The WAN Show - Apple vs The Feds, Round 2.. FIGHT! - Feb 19, 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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all right welcome to the WAN Show we uh
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uh are restarting due to some technical difficulties so you'll have to bear with
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us we've got a lot of great topics for this week the hpl X3 leaked a Hollywood
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hospital succumbs to a hacker to a
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hacker and the federal judge orders Apple to help the FBI
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decrypt an iPhone 5c Apple responds with
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an open letter oh yeah the last thing is the Pentagon orders Windows 10 to be
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installed on approximately 4 million devices by January
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2017 that's crazy yeah that's crazy we'll get to why that's crazy later in
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the meantime I'm going to roll the
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intro guess they didn't want a redo of Windows
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XP or maybe they do want a redo of Windows XP where they run it forever so
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they just are like okay it has been 15
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years we are ready to run a different
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operating system for the next 15 years
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and for some reason we've decided that Windows 10 is the one that we're going
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with there are a lot of things I like about Windows 10 but there are certainly
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some that I do not okay so let's kick this off for those of you watching live
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on Twitch who are wondering what the heck just happened there where I was
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literally mid-sentence literally not touching anything well that was my life
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in a nutshell I stand Here totally innocently hands off everything doing
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absolutely nothing wrong and Boop stuff dies
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so this is the graphics card that was in the wow PC before we started streaming
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today for some reason the Shroud is like
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this which is not a thing that it was like before so that's confusing uh this
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is a 5 550 TI um that is no longer good so I'm
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going to go ahead and you know find out what's inside
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it what the heck is going on with that shroud I don't know like I don't
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understand there's pieces of plastic falling out of it I don't
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understand what's holding this piece on
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and I don't understand what made this piece fall off well like something broke
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there's like chunks of plastic falling out of it but the thing about that is
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that it hasn't been touched since it was
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installed and no one ever touched a graphics card that hardcore right there
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there we go oh yeah so so they clip on to the to the heat sink itself I guess
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so let's just had enough of your crap 550
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TI I'm trying to trying to do it without like breaking it breaking it it's kind
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of dead I know it's kind of dead but it's only kind of dead maybe that's part
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of the problem maybe sometimes I just have too much faith in in Hardware's
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ability to be like only sort of dead I should just kind of go okay we got one
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driver crash that's it time for the bin
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um also I'm sitting in a chair that some
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[ __ ] tilted the base of it like way
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back so I'm like sitting with my legs up like this basically like in like my
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body's in like a V shape and it's making my back hurt so I'm in a totally foul
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mood today but that's okay because it's all about you guys and we have a stream
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to do so damn it everyone in the twitch chat was are doing a stream virtually
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hugging you were they virtually hugging meh thank you you know
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what twitch chat you should
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Okay so we've already Meed their new
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slogan um all right so federal judge
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orders Apple to help the FBI decrypt the
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San Bernardino killer iPhone 5c Apple
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responds with an open letter to their customers that is obviously also
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intended to address the FBI's demand so
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this was posted originally by Blaze 756 in the Forum I'm going to go ahead and
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pop up that message a message to our customers on apple.com the United States
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government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens
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the security of our customers we oppose this order which has impl implications
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far beyond the legal case at hand because on the surface this all looks
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very reasonable okay we need to get some information off of this Killer's phone
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in order to better investigate the case or whatever it is that they need to do
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frankly once you kill someone you kind of as far as far as I'm concerned you're
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kind of fair game um you know if someone needs to Snoop around in your stuff to
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find out how many people you've been killing or how you killed them or where
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you put the bodies then I think you kind of give up your uh you give that up at
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that point um but Apple makes a good
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point what the FBI is effectively asking
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them to do is build in a back door so
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they they they're asking Apple to make a new version of iOS um circumventing
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several important security features and then they want to install it on an
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iPhone recovered during the investigation so in the wrong hands this
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software which does not exist would have
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the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone's physical possession because
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that is a really interesting point the iPhone and iOS the one way that you
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could break into it would be an iOS
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update yeah that does not have the security features that Apple believes be
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in there y so Apple actually made a
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choice in 2014 to remove itself from
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being able to access encrypted devices so that means if you know um
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grandpa you know Joe and Grandma Jill or
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whatever one of them dies and the other one can't get into the phone or the iPad
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Apple straight up cannot decrypt the device yeah um and you know there's a
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there's a lot of arguments to be made on both side personally I totally respect
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that I think respecting the user privacy is the right thing for Apple to do
