The WAN Show - We Have 4K Playstation Details! Who Cares?? - June 10, 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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funny story to start the show uh is this gonna be nipple related no
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it's not surprising right uh anyways when i came back from
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taiwan i came to yvr the airport that is
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near us don't worry about it um and the statue with nipples no no unfortunately
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not gonna work nipples into this at some point no actually
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none crap okay you came to the vancouver airport
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i'll try she's in richmond by the way vancouver international airport not in
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vancouver yes it's in the greater vancouver area that's true
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so or a greater vancouver regional district as it's actually called the gta
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is the greater toronto area the gvrd sucka okay my bad anyways the wi-fi
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network there does one of those things where you have to like approve your
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login thing through a portal and whatever and i was trying to do it it
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wasn't working and i needed internet at that point in time so i was like whatever and turned my Wi-Fi off
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didn't really think about it a little while later
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using my phone and it's like oh your wi-fi your data has been turned off
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because you're at your maximum my warning didn't come through or i swiped
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it without realizing it because i hate it when notifications load while you're
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in your notification bar i might have swiped it without actually seeing it
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so my data is dead and i think i'm like
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six days into the month or something
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so that sucks i have a dumb phone for a
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while well your smartphone just a dumb user
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yeah that's fair so i guess uh
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yeah i know i failed to work nipples into that yeah you did that's okay
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because i can work nipples into anything uh speak up
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people are asking us to turn the mic up but i just did a test recording and it
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was fine so um i guess it was i guess i
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had the volume a little high actually i don't even know why that worked at all
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but i what i just did in terms of testing maybe i could load up the stream
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and see if people are messing with me in the meantime why don't you let them know what fantastic topics we have for them
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today so we have uh the the whole catastrophe around team
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viewer all the the accounts being hacked into or passwords being known or
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whatever because those aren't really the same thing but anyways we'll talk about
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that later gawker has officially filed for bankruptcy and is saying some other
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stuff uh sony officially confirms the 4k ready playstation but i believe it's not
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being announced at e3 or something and
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i don't actually know a fourth topic that's interesting you sound wonderful
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to me by the way do i yeah i'm at like 38 on my system volume so i um
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okay space mining space mining what i
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don't know i didn't see that all right space
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yeah we may not get to that yeah intro time
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equivalent to not turning your wi-fi back on for a week or maybe not gross
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maybe it's like hot oh if you're into that sort of thing like
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phone spit yeah that's probably not good all right
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apparently the intro is loud well you know what you guys there is only so much
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i don't know there's only so much i can do
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jim's address says ow and it's also that
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it's pre-recorded i think no it's not pre-recorded all right so
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let's get into some topics first up we've got and i actually have no idea
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whether um whether luke said that this was going to
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be one of our one of our main topics for this week
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gawker is no more at least in its current form
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maybe someday it will reach its final form
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but that won't be its current form uh they filed for bankruptcy
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and have said that they will sell the company uh the headline says to zif
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davis or someone else that i don't think it's necessarily gawker saying they're
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gonna sell to ziff davis it's that zif davis has an offer in on them for
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somewhere to the tune of 90 to 100 million dollars you know maybe i should
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just buy gawker
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what yeah i know you know for a fact that i can't that's not going to work
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can't afford that it also just doesn't sound like a good idea yes
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why would we do that if we could just like life hacker i i said a tweet about
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this earlier i was like i don't really care about the rest of it but if life hacker survives that would be cool yeah
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if we could just consume like just them i'd be down with that i mean thea
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already could use some of the upstairs office space for that make them all canadians theoretically they could sell
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individual publications so uh so gawker
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is a life hacker jezebel dead spin
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gawkerdog.com gizmodo kotaku jalopnik
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uh and yeah jezebel and uh
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i don't know if you said that yeah no you said dead spin actually but you know
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good job um you said it twice which is important great for people who didn't
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hear you yeah um
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so out of all of those yeah i think life hacker i didn't used to mind gizmodo but
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i can't remember the last time i went on that site i liked them i think 2009
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yeah a little bit let's see if that lines up nope how old were you in 2009 19. you were
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nice well 18 for most of it 18 okay so i was close very close i was actually
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quite close okay so um
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basically yeah they're filing for a chapter might even be more accurate
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um actually yeah i think so
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it was right around there yes um so they're they're they've announced
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their chapter 11 filing uh basically that puts them in protection from
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creditors for the time being while they sort of entertain offers to buy the
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company um gawker and nick denton have
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said that they will not pay hulk hogan and peter thiel the 140 million dollars
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they have told their employees that they still plan to fight the case and to
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operate the publishing business while they do so um
