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I'm even gonna jump away from some of the ones that we did as our teasers at the beginning. Some smart TVs have started just inserting ads into content on their own. That's smart. Cool. France is deploying anti-drone drones at their nuclear plants. There's some stuff going on. Like a lot of stuff going on at frozen CPU. No one is sure exactly what kind of stuff's going on. Also, Apple's activation lock is like seriously reducing theft of smartphones all kind of around the world. And Nvidia is digging even freaking deeper and disabled 900M overclocking with a new driver. So, yeah. Can you drive underground? Yes. They do that for mining. And our sponsors for the show today are linda.com. Dollar Shave Club. Oh, is that a new one? What's that? Xsplit. Is that that software we use? Yeah. Is that that software that we've been using since we started on the WAN show that we always used to complain about, but now that we like? Yeah. Oh, look at that. All right, guys. So, let's get right into our first topic here. Nvidia digs deep as latest 347.29 driver on the GTX 900M series disables overclocking. Are you in the Twitch chat? Cause I sure am not. This was posted by Kubaru. I can post it. I've got it in a ways. All right. I just want to get the Twitch chat open. I'm using a different laptop this week because there was a bit of an unfortunate occurrence last week thanks to me using my general purpose, personal and work laptop on the stream and a technical complication that basically, it's a long story. And the original article here is from Tech Power Up. I'm going to go ahead and screen share with you guys so you can have a quick boo at this. And some notebooks. So notably we did a review of the G751J something or other, whatever. The G751, Asus's updated G750 that features, dang it Tech Power Up. Just mute. I guess I can do that. I'm not screen sharing right now. I'm not? Oh, you are. How was that not going through? I don't know. Yeah. I couldn't hear it. Huh. That's bizarre. Anyway. Okay. So, right. So we have a G751 that we reviewed. It did have albeit very limited overclocking features enabled and Nvidia has pushed out a driver update that disables that not only on the 970M and 980M, but my understanding is there's also another, another graphics. I think it's the 860M has also had overclocking disabled on it. So you'll have to, you'll have to correct me on that. Someone in chat says 860M and 850M. And 850M too. So basically Nvidia, so some users were upset cause they kind of go, yo dog. So I was overclocking my GPU and my temps were all cool. Get it? Temps were cool because cool is good. Lack of heat. Lack of heat. Or lower amount of heat. Excellent thermal dissipation. So my temps are great. I was getting all this extra performance. I got a new driver update so I could play whatever new game it is that the kids play these days. And boom, no overclocking all of a sudden. So Nvidia has clarified that GTX 900M series overclocking was enabled by accident and has therefore since been disabled. Users were incensed, arguing that they should be able to use their hardware as they choose, even if it does void the warranty. Overclocking has been allowed on mobile GPUs from Nvidia in the past, but we've seen them become a lot more restrictive even on the desktop side in recent years. And every architecture seems to add some new functionality designed to let the GPU manage itself versus paying really any attention to user intervention. So my take on this is one, you shouldn't be overclocking your notebook GPU anyway. So there's that. Two, I think it's a dick move. Because if you wanna break your stuff, it should be your right to break your stuff. Now, something that has always baffled me about the whole overclocking thing, where manufacturers will say overclocking voids your warranty, and then they never had any way to tell. Like if you've ever taken like an iPad into an Apple store and for warranty replacement, the first thing they do is they whip out a flashlight and they look inside the connectors for those moisture strips or in those moisture color change things. Because if they're gonna say, hey look, your warranty's void if you drop it in the water, then they better have a bloody way to actually back it up. Otherwise it's all just this, it's just gum flapping. So something that baffles me is why doesn't Nvidia just allow us to do whatever we want with it and then actually void the warranty? Huh? Ah. Ah. Ah. Why don't you just enforce the policy you already had instead of making a new policy that just makes people mad at you? And if it was enabled in the past, oh man, on like previous, if it was enabled on previous. I was just, hey! If it was enabled on previous versions of Nvidia mobile GPUs, they should just tell people, they're having a big communications problem these days. Yeah. They need to just tell people that it would not be enabled on the new one. If they told people it would not be possible and then it was accidentally possible and then they took it away, that's a totally different story. I mean, people will still be upset. Yeah. And I would still get it. Yeah. But it's incredibly frustrating how incorrectly Nvidia goes about a lot of this stuff. And you know what? I get it. Honestly, this is probably something that comes about due to higher and higher end graphics cores being implemented in these like thin and light designs that we're gonna thermal throttle or be on the edge of it, like barely make it. Like stuff like the GS70, like these super thin designs, Aorus's X7 Pro, hyper thin SLI enabled notebooks, they actually don't throttle. But as soon as you go ahead and you start turning things up, they will. So that's gonna create a bad user experience, gonna potentially make the chips run even hotter, therefore reducing their lifespan. And the thing about something that's meant to be implemented into a finished goods product, like a notebook GPU is that when that dies, like let's say your desktop, GTX970, that's a what? $400 graphics card. Let's say that GPU burns out because someone was irresponsible and they overclocked it, they cooked it, whatever the case may be. If that dies, now that- Which is kinda hard these days with the GPU boost, but regardless. If that dies, then that's a $400 army replacement that the manufacturer then has to deal with. You know, your Asus or Gigabyte or MSI or whatever else the case may be. If your laptop GPU dies, all of a sudden, we're talking about a $2,000 replacement. Or let's say at the lower end of these high-end GPUs, you know, a $1,500, $1,800, even up to, you know, $3,000 device that is now effectively bricked. Now you can make arguments for, oh, well then, you know, they should be doing mobile GPUs on MXM modules anyway so that I could just replace the graphics card. And there are arguments to be made for that. But if you've seen the kinds of notebooks that feature replaceable graphics cards, stuff like the GT80 Titan from MSI, it's like two inches thick. Like- Also. And expensive. There is more involved in making that stuff modular and in designing an interchangeable system for the cards and the cooling slots, because none of that stuff's standard, and it's never going to be. I get people messaging me all the time, suggesting that we do a video about doing a custom-built notebook. Custom-built notebooks died ages ago. Like, my laptop that I got for university. So this was back in, how old am I? 2004, I guess. So this is about, man, I'm old. Okay, so this is over 10 years ago. It was an ASUS M5NE. And this was back when laptop displays were like five by four. It was a 12 inch, which was a big deal at the time. You could get an extended battery that stuck out the bottom like this much. Those were awesome. Yeah, yeah. And acted as a keyboard incline. Yeah, exactly. That's why I said they're awesome. They were actually really good. So those were fricking awesome. But aside from that, so, you know, having like six hours of battery life on a laptop back in those days was like amazing. So that one, I bare bones built it. So I bought my own CPU from Canada computers. I bought some RAM, I bought a drive, and then I bought a bare bones unit from NCIX. And I put it together and I realized that I had saved exactly $0. And that was when custom laptops died for me. And the fact that they make them even less upgradable and customizable now doesn't cost the consumer any more money. It just gets us better designs. Things like the Razer Blade 14 would not be possible if they were gonna try and go, oh, well, we also have to build in the ability to upgrade the graphics card. Gee, how are we gonna do that? We can't. Things like RAM and storage still really need to be upgradable. And that's something that really irked me about the Blade 14, the last edition that I covered. But I think I've kind of gone off on a tangent here. Dick move, poor communication. Also, something that users are not understanding clearly enough is I see a lot of people saying, oh, well, hey, my GPU temps were great. So there was no concern. It actually doesn't work that way. That's one temperature for one component. It has nothing to do with monitoring the health of the entire rest of the graphics card. Because even if it's integrated into another board and it's just like a set cordoned off part of the PCB, it's still a full graphics card with VRM and memory modules and a GPU and all the other stuff that goes with that. So if any of those other components were running out of spec and just plain weren't designed for it due to cost constraints or cooling constraints or whatever else the case may be, it could meet an untimely death, even if the GPU itself was fine and running at a frosty 60 degrees. Yeah, frosty. That's pretty good for a graphics card. I know, but it's not frosty. Anyways, my laugh right now is amazing. That's all I have to say. That was beautiful. You have that video that was going around about the GTX 970 memory fiasco with the guy that laughs. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I can't even do that, like the wheeze laugh. I don't, yeah, I don't know how to do that. Yeah, yeah. Oh my God, yeah. Pretty good wheeze laugh going on there. Oh man, that video was actually hilarious. All right, so that was posted in the forum by Kabaru. Yeah. I've never seen that before. We've got one of our classic posters here. This is, it is official posted by Goodbytes. Radio Shack is closing down permanently. Files for bankruptcy. So our original article here is from theverge.com. Oh, I thought I had a touchscreen. I went to scroll the page. I hate my life. Correct. Okay, my life isn't bad. My life is great. You have page down and page up. Yeah, I prefer function up down for that. I'm a big fan of that. Anyway, Radio Shack clearance blowout 20%, 50% off. They don't know how many percent it is. It's everything. Percent off. Yeah, just everything blows for them right now. So basically, let's just. Okay, I thought that Radio Shack was already gone. Canada, yes. Okay, because I was reading this article going like, what? Circuit City acquired them, acquired all the stores, except I think maybe like a couple or something. Correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe they just didn't rebrand some of them. Rebranded it into the source, which I'm not sure if it has ever turned a problem. I mean, Canadians out there, love to hear from you guys in the Twitch chat, okay? Have you ever bought anything from the source? I have gone to the source once. I didn't buy anything there because they didn't have, it was, what was it? NCX had the exact same thing. And at the source, it was like $45. And at NCX, I think it was like three. Okay. Like a huge difference. We have got some people in the Twitch chat that are actually kind of bothering me because you guys are clearly new. We've got people saying Radio Shack sucks or sucked or whatever. Radio Shack might suck now, but Radio Shack- Radio Shack was the shit. It was the shit. It was awesome. Like Radio Shack, when I was young, I know. Every story is gonna be me being old today. I was, I'm old too then. Okay. Radio Shack was awesome when we were younger. Like they were the one place you could go to find that weird, stupid battery that fits in that weird, stupid thing that you really need to get running now. And Radio Shack had all the cool like remote control toys and whatnot. Yep. Like that was the place where, if Radio Shack still had their mojo, that would be the place where you go to buy all like your DJI drones and like all that kind of cool stuff. Like they would have all the like the weird drone accessories for DIY, repairing them and stuff. Like they used to have all that cool stuff. Like if you just had to buy- Like a Shapeways shipping portal and like all that, like, yeah, they used to be really cool. If Radio Shack hadn't forgotten who they were and started trying to be Best Buy and sell TVs and cell phones- And cell phones, yeah. Like has anyone ever bought a cell phone at Radio Shack? Like why would you ever do this? I don't understand. And so, okay, okay, now we've got some people that are- Yeah, Radio- Yes, Radio Shack did take a massive dump around the year 2000. This is true. They did. It's just that they used to be cool. See, flying truck. You cannot buy a resistor at Walmart, just saying. Exactly. It was the place you could go to buy a specific resistor or capacitor and they might actually have it. And then they stopped having that stuff and I stopped walking in the door and then the game was over for them at that point pretty much. I feel like in the last 15 years they could have figured out how to go back, but they did not. Yep, and like Radio Shack used to have like PC games and stuff. Like they used to have like joysticks and like stuff that like geeky dudes would like. That was Radio Shack. It wasn't a specific category, but it'd be like, yeah, I need some batteries. Or a C car or a joystick or some weird battery or resistor or a game or. I need like something cool to play with. Or they'd have like, you know, like back when those clocks that had like the things that went back and forth and the timing of the LEDs was just so that you could read a clock and it looked like it was kind of hovering in mid air. Like they just have like stupid cool crap. And now they're dead. So they're selling off 2400 of 4,000 US stores. Rumors that Sprint and Standard General may pick some of them up. So they'll live on apparently through a store and a store agreement with Sprint and Standard General. So based on that Sprint is one of the purchasing entities, I'm guessing cell phones aren't coming off the menu at Radio Shack. So Radio Shack had an overall deficit of 0.19 billion as of November 1st, 2014 and have failed to post a profit since 2011. So. Someone in the, there's a mini argument going on in Twitch chat about whether or not Amazon is better. Radio Shack, they're not even the same at all. They have nothing to do with each other. Yeah. You can get resistors and stuff off Amazon, but like someone in the chat said, you can't just drive there. Yeah, you can't get it at 8 p.m. When like you have a school, like, okay, here, perfect example. So like a school project, let's say for example, totally hypothetical, you're making a wooden cutout dinosaur that has like one of those, one of those mazes, where it has like the wire thing maze. And then you wanna build like a wand that you go and follow the maze with. And then if you fail, it completes a circuit and lights up the eyeball of the dinosaur. Let's say hypothetically, you ever wanted to build something like that. Radio Shack would probably be the place to go if you're like. For like all of that. For like all that stuff. It's like, I need a weird, stupid light bulb that goes in the eye of a dinosaur. Yep. Radio Shack. And like the wand thing and the wire thing and everything. And then just get the other stuff from a craft store or just make it out of wood or whatever. All right. So that's pretty much it for that. So sad day, but then I was sad back when they died. I was gonna say it would have been a sad day if it was 15 years ago. Yeah. Oh, this is interesting. So Ah Ming posted this on the forum. Our original article here is from Yahoo. You got the link. All right. I'm gonna go ahead and screen share with you guys. I actually, one thing that's nice about using this laptop is that I actually have an HDMI output now instead of relying on a display port adapter. So I think it should be more stable and more likely to work. So for police body cameras, big costs loom in storing the footage. Something that people that are tech savvy are not gonna be surprised by. I'm sure a lot of our viewers are sitting there going, why are you even talking about this? Duh. Duh. But mainstream folks like the, you know, government officials that are calling for this are just kinda gonna go, oh, well, you know, bids must be easy. No, actually. Like if- It's a big, really difficult problem. If you've got thousands of videos, like we're talking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours a week, even thousands of hours a week, you deploy these on, you know, okay. So in Duluth, Minnesota, I probably pronounced that wrong. I don't care. Sorry to everyone from Minnesota. 110 officer worn cameras are generating 8,000 to 10,000 videos per month. And you gotta store this stuff. You can't store it forever for one thing, okay. So you gotta store this stuff for at least some period of time. So they're- It's 30 days. They're thinking 30 days, but, but- Longer in many cases apparently. In many cases longer, because what if you got rid of something on day 30 that someone sends in a complaint about on day 31, all of a sudden, wait, we need a system for, oh, we can only delete the stuff that absolutely nothing happened, but we can't review all the footage at the time that it happens, which, oh, hold on a second. Now we need an administrative system. Now we need some kind of software archival management thing. Like- I had to upload all of it to YouTube. I had two plans. One of them was upload all of it to YouTube. If that doesn't work, throw daily motion to bone. You want some videos, they'd be happy with 8,000 more videos a month. Throw them on daily motion. The other one is maybe repurpose some NSA data centers. I'm sure the American citizenry would be happy with that. That's a big problem though, because the municipalities are saying, hey, you guys are throwing the burden on us to pay thousands of dollars for these cameras, which are nothing, not even approaching the cost of running the program, but we're supposed to have these contracts and licensing agreements for data storage, and we're supposed to buy these cameras. We're supposed to train our officers on how to use them and how to not obstruct them so that something they, let's say an officer did something inadvertently where they covered it up and all of a sudden, they're the latest plastered all over signs and everywhere because they did whatever. You gotta train the officers on how to use these. They're police officers, not like camera operators. And the municipalities