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especially in the context of what their competitors are doing whether it's
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Microsoft or Google where it's all about uh collecting customer information
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collect collect collect monetize all that stuff I think that's one of Apple's
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truly differentiating points in the marketplace today and like a really good
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one and I I found this kind of weird for a while and I'm happy that the tech
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Tech Community seems to be getting behind Apple for this because for a long
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time we've been kind of talking on stuff like the W show about that you know
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really horrible Android security and
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like all these other giant security problems then Apple's just sitting over
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there with like kind of a great ecosystem in terms of security and
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encrypted things and whatnot and everyone hates on them everyone loves to
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bring up the fening uh but that was not
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an apple encryption breach no like no
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that was that was social engineering allowing people to get their hands on
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someone else's data which which there honestly no no amount of nothing Apple
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can do can can prevent that um yeah see
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already twitch chat is like yeah we know we know um people are
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like Luke looks so tired I am tired yeah
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it's I don't even understand why it's been such a long week like it just has
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everything I've done has just been hard this week well yeah and like this is my
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10th
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video cuz four four Tech quickies one
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Channel Super Fun right theoretically four LTDs see I didn't even get that
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much done and one way yeah so there you
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go anyway so where where are we at here
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like thanks to John the tech cookies weren't that hard but like it's it's
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still a lot of stuff and like uh the one
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lus Tech tips that isn't done yet oh yeah I mean it's possible that a
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few of the people that are helping me are even watching right now I'm just like oh yeah jeez wow that's going to be
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a fun series to update in the
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future hopefully it'll be easier than this one anyway back to the uh the Apple
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thing Apple has several days before it has to file a formal
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response um the justice department says that Apple's defensive encryption is
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just a marketing stunt which I totally
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do not agree that that is the case at
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all and if neither side is happy with Apple's response the case will be
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escalated to the court of appeals for the 9th circuit and could escalate as
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far as the Supreme Court taking up to several years this is great Donald Trump
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you are the man um Donald Trump calls for an apple
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boycott until they respond uh until they
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decrypt the phone basically it's like
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okay a you've clearly shown that
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you don't understand what the larger
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issue is here and B
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um I think that's that's about it
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I I I genuinely I genuinely think that
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there is a very good chance he will be president though really I really
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do we'll see I I truly do I don't know
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enough about American politics speaking of uh presidential candidates this was
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posted by Sam fiser on the Forum original article here is from the BBC
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and uh John McAfee has offered to decrypt the phone says he only needs 3
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weeks and he will use social engineering in order to do so and um he is also I
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didn't even know this but also apparently running for president as a
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Libertarian what yeah um hold on a
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second let me just uh so if you guys don't know who John McAfee is you
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probably should you know that annoying software which by the way he has nothing
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to do with anymore he left the company ages ago but that McAfee software that's
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him he made uh you know commercial
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antivirus for basically the first time I think is uh is his sort of claim to fame
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um he's kind of crazy yeah in a very entertaining way yeah but he's kind of
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crazy so I mean that he's he's got the at least he's got some of the right
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ideas here though that's for sure he's Keen to unlock the device himself
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because he doesn't want Apple to have to implement a back door and I mean uh this
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is a this is a really good point from Tim Cook and he says the government SU
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suggests this tool could only be used once on one phone but that's not true
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once created this technique could be used over and over again on any number
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of devices in the physical world it would
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be the equivalent of a master key capable of opening hundreds of millions
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of locks um no reasonable person would find that acceptable and I agree with
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them 100% apparently so does John McAfee
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um so he basically says if Apple creates
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this tool and implements this back door it will be the beginning of the end for
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America that's maybe a little rough which
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is that might be a little much but uh maybe maybe a little bit sensationalist
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but um says also that he will eat his sh shoe on television if they can't break
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the encryption on the phone
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um so there's that anyway here here's the McAfee 2016 page just in case you
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were curious I don't think uh I don't think anyone is actually planning to
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vote for I mean look at this why is this website so bad I know right what the
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heck uninstall the system wow wow that
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looks horrible pretty sure this is a joke I may be wrong though cuz I
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legitimately I legitimately hadn't heard
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that he was running and I legitimately
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cannot possibly believe that this is true I'm sure that twitch chat is uh I'm
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sure twitch chat is exploding right now but uh C people saying I'd vote for him
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I'd vote for maca um you
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should oh no never said that in twitch chat good job that's awful good work