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but zif davis has come out and said there's uh let me just see if i can
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bring up the uh the article here so this was in an internal memo it does say for
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less than a hundred million dollars like i'm assuming not a ton less there's
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conflicting reports so this particular one on recode.net says for around 100
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million but it should be noted that they may end up paying more because this is
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just their initial bid for it and actually nothing to do necessarily with
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um how much it'll end up selling for so someone else could make a counter offer
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yup yup it could end up being a bidding war over jezebel yep
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which i guess someone wants apparently um
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i didn't know that these sites as a whole were still
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that big i had no idea
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online written media publications were still worth like
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tens of millions of dollars each i mean i guess it's sort of enormous amounts of
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traffic um this is a really good clip with nick denton basically saying uh nope i stand
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by the decision to publish that even in light of everything that has happened
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he's expressed a lot of frustration with peter thiel basically
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public basically funding this lawsuit
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as a way to um
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i think i forget i was reading some article about it but the quote from him
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was something to the effect don't quote me on this that's a quote of a quote
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that's not an accurate quote but sick um
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so the so something to the effect of that it's not vengeance but it's more of
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like a cautionary sort of like it's more of a deterrent i
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think was some something close to the word that was used um
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against publishing articles that are
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basic that basically amount to bullying so that was that was sort of how he
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interpreted the hulk hogan article where this sort of this individual was being
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bullied by a publication that uh published an article and indeed a sex
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tape video of him um
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banging to use the term that the kids use these days i think uh a friend's
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wife did they say that yeah banging still a
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thing still a thing really you got to throw
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that in at me yeah i guess that's still a thing if you're an old man well like
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how long has banging been around for i don't know a long time i'm sure my dad
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is like well versed with that term the term or
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what are we talking about i'm here so probably
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both just being honest it's almost father's day you got nine days to figure
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it out to figure out if he's your father or
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well maybe that could that could be the situation
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okay so luke's parents aside and they're
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whatever they don't still watch wancho do they
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they probably do oh that's a shame hi mom and dad
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um so it'll be a court supervised auction
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and uh basically the the lawsuit one way or the
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other will have to be resolved before nick uh before excuse me zif davis is
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gonna have any interest in in taking
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uh taking possession of it and yeah that's basically how it went down
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um would this make you think twice about
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publishing a sex tape on Linus tech tips
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why why why would we publish a sex tape online i i didn't say we i said you so
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we should okay no we should do this but we should do it with like uh like
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computer components
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oh man we should like make a fake hulk
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hogan
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no i want and have it water cool someone
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else's computer i want no party i want no part of any of this
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i just want we've got people asking for us to review a sex bot
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okay that's nice talking about our robots let's talk aaron does our robots
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yeah but taryn wouldn't know what to do with the sex
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so let's talk let's talk seriously again for a minute
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would you do an objective review
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of a sex robot
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uh okay i mean we'd have to be careful what we show in b-roll and not in b-roll
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but would you would you benchmark it and host the video i think i think like
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the the the journalistic side of me is like yeah and then there's like i'm in a
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relationship no so but what if the i think is it if it's a
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robot probably is it like because i mean they're not that
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sophisticated at this point yeah at this point i think basically
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they just do pre-programming you are attempting to very because this this
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ties into another conversation which is like
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is porn okay while you're in a relationship and this is like stuff you
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need to decide in your relationship yeah i'm not saying as a general statement i
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mean with you and your partner you need to do this yes is porn okay and then on
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top of that is vr porn okay because they're actually pretty different
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right yeah vr porn is very much putting you in that scenario yeah with like
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like uh directional audio so you feel like you're there and like if the
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person's talking to you you can hear where it's coming from like all that like
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crazy stuff which is like on another level and then you're stepping up again
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you think so i think each one of those will reduce the amount of people that
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are okay you don't think actually i
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i would i would argue i would argue the other way so i think porn is where it is
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so let's establish that porn is a bass line okay and you know your bass line
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could be it's like super okay and mine could be it's super not okay or the other way around whatever doesn't matter
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let's call two-dimensional porn the bass line sure and let's talk like
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two-dimensional is like a screen let's talk let's talk like straight guy on
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girl if you're a straight person like like like vanilla porn
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like sure not like animals or whatever because i wasn't really okay like i'm
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thinking like two two-dimensional like just kind of vanilla porn
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whatever fits in your preferences yeah like whatever would be vanilla for you
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everyone's vanilla can be a little different you know chocolate strawberry