are going, well, hold on a second. You guys are telling us we have to do this. Where's this money coming from? Like, is it coming out of the military budget where they're buying tanks and planes and whatever crap they're buying? Like, do we get some of that money? No. So it just comes out of our budget. So are we supposed to lay off police officers so that we can big brother the rest of the police officers? And I'm not saying, to be clear, I am not saying that law enforcement officials do not need to be held accountable for what they're doing. There just needs to be a better, properly laid out plan so that this can actually work. Or an actual plan. Yeah, yeah. A plan. Because they just said you have to do it. They didn't really give any information about how or anything, did they? So Sergeant Jason Halifax actually has a great quote. Everyone is screaming, we need body cameras, but no one is saying where is the money coming from? What are you going to do with all the data? Who is going to manage it? Are we going to cut personnel? Are we going to increase taxes? Great point. Great point Sergeant Halifax. I agree completely. So that's basically just, it's another one of those. They just give every officer their own YouTube channel, their own private YouTube channel. It's another one of those things where it's like, it's like this harebrained scheme that someone, well intentioned comes up with. Like, what was it? Is it Toronto where they banned plastic shopping bags? And then it turned out that the waste from all the paper shopping bags that replaced them ended up being much more harmful to the environment and also just less easy to use and like all these other problems. Yeah, it's like we gotta, or the whole crap, I forget what it is, but there's some food, like it's a vegan or vegetarian, like it's a popular food that's actually more environmentally harmful to produce than beef. What? And the argument for, I can't remember what it is exactly, but it's a lot of these well-intentioned things that in practice actually just don't make an ounce of sense, at least not yet and not without a proper plan. I think this does. They just need to figure out their data storage. Makes a ton of sense because the amount of, like you look at how bloated the legal system is now to get anything done, anything done. Cameras are an excellent solution. And then the funny thing is though, it's always hilarious because as soon as law enforcement tries to use cameras to back up any claim they make against the civilian or whoever it is that they're trying to enforce the law against, it's probably the same group of people getting butt-hurt about traffic cameras as the people who are calling for the cops to have cameras monitoring what they're doing. You understand, I hope people understand what they're asking for here. You are asking for your complaint about the police officer to be basically thrown out immediately because it's like, yeah, we got a camera. There's no debate to be had here. But the good news about all of this is that the savings is going to come about eventually. I'm not gonna get into politics, but those are two very different conversations that you just tried to merge into one. They are, okay. Very different because you're talking about observing people who are currently employed to be administering other people. No, you're talking about observing the people that they're observing as well. Your main action that you're observing is the officer. It is, but it's also the other one. And these aren't stationary cameras, a very different situation. It's both. It's both. I'm just saying that the people who are upset about being filmed are being filmed. Yes, but the traffic cameras thing is different. Traffic cameras, the whole automated thing. Okay, most of the argument against traffic cameras that I think really holds water is that they're an outright money grab. They have nothing to do with safety. They have nothing to do with upholding the law. They have to do with planting them in places where for nothing, for the cost of a van sitting next to the road, or in some cases now, it's gotten even less expensive. Back when they implemented in BC, before they got rid of the whole photo radar van thing, they were stationed in vans. I don't know if I've ever told this story on the WAN Show before, but I knew someone who knew someone who had just an utterly epic story about photo radar. So all photo radar vans were these white vans. They were these white windowless vans, and they would park on the side of the road. And then basically, it was autopilot. There was an officer sitting in there, but they didn't have to do anything because it would just mail you a violation notice a month later or whatever. So one of the cops who was off duty arranged, not sure how, to borrow another photo radar van because he knew that one of his colleagues would just sleep in the van. So what he did was he waited until that colleague was on photo radar duty, borrowed another van, drove up, made sure he was sleeping, swapped the plates on the two vans, and then spent the next couple hours speeding past his own trap repeatedly. So while that officer was on duty, there was a couple dozen speeding violations with a van that he was supposed to be driving. That's actually so awesome. It's the most amazing troll that I think I have ever heard of. That's great. It's fantastic. Yeah, I know. Again, I don't think we should talk about politics too much, but there's things with like the public should not be automatically assumed guilty and therefore not observed blah, blah, blah. I don't know. It's a very deep conversation. The thing about the photo radar though is that there is no assumption. The radar is first, the photo comes later. That's not the conversation. So anyway, so the whole thing is that the police officers are being monitored. It's a difficult IT question that they didn't expect. Yes. Pretty much. And everyone's being more monitored and that's what's happening. I'm just interested in how they're gonna deal with it. Right now they have their contracting agreement. Yeah. So they have a three-year contracting agreement for 78 grand for storing. I think that was what? That's one. 110 officers. 84 cameras. Yeah. This was Duluth, Minnesota. Yeah. I think they need to localize that a little bit. I think that might be better. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what the solution is. Or honestly, I was being a little bit joking when I was talking about YouTube, but seriously, a private account that isn't uploading the videos to the public. That is like a terrible, stupid solution that might actually work. But I mean, the agreement you'd have to enter into with YouTube about who that footage belongs to and privacy and all that. It's completely untenable. Completely untenable. But. I know. It's just. All right. It would work if you weren't actually the police. Posted by Nine Shadow. This original source here is global.samsungtomorrow.com. Samsung has updated their EULA to basically say, look, we are not monitoring your living room conversations. No one believed ever, hopefully. Look, the only thing we're listening to is voice commands because there was kind of a sketch looking warning about not talking about personal information in front of Samsung smart TVs. Their privacy policy was updated. Warning users, they shouldn't talk about sensitive information. And then now it's saying, whoa, hold on a second. Yes, information could be among data captured, transmitted to a third party, but hold on. Blah, blah, blah. We take our users information privacy very seriously. Users can opt out of voice recognition whenever they please. No longer mentions any sensitive information. Reiterates that users can disable voice recognition whenever they please. So I suspect actually nothing has changed. It's just a EULA reversion. They're designing it differently or whatever. This one's pretty good though. This was posted by Victoria's Secret and there's a great Reddit thread. There's always a great Reddit thread for just about anything, isn't there? Where someone posts, well, hold on a second. Plex stopped playing my video halfway through and played a Pepsi ad. So this was posted by beans90 and there's a 34 point upvote comment that says, yep, just Googled this to find out what's going on. Never had this in the two months I've been using Plex, but today all of a sudden it began. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Every movie I play 20 to 30 minutes in plays this Pepsi ad. No audio, but crisp clear ad. It has happened on six movies today. Oh yes, mine is a Samsung TV also. Six movies today. This guy's going ham. Who watches six movies a day? What is he watching? Sorry, completely unrelated. That just blew my mind a little bit. This is crazy. So now to be clear, Plex has already said, well, not us. Actually, we have nothing to do with this. And this is not the only application that users have experienced this in. So native smart TV apps, so the Foxtel TV service app in Australia is experiencing the same commercials. So there's a Foxtel employee that was quoted as saying, this absolutely should not be happening and is being escalated immediately. There's no word from Samsung as of February 11th when the article was posted, but it is speculated that it may be a new ad insertion platform that may have been accidentally turned on by default in certain apps, although none of this has been confirmed. Wow. Yeah. I haven't, at no point in time, have I ever wanted a smart TV. I can't think of a reason that I would need it to exist. Although, crap, I feel like a terrible person. I think it's Sony is using Android TV for all of their- Yeah. Smart TVs. Yeah. Like instead of the stupid, like phenomenally stupid proprietary ones. But like I just, I want a good dumb TV and then I just want to plug Chromecast into it. Yeah. That's all I want. Dumb TVs don't even exist anymore. I mean, every single TV is a smart TV now. I know. So get wrecked. I know, yeah. Well, wait, what are those? What's that cheap Korean brand? Samsung. No. That's the expensive Korean brand, sorry. No, they, crap. They came up with like the really affordable 4K stuff really early. Oh, some, it starts with an S. Those are all not smart, right? Yeah, I don't think they are. Seiki? Seiki, Seikyo, Seikyo something. Seikyo's watches. No. I think it is Seiki. Seiki, sure. I don't think those are smart TVs. Okay. Man talking is hard. Now people saying Vizio. I don't think Vizio is a Korean brand. I don't know what Vizio is. All right, so basically this is a big load of crap. So Samsung. There's nothing else even really to say. This is just stupid. We're on the record as this is in a completely ginormous load of crap. Like I literally bought a piece of hardware from you and you actually don't get to serve me ads on it. Mind you. I mean, okay, if we break this down a little bit, is it different from buying a laptop with a trial of Norton on it? That is an ad. At least you know that it's coming. Well, maybe they put it on the box. Now with 30% more ad gen. But it's not. Right. But what if they did? Would you feel any better about it? No, but I wouldn't buy that TV. What if they all did it? I wouldn't buy a TV. You already don't buy a TV. Okay. Well, the point is we strongly disagree with this. And I think we might as well move on because it's not like you and I are gonna debate this point. So. And the sketchiest thing ever. Oh, are we moving on to that? This is a sketchy weird article. This is like a horrible, horrible, horrible article. Most of maybes, I don't know. So FCC commissioner says, this is supposed to buy Command Man 7. The article that we've got here is breakbart.com. And there's an autoplay, whoops. There's an autoplay video here that I would really like to, I guess it doesn't really matter because I have my audio muted. So here we go. Here's a picture of one of the two, one of the two Republican FCC commissioners with President Obama's 332 page plan to regulate the internet. That is very strong wording designed to incite upset. I wish the public could see what's inside. It's got about 4,500 retweets. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. So inferred in a tweet that the document is basically a scheme for federal micromanaging of the internet to extract billions of new taxes from consumers. And I guess the only thing I really have to say about this article and then the fantastic one, high taxes, heavy-handed controls, and the status quo linked at the bottom here is that the amount of, okay, I think, I don't know if we wanna use this site as a reference anymore because it looks like the folks that are relying on these articles for their information have some information to gain about the internet and stuff. The comments under this second article in particular are fantastic about how the title two is going to, basically all that stuff that gets written by executives at telecoms and then signed by government officials who are in their pocket. It's like parroting of that. It's fantastic. I love it. I thought we were streaming this. I'm kinda happy we're not. No, we're not streaming it because basically it's a whole lot of terrible. I was pretty sure they were and I was like, why are we showing this? So President Obama's plan marks a monumental shift between, I think I already said that. The plan saddles small independent businesses and entrepreneurs with heavy-handed regulations that will push them out of the market. Something, okay, something I don't like about any of this is here's the thing you can't read and you can't know what's in it, except here's what's in it. I have a feeling all this stuff that they're telling us might not even be right. Okay. I'm not agreeing with or disagreeing with it. Just we would need to be able to see what's in it. This is no accident. Title II was designed to regulate a monopoly if we impose that model on a vibrant broadband marketplace. I guess if we did impose it on a vibrant broadband marketplace, this might be applicable, a highly regulated monopoly is what we'll get. Now. That's what we have right now. To be clear, that is a valid point other than the vibrant marketplace bit. The whole bit about regulated monopolies not really being great either because that's basically what we've got on the telco side as it is. So Title II, remember, the thing that we're all sort of going hurrah about is reclassifying the internet under Title II as a utility, which honestly hasn't worked out that great for us on the phone up till now either because you still have no choice. Yay. So that is a valid point, but the part where this really misses the mark is calling the vibrant broadband marketplace vibrant and a marketplace because it's not. It is horrible. It's even more horrible than a regulated monopoly. So is it perfect? No. Is it a step in the right direction? Yes. Is treating it as anything other than a step in the right direction just nonsense? And to reiterate, we have no idea what this thing says. Yeah, that's a big problem. We have no clue. I can't agree or disagree with it because of what the hell is inside. Well, I can disagree with the way it's being spun, which tells me what I should, sorry, it gives me some idea what the credibility is here. If we're gonna call telcos a vibrant broadband marketplace, then we're wrong. We have no idea what's going on. We were wrong before we opened our mouths and that's unfortunate. All right, so let's move on to more unfortunate news. So, sorry? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He's telling me to do sponsors. It's okay, we'll do sponsors in a bit. This one is pretty good. This was supposed to buy Cat Butts. I actually didn't mean to whisper that as hardcore as I did. It just wasn't. Also Cat Butts is awesome. He has a YouTube channel that I used to watch before I started working with you. And I was a member of our forum and stuff. Oh, cool. Yeah. Who else were we supposed to do a shout out for today? Paul. Right, yeah. Shout out for Paul's hardware. YouTube.com. Paul's hardware. Let's just go ahead and screen share this. So Paul is doing a giveaway. Look at him with his blatant advertising his how to build a computer video that is clearly inferior to our how to build a computer video. This is the silent build giveaway. So it's like a 4770K and some card with a GTX and some eight gigs of RAM and some pretty cool stuff. And you probably have to be subscribed or something which is unfortunate because look at this guy and the t-shirt he wears. Wow, he wears a shirt with himself on it. What a nerd. I wear that shirt too. Yeah, it also has you on it. I do. Okay, so as long as we've understood the layers of irony here. Because 100% collateral damage myself. That would be a great name for a band. 100% collateral damage. You have to smash your whole set every show no matter what. I'm adding that to our intro slogans. There's a doc, I should get you added on it. We're just gonna continue adding to it. For the Myo one, it's gonna be like Lucas sick or something. I saw a couple of great ones on the forum thread where someone was complaining. I saw you responded to it already. Where someone was complaining about do as we say not as we do being under our logo saying it was unprofessional. And I was like, people came up with a couple other ones that make us sound like idiots. I was like, oh, these are great. These are comedy gold. I'm putting these in the thread. That's awesome. So intro, oh, bloody hell. Intro thing. 100% collateral damage, yeah. You actually have the voice for it right now. Trematocant sing it all. That's fine, I think for that style. All right, so our source here is the Jays Two Cents forum. So we've got a post from this guy. Oh, so is this like worse than WCCF Tech or? I don't know. But basically Jay's saying I've had some discussions with people. This has been all over the place. So we're gonna treat this whole thing as basically none of this information is confirmed. It is all hearsay. But basically a post showed up on overclock.net where someone was saying I am a former employee. The owner has suffered, has struggled with addiction or something along those lines. And there is no reason to believe that Frozen CPU will be back up and running. There has been damage to the premises. And then sort of, there's nothing on the site to this day. There's nothing on the frozencpu.com website. And then other people have allegedly posted, here I have pictures of the alleged damage inside the Frozen CPU headquarters. So there's like parts of the office look pretty trashed. So. I like that picture. This is like, oh, okay. Here's this broken thing. Here's some like, here's a beer bottle and all that kind of stuff. And so someone from a water cooling manufacturer said, yes, this is confirmed in the thread. Then the owner of the aforementioned water cooling manufacturer went in and said, whoa, hold on a second. We cannot speak for Frozen CPU. None of this is confirmed. I actually, I've exchanged emails with, but never met the owner Mark from Frozen CPU. I do know Matthew Buckner from Frozen CPU, but honestly, I just out of sheer respect for the quantity of