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twitch chat we love you guys all right
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what is going on there I don't know I don't know why is
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life hard
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why why don't you
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mean just here you go okay all right it
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settled down right everybody needs to just settle down okay thank you I hate
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this I hate today I just want to go to bed yeah today s I just want to go go to
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sleep and be done with today which I'm not going to be able to to do because I
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need to fix that server after work today
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so um all right this is good this was posted by Ragnarok Dell my back is so
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sore from sitting in this chair like this want Swit I no it's okay because I
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want the pain right now because the pain will fuel my anger for after the show
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when I go and find whoever set it up like this take their chair away from
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them rip it out from under them and put this chair under them so that they can
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experience what they have
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done that is why I want to sit in the chair so the Pentagon orders Windows 10
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to be installed on All 4 million of its
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PCS by 2017 so if your company hasn't yet
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upgraded to Windows 10 your ID it department is quickly running out of
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excuses actually I can think of a lot of excuses um do should we take turns
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coming up with excuses you want the low hanging fruit go for it search yeah go
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for it search so you basically can't find anything ever um on a computer
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that's running over there I needed to install Heaven Benchmark just cuz I I
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needed Heaven Benchmark I installed it and then typed heaven in the start menu
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and nothing came up I go find the bad this is a fantastic demo this is my
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favorite Windows 10 search is terrible and this is this is I'm talking when the
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start menu opens we've got a couple machines here in the office that have
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issues with the start menu even opening like oh yes yeah yeah uh it's a global
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thing I know on my machine upstairs what I usually have to do to search for
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something is Click cortan once then click it and Skype what part of what I
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did sounded like I'd like to talk to you right now all right so what I have to do
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is I have to click it once and then again and then I can click the start
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menu and I can get that open okay so get this okay so this is a great tool Rufus
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um for creating bootable thumb drives so
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all right you've got a lot of great suggestions here Rufus Rufus Wayne W
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yeah I heard there was a secret chord that Microsoft played and it made their
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start menus work internally so they apparently aren't aware of these bugs
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um just playing Rufus uh here we go
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Rufus USB Rufus and murdog whatever that oh look at this oh it did find a search
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result on my computer that's weird why did it find the folder but not the
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executable why there was something I was looking
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for on my computer uh I don't I can't say the name cuz it'll spoil the video
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that's coming up um but I typed in the name of the program that I needed and it
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gave me the config file and not the executable I was just
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like why I've ran the executable so many
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times and I've never read the config file like and it's just it's just
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frustrating cuz Windows 8 it works fine Windows 7 I can search for rofus I'm
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very sorry you guys I just realized I
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accidentally killed all of the entire thing uh no we don't no the compressor
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is the compressor is not working um sorry for screaming sorry for screaming
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anyway I'm I'm up I'm upset about that because I search for Rufus a lot because
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I never remember where I put it and uh apparently I'm kylo Ren because you just
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cleaved everyone that's a good H it's a good analogy good job yeah his voice is
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the unstable lightsaber yeah thank you for
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that this is my mask this is my I'm
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tired mask is I'm hosting the rest of the W
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show a long week oh oh man all right anyway so this
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will be the largest deployment of Windows 10 since it's released 6 months
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ago and represents a huge milestone for
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Microsoft because if there is anyone that it is difficult to get to upgrade
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their their Windows operating systems it is the military so the funny thing about
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this is a lot of the machines being upgraded are going to be Windows XP
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machines or newer machines that are running in Windows XP just for the laws
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yeah um so the upgrade will include
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Windows hello which is their biometric security system that's embedded into the
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OS that allows you to use fingerprint scanners or even retinal scanners to
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sign in to Windows uh or yes it actually allows you to use a variety of different
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authentication methods
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um yeah I I kind of feel like Windows
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hello hasn't been vetted to the point where I would want it deployed in a
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military application but um maybe they
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did I doubt
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it yeah I don't know man
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um yeah oh man sorry usually I can like
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I can contain yawns for the sake of
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having something resembling a modicum of
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professionalism throughout this show but I am just bushwack like my whole family
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got sick this week between did you get it my no I was going to ask you earlier
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today if you got it so between my son and daughter and wife um there were
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probably somewhere between 15 and 20 upchucks in the last 3 days wow like
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everyone was sick wow my aunt got sick
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um our babysitter got sick I am still not sick but my aunt was
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saying apparently this bugs you can stay contagious 7 days after you stop showing
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symptoms so there is still plenty of time for me to get hit by it but um oh
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man let's go ahead and talk about talk about this this is kind of a this is