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vanilla we're talking vanilla okay so that's our baseline okay i would make
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the argument that a robot is actually less akin to
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a real life sexual experience
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than i see we are coming from with that but you also have problems where and
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certainly less than uh than toy assisted vr
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toy assisted vr is way up there um with the robot though
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you are directly trying to replace the person
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in the actions that they do and it is possible to get somewhat
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emotionally attached to a robot
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so like you are actually attempting to replace the functionality of the partner
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yeah which is also why vr toy assisted would
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probably would that top the robot for you i don't
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know they're both like so these are both like no zone for you
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this is really awkward uh well remember we're talking when you're
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in a relationship and remember your no zone can be sort of what you're
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comfortable with someone else engaging in while you're in a
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relationship like it goes as a two-way street yeah yeah
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so are both of those gray area at the very least to say
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okay
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okay interesting see i
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how did we get here i don't know
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but i i i wholly disagree okay i think that
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the robot and then okay i and i'm saying inanimate object i
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understand that not all of them are completely inanimate
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um some of them like blink and stuff oh okay yeah yeah um but i would make the
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argument that an inanimate object is
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less like a real experience than an actor
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on a screen uh
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but it's not happening directly to you
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that's true but nothing's happening to you i mean
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let's face it you're doing all the work in either scenario that might be true in relationships as
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well though wow shots fired
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not even sorry to hear that bro no not that's not true at all but i'm saying
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for some people that is a reality it's it's i'm sorry but like it is okay
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sure fair enough people are saying next topic and they're
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probably
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sony officially confirms the 4k ready playstation excellent original article
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here is from the verge
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confirms a ps4 console upgrade but it won't be at e3 which raises the question
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what will be at e3
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i don't know people were asking me like at computex
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and stuff they're like you've done e3 before you're going this year i was like nope like oh why not
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it's probably nothing well you know what's funny is we missed a year when e3 was
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like the [ __ ] yeah and then we were like okay we'll do it next year but the
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problem is that we're not in the console mindset like we don't even understand
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what qualifies as like a big e3 for console people because it's all just
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kind of e3 yeah so it's like yeah all the consoles are launching this year we
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don't go the next year all the consoles launched last year we go and it's like
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here's some game with games with some tessellation or something the problem is
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even if we did go the previous year
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it was probably just keynotes wasn't it just keynotes like i'm pretty
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sure we just watched those in the office i remember like talking to you because
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we were both scripting and half watching at the same time like we basically more
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or less went just virtually not to tie back to the previous
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conversation yeah i mean on that subject man i went to uh i think two keynotes
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yeah two keynotes at computex this year i went to one let's just not do them
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anymore yep they are the worst thing ever yep there is nothing that i can
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learn in a keynote that i can't learn and like
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yeah i don't know the the most valuable thing i think we could do from a keynote
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um and the the keynote that i went to was an NVIDIA one and what i did was i
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just periscope live streamed the whole thing which like
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i did that because i don't think it was being live streamed right the the stream
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that i did uh twitch stream of at the NVIDIA event when i didn't have a table
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and was like crammed in these tiny freaking seats in the back trying to hold my camera up while supporting my
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laptop was horrible i don't even really know why people watched i tried to like
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i tried to even get reactions from like jay and the other people that are sitting beside me and i'd turn the
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camera in the HDMI cable
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because it wasn't a very stable connection um but there's like live
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tweets but then we don't have to be there in order to do that right
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i don't know um
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so this is actually this is actually sort of an ongoing
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and ongoing scandal so i don't know if some of you have seen it but sourcefed
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is claiming that google manipulated search results
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in favor of hillary clinton it's actually a very well constructed video a
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very compelling sounding argument for uh for how big this has become i'm
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surprised it doesn't have way more views yeah it's actually only got about a
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quarter million views let's go ahead and pop that up on our screen here so they
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basically say okay look uh here's the popularity of
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certain um search terms for example hillary
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clinton indictment and hillary clinton india you can see indictment is much
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more popular than india according to google's own interest over
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time and they point out that when you actually enter
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hillary clinton end into google search
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it comes up with indiana india independent voters
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indiana campaign absolutely nothing about indictment as a suggested search
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with the argument being made by sourcefed being that
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you should be suggesting search topics based on
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autocomplete based on what people are actually searching for that would start
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with those letters um
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so this is this is very quickly turning into and they they also showed like i