emails that they're probably dealing with. I have not emailed either of them. I probably will at some point here, but I have not emailed either of them to ask what's going on. Yeah. It's really unfortunate. And like something's gotta be going on if there isn't an official post somewhere. So the site is still online. So, okay. So rumors have it that Frozen CPU has said that they are running on a skeleton crew and they'll be back up and running. The ex-employee said something like physical damage of the warehouse has occurred as well as dismissal of all support and warehouse staff. The site is still online, still accepting orders. So we're gonna take a wait and see approach with this one. Yeah. That's pretty much all of them. Speaking of things that we'll need to wait and see about, this was posted by Ah Ming on the forum. And this is the new cutting edge, my friends. If you were running network cables that were not AudioQuest, Diamond, RJ slash E, whatever that is, ethernet cables before, then you were completely doing it wrong and you need to get your life back in gear because this is the new standard. These network cables are made of, here, hold on a second. I'm gonna bring up the, I'm gonna bring up the, dang it. Dang it, Windows 8. All right. They represent a lifetime's research and are the first, so the first twisted pair ethernet standard, just to be clear, 10BASE-T was published in 1990. So the relevant engineers must be 25 years old, max. These are directional ethernet cables. I mean, you wouldn't want bi-directional communication, you know, discombobulating the wave forms. And the beating heart of the AudioQuest Diamond are the solid 100% silver perfect surface conductors where raw silver, raw silver as opposed to cooked silver, raw silver is processed by drawing through at a much slower speed than normal to create an ultra-smooth surface area, surface free of indents and grooves because the way that we all know, I mean, we all know, I hope we know, do you know that the way that it works is the electrons are like hurdle jumpers, okay? So in a race, in a race, okay? If an electron, you know, traveling along a wire hits a hurdle, all of a sudden that electron is gonna arrive out of phase with the rest of the electrons. And think about it this way. That's how DDoS works. Did you know that the earth, if shrunk down to the size of a pool ball, if it was shrunk down, it would actually be smoother than an actual pool ball? Did you know that? That's actually, that's actually a fact. And so these tiny wires for these tiny electrons to not hit a hurdle need to be completely smooth. And the silver surface is reflective, which aids their travel. It's also an antibacterial agent. It's also an antibacterial agent. That actually is true, but it has nothing to do with ethernet. None of the one I know. None of this. None of this had anything to do with ethernet. So these are $10,000. I think that conversion may have been done incorrectly. Maybe it's like 10,000 Canadian rupees. So 4,700 Great Britain pound, eight meter ethernet cables for idiots. They have a five year warranty. They are supposedly audio quest brand, which I guess- All this stupid, ridiculous junk will just throw audio file on it. I guess if you're streaming from a NAS music files, then you want those electrons to not get hurdle blocked. So I'm just gonna read the blurb, cause it's hilarious. The Diamond is a top grade ethernet cable, which is the result of a lifetime's research by audio quest made from the very best materials available. This really is a money is no object cable for the dedicated high-fi enthusiast that has extended into a world of digital audio sources. By extending the thought process of quality cabling from a server, PC or media streamer to the router. Extending the thought process from a server to a router? Further detail can be realized and restrictive shackles loosened. Audio quests Diamond RJE is a directional ethernet cable made with the same hallmark materials, philosophy, care and attention that is applied to all their internet connects. Whether it's an entry level introduction to high-fi or I died in the wool music connoisseur. I think they got died wrong. It's a very different die. Died in the wool? What does that mean? Another upgrade is the complete plug redesign. You don't get to redesign the RJ45 connector. Made from silver with tabs that are virtually unbreakable. The plug comes with added strain relief and firmly lock into place, ensuring no critical data is lost. Critical data, am I listening to music or is it critical data? Directionality, all audio cables are directional? The correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every audio quest audio cable. Are you serious? Arrows are clearly marked on the connectors to ensure superior sound quality. For best results have the arrow pointing in the direction of the flow of music. So for best results, so you don't even have to really. All insulation slows down the signal on the conductor inside. Man, that sentence. When insulation is unbiased, it slows down parts of the signal differently. A big problem for time sensitive multi-octave audio. Oh. You should be able to get sued for this stuff. Wow. I hadn't actually read the product page yet. I hadn't finished, I hadn't gotten to that part. That was fun. I didn't either. I read this and was like, oh, it's another one of those things. That was really fun. Like, you know, monster cables, okay? Sometimes you can get monster cables on promo for like twice as much as a cheapo cable. And I would argue for buying them at that point because they are going to tend to have like better strain relief. Better connectors and nice sleeving. They might have sleeving on them. And sleeving on HDMI cables, which you have to run potentially through like wooden cut holes and stuff can actually be helpful. Can actually be nice. We're talking physical damage to the cable, longer HDMI connectors with a better quality connector, thicker gauge wire. It may make a difference. It may be the difference between it works at all or doesn't work at all, which by the way for digital is the only standard. It works or it doesn't work for a video cable. So, okay, you know what? I'm done. I don't want to talk about it anymore. That was- They're BS. That was fun, but I need to move on with my life. Everybody knows that. So speaking of moving on with my life, lynda.com is the way to move on with your life. How do you like that segue? That's actually a really good segue. Yeah. Definitely could be. I have good segues. It has been for a lot of people. I have good segues every once in a month week. Weird time. So lynda.com is, oh, you know what? Okay, okay, hold on, hold on. I'm going to use my notes this week because- Wow. Nick, the level, the amount of butt hurt that went on over last week when I forgot the sponsor spot was pretty intense. So lynda.com is used by millions of people around the world. They have more than 3000 courses available. They have topics like web development, photography, visual design, and business. They also have software training like Excel, WordPress, and Photoshop. All courses are taught. See, this is way worse than the way that I do it. lynda.com is cool because you learn cool stuff and you can either get better at your hobby or get better at your job or learn a new job and really take investing in yourself to the next level. Their subscriptions start at $25 a month. And- I tried to look up knowledge is sexy so I could hold up an image of it and I got not what I was looking for. No, you didn't. At all. So lynda.com subscriptions start at only $25 a month and you can learn at your own pace according to whatever appetite you have. So they have a 10 day free trial, which gives you unlimited access to every course on lynda.com so you can find out if it's right for you before you go ahead and commit to it. Our next sponsor today is Dollar Shave Club and this one is pretty straightforward. Do you like shaving? Do you like it when people you know shave? Then you could buy a Dollar Shave Club membership for yourself or someone else you know who you think should shave. And we used to actually have- So Nick. We used to have Dollar Shave Club stuff to like hold up while we did these spots, but all of it got taken because Dollar Shave Club razors are actually, well, they're pretty great. They're great. We have no problems with them. They're, what else can we really say about it? You save money. I should probably re-up my subscription. You probably should. I've been using the same blade for like two months I think. Why do you have to do everything wrong? I'll re-up my subscription. Tell you what, tell you what. I will buy you a Dollar Shave Club subscription, okay? Because it's important. You're gonna like hurt your skin. Like dull razors, it's bad. It's bad. Anyway, for only a few dollars a month, Dollar Shave Club saves you the hassle of going to the department store or wherever they keep all the razor blades under lock and key nearby you. If you happen to be too lazy to buy razors, then having them up for subscription makes sure that you're using a fresh blade every week and getting the best shave possible so you can look like a well-groomed human being without ever having to actually step outside the house and you can save a few bucks while you're at it. I think the best thing about Dollar Shave Club for me is that the countries that they exist in, so Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the US, funny story about the New Zealand thing, by the way, they price things reasonably. They don't just