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kind of a big deal the HP Elite X3 leaked before Mobile World Congress this
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was posted by Casual Gamer on the Forum let's go ahead and uh pull up the WM
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power user.com windowsmobile power user.com that's the kind of site that
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you start thinking like someday
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Microsoft will get their crap together and there will be someone who wants to
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visit this
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site oh anyway this does look like a
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pretty darn cool little device it features a Snapdragon 820 processor 4
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gigs of RAM 32 gigs of storage to up to 200 gigs of expandable micro SD Storage
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IP67 water and dust resistance um a 16
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megapixel rear camera 8el front camera ah yes here's this is where it
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gets really interesting so it's got a type-c USB 3.0 connector on the bottom
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and apparently support for Continuum so if you don't remember what
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Continuum is because Microsoft talked about it and then promptly there was
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nothing that used it so we all forgot about it Continuum allows you to have
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the desktop is experience with your
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mobile device by using a USB type-c adapter to go out to HDMI or some kind
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of a display output to a fullsize monitor and even break out to USB uh
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input devices like a keyboard and mouse
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pretty freaking sick so because there is an ARM compatible version of office what
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you could do is you could actually work
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on like office documents on your keyboard and mouse save all your work to
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your phone unplug bibity Bop off you go and you can use it as as a phone
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Continuum also allows you I mean this is all in theory I've never personally used
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it also allows you to use your phone as a touchpad if for whatever reason you
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are one of the bizarre human beings who
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uses a touchpad when they're at their desktop as they're
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like for some reason I I know people that do that I do too and people are
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like yeah gestures you know here's a gesture
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this is called the right finger down gesture brings up the contextual menu a
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lot faster than you know touch and hold
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and people are like oh but like gestures
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and I'm like here's a gesture it's called shortcut keys on your keyboard
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like anyway um keyboard shortcuts yeah
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thank you keyboard shortcuts um some people would get
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that oh right oh yeah people are upset we're not posting the links in chat I
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forgot and apparently you forgot anyway
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we're sorry we're sorry we suck we're terrible you guys can you guys can hate
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on us all you want to be completely honest I know you're in like a
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everything has to suck right now mode but that that is my job that is my fault
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that's okay I can take responsibility for that one but that's okay that
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doesn't help me everything sucks now you suck I had faith in
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you damn it all you've done is drag me down even more now way to go
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Luke no it's okay I'm not mad I'm just disappointed that's
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worse
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no all right this is a cool topic so
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this was posted by kamish SS on the
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Forum and it is the ringing Bells Freedom
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251 smartphone I'm going to pull up the uh gadgets. dendy tv.com article
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here this is by far the okay can can we
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can we not wow wow I have never seen a popup
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like this site will open in 5 seconds if you do not click it away it clicks on
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the popup for you whoa that is awesome
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you are a terrible terrible site Gadget 360 look at the
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ads oh man whoa wow how are any of
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providers here okay with uh the amount
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of ads wow all right scroll down wow ads
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on the side and then all of a sudden it's just like ads wow 10 Canadian
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dating sites that really work I want to know what those Canadian dating sites
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are I've never even heard of this that's top seven top
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seven you couldn't even get that right
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even the website's called top 10 I'm just disappointed Ashley Madison isn't
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on here so yeah I'm pretty much done with that now that's disappointing um
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all right so here we go ringing Bells is set to officially unveil the freedom 251
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smartphones so the price is because it
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costs 251 I believe rs's rupees because this
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is in India I'm fairly sure that they
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also have the rupee in India we also have the rupee in Canada now um ever
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since the the dollar slid with the price of oil anyway I digress so what that's
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equivalent to is approximately $4
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$4 I mean real dollars not Canadian dollars $4 making it the cheapest
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smartphone in the world and it goes on sale I believe
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uh yesterday looks like it was a yesterday at 6: a.m. now there are some
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issues with the way they're bringing it to Market you have to reserve it online
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which if you're going to kind of go okay this is the device that's going to like
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connect the Indian people who have no
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devices and no connectivity then they may not have an internet connection or a
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device to do that but maybe they have a buddy or a library or whatever else you
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know you know hopefully they can get that figured out and um the other issue
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with this launch is that it is unclear
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at this time whether this is an ongoing
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price or whether this is umal starting
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price or something yeah whether it's just a promotional starting price if it is an on going price obviously it's
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heavily subsidized in fact um let me just pull up uh I think it was Indian
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express.com had a really good article about it as well uh here let me just let
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me just pull this up this site is significantly less obnoxious but uh
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let's see if they have any dating advice apparently
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theyve apparently the government has been given uh been giving them immense