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think it was yahoo and bing typing the exact same thing in and yahoo being
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reacted the exact same way that they would have expected yeah so indictment
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was the top uh suggested with that said i wouldn't use bing search as an
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indication of what is relevant necessarily although they make again a
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good point it's very well constructed video actually i watched the whole thing
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start to finish i was like wow that was very cogent um anyway
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so they make the argument that if there's three people in a room and i
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think something along don't quote me on this again three people in a room and
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one of them says i'm in a room and two of them say i'm on the room's on fire
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you know you should probably go with the two people who are saying hey the room's
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on fire and not the person that it's what's relevant information i guess is
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the point um now the defense up on the verge already
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google denies oh and there's there's like there's like a whole like um
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illuminati thing about how um larry page
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uh funded or owns a company well i think
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that princeton campaign no no it's true yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean to be
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clear i'm not saying illuminati confirmed like you know uh
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mr peanut on the peanut butter jar the american not the illuminati yeah it's
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this like tech based company that larry page is funding that
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is yes helping hillary's campaign that is being
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uh contracted by hillary's campaign something to the tune of 177 177 000 in
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a quarter which sounds like a lot of money to normal people like you and me
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but this is important right now in the context of larry page that means nothing
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he probably keeps that amount of money in every pair of shoes in the event that
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he gets robbed and he needs to you know grab some money for walking around out
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of somewhere that the robber wouldn't have gotten it from yeah that sucks sorry to hear that
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and we're back illuminati freaking confirmed you were
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waiting on that the whole time rachel hillary clinton showed up outside the
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door of our warehouse walked in with like
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armed guards behind her dressed in black and told us well not us told our
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computer yeah you blue screen right now
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or we are not walking out of this place
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and it did it happened josh was there
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okay so the last thing happened our computer blue screen i'm not really sure
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what the deal was with that something to do with attempted switch from dpc which
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is something to do with maybe a real tech wireless driver we don't have any real tech devices in this computer mini
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card it seems to be like one of those catch all don't we don't have any of those that's
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that's for sure so let's get back into um into what i was talking about what
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the hell was i talking about before okay um so right uh medium dog
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where was i going with this okay so the verge has uh the verge has a good uh
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follow-up that basically says google denies altering search suggestions for
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hillary clinton and points out that some of the examples that sourcefed cites for
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example hillary clinton cri doesn't come
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up with crime in fact apply across the board
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google avoids auto-completing the word
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crime or criminal um so that they can avoid
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making disparaging comments about people who
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may not have actually committed a crime or may not be a criminal in fact they do
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so they've pointed this out this is uh who's this guy matt cutts
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is the currently on leave from his position as head of google's web spam
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team um
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so they do this for everyone else including people that have actually been
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charged and convicted very interesting um he also points out
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that those looking for negative stories don't necessarily type hillary's last
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name they actually mostly search apparently for i don't entirely know why
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he would know this if he's on leave no you might still well you might still
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know enough about the inner workings to come up with some examples that
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demonstrate the opposition okay the first part totally the the part
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where they're all looking for hillary not hillary clinton is like what well
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you can look for that though um like you can search for relevance like you can
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search for uh yeah yes they did people were searching for
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that so basically uh oh and so another thing
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they pointed out is that many results pop in when you type in donald trump
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racist but results also appear for hillary clinton racist
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um so there you go
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so basically the conclusion in the verge article here is they're likely trying to
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walk the line between providing as much information as they can and not stepping
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into a sort of gray legal area by say
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suggesting that someone could be a criminal um
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so here's a state a spokesperson's full statement on the matter google
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autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause claims to the
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contrary simply misunderstand how you type in donald trump rac yeah it comes
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with with donald trump racist if you type hillary clinton rac it comes with
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rachel race issue rachel maddow race
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2016. oh that's interesting i wonder if that is a regional thing as well
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yeah donald trump rac racist snl racist commercial racist articles racist rally
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it's all racist i don't know that racism is necessarily
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a hot button topic for hillary i doubt it
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i'm just saying that was said in there yeah that's very interesting doesn't
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seem true so here hold on we should we should probably do the demo live if
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we're going to if we're going to talk about this so hillary i don't even necessarily know
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because like so there you have it uh so racist costume is my
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sixth fifth fifth suggestion am i right mine only
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goes down to four browser thing probably oh no no i'm
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actually on the resolution thing or like uh