go, oh, arbitrary, it costs three times as much tax because you're from Canada. I love that. Companies that are like, look, we have a margin target. This is how much our product. My dollar's already so much worse. This is how much our product costs us and this is how we're gonna do it. Love that. That's a high integrity way of doing business. So the New Zealand story. I called out in a Dollar Shave Club sponsor spot on Linus Tech Tips that they're available in Canada, US, and New Zealand. Nick's spazzed because they didn't say that they were in New Zealand and freaked out and was like, yo, dog, what's going on? And he sent an apologetic email to Dollar Shave Club and they're just like, how did you know that? Yeah, we just rolled it out. And Nick's like, yeah, we're paying really close attention. Okay. And he asked me about it and I'm like, yeah, no, I straight up screwed it up. I screwed up. I fought Australia and New Zealand. I like- You telepathically connected Dollar Shave Club. I knew it was somewhere in that- It's the butt wipes. I knew it was somewhere in that- The butt wipes gives you a mental connection. Oh yeah, they don't just have razors. They also have butt wipes for men. They have aftershave, they have their shave butter, all kinds of good stuff. So, okay, okay. I think we should move on to, this is new. Yeah. This is very new. Nick, you can go. Whatever you have to say isn't gonna be nice to me. Oh, I wanted to say thank you for sticking to the script and also you're the worst. You know how it is. Love you, buddy. Look, my mountain kind of goes with the logo. So this is a product that we have been using very extensively over the last couple of years. And XSplit has actually launched a new version of XSplit, V2. That actually, I mean, we didn't really have any complaints about XSplit for a long time. Like in the early days- Once we figured out how to use it. Well, they did have some issues too. Didn't used to be a hundred percent. So we've been streaming the WAN show on XSplit since the very first WAN show, I believe. Yeah, since before the WAN show was the WAN show, we've been using XSplit. We really like the software. It's stable, it's feature reasonably rich. There's still a couple of things that I might wanna ask for, but for game streamers or for like prosumer grade broadcasters like us, you've got a ton of options being able to stream at any resolution, having it be easy enough to configure in only a couple of minutes and being extremely affordable makes XSplit definitely our platform of choice, which we don't have to say it's our platform of choice because we just switched to using it because they sponsored us. No, we've been using it for a long time. You can learn like video editing and like video management stuff from Linda, make yourself look better with Dollar Shave Club and then stream to the world with XSplit. Yeah, it all goes together really well like that. So XSplit V2, they have some notes for me to kind of call out because we've been using it for a little bit here, but it has powerful new production tools built to meet the needs of today's content creators, makes audio video, it has an audio video mixing application that allows anyone to create professional quality live broadcasts and video recordings like what we're doing right now. It supports all kinds of different, okay, I'm just, okay, I'm abandoning their notes because I like my way better. It supports all kinds of different broadcasting modes so you can broadcast at different frame rates and different resolutions. You can broadcast at different bit rates according to what's gonna work out best for you and the service that you happen to be broadcasting on. It's fantastic. It has so many more options compared to free stuff like Nvidia's ShadowPlay that for many game streamers, it's sort of competing against, but in my mind, it's not really a competition if you're trying to have a professional looking stream because the options are extremely limited and XSplit gives us the ability to do all kinds of stuff like bring in video callers very easily, capture portions of the screen and mix and match them and switch them around and have like transitions. That's all automatic. We don't actually do that stuff. What else am I talking about? Oh yeah, I'm supposed to talk about GameCaster. GameCaster is one I haven't used as much just because we have the full broadcaster, but it's great for gamers that are looking to get started. You can easily stream and record your greatest gaming moments, can broadcast to live streaming services such as YouTube Live, Twitch, Ustream and more. And the best thing is that XSplit, the free license is, you guessed it, free. So visit xsplit.com slash Linus to try it out. The paid license, the one we have, allows like more scenes and higher quality audio and probably a number of other things, but those are the big ones for us that are why we go with the professional license so we can have like all these different lower thirds. So thanks to XSplit, Dollar Shave Club, Linda.com and Linus Tech Tips for powering the WAN show today. All right, let's go ahead and move into our next topic here. Which is awesome. What's our next topic? You go ahead. The drones in France. Oh, I love this thing. My voice is like super done. Yeah, it's super, super is. Nick, I need water. Nick. Nick. I don't know if he's gonna hear you. Anyways, I posted it in the Twitch chat. No one's going to hear you. I'm still trying to find it. I wanna play that video. There have been people that have been, oh, it's just Control F for it, dude. This was posted by Victorious Secret on the forum. Yes. And this video is amazing. I love this thing. So basically there's been an issue with, let's go ahead and screen share. People flying drones over top of French nuclear reactors. Like DJI drones. So they're deploying anti-drone drones to go find those drones and break their shit. Wow, I expected to like fly it down, but nope. Holy crap. Nope, love it. Absolutely, absolutely love the way that that just got done. So I guess the real conversation here is not- You know what they should do? They've probably done this to a certain degree, but I want them to bring it to like TV and make it mainstream. You know how they had robot wars? Big drone wars. I think someone must be trying to do that. On TV though. Oh dang. I'm not sure. I know that, I know that- Thank you. What's that show that's coming back? Battlebots is coming back. Did you hear that? Really? Yeah, Battlebots is coming back. That's awesome. I don't know if they're still gonna have like Carmen Electra and stuff, but- Oh, I don't care. But the format is coming back. All I care about was the robots. I didn't even know she was on there. Me neither. Someone else told me. They had no clue. I was like, I think I was young enough when Battlebots was cool, but I hadn't matured yet, so to speak. That's cool. I loved that show. That show was awesome. I remember my favorite Battlebot ever was this completely OP spinning one that just like, it went up against some like elaborate contraption that was like, yes, I will do this and I will do that. And then it was just like this like super fast spinning one. It basically like went up to it and just like broke pieces off of the other one. It's like, it would just like try to attack it and the spinning one just, just crack pieces off it. Love Battlebots. Let's go ahead and... Oh yeah. So drones and privacy and all that kind of stuff. I actually posted this on Twitter last night. That's good footage, holy crap. Here's some footage of, yes, I know I'm live on Twitch. Like it should not show me that. I'm me. Just like how it shows me. That's a verification that it's working. Ads, oh, I guess so, fine. Fine, but ads on my own videos? Verification that they're enabled. Verification that they're enabled, but I'm not technically allowed to click on my own ads or as far as I know, watch my own ads. Like I think that's against the user. That's why I have ads enabled for my account on the forum. So this is 1080p. So this isn't the most interesting part. I think I go up quite a bit higher. So as drone cameras get better and better and better, the ability to spy on people and things is going to get become more and more and more of a concern. So I mean, you know, right now, maybe it's a nuclear power plant, which is like enough of a problem, but you know, hey, you wanna keep track of the route, you know, that kid takes home from school. They're like, there's all kinds of- This is amazing. Creepy stuff that you can do with this. And this, I didn't even go that high. I still had the 30 meter cap on. I increased it to- I'm amazed at how stable it is. I increased it to 60 on my next flight. And I didn't upload that one, unfortunately, but this is me and my son down here. Yeah. It's absolutely incredible, the kind of video quality that we're getting off of these drones these days. So I think it's cool that the French have come up with a creative solution to eliminating- Oh, how medieval that net is. I know, I love it. That's so cool. It's like, we just wrecked your stuff. Oh, get dunked. So, so far 13 of the country's 19 facilities have been buzzed. So they're looking for a way to stop quadcopters from messing with nuclear reactors. Blah, blah, blah. The drone that was photographed is an Interceptor MP200. So you've got to check out, where is it? And they used the Interceptor to catch a DJI Phantom that was piloted by Luke Dubois, the company's CEO. So the Interceptor is a much larger and faster drone with six rotors and the net it carries is pretty BA. Luke has