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support through the make in India
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program uh however this is what's weird
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because uh there's actually a sticker
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that is uh covering up that it is actually an Adcom icon 4 which is
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significantly more expensive so it's just got a sticker on the rear panel to
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conceal that branding so that's not even
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an indian-made device what so I don't
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really maybe the sticker get that yeah
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um buy the phone and call it a component and then put the stick ER on it and then
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they're like it boom it's made yeah so let's talk let's talk specs
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um so to be clear that other device I think costs about the equivalent of uh
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something like4 or or $50 um so that's closer to what it
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actually cost to make a device like this I saw an estimate that it costs about
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$40 to manufacture this thing so the
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issue if this is just an introductory price is it sets a really unrealistic
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expectation um for smartphone pricing because we are we are so far away from
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$4 being achievable for a device that's running Android 5.1
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lollipop um a 4in QHD IPS display wow
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yeah is that even right I'm a little bit worried about whether that QHD IPS
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display spec is right all the other ones are like wow that's impressive that
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one's kind of ridiculous might be HD it's got to be it's got to be HD and I I
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would be surprised if it's actually IPS do you want to investigate that I'm already okay anyway it's got a 1.3 GHz
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quad core a gig of RAM 8 gigs of storage expandable storage by up to 32 gigs and
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a 3.2 megapixel rear camera 1450 mamp
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battery 3G support dual SIM support and a 1-year warranty 4in IPS display
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resolution unspecified there you go all
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right so that's more like it so that you know wait did you know the name of that phone that they're just rest stickering
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I can look that up uh yeah but they I mean you never know they may have
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actually made some changes like it's possible that they reused tooling but
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then oh so I remember this is there's a
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lot of Corners you have to cut to sell a smartphone for $4 okay so if like if
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like a bunch of casings were like a bad batch or something and they were like
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gee we don't know what to do with these who whoa don't throw those in the garbage we'll put our phone in it I I I
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don't that could actually be a thing think that's entirely impossible no so
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the other sort of negative takeaway if this is not ongoing pricing is that it
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actually does nothing to revolutionize the connectivity of India and the Indian
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people as as a country and as a the people in that country um especially
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because like if it gets out that it's not a permanent price a whole bunch of
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people are just going to buy it and flip it yep and then you end up with it
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costing and it's and that's one of those things that frustrates me is like I
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don't mind stuff being expensive
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actually um like I don't I don't mind
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charging a fair price for a good
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product um I if you have a good product that is
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worth x amount I would like to I would rather see the
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manufacturer take that margin that they
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earned by designing and bringing this good product to Market i' would rather
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the manufacturer take it than some jerk on eBay oh yeah so did you kind of get
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where I was going with this yeah yeah while I it's it's kind of like the uh it
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doesn't work this way but how annoyingly frustrating it is to have to uh purchase
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scalped tickets yep or uh brand new game consoles yeah like PlayStation 4s and to
29:41
a lesser degree Xbox Ones back when they
29:46
launched uh yeah for sure when when something is in severe demand and people
29:51
just grab it and flip it it's really annoying because it's not even as easy
29:54
to get anymore yeah it's it's way more expensive which is dumb and it's
29:58
actually really difficult and hard to get which is dumb yep and we're just
30:01
we're lining the pockets of jerks on eBay uh
30:05
couriers um who else I mean there's
30:09
depending on where you buy from and who you sell to there's potential double
30:13
taxation involved in something like this um because you know these people aren't
30:17
set up as like resellers they're not going to write off that PlayStation that
30:21
they bought at Best Buy as a you know taxable like business expense and then
30:27
like collect TA from the buyer and submit all that no no one's going to do
30:30
that so they're just kind of kind of go okay yeah I had to pay 10% tax on it so
30:34
now it's 440 plus whatever markup I want
30:37
like we're just we're just giving it away so tell me
30:41
something would you be okay with surge
30:45
pricing at launch would you rather to would you
30:50
rather the manufacturer have it to that
30:54
degree oh wow that's a disgusting to go
30:58
down no uh the reason why I say that is
31:02
almost everything that I buy doesn't sell out and I don't have to buy it
31:05
online scalp okay so if we just start doing
31:09
surge pricing at launch they're just going to be like oh well 10 people
31:13
bought it time to engage serd price mode
31:17
okay so hold on a second then I mean is there a difference between surge pricing
31:23
and just the early adopter tax the early
31:26
adopter uh yes like what if the what if the surge
31:31
pricing that I'm talking about was not necessarily like oh you know the factory
31:34
is a little behind let's let's uh hike up the price what if it was only at the
31:38
beginning what if they were like okay for the first 10 days the Xbox 2 or
31:46
whatever they call whatever the next one's going to be the Xbox 2 costs
31:52
$600 after that it will be $400 so if
31:56
they actually had a tiered launch so if you it knowing full well
32:03
that you can buy one for $200 Less in like let's say some finite and
32:07
reasonable amount of time would you be okay with them just just bending over
32:15
the people who must have it on launch day I wouldn't care and would just wait
32:20
but but are you okay with the concept I think it's dirty
32:25
marketing is it is it marketing to like
32:29
jack up the price temporarily cuz like you make a premier crowd like maybe you
32:34
make it so that um because people aren't just going to just have that so like
32:38
Halo as a launch title is going to have like this 10day event right at the
32:43
beginning which is only during the high price time and like you can get some
32:47
special skins if you play during the 10day event I think we just
32:51
singlehandedly solved the console
32:54
scalping problem if anyone from Xbox or
32:58
Playstation watches this stream how much you want to bet there's going to be okay
33:04
okay no this doesn't solve the problem literally makes it worse no no no it
33:07
solves the problem for them not for anyone else how does it solve it for
33:10
them oh so you think oh hold on hold on okay so let me let me recap this because
33:14
I think I think I jumped I think I I lo
33:17
I I lost your train of thought here I think I'm back on it so what you're
33:21
saying is if normally a console is $400
33:24
at launch and we go okay there's a twoe event where it's 600 $ you think instead
33:29
of them ebaying for $800 they're going to eBay for
33:33
$1,200 so you think we've just we've singleand made it way worse
33:39
yeah 100% twitch chat's like damn it l is
33:43
stop giving them
33:48