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zoom things i'm actually on google's website too you're doing the browser
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suggestions okay so there you go oh okay so
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i don't know yep no look it so that's a browser thing yep because
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i'm in firefox here in chrome oh yeah okay there you go so
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age email young news
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news twitter wife donald glover okay let's help it out a
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little bit news twitter wife net worth so there's nothing particularly incriminating there
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but it looks like as you continue to dig in and find examples you can find stuff
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that um appears to be a bit of an issue so there
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is an article over on medium.com that appears to have been done without help
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from google so here we go um search trends are a
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significant factor in how autocomplete works this is the entire basis for
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sourcefriends claiming yet according to their logic google must be favoring donald trump as well because they've got
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donald trump r a completely leaves out the quite common
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search term donald trump rape um which was the whole alleged thing with uh
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ivana trump where she eventually
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took back the statement but she claimed that he raped her so i guess i didn't
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follow that closely enough yeah so donald trump l.a
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okay so we've got donald trump lawsuits and donald trump laughing what is it
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coming with latest latest news latest last night laughing
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so at this point you're probably thinking this is a great point at this point
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you're probably thinking to yourself whoa you're just choosing random words and searching them and he's like yeah
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that's right i'm doing exactly that totally makes sense yeah which does make
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sense so i can definitely see how source fed came to the conclusion
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they did because you right there sitting there were like
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well hold on a second what about this this conflicts with that remembering
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that we're in a different region and i know that google does
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specifically target suggestions region by region
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so outside of america you might get very very different types of suggestions
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to do with any of the presidential candidates
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versus someone who's actually in the u.s so do i believe
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that google is 100 percent ethical
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no do i believe that they would be stupid
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it might not be a targeted thing to do something this blatant right um
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no i i i think this would be really dumb
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i also have a really hard time believing that hillary clinton is necessarily the
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candidate that like google as a whole would have decided is
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like ideal um
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so i mean she seems pretty impressionable better than trump i guess
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that's such a yeah that's a can of worms actually this
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is interesting i had um sort of changing topics i had dinner uh at computex with
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uh like a self-professed like die-hard trump supporter
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and um basically the conversation went
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something along the lines of people are like where's the tech talk
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this is tech by the way just saying the google stuff yeah the google stuff and
28:42
what i'm telling you about right now was a conversation i had at computex tech is
28:46
right in there um so basically he he like was just out of
28:51
absolutely nowhere we were talking about something to do with AMD's strategy for
28:55
fire pro cards and distribution channels or something like a legitimately tech
28:59
conversation and then he goes something something
29:03
something you know my boy donald something something something and
29:07
and then he's like well and we're like oh okay so you're a trump
29:11
supporter like as if it was not obvious at that point and he goes yeah you know
29:15
blah blah blah blah blah of course i am why what are you like well canadian he's
29:20
like oh you're socialist then like well you know what a
29:25
not necessarily for one thing
29:28
and b um who cares because at a business
29:33
dinner the last thing that i'm gonna be talking about is socialism for donald
29:37
trump that is like completely inappropriate
29:42
so so yeah but uh hey he's not afraid to speak his
29:46
mind just like his boy donald it's all good
29:50
um however inappropriate or appropriate it
29:54
might be weren't we supposed to be talking about the 4k ready playstation
30:00
yeah i have no no idea how we got how did we i think he
30:03
said no i think we stopped i think we were done no no we never made it past
30:08
the headline we talked about e3 and go no because because i saw this over here
30:13
and i realized it wasn't on the dock yeah we never got no i'm going through
30:17
what we did talk about we talked about three we talked about going to e3 and why we don't anymore we suck at that so
30:23
we said it won't be at e3 which was in the headline yeah and then we're like we
30:27
won't be at e3 either yeah okay so let's talk about the playstation 4 console
30:32
upgrade to be clear there doesn't seem to be any indication that this is an
30:37
upgrade in the sense that you can upgrade your existing console it looks
30:40
like there will be an upgraded playstation 4 that will include a faster
30:44
processor 4k resolutions oh man i got
30:48
such a kick out of the endless
30:52
endless playstation fanboys back at the time of launch that were like yeah 4k
30:57
support's coming actually it's not actually it isn't because
31:02
because actually the HDMI port on the playstation is not going to output it so
31:07
pay for one so there's that um
31:10
yeah so technically 4k sport is coming to places yes if you buy a completely
31:14
new device just not yours um i'll offer
31:17
4k resolution support and improved graphics presumably it will also have
31:22
support for playstation vr although i
31:25
don't know if playstation vr is going to
31:29
be supported on the existing playstation 4 do you know this no
31:32
i don't know this hmm that has been an interesting why are your things like off
31:37
your screen that's weird
31:40
i don't know if that's a known thing on
31:44
ps4 yeah i i actually i actually don't
31:47
know so 500 headband display blah blah blah blah blah blah upcoming virtual
31:52
reality headset for the ps4 console but what's interesting is that the only
31:57
confirmation that we have is that there will be an upgraded ps4
32:01
they're not actually calling it something else yeah so if they said ps
32:05
vr is for the playstation 4. i mean if this is like a
32:09
oh man because there has been some confusing stuff that's gone on in
32:12
console generations before you know mini versions and you know cooler running
32:17
versions and the halo versions and all kinds of
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different different stuff that actually in some cases can have very different
32:24
hardware and software limitations i mean early playstation 3's had backwards
32:28
compatibility with hardware you can install Linux on them they're actually
32:31
still really cool and then that completely got kicked out those things
32:34
are worth money on ebay they are because you can make them computers like there's
32:38
a isn't there like a military data center or server or something
32:42
that's playstation threes i think it's like defunct now but i'm sure but like
32:46
okay it was a thing it wasn't there i mean um it might have just been
32:50
experimental that's also very possible anyway the console will be priced higher
32:54
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there we go uh also in the lineup today as i fix it
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actual legitimate sponsor that actually sponsors the show
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there there are closer ones if you're looking for a kit they're like
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right there there's an entire bin of them right
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there ifixit is probably the sponsor who
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actually sponsors the show that i get accused of like