another link to an effective method for taking out drones. This is the- Kamikaze. The Maloo Kamikaze. So this little guy just goes nuts and smashes itself into the other one. And you can see still frame shots of how it works. So if you scroll down, so it flies into the other drone and just mashes into its propellers, breaking stuff off and then they both crash. It's a lot cheaper than the one with the net because the one with the net has to be very strong. It has six propellers to be able to carry the net because the net is really heavy. This one is very inexpensive and just nails into other ones. Hilarious. Wow. Yeah, it's just this little quad wing little thing. And you can see just, yeah, they're both just super wrecked. Wow. Awesome. I love it. I gotta imagine firing a projectile would be easier than carrying a net. Part of the, yeah, and you're kind of firing projectile with this. The reason why you don't want to fire something like a bullet is because it could miss. No bullet. No, no, but I didn't mean bullet. I meant like some kind of like, like if you could, and I don't know if this exists, but like a goopy surf, like a goopy substance. Like if you could just fire like a ball of like stringy slash goopy stuff that tangles it or something. Like basically, yeah, if you could fire like a ball of yarn at a drone, that would be very likely to take it down. Yarn is gonna have troubles flying. Yeah. So unless it's actually a tight ball and it's not gonna do anything. Or if it impacts and like unfolds or something, like if it was like a spring loaded, like all the yarn kind of goes everywhere and hits something or whatever. Like you could probably make something that is an entanglement mechanism that you could fire at other drones. Yeah. But I mean, you know, this works. Yeah. Boom. Yeah. Speaking of things that work, this was posted by Victoria's Secret. The article we've got here is from TechCrunch. Apple's activation lock leading to a significant decrease in iPhone theft in major cities. This is one of those, why didn't we do this before things? It's like, you know, Apple and the carriers are running around all worried about, you know, us using the phone on the wrong carrier with absolutely no regard for all these years for the wrong person using the phone on the right carrier. And so California mandated these kill switches and said they were gonna bring a bill into law, something, something. It's not actually active yet, but Apple has proactively started enabling this lockdown feature by default on iPhones. And there's some really interesting numbers to go along with this. So the number of stolen iPhones dropped by 40% in San Francisco and 25% in New York. And smartphone theft dropped by 50% in London in the 12 months after Apple had a kill switch. That's actually huge. That's amazing. That's awesome. Because basically it turns a stolen iPhone, even if you can unlock it into like a glorified like iPod touch. So it's not worth it. It's not a brick, but yeah. No one's really gonna want it. So, so far Apple, Samsung and Google have implemented kill switches on their smartphones. Microsoft is expected to release an operating system for its windows phones that has one this year, but some of the smartphone systems require consumers to opt in. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Trinny General called on all manufacturers to make the technology active as a default position as Apple has done with the iPhones. I mean, I don't think anyone's gonna force you except as law requires in the area that you happen to live. I don't think anyone will force you to use a kill switch anytime soon, but having the having it on by default, I think makes a ton of sense. That's cool. Yep. I like that a lot. Go Apple on that one. FCC now requires American carriers to unlock consumers handsets. Also posted by Victoria's Secret. Are you posting these? Yeah. Okay, cool. I wasn't sure if you were keeping up. Try not to glance at your screen because then it looks like I'm looking at something else. I did this and I was looking at your butt, which is not possible when you're sitting on a couch. But yeah. FCC now requires American carriers to unlock consumers handsets. This is not quite as awesome as it sounds initially. So it's not like you can walk into your local carrier store and go get some other carrier to bail you out of your contract fees. And then you can just take your device over to the other carrier. It has to be fully paid off and blipity, bloopity, blop, and there's all this other stuff. A lot of when you pay off your thing is fully paying off your phone though. I wonder how that would work. Because if you got bailed out, that is technically fully paying off your phone. So this is only after the phone has been paid off under contract or if the phone was prepaid. Under contract. Yeah. If payment has been completed, consumers can do what they choose with their devices. So this is actually the result of talks between the FCC and CTIA, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, which represents major carriers, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. So I mean, there's no guarantee that carriers aren't still gonna be butt heads and make you jump through hoops or whatever else, but ultimately they have to do it. So other than making you talk to a retention agent or whatever the case may be, I suspect we mostly won't have to deal with too much nonsense. Yeah. Well, not we, we're in Canada. We get no such benefit. We, yeah, not at all. Americans, yeah. Luckily. America. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, The Verge. Wow, that is a big ad. Yep. I am viewing at 70% right now. Oh no, I'm at 100%. They've had bigger ones. That is, that Ford one that you showed me was spectacular. Pretty much the entire screen. Wow. Yep. That is a big ad. It's like, how does The Verge afford their baller CES, their baller CES internet connection? Like, I can't even upload or whatever it is. Like that. Yeah. Elon Musk says, "'Tesla will unveil a new kind of battery "'to power your home.' "'Why would they call him the eccentric CEO?' "'Oh, come on.' "'Is he more eccentric than, "'well, lots of other innovative CEOs?' "'How many of those are there?' "'All right, fine.' "'So basically, something something, "'Tesla didn't ship as nearly as many cars "'as they predicted, something something, "'maybe they have more batteries "'than they know what to do with. "'Not really sure what the background is here, "'but the company is working on a consumer battery pack "'for the home. "'Production could begin in six months "'and they're still deciding on a date "'for unveiling the new unit. "'This isn't exactly a new idea.' "'The Toyota Mirai, which uses a hydrogen fuel cell, "'gives owners the option to remove the battery "'and use it to supply electrical power to their homes. "'It can power the average home for about a week.' Which is crazy. Which is awesome. Some cool things that Tesla's planning to do is they're planning on making the battery wall mountable and having like kind of cool designs so it won't look really bad. And knowing then it'll be tall if you're wall mounting it. So if you're not flat on the ground, it would be tall, but relatively skinny. So it can actually maybe work somewhere. Which is kind of cool. Very easily put it in the garage and have no problems. Or if you have a very like high tech looking area, have it there and it'll probably be fine. Fairly plug and play, which is kind of awesome. Yeah, this stuff is really cool. I'm totally down with having like cool- I'd love to UPS my whole house. That's essentially what this would be. And that would be awesome. Yeah, BMW developing new plugin hybrid named as i5 slash i7 to compete against Intel. Excuse me, the Tesla Model S. The i7 should have like four normal wheels and then four like wheels beside them, but they're not like really the same. And go slightly faster. Very slightly faster. Just a little bit faster. Not too much faster. Let's be really clear about not much faster. Just a little bit. And four wheels help or something. So our original article here is from carmagazine.co.uk and it was posted by Ah Ming. Did you post that on Twitch already? All right, let's go ahead and fire this baby up. So looks like this is to take on the Model S. I guess that shouldn't be too unexpected. Yep. It'll be priced to suit with target volumes in the tens of thousands and a cost spanning from just below the Tesla to more than 125,000. I think it's cool the way electric cars can actually span an enormous price range and still make sense. Because you can upgrade and downgrade them and the performance still makes sense for a higher price car, but like we still get that mostly that or at least some of that down there. But then you can kind of go, yeah, I don't need like the fetus cow leather. Double stitched interior or whatever the hell, yeah. What else do we know about this? I'm sure there's something. I think this was added really late. I didn't see this in the doc until we started going. Oh, okay. So four and a half percent of all units sold in the pace setting US carb states must be zero emission vehicles by 2018. So yes, expect to see more electric models and for them to become more and more affordable. The E unit in front delivers 204 brake horsepower and the smaller battery powered motor in the back is good for 95 brake horsepower sources say. Whatever they are. This brings the aggregate target output to 400 kilowatts or 544 brake horsepower. So right in the middle of Tesla territory. Allegedly capable of a zero emission range