fun
Yeah Channel Super Fun review of Swingopters
Facebook rolls out a feature for users when they die This was posted by Fnot on
the forum Our Oh my god we should do real life swing copters with a drone
Yes absolutely
Um not sure exactly how this works but
gives users the option of having their account permanently deleted when they
die or if they wish they can appoint a friend or family member to take control
of some aspects of the account That's interesting An interesting note that was
added to the dock too is how do they confirm your death I don't know I don't
I don't understand why Facebook needs a
not gee I don't know just leave it
Uh what else we got here Vasa publishes embedded DisplayPort standard 1.4A
includes adaptive sync So this will be good for devices that need embedded
DisplayPort like say for example small stuff Um
greater data rates 8.1 Gbit per second per lane theoretical limit of 32.4 Gbit
per second We've got Ultra HD support at 120 Hz with 10 bit color because you
know DisplayPort just isn't content to
wreck HDMI a little bit at every turn
and everything else Uh WhatsApp Oh that
was uh posted by Querty Warrior and the original article here is from Tom's
Hardware This is all our rapidfire topics by the way That's why I'm rapid
firing Vasa publish Oh I already did this Well basically that's what that
website looks like You're welcome Um
next up what do we got The WhatsApp thing Yeah the WhatsApp thing WhatsApp
may not be as private as some people thought It's posted by I Hammy Very
unfortunate Super not surprising at all Thought anything that you posted to
anything Facebook owns or really anything on the internet was private
Yeah Um so it's what spy public is this
app that um that I think it's a guy Yeah
some guy made And here's this project I made this for you to realize how broken
the privacy options in WhatsApp are I mean this is something that anyone from
like the MSN Messenger days is probably
already familiar with Like you could see if someone blocked you just by entering
their username into into a website which by the way Microsoft patched and became
impossible Yet another way that MSN was
way ahead of its time and everything else that's come after it totally sucks
Balls Um MSN was great So anyway you can
see online and offline status profile pictures privacy settings and status
messages from anyone even if they have
the most secure private settings enabled in their account And so the point of
this was just hey we should probably
draw some attention to this Um feels a
little what what would this be Gray hat
Yeah I guess Speaking of hats um anonymous
attacks ISIS websites and social media accounts Uh this was posted online as
tech tips forum by Sauron and our original article here is from the
hackernews.com And I mean the thing about when
anonymous does anything is that that's
not necessarily that doesn't mean that everyone in anonymous is a united front
doing something It means someone saying they're anonymous because that's the
whole point is they're anonymous They declared what group within it was I I
don't remember where it says red something I think has launched a
something something something I don't know where it is but it's they
red cult anonymous group and red cult announced the operation opis and claimed
to have carried out cyber attacks against hundreds of Twitter and Facebook
accounts used by ISIS for its own propaganda and to recruit new members
According to the video it's coordinated by Muslims Christians Jews alike and a
masked individual discusses the aim of the campaign So uh they're releasing uh
lists of Twitter and Facebook accounts suspected to belong to Islamic militants
and Twitter has already suspended more than 1500 ISIS accounts since the group
released the first list in June 2014 And dozens of militant recruiting websites
were knocked offline using collective DOS attack I got to say it's nice to see
it's nice to see them doing something positive They do sometimes they do that
um sometimes anonymously So we don't know who's doing good who's doing bad
who's doing something in between Who knows But someone is doing something And
I think hopefully we can all agree that ISIS is a bunch of buttholes And um
anything we can do to make them not be
quite such buttholes is good Yes Taking
down communication lines of any sort is a very effective thing in these types of
situations Yep So it might not seem like much but it can be like a lot Oh web
activism is dumb Actually not necessarily Not being able to get your
message out there when your entire thing is that you're you are broadcasting this
message in hopes of you know finding like-minded vid individuals and
inspiring them to do unspeakable things Um actually that's super It's very
effective It's like it's like plant on rock effective It's super effective
I mean the only the only thing about anonymous is that they're they're not
employed They're not um like there's no
there's no long-term commitment to you know you know 2018 when ISIS is still
doing whatever it is they're doing There's no like there's no long-term action plan or anything like that But
it's good that they're doing something anything at all now Um I guess that's
pretty much it for the key stuff today This was a short show Yeah
Wow A short painful show Yeah For you Yeah I
had fun Not because it was painful for you That
was just a bonus
Oh man I do have an exciting announcement though Um I am going to be
doing the first garage sale in a very long time today Oh jeez It is going to
be as soon as I figure out how all the tools work The afterparty is going to be
straight up garage sale today because there is some stuff that needs to not be
here anymore and is here right now Um and I need it gone So that is why I am
doing it Uh so that's pretty much it We'll see you guys next week Same bat
time same bat channel Thank you for tuning in to the WAN Show And um
sorry I got some emails I was just going to say I I think he's just on his phone
now So I'm going to cut this so that the archive doesn't look super Wait don't
cut it You got to do the outro
Oh Oh Oh there we go All right
Linda.com
Do the things expert
Watch the things Learn the things Do the things Watch the
things See it works Yeah Yeah Learn do
watch I think that's the other I think it's actually what is it Um describe
demo do That's like a teaching methodology Oh yeah I learned that in
like swimming lesson instruction