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of like discreetly working in product
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placements for more often than any other because i legitimately use ri fix-it
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stuff all the time ifixit.com is your complete diy electronics repair solution
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from there yeah over there that's what i said see he's going over there now from
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their huge inventory of replacement parts and tools we've used ifixit stuff
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for everything from screwdrivers for taking stuff apart to suction cups for
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taking stuff apart too um
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well like more better screwdrivers for taking stuff apart to lots of different
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bits for the screw these are actually this is like an old kit too but we've got like tons of ip it's funny the old
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kit is the one we have here because i took the new one home it's got more
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driver bits it's the one i was looking for yeah better spudgers it's going with
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the wrong ones more suction cups it's just generally like super awesome uh
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we've ordered replacement parts from them for putting the imac uh the 5k imac
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that i reviewed back together after i opened it up in order to take it apart
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for some reason why did i think that was a good idea anyway i took it apart and put it back
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together and all their tools are backed by ifixit's lifetime warranty the
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10 bucks oh no ah my talking points are wrong
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five bucks off on a purchase of 10 or more my talking points are exactly
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correct i just saw the 10 and i jumped the gun there speaking of jumping the
36:56
gun
36:59
i have a link to the cooler master store here that i am supposed to follow
37:03
ah yes my friends so cm store dash usa.com has all kinds of interesting
37:10
stuff everything from cooler master and
37:13
uh basically yes everything from cooler masters their free-form modular stuff
37:18
expected to find that like if you saw the cooler master uh video
37:23
from uh computex you would have seen some of these things already so those things are
37:27
made by primo chill actually yeah so these are a little like you can change
37:31
the look of the front of your case and the uh power supply basement area to
37:36
this like crazy blue thing if that's not
37:40
your style there's a bunch of other stuff you can do you can get official stuff from
37:44
cooler master too which includes like the this crazy handle on the top of the
37:48
case this actually ties in really well to the thing that i was criticizing
37:52
about ASUS concept pc that they had at the show that that one that all
37:57
assembles with hard pcbs um and the problem is that
38:02
they were like oh yeah we'll have like modular upgrades for
38:06
uh rear i o so that an older motherboard could have like usb type c and you would
38:11
just have this module that you slot in and i was like well by the time the
38:14
distributor and the retailer and the shipper remember you have to get it to a
38:18
distributor then to a retailer then to the customer all take their cut these
38:22
things are going to be inordinately expensive you might as well just buy a new motherboard you need a controller
38:26
for that too um the controller is actually in the like upgrade module
38:30
that's what i'm saying so it's gonna be really expensive yeah so so well okay so
38:34
the product manager for the claims it wasn't but i was like yes it is sure
38:38
um so cooler master buy stocking because
38:41
that's been a big problem for cases too i bought a windowed side panel for an
38:47
antec p160 so that was
38:51
12 years ago um anyway so i did that it took like five
38:57
weeks to special order because there was like
39:00
one in the entire country and that's the way it was then and that's the way it is
39:04
today when it comes to accessories for computer cases
39:09
because you just can't stock enough of them
39:12
in all the right distribution areas in order to have timely fulfillment of
39:16
those orders be possible and that was a windowed side panel and it's a
39:19
relatively common thing we're not talking like like a freaking you know
39:23
like slashed like front panel thing so i actually see cooler masters
39:29
cooler master store as an interesting solution to that
39:32
problem because cooler master themselves is handling this doesn't have to stock a
39:36
ton of them yeah they can just say okay stock five
39:42
is they buy the things from the makers and then resell them too which is pretty
39:46
cool so you know that like cooler master is tracking their
39:50
stock and like all this other kind of stuff which actually makes sense
39:53
so i think it's pretty cool so the other thing we're supposed to mention i guess is the um
39:58
the master case maker 5. so make it what you will i know luke you
40:03
especially had a lot of skepticism in your brain and in your heart and
40:07
probably in your pants about cooler masters whole maker branding and there
40:11
are still some products here we're still doing a cooler master sponsor spot but
40:14
i'm not afraid to criticize them during a sponsor spot there are still some
40:18
cooler master products that i look at the maker branding and i just go like
40:21
what exactly is maker about this but i've got to give them the vision for
40:25
the case at ces they announced that they were going to have this store here we
40:28
are six months later they have products in it so they are working on it they are
40:32
trying to make it actually like maker in some way yeah i don't
40:37
understand how like uh beautiful honestly looking power
40:41
supply uh happens to be maker but
40:45
i do appreciate that they did follow up on the store thing i i like it probably
40:49
would have helped if i said it in the original video but the first time i covered their free-form modular system
40:53
stuff yeah was last computex not the most recent one
40:57
and i gave them like a year or whatever and i talked to you about it not that
41:01
long ago yeah going where is that where is that store thing because it's not
41:06
here yet and then it showed up like three weeks or a month before computex
41:10
or something and i was like all right okay okay all right you made it not by
41:14
much but you made it but we'll give you that one cooler master you made it get
41:19
it yep you liked it i got it
41:23
beautiful yep make it beautiful
41:27
make her it beautiful all right let's talk about beautiful community
41:31
interaction the original article here is from engadget
41:35
riot used league of legends chat logs
41:39
to spot bad staff
41:42
apparently looking closely at what employees say online it's a good thing i
41:46
don't do that or ed probably wouldn't have a job anymore
41:50
so riot gaines looked at employees chat logs and found a correlation between
41:55
their behavior in and out of game they
41:58
worked with google's work staff analytics team and picked through the last 12 months
42:03
of each staffers league of legends gameplay records and
42:08
chat logs they found that a quarter of the people they had fired in the last
42:12
year so they had fired prior to knowing
42:16
had shown unusually high levels of toxic
42:20
behavior in game armed with this information riot used it
42:24
to proactively address the problem with remaining staff so they singled out 30
42:29
employees all of whom were actually fairly new to the company and gave them
42:33
two options those who got a stern warning and those
42:36
who should be let go and then during the meetings many
42:39
employees expressed regret at how they behaved in game they received essays
42:43
from employees vowing to change their ways and the report ended with riot's
42:48
intention to request league of legends user names from all future hires for
42:53
similar analysis
42:57
so yeah like social media investigation
43:03
by potential and current employers just got real very very real like i
43:09
wouldn't be and you know what it's it's funny because if you'd asked me
43:13
yesterday what is social media i would have said i
43:17
don't know twitter facebook youtube um and a lot of people don't even think
43:22
of youtube like i only think of it because youtube is my primary social
43:26
platform i think a lot of people don't think yeah yeah i guess because you yeah okay a lot
43:30
of people watch a video i mean what percentage leave a comment under the video it feels more like a tv viewing
43:36
thing yes instead of a inter communication thing like twitter and
43:39
facebook but it absolutely is it is a social media platform um i'm not saying
43:44
i would not have said the game i played last saturday night
43:53
so let's get a straw poll going on here like
43:57
oh straw poll is what riot did okay
44:04
oh and i'm not putting in turnip because
44:08
i've this is like the requesting kind of a big deal here these are names
44:12
seems a little weird does it not for future employees
44:16
okay so before we before we get into the answer to that question um
44:22
let me say this when i applied at ncix
44:26
i actually went out of my way to include
44:30
my forum username yeah so they could review
44:34
my posting history on their site i'm not going to say who but uh certain people
44:40
on like the forum and certain people that i know through twitch and stuff
44:43
yeah have included their handles for the line of sections forum for