ideas that's okay that's okay I don't think anyone from Microsoft's Xbox
33:52
division or uh did did PlayStation break off from Sony now do I have to call it
33:56
PlayStation I don't know I'll just say Xbox and Playstation I
34:00
don't think anyone is actually watching this but like what if oh man oh how do
34:05
okay so how do we how do we make it more
34:08
expensive without making it
34:12
enticing because that way no because no because that way people people won't
34:17
want it that bad but no no company is
34:21
going to be like all right let's make let's make our product less
34:25
enticing let's hike the price moft was
34:29
try Microsoft was trying pretty hard to do that with the connect oh my God okay
34:36
let's make it less enticing and cost $100
34:41
more so maybe we're not giving them ideas after all maybe maybe they knew
34:46
about all of this already oh man um okay
34:50
here someone in twitch chat this is a pretty good idea no games during the
34:54
first two weeks
35:00
so he just like everyone's favorite game when you look on social system
35:06
settings or or it could be all only
35:10
Early Access games oh so the people that
35:14
we're screwing over are the people who deserve it the
35:17
most the people who pre-order
35:20
everything oh my God that should be the new launch titles for consoles yeah it's
35:25
all Early Access games so they don't
35:28
call it the launch they call it early
35:31
access so you actually pay more to get
35:35
an early access console yeah that is
35:38
literally like they could even call it like like like uh like like Xbox the
35:45
like slightly flawed yeah but then you know those will be worth more that's
35:50
like having a coin that's got a head on both sides like everyone's going to want
35:54
the flawed one even like a dead flawed one will probably be worth cuz you could
35:58
put the innards of a working one in
36:03
it man someone's like insane console
36:06
pricing you should oh hold on hold on hold
36:12
on yeah
36:16
yay uh you know what I guess that leads us pretty well into our SP feel okay
36:20
they just did this overlay thing where you can see like the buttons in the top
36:23
corner and the bar and the Bottom bar and the middle thing saying you should or whatever I have a serious feeling
36:28
that's going to become a meme you should it's just going to be like some like
36:33
random image in the background and then that you should thing over top of it oh
36:37
I think that's already happening for sure So speaking of you should
36:43
squarespace.com you're looking to build a website then should use
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squarespace.com you've got all kinds of great templates all you got to do is
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pick out the one that is the best for your beautiful website if you wanted to
36:58
go ahead and have like an e-commerce module integrated in your site all of
37:02
them include that and uh when you're
37:06
setting it up you should make sure that you get all of your you know photos and
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pricing done correctly and uh they've got a they've got a free trial that
37:15
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crap I was doing so well sign up for a
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year cuz they'll throw in a domain for you for nothing so uh Squarespace you
37:47
should build it beautiful all right that was pretty good
37:52
uh next up we've got linda.com which I
37:55
actually uh finally started like
37:58
actually not just like playing around with it to validate okay these guys are
38:02
like real and they're not just a total scam or anything um I am starting on
38:07
some networking stuff because I am a networking Noob and Johnny the network
38:11
guy let me down pretty hardcore this week oh um released because I I
38:17
specifically asked him this I was like okay I'm doing a point-to-point guide so
38:21
you can have 10 gbit Nicks linked directly between the computers and they both have W connections with a separate
38:25
Nick I'm like tell me the guidelines
38:28
because I knew I knew there were guidelines I was like tell me the guidelines for what IP addresses I can
38:33
use and use public ones and he used public ones he was like yeah it's fine
38:38
and you know what realistically it's probably fine unless I happened to want
38:43
to access that particular HP it turns
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out it was HP Reserve public IPS unless
38:50
I wanted to access that particular HP site it wasn't like helip packard.com it
38:54
was like who knows yeah um it would have
38:58
been fine I would have literally never run into that but I believe in following
39:04
best practices and I asked him not once
39:07
but three times are you sure he's like
39:11
yeah it's fine I'm like are you sure he's like yeah it's fine so half the
39:15
comments on that video are Linus you need to get a new network guy poor
39:19
Johnny it's okay Johnny's Johnny's mostly pretty good anyway the point is I
39:23
started on the basics I have to say for
39:26
me it was a little frustrating how basic the like the very basic like beginner
39:31
course was but I was like okay no I'm going to I'm going to power through this
39:34
because might be some weird term or whatever yeah yep yep there there were I
39:38
have I have a better understanding of a ring topology Network than I did before
39:43
um as irrelevant as that is in the Modern
39:47
Age um yeah but it's okay it's okay
39:51
they've you know they're they're laying the groundwork so I'm I'm working on
39:54
that and anyway so linda.com is used by millions people around the world they
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have more than 3,000 courses available taught by industry experts they have topics like networking web development
40:03
uh photography visual design business and also software like Excel WordPress
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and Photoshop and you can get a 10-day free trial which gives you all you can
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40:15
just $25 a month and if you spend a
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dollarshaveclub.com Linus is the place to go to join the club if I don't shave
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this it gets really bad cuz the the don't I don't get like those cool beards
40:58
where everything just goes down like in a nice line and it goes mine's like is
41:03
there such thing as a good neck beard well cuz you're literally pointing at
41:07
your neck saying if I don't it's like this section of my neck meaning that
41:10
when you grow it out it turns into this a big full beard ah theoretically but
41:14
mine's just like and it's bad at least you have facial hair I just look like my
41:20
face is kind of dirty
41:25
yeah so that's why so that's why I need
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dollarshaveclub.com all right so let's move into our next topic here this was
42:15
posted by giving TNT on the Forum this is the reflex the Revolutionary full
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color high definition bendable smartphone that you won't have your
42:23
hands on anytime in the next 5 years
42:26
very cool technology it actually includes not just a bendable display and
42:31
obviously in internal components of some
42:34
sort um not just a bendable display but
42:38
also haptic feedback so what the example
42:41
they're showing right there is bending the display to flip the page in some
42:45
kind of a graphic novel or comic and uh
42:49
it actually gives you haptic feedback that's like Flip Flip you're you're flipping the page Isn't that cool um
42:54
when you're playing Angry Birds for example what it can do is it can have
42:58
like a very tactile sort of experience with the stretching back of the rubber
43:02
band and then the releasing of it yeah pretty cool I've actually got an Angry
43:07
Bird's um arcade game at the uh at
43:10
Castle Fun Park out in Abbotsford now it was new the last time I went there so I
43:14
think it's I think it's pretty new that's probably pretty new yeah yeah it's it's actually pretty clever so it's
43:18
just Angry Birds um on a giant
43:21
touchscreen display at the end of like a long tube it's probably about the size
43:25
of like the the small like basketball thing and then it's got a launcher which
43:30
I wish was a was like a slingshot but
43:33
it's not it's just a pinball pulley thing it's okay cuz you at least have a
43:37
thing you can hold and kind of the experience is all right and it's just
43:40
got a little inflatable ball inside that you fling and it's a touchcreen so it
43:44
knows where it hits and then it detects the hit and it knocks down the crab that's cool I was like yeah yeah okay I
43:48
guess that's worth a120 a play are you for real Castle Fun Park yeah the good
43:53
news is that my kids are young so they don't actually realize half the time
43:57
that the game's not on so like we go there with four people
44:04
we kill like an hour and a half two hours we spend like 20
44:08
bucks that's awesome and like the pool tables there are really crappy so no
44:13
one's ever really on them so we go and um like when we get bored of the other
44:17
stuff we we load up we uh it's like a buck 20 to to to get all the balls we
44:22
put them in the middle of the table and then the kids just like using the sticks
44:26
or my actually just gets up on the pool table and just puts them in the puts
44:30
them in the pockets and then my wife and I just walk around and like grab them
44:33
before they go down and put them back on and as long as no one's waiting no one's ever really yelled at us we just got
44:38