of 80 miles. This BMW is designed to operate in battery mode most of the time. The combustion engine will typically only cut in above 40 miles per hour when road and wind noise out decibel it anyway. So it should be very silent to drive much like other electric vehicles. I think now manufacturers who fail to comply by not offering enough zero emission vehicles, transitional zero emission vehicles, neighborhood electric vehicles or E vehicles with range extenders have no choice but to acquire clean air credits from sources like Tesla. Currently the major provider of such certificates. That makes German car makers very sad. All right, I think that's pretty much it. We've got some more stuff. Nvidia has sending out press invitations to a market-first event that I actually can't make it to. Unfortunately, their CEO Jensen says that what they're showing off will redefine the future of gaming. Let that sink in for a minute. We'll redefine. Doesn't say anything about a good definition, but the picture shows a thin device. It's speculated to be another Android tablet. I doubt it. If it's gonna redefine the future of gaming, it won't be an iterative release of something they've already done. There may be a tablet. We might get a Tegra X1 tablet or something or whatever the latest one is, can't remember. We might get a Tegra X1 tablet, but it'll probably be something to do with cloud gaming to go along with it. That would be my guess. Grid, I got a, as long as it's not embargoed, I got absolutely nothing until I find out something. Nothing, I learned nothing and nothing happened. So anyway. Can you close that? I'm sorry? Close that. Why is that even open? Because I was reading it. So anyway, Konami PC game sales surpassed their Xbox One sales. They went from 2% to 10% year over year and has surpassed Xbox One and all handhelds now going head to head with the Xbox 360. This was posted by, oh, the previous one was Abhay6547 and this one was Deathjester. And the original article here is from DSOgaming.com. Skip this ad. Ha ha, no money for you. Well, I'm in a hurry. I think they get a little money for that. No, I'm pretty sure they still do. I mean, there's this ad. No, they get a little money for you, skipping. And there's this ad. Yeah, I know. Oh yeah, I think they get a little bit on that and they get money for these ads. They don't really expect to get money on that. Okay, how about I click swing copters to make them feel better? I'm legitimately interested in swing copters. This looks excellent. Okay. A client download required. Optional software included. How can optional software be included? Isn't that the definition of optional? It says optional software included. Yeah. Yeah. What does that mean? It means you probably download this game and then it's like, do you want to also install this? Why would they even put that in a banner? That's very honest. Yeah. I've never seen anyone advertise that there's optional software included. All right, I'm going to do a full review of swing copters. Coming up very soon. Channel Superfund. Yeah, Channel Superfund review of swing copters. Facebook rolls out a feature for users when they die. This was posted by Fnaught on the forum. Oh my God, we should do real life swing copters with a drone. Yes, absolutely. Not sure exactly how this works, but gives users the option of having their account permanently deleted when they die, or if they wish they can appoint a friend or family member to take control of some aspects of the account. That's interesting. An interesting note that was added to the doc too is how do they confirm your death? I don't know. I don't understand why Facebook needs a, gee, I don't know. Just leave it. What else we got here? VESA publishes embedded display port standard 1.4a includes adaptive sync. So this will be good for devices that need embedded display port, like say for example, small stuff. Greater data rates, 8.1 gigabit per second per lane. Theoretical limit of 32.4 gigabit per second. We've got ultra HD support at 120 Hertz with 10 bit color because display port just isn't content to wreck HDMI a little bit at every turn and everything else. WhatsApp, oh that was posted by Qwerty Warrior and the original article here is from Tom's Hardware. This is all our rapid fire topics by the way. That's why I'm rapid firing them. VESA publish, oh I already did this. Well basically that's what that website looks like. You're welcome. Next up, what do we got? The WhatsApp thing. Yeah, the WhatsApp thing. WhatsApp may not be as private as some people thought. It's posted by iHammy. It's very unfortunate. Super not surprising at all. Anything that you posted to anything Facebook owns or really anything on the internet was private. So it's What's Spy Public is this app that, I think it's a guy, yeah, some guy made. And here's this project. I made this for you to realize how broken the privacy options in WhatsApp are. I mean this is something that anyone from the MSN messenger days is probably already familiar with. You could see if someone blocked you just by entering their username into a website. Which by the way, Microsoft patched and became impossible. Yet another way that MSN was way ahead of its time and everything else that's come after it totally sucks balls. MSN was great. So anyway, you can see online and offline status, profile pictures, privacy settings and status messages from anyone, even if they have the most secure private settings enabled in their account. And so the point of this was just, hey, we should probably draw some attention to this. Feels a little, what would this be, gray hat? Yeah, I guess. Speaking of hats, Anonymous attacks ISIS websites and social media accounts. This was posted online as Tech Tips For On by Sauron and our original article here is from thehackernews.com. And I mean, the thing about when Anonymous does anything is that that's not necessarily, that doesn't mean that everyone in Anonymous is a united friend doing something. It means someone saying they're anonymous because that's the whole point, isn't they're anonymous? They declared what group within it it was. I don't remember where it says, red something, I think. Has launched a something, something, something, something. I don't know where it is, but it's the- Red Cult. Anonymous group and Red Cult announced the operation hashtag opISIS and claimed to have carried out cyberattacks against hundreds of Twitter and Facebook accounts used by ISIS for its own propaganda and to recruit new members. According to the video, it's coordinated by Muslims, Christians, Jews alike, and a masked individual discusses the aim of the campaign. So they are releasing lists of Twitter and Facebook accounts suspected to belong to Islamic militants. And Twitter has already suspended more than 1,500 ISIS accounts since the group released the first list in June, 2014. And dozens of militant recruiting websites were knocked offline using collective DDoS attack. I gotta say, it's nice to see, it's nice to see them doing something positive. They do, sometimes. They do that. Sometimes. Honestly, so we don't know who's doing good, who's doing bad, who's doing something in between. Who knows? But someone is doing something, and I think hopefully we can all agree that ISIS is a bunch of buttholes, and anything we can do to make them not be quite such buttholes is good. Yes. Taking down communication lines of any sort is a very effective thing in these types of situations. Yep. So it might not seem like much, but it can actually do a lot. Oh, web activism is dumb. Actually, not necessarily. Not being able to get your message out there when your entire thing is that you are broadcasting this message in hopes of finding like-minded individuals and inspiring them to do unspeakable things. Actually, that's super, it's very effective. It's like plant on rock effective. It's super effective. If you are, blah. I mean, the only thing about Anonymous is that they're not employed. They're not, like there's no long-term commitment to 2018 when ISIS is still doing whatever it is they're doing. There's no long-term action plan or anything like that, but it's good that they're doing something, anything at all now. I guess that's pretty much it for the key stuff today. This was a short show. Yeah. Wow. A short, painful show for you. I had fun. Not because it was painful for you. It was just a bonus. Oh man. I do have an exciting announcement though. I am going to be doing the first garage sale in a very long time today. Oh geez. It is going to be, as soon as I figure out how all the tools work, the after party is going to be straight up garage sale today because there is some stuff that needs to not be here anymore and is here right now. And I need it gone. So that is why I am doing it. So that's pretty much it. We'll see you guys next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. Thank you for tuning into the WAN Show. And... Sorry, I got some emails. I thought I'd check. Yeah, I was just going to say, I think he's just on his phone now. So I'm going to cut this so that the archive doesn't look so weird. Wait, don't cut it. You got to do the outro. Oh, oh, oh. There we go. All right. Oh. Oh. Lingo. Yut-yut. Yut-yut. Color J-pop. Do the things. Expert. Watch the things. Watch the things. Learn the things, do the things, watch the things. See, it works. Yeah. Yeah. Learn, do, watch. I think that's the... Learn, do, broadcast. I think it's actually, what is it? Describe, demo, do. That's like a teaching methodology. Yeah, I learned that in like swimming lesson instruction. Mix it.