44:48
certain jobs that they have gotten and that has been part of it so
44:52
other jobs yeah i actually do totally does one of them
44:56
have the initial cc
45:00
fairly prominent member real initials oh
45:03
uh i'll talk to you later oh okay okay i'm just i'm idly curious yeah yeah i'll
45:08
talk to you later i have no problem telling you but i'll talk to you okay um
45:11
and like it's worked and it's helped them and i understand the voluntary
45:15
giving of those things yeah and like
45:18
having riot be like it's a good thing if you give us your username
45:23
is probably i just i think it's because aren't there certain legal requirements
45:27
but what you're even allowed to ask you can spin it both i i sincerely doubt
45:32
a gamer handle is even covered but i
45:35
could see ryan spending it both ways because they could spin it to every
45:39
candidate this way if you give us your league of legends
45:42
username it enables us to help you the
45:46
good candidate get a job
45:50
but the implication the implied
45:53
back side of that story is that it helps weed out potential
45:58
jackasses during the interview process so so some
46:02
questions that you can't ask is what is your religious affiliation are you
46:07
pregnant what is your political affiliation what is your race color or
46:10
ethnicity although if you're in an interview uh anyways sometimes it's not
46:15
obvious sure most people think my wife is uh i think i get a lot of people
46:19
saying she might be filipina but she's not
46:23
sure um that's a good point how old are you are you disabled are you married do
46:27
you have uh children or plan to uh are
46:30
you in debt do you drink or smoke
46:33
socially socially i guess um
46:37
so in that social drink so in that sense
46:42
if riot asks for your username
46:46
they because they could very indirectly get the answer to like everything there
46:49
they could get the answers to pretty much all of that especially because that
46:53
probably includes whispers
46:56
what if it doesn't though let's say it doesn't let's assume let's assume let's
46:59
let's give the benefit of the doubt let's say it doesn't include whispers right okay so let's say it only includes
47:04
public chat but by the time you post that information on
47:09
a public server have you forfeiting yeah have you have
47:14
you put that information on your forehead no because there's also implied
47:17
anonymity through your username you're not playing
47:21
as Linus sebastian right you're playing as
47:24
whatever i do because i give up but sure yeah but like okay you know what i mean
47:28
though yeah yeah yeah i give up too um i don't actually use my
47:33
real name but yeah i give up uh i twitch stream what was i
47:37
supposed to do um but yeah like i don't know
47:41
okay so let's let's hear from the viewers this is split pretty much right
47:44
down the middle i saw that we've got 53 percent of you saying it's okay
47:49
riot has the right to know what you and you
47:53
know what it might be in their eula somewhere riot has the right to know before you
47:57
work for them that's our neighbor what you posted on their privately owned
48:04
servers which is an interesting point
48:07
riot probably has terms in their eula
48:11
that entitle them to ownership of everything that gets posted in much the
48:14
same way that linustechtips.com owns anything you post on it sure
48:18
through the end user license it doesn't have to do with you forfeiting the information of your user name right but
48:23
you knowingly and willingly posted that
48:27
with maybe you figured you were anonymous but you weren't according to
48:31
the end user license agreement you willingly and knowingly posted that
48:36
publicly yeah yeah but so it's still it's still
48:40
not forfeiting your username because you could falsify your personal data that's
48:43
true but if the eula
48:46
says you're not allowed to do that euliss also don't hold up like ever
48:50
that's true they don't but
48:54
if riot's company policy is that all employees subject to termination if they
48:59
fail to comply need to follow the eula but can you can you go around say
49:05
if there was i'm going into three articles here yeah if that list of stuff
49:08
that i just said included gamer tag for whatever reason
49:14
would circumventing that by saying that they have to follow the eula is that
49:18
legal i guess john and i don't think it comes down to
49:21
legality or not legality because ultimately
49:25
you can you can control what an employee
49:28
posts on your privately owned servers as
49:32
a company yeah it's not about control though this is reading the last 12 months right so
49:36
going back and looking at it well ultimately because there could be a code
49:40
of conduct within the company where you have to act a certain way yeah like
49:44
costco has a code of ethics yeah they have like an entire handbook
49:48
it's like this thick it's like here's uh you know here's the
49:51
value up to which you can accept a dinner from someone here's this that
49:55
that that that and that um you know you know what's funny is i have
50:01
actually kind of talked myself into it
50:06
you're also an employer no but even outside of that because
50:12
while i because we've talked about this before yeah and
50:16
i don't remember what stance i took but you know
50:19
whatever we have uh to give some insight we have
50:23
uh necessarily changed opinions but but
50:27
added information to what we thought about a person that was going through an
50:31
interview process with us by looking at their social media yes oh long time ago
50:36
you were in on that did i was it was their twitter account yeah okay okay
50:40
this was uh this was a long time ago did they twitter
50:44
i think the twitter account was was given to us okay so it was given to us
50:47
yeah okay but we clearly have no problem looking at social media for things now
50:52
with that said i personally don't really
50:56
like this the reason why i don't really like this is because of the implied
51:00
anonymity of your username if you post something on twitter or to a public
51:05
facebook account that is very searchable and is directly
51:08
attached to your name i think of course that's searchable by your employer i
51:12
don't think you have to forfeit those accounts but they're under your name and
51:16
are searchable so whatever
51:20
so i don't like
51:24
the idea of creeping something that wasn't provided
51:29
yeah especially if it's a third party so if
51:32
riot was saying you have to provide your facebook username because i've heard of
51:36
employers demanding this you have to you have to
51:40
you know what's your facebook yeah and we're we intend to look at it like if
51:44
they demanded that that's one thing and that to me is actually very different
51:50
from demanding to know what potential employees or current employees because
51:54
they only did this for current employees and then the potential employees is moving forward now so they did this for
51:58
current employees yeah what your current employees are posting on a server you
52:02
own yeah i was just going to say that's also a different thing because it's their platform and i could definitely
52:07
see this this might change my opinion a little bit because it's their platform
52:12
that's like how they are treading on your turf yeah
52:16
it's how they are representing your brand i was applying this to like any
52:20
gamer tag right so like if you played wow
52:24
and league of legends they would want to have both of them you
52:27
know what i mean yeah but that's what they don't have no i know because they
52:31
wouldn't have the ability to do that anyway right so but i think that would be more wrong
52:37
anyway yeah i think so too i think what an important the treading on your turf
52:41
wanting to know your stuff for your own servers i actually totally see that if
52:45
if someone wanted to apply to work here and we're on the forum i would want to know what their account was and would
52:49
want to see how they conducted themselves on the forum i wouldn't ask for their other accounts
52:53
so i actually i guess i do agree with it i just don't agree with it as a a gamer
52:58
tag in general a gamertag in general feels like it should just be
53:03
this is my escape is in land yeah that's that's
53:06
what i was trying to defend it's your anonymous area you should just sometimes
53:10
you role play that's the thing roleplaying is a thing
53:14
how i behave as a gamer tag shouldn't
53:18
necessarily be the be all and end all of someone how of how someone interprets
53:22
who i am and what i am as a person but i also see where riot's coming from which
53:27
is if you're role-playing an [ __ ]
53:31
to the community of our paying customers who you're trying to apply for and will
53:35
be representing in some way or another yeah who you're ultimately serving at
53:39
your like freaking day job that you're paying for riot is gonna want someone
53:43
who uh like compared to a negative person they
53:47
would want someone who's trying to make the community better because that's the
53:51
exact same kind of deal as the person in the interview
53:55
uh who is actively trying to find ways
53:59
and offer up ways that they could improve the company and
54:03
who have pre-thought about these things like like the
54:06
the standard thing like if you're applying for a social media position being like oh i have these
54:11
ideas for improving your social media situation because i've already looked at
54:14
what you're doing and analyze what you're doing and thought about it and tried these practices and whatnot that's
54:19
a very good thing to bring to that interview
54:22
bringing to that interview that you obviously didn't care and are
54:26
contributing to a toxic environment which place pokemon says someone was
54:30
role-playing at me real hard in an overwatch match i played last night
54:35
we're not saying that playing an [ __ ] is okay
54:39
we're just saying that i think we specifically didn't yeah it
54:43
might not necessarily be who you are as a person yeah