like a a one-year-old like crawling around on top of the They Don't Really
44:41
Care again as long as no one's waiting they're pretty chill and we're there
44:45
we're spending money I mean there's like two two employees working for minimum
44:49
wage and no one else there ever so yeah I finally got my son to go in the
44:55
when's the last time you went there pretty relatively recently okay so did
44:58
you see that like uh break the lasers or Dodge the lasers room so every time
45:03
we've gone there which is like three or four times now I've been like do you want to go in there he
45:08
like he's kind of kind of a shy kid anyway he's like so the last time I was
45:15
like I was just because I I thought he would like it right okay should we
45:18
should give context it it brings you into a room that's all like matte black
45:22
on the inside and there's random lasers shooting in a bunch of different directions and you have to work your way
45:26
through through the room without tripping the lasers uh there's two
45:29
different games you can play I'm going to describe this one first without breaking the lasers and then hold your
45:33
hand on a panel and then someone else has to do the same thing and they have to hold their hand on the panel then you
45:37
have to work your way all the way back or they just have lasers going all over
45:41
the place and you have to run through and cross them all as fast as you can
45:45
and it's timed and it's timed um so anyway I asked him if he wanted to do
45:48
that one cuz I figured for a three-year-old the just break all the lasers is probably going to be the
45:53
easiest thing and he goes no no I want to do the other one I go oh okay so what
45:58
I didn't realize is that a two-player mode costs exactly twice as much and B
46:05
once we went inside if you play two-player mode dodging around the
46:08
lasers and holding your hands on the like they look like handprint scanner
46:12
things like it's kind of you know o stealthy um you have to split up yeah so
46:17
we're in this dark room that he never really wanted to go into in the first
46:21
place finally gave in to me about and I'm like go over there don't touch the
46:24
beans okay hold your hands on there and he's just like
46:29
so at the game it only lasts like a minute the the game turns off he's like
46:33
Dad I want to go outside now I'm like yep we're never going in here again this
46:38
is his Space Mountain my my dad took me
46:41
on Space Mountain when I was like six never forgave him still remember to this
46:45
day I I didn't ride a roller coaster for a
46:48
decade I'm dead serious like and I didn't enjoy roller coasters until I was
46:53
in like my early 20s wa yeah all right
46:56
like like that was that was one of my scarred for life experiences as a kid
47:01
was riding Space Mountain when I was a really little kid so uh if you guys are
47:05
thinking you know you want to you want to pull one over on your kids and uh and
47:11
give them an experience to remember when they're really young then Space
47:15
Mountain I want to go back into do the ninja one you should oh man I didn't see
47:20
the switch I should have caught that uh I want to go back and do the ninja one
47:24
but with tighter clothes I was wearing a baggy shirt so I'd try to like ARM over
47:28
something and the shirt would just cross it we should do the ninja one cuz quite frankly I had a terrible teammate last
47:33
time I'd be down I'd be down I'm kind of big that's okay to try to dodge lasers
47:38
but I'll wear tighter clothes and I'm super down I'm down for anything that
47:41
involves you wearing tighter clothes godamn it I saw that I mean do we have
47:45
to invite the ladies on this double date I mean technically no technically we
47:50
probably should all right uh this was posted by the point blank on the Forum
47:54
original article here is from Android release the cat S60 is the first phone
48:00
with an fli thermal camera built in now
48:03
this isn't the first cat phone although the first one I kind of looked and went
48:07
okay so it's a ruggedized phone with very middling specs it's very expensive
48:10
I'm not that interested in this moving on this one has got my attention this is
48:16
very cool same thing somewhat middling specs I think they quote Octor
48:21
Snapdragon which uh oh no no actually they say it's a it is a Snapdragon 617
48:26
so again not topof the line but certainly capable uh 4.7 in HD
48:31
capacitive multitouch um so that's only 720p but it does have Auto wet finger
48:36
and glove support it is drop proof to 1.8 m which is pretty darn impressive so
48:41
that's about 5T uh for the Yanks out there um has a strengthened diecast
48:47
frame uh optimized battery performance so 3,800 Milah hour battery combine that
48:52
with the 720p screen and the Snapdragon 617 that thing is going to all when it
48:57
comes to battery life and it's got 32
49:01
gigs of uh store uh 32 gigs of storage 3
49:05
gigs of RAM runs Android marshmallow coming later on super bright display
49:09
typical 540 nits not too shabby Gorilla
49:12
Glass 4 but it is all about that thermal
49:15
camera so check out this picture this is back on Android police here that's super
49:20
cool this is the first dual camera implementation that I've seen that makes
49:24
any sense yeah the 1 M8 was just stupid
49:27
like oh we have a depth camera so that you can do this stupid gimmick that
49:32
looks terrible and is bad
49:36
um this is cool so it combines the
49:39
thermal camera with the regular camera to give you real image Clarity with the
49:46
thermal information overlaid how
49:49
freaking handy would that be for a contractor you want to know which pipes
49:53
got the hot water in itow it's you want to know if some wires
49:58
in the wall are heating up very very cool and I can see this
50:04
being useful for all kinds of stuff like even for me like is something in that
50:08
system overheating bow we're going to
50:11
get tired of that bow thing eventually but
50:16
I'm oh I'm never going to get tired of you should no like come up with a new
50:21
catchphrase we find some way to make it ridiculous y it's like heaven forbid
50:25
they came up with something with like swear words in
50:28
it like Squarespace F
50:33
yeah that would be the best Company motto ever everyone would know about it
50:38
it would be in the news everywhere yes and no it seems like people get over it
50:42
like a [ __ ] audio like no one really no one really flinches anymore that's true
50:47
but like they did put the like fcuk that's not edgy anymore yeah it's true
50:52
clothing brand yeah yeah people just get
50:56
people will become immune to anything that's true yeah become pretty numb to
51:01
like Reddit that's the word I was looking for numb uh this was posted by
51:04
yummy chicken Blue On The Forum the original article here is from Forbes
51:07
Apple finally addresses the error 53
51:13
issue that causes people who replace
51:16
their home button and then upgrade their
51:19
OS to not be able to use their phone it
51:23
just would brick so Apple's former stance on this
51:28
was well you had your handset repaired by a non-authorized technician so I
51:33
guess we'll just break your phone because you're a jerk and we hate you
51:40
um yeah so apparently error 53 was
51:43
supposed to be a factory test that was not intended to affect
51:47
customers um and all it would just say was the iPhone could not be updated an
51:52
unknown error occurred fortunately they
51:55
finally issued a patch so it's build number 13 D20 in the most current mobile
52:00
operating system iOS 9.2.1 that will allow people dealing with the error 53
52:04
issue to plug into iTunes and update so
52:10
yay so it'll restore bricked iPhones um
52:13
some repair dude who has like 50 air 53
52:17
bricked iphon sitting on a shelf somewhere is just
52:20
like yeah so stoked
52:27
however um the patched version of 9.2.1
52:31
will not permit Touch ID to start working again unless it has been
52:34
verified by an official Apple technician so you'll have to take it to an Apple
52:39
repair center to verify that it is properly
52:42
secured um the official stance here is that there are shady technicians out
52:46
there that could allow malicious access to your data otherwise I mean that is
52:50
maybe not a bad point there are some pretty skilled folks out there who could
52:55
solder some pretty grabbing things while they're in Flight
52:59
stuff and put that into a phone I
53:02
suppose so as long as they are willing
53:05
to allow me to repair it myself and at least just like give it the old hey yeah
53:10
you did it okay then I'm all right with that it is unclear how much apple is
53:15
going to be charging however for this
53:20
verification I don't know that doesn't mean no one knows but I certainly don't
53:24
know speaking of things that I don't know I don't how the crap this works Alo
53:28
Fox posted this on the Forum original article here is from The Verge
53:32
five-dimensional glass diss can store data for up to
53:36
13.8 billion years so we have officially
53:40
preserved the King James version of the Holy Bible for people 13.8 billion years
53:45
from now and that is will work
53:49
apparently even up to nearly
53:52
200° C so to put this in the appropriate
53:56
cont context a standardized disc so that
53:59
same Blu-ray that is now capable of holding 128 gigs of data would be able
54:05
to hold 360 terabytes of
54:09
data safely within glass it's using and
54:13
I I am not a a a physicist here but it's
54:17
using something to do with the uh Nano
54:20
gradings that change how light is reflected and encodes the data in five
54:25
dimensions and that's why they can store data so densely compared to traditional
54:30
Optical discs uh scientists believe this could be commercialized in the not too
54:35
distant
54:38