54:46
um okay teamviewer confirms
54:50
number of abused user accounts is
54:53
significant uh the original article here is from bleepingcomputer.com
54:58
they apologize but they still say they were not compromised which is something
55:03
that has yet to be actually proven even
55:07
though redditers and some blogs out there have
55:11
offered up some evidence that looks fairly compelling to suggest that they
55:15
were indeed compromised so uh what well they were
55:21
definitely compromised the the question is whether or not team viewer
55:26
was compromised like their records that that's their compromise yeah um but team
55:30
viewer accounts were definitely kind we're definitely compromised so the
55:35
suggested course of action it right now is to protect your accounts with secure
55:40
passwords that are frequently changed have reliable anti-malware and security
55:44
solutions in place at all times and enable two-factor authentication that's
55:48
what teamviewer is suggesting um there's other stuff that you can do uh the way
55:51
that i was once compromised well not not
55:54
me personally i've never been compromised i'm not compromising
55:59
not i don't know what i'm talking about anymore anyway the way the Linus tech tips channel was compromised was through
56:04
a key logger um where i did not have
56:07
two-factor authentication enabled because i don't remember if it was
56:10
available yet i doubt it was back then it was a long time ago anyway um
56:14
so through a key logger so one of the other ways that you can avoid getting
56:18
your password sniped by a key logger is by having something like a password
56:22
keeper like lastpass one thing that people are questioning is they're saying
56:28
i had a two-step enabled and they still got in
56:32
we don't have any confirmations of these things but hearing that is bad
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um one one thing that i'm gonna say is uh not to bring this up again but
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quite a while ago we had a breach on the last sections forum which super mega
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sucked and
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even if that wasn't our fault
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you still have to kind of be a little more proactive you should
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probably considering this as an exploit that's going against your software
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sure their breach isn't your fault but it's still an exploit that is widely
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significantly going against your software you should probably
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inform your users yep that this could be a problem suggest password changes
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password actively through email suggest two-step they have my email address one
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thing i can't reach was like busted our email reputation by making sure that we
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hammered emails out as fast as we could to all of our users yeah which actually
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hurt us in the longer term no one from hot no one at a microsoft domain got an
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email from us for months for a very long time including password reset emails yeah
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which was a nightmare thanks microsoft we were just trying to help people and
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then they ignored us for months with trying to get anyway anyways
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um so pretty much the way the attack works is
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people are breaking into your team viewer into your computer with
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teamviewer and then they are using presumably saved passwords on your
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computer please don't do that for example if you have a password
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keeper i don't understand why this isn't a default option but actually while
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you're in your next security audit can you run around to make sure everyone has it set to timeout after a very short
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period of time make sure your password keeper times out like for the love of
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everything that is valuable to you time out your password keeper the whole
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point so what they're doing is they're going into
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whether it's you're using chrome to save your password which by the way is really stupid um or firefox save your passwords
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which by the way is even super stupider because it saves it in plain text in a
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file in like data roaming local whatever it is
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um what was i oh yeah so then they're using
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your saved passwords to drain your bank account and your paypal
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which there's not a whole lot that um anyone can do about once it's done if
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the action was effectively done by you
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um right we've got a lot of topics left
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some of which i like really did want to uh
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talk about real quick here um
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where'd it go um
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uh where where did it go
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maybe up no i've had like looking forward i had something i really wanted to do like
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tied into the teamviewer one i had like a segway and everything and it's
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completely not in my mind anymore this
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no no it was cool this
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no that's cool too but not not as cool
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um oh well
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yeah oh this no oh that ties in yeah no i know it was
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like something else like it might not have actually oh this is a dock
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uh oh yeah wait no no this oh this apparently got rejected
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i don't know i don't know why uh why did that get rejected
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um i don't know i actually don't know
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um oh okay well i don't know why it was
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rejected so i'm not gonna go too far into it but uh
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twitch troll donates fifty thousand dollars to streamers paypal allegedly
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refuses to refund maybe we don't actually have confirmation on whether
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paypal is refunding it or not ah yeah okay nick nick is nick is filling it in
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for me conflicting reports okay so i was gonna try and tie that in well i think
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that pretty much wraps it up for the lan show i do want to do a call out for nerd
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sports guys if you haven't already uh
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check it out over on vessel they offer a seven day free trial night vision
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they offer a seven day free trial where you can see uh Linus tech tips tech
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quickie and Channel Super Fun content seven days ahead of time uh as well as a
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bunch of other creators and it should also be noted that nerd sports uh all
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five episodes of which are up there
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and for whatever reason not particularly searchable there it is
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it's one word apparently uh all five of which are watchable curling ice hockey
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dodgeball lacrosse and volleyball where
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we the keyboard warriors take on real athletes in the sports of their choosing
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the curling one was funny you guys suck you almost got it those are my uh inputs
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thank you you almost got there i almost got the other guys really didn't help oh
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my god karen what were you doing they really let me down that is not how
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you try to be the lead of a team they really let me down in a big way
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so thank you very much guys
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um we will see you again next week same bat
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time same bat channel
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foreign