future another big deal this week this was posted by spaghetti carbonara on the
54:42
Forum is that Twitter Shadow Banning is
54:46
apparently real and happening every day
54:49
says an inside source now I don't know
54:54
how much of this is tinfoil hatwar ing I
54:57
didn't have time to look into this report myself so we just have to trust
55:02
Colton to have done it correctly see which that whole 5D thing literally in
55:07
the article it says that the location in space is on the X Y and Zed
55:12
axis so it's not 5D unless it's like a
55:20
location and a trajectory and something
55:23
else but it's not moving so
55:31
I hate it when people do that anyways moving on some Twitter
55:35
shadowbanning thing uh yeah so there were rumors that Twitter had begun
55:39
shadowbanning politically inconvenient users that has been confirmed allegedly
55:45
by a source inside the company according to the source which I don't know if we
55:49
can believe because whenever it's Source we're calling this rumor um Twitter
55:54
maintains a whit list and Black List the
55:57
white list is people who are of Caucasian descent and the black no I'm
56:02
just kidding it's the the more the more you didn't even catch that did you no I
56:06
said the white list was Caucasians oh my God it's just a joke uh the white list
56:12
is apparently users who are are okay to
56:15
broadcast their tweets all over the place and the Blacklist is apparently
56:19
users that are being somewhat or fully
56:22
shadowbanned so instead of just Banning the user directly their Conta is hidden
56:26
from the public view so this is a pretty common practice on things like online
56:30
communities in fact uh we're going to be working on a shadow Banning feature on
56:34
the lineus tech tips Forum um the way that we're planning to use it is very
56:38
very different from this however so what
56:41
they're effectively doing is hiding these blacklisted users content from the
56:45
public view so Twitter users have allegedly is a rumor been reporting
56:50
tweets from popular conservatives members of alternative rights cultural
56:54
Libertarians and antip PC dissidents
56:57
that have been disappearing from their timelines interesting yeah so kind of a
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big deal I mean I saw someone's comment uh in the thread that was like oh
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whatever no big deal it's just Twitter I mean it's like there's private company
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they can do whatever they want but when you're as big as Twitter when
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you have as much influence on the world
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and the way people perceive it um you
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have kind of a responsibility obligation yeah um I mean back to how we plan to
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use Shadow Banning features uh the way that we had discussed it was giving
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people timeouts from each other if there are users that cannot get along and are
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starting flame Wars with each other all the time uh we might start
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implementing um Shadow bands between those users so they just straight up
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can't talk to each other and we would tell people that we're doing it we're like look we're giving you a time out
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you're done you're not talking to each other anymore unless you create
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duplicate accounts which by the way is against the term a service and we'll get
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both of your accounts permanently permanently nuclearized then we'll ban
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them both so yep so so basically like
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there are valid reasons if you have a
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platform that you have to moderate like something that people don't necessarily
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realize is that Community sites are at
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least partially responsible for the content that's on them we can't post
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Google ads online tech tips.com anymore
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because of some questionable material that was posted by members bunch of
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people post posted anime porn thank you for that um so ultimately we have to
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moderate this site and if we're having problems then Shadow Banning can be in a
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very effective way to get rid of it but I think you have to maintain a certain
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level of uh transparency and you have to maintain your integrity as well you
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can't just start you know shadowbanning people you don't agree with I mean if
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that were the case I actually posted this right in the thread I was like my
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response to you Miss entho is proof that we don't believe in censoring people
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that we regularly disagree
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with because I do believe that Linus Tech tips.com aside from you know being
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excellent to each other and abiding by the terms of service I believe it should
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be an a place for open discussion and we allow any criticism I mean the
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only the only personal attacks we don't allow are from members to members you
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can go after an admin in any way you
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want I would way rather you publicly attacked me and you publicly attacked
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some other user on the site yep so our users and our moderators because they
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are they are volunteers you guys okay they're nice people our users and our
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moderators are off limits but if there's something you don't like you can let me
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or Luke have what for about it if that's what floats your boat I also want to
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cover this real quick if there's a moderator that does something that you
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don't like um we're not a fan of you
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trying to spit roast them in front of everyone on the site because again
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they're volunteers and they're really just trying to help everyone and it's
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really kind of shitty when you're trying to help everyone and you get publicly
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roasted yeah Mage me about it and we can
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talk about what happened and you should
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you should message me about it um and there's uh there's been a lot of stuff
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there there's sometimes where I'll be like yeah no you're wrong sorry bye and
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then there's also times where sometimes permanently by I've seen that
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happen yeah um you're wrong and honestly
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your punishment wasn't severe enough yeah that has happened um it has also
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happened where I went okay n maybe they were having a bad day let's make this a
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little bit easier um so yeah anyways so
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that's pretty much it for the W show today thanks for watching thanks to Def guy 91 for the pizza today and we will
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see you again next week same bat Time
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same bat Channel
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bye oh my my goodness the YouTube announce video announcing the stream
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never went up I guess that means I don't have to pull it down yeah but this is
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one of the weeks I actually remembered to pull it down so there's that
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who why does it look
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weird I don't know why anything anymore
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it I don't know I just I Hate Everything
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uh sorry guys no after party today because I'm I'm super tired and I want
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to go home and sleep actually I want to fix the server and then go home and
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sleep