 All right guys, it's, oh, I don't hear any audio. That could be a bad sign. Or it could be, oh. That's weird. I don't hear anything because my computer is muted. Yeah, dog. Does that mean it's muted for them too? Sometimes that's what that means. Yeah, well, I guess we're about to find out, aren't we? Maybe no one heard anything. All right guys, it's WAN Show time again. No, things are working. Everything is working, everything is fine. Welcome to the WAN Show where everything is fine and everything is good except our video capture cards. Is the YouTube upload muted then? No, it's fine, I just checked it, yes. Everything is fine, everything is wonderful. Everything is awesome. We should just sing that song for an hour and a half. Copyrights all over the place. Well now. Everything is awesome. Well, we could sing it for an hour and a quarter because we're 15 minutes late. Sorry guys, we're here. So we've got a great show for you guys today. Steam has introduced broadcasting in a way that I actually think is much more organic and much closer to the more traditional like watching your buddy play video games kind of thing that even services like Twitch TV were kind of modeled after. So we'll more on that later. Also, AT&T is wondering why exactly six megabit is not that great and a gigabit is much better. I don't know AT&T because everything's not awesome. That's my bird impression. Captcha is dead. Can we make like AT&T bird? Like we should have a shirt that's just like a blue and white bird with his head like this. Why is that better? Why is 10 higher than five? The ISP bird. Can you prove that? I don't think you should be able to build fiber here because I don't want you to. Captcha is possibly dead. Meet nocaptcha by Google, which again, we'll just talk about that later, the greenhouse movements and stuff. And then he stole my thing again. And then I forgot, no, we're good. Gangnam style hit an integer cap in terms of views. So things are happening and things are changing and it's crazy and we'll talk about it. More views than anyone from YouTube ever thought was possible. Minus Tech Tips edition. Yeah, we've never done that. In fact, we have very few videos that are anywhere near any kind of impressive view count whatsoever. We only have like half a dozen videos that have over a million views. And one's a fire truck. That one has three million. We should review like an actual fire truck. That would be a great follow-up. Unboxing a fire truck. So we've got a few great sponsors for you guys. Today number one is everybody's favorite sponsor, Squarespace. Or at least your favorite sponsor if you're into building beautiful websites very easily, squarespace.com. I've got Linus. Also the Intel Xtreme Master. The Intel Xtreme Masters is going on in San Jose. So visit linustechtips.com for details about what Intel is going to be up to at this event. And finally, whoa, is that a new sponsor? Wow, have we done Loot Crate before? Let's see how hard I screw up everything and then everyone will sign up for Loot Crate if 5.4 is anything to go by. Seriously, like every time I screw up a 5.4 integration and it's not that I'm doing it on purpose, trust me. It's Nick's fault. We need to get like a- I blame Nick. Nick is gonna hate you for that. If we could get like affordable grocery food style, not like pizza, but like grocery food style, I think we could basically round out everything that you would need to do other than go to work. So if someone was able to then get a work at home job, with the sponsor lineup that we have, we might be able to enable it so they would never have to leave their house. Is this good or bad? I'm not sure. Yeah, me neither. All right, so why don't we launch into our first topic for the day? This one's pretty much a complete stroke of genius. So I'm just gonna copy the link here. I'm gonna see if I'm, oh, I am not logged into Twitch because for some reason, oh, don't you guys hate this? Okay, sorry, we're not gonna do a topic right now. We are gonna do a rant. And this happens on computers, it happens on phones. Yes, I am going there. Why, why is text input ever, ever slower than my fingers? And I apologize to the headphone users because- Oh, they just got wrecked. I'm pretty sure I just destroyed you all. Okay, I'm gonna have to move back for the rest of this topic because- I don't understand why. In the time that I've been using computers, okay? You probably got close to- I don't care. In the time that I've been using computers, they have increased in power exponentially and yet somehow my fingers are still faster. You know what? Microsoft, Apple, Google, all of you, get your crap together. The keyboard input is the most important thing. Everything else, that stupid audio ad running on some website in a tab that I can't find is not as important as the keyboard input. It should never be slow. So that's what I've got to say about that. And it's working now. I just saw him go through that. And every single time, okay, I hate it and I'm completely on board with you. That rant was brilliant, all good, everything. And I'm cool with it. The rant was brilliant. You're fired for sucking up. But what's actually kind of entertaining is when it lags on your phone and you're like, okay, can I do this? And you gotta try and get the whole long sentence out and then wait, wait, wait, and then see it just go and do all of it. And if you see any errors, you're like, ah, no. The reason I'm so mad about that is not just right now, but the Mac's been doing it. And I know it only has eight gigs of RAM and I am a tab fiend and I really need to get that 32 gigs of RAM in there. I know I have to do these things. He's the worst tab fiend of all. But text input is always more important than anything else. If you have to reserve 16 kilobytes of RAM that's needed for that, then you deserve it. You do what you gotta do. I shouldn't have to, like the Mac has been really bad. The worst I've ever seen. Like I'll be typing. If you type it in and then it pauses and then fills out what you typed in later, it's technically sitting in memory. Right, so the Mac actually will lose the middle of what I typed. So if I type like 10 words, it'll go, bub-a-dub-a-dub-a-dub, can't keep up, oh, I'm sorry, bub-a-dub-a-dub at the end. And I have to fill back in the middle. And I have to wait around to fill back in the middle. It's driving me bananas. Yep, yep, that's not okay. That's super bad. So now I don't even, I have no idea what I was supposed to be talking about. We were talking about some 30 versus 60 FPS debate. Oh yeah, that's stupid crap again. All right, so Digital Foundry tries to make a case for 30 FPS and it's basically the same old bloody thing. I just posted the link in the Twitch chat. This was posted by Zeridian on the forum. And now in this case, they're making it very clear. 60 FPS is the better option when possible. And I think in this way, they're doing a better job of maybe not putting PR spin on it quite as much as some other companies are trying to by calling it more cinematic. But they're just being realistic and trying to address the issue from the perspective of what's actually going on? Why are we making these choices? And so they basically say things like in lots of scenarios, frame rate limiting can result in markedly smoother gameplay. And they have a point, they do have a point because some people find screen tearing more objectionable than the slight, well I shouldn't even call it slight, I hate it. But the latency that's associated with VSync or the advantages associated with having 48 FPS versus being knocked all the way down to 30. Some people find tearing very objectionable. And for people with VSync, if their computer performance is on the edge and sometimes they'll dip down to 58 FPS and sometimes they'll be at 65, every time it dips to 58, it's gonna dip all the way to 30 because that's the way VSync works. And those stutters where the display has to put the same frame up twice are terrible. You really, really feel that. So in a case where you were gonna run at 42 FPS, you're probably better off from a smoothness standpoint just running at 30, unless you've got something like G-Sync, which allows the display to refresh only as often as the graphics card outputs a new frame in order to have 42 FPS smoothness versus 30 FPS or like 60. The only problem I have with this is this is not what anyone was arguing about at any point in time. They didn't actually address anything. No. At all. Nope. Because this is a big part of the reason why people push for certain FPS limits and why they say 30 FPS is bad. The exact same thing you were just talking about. If you're running at 30 FPS and it dips below, that's super not good. If you're running at 45 FPS, 40 FPS, and you can limit it down a little bit and you don't have dips, then fine. Or if you don't wanna do that and you can run it 40 or 45, then fine. That's better. But if we were running at 56, then I'd rather we turned down the details a little bit and push for 60 versus run it at 40. But this isn't even like what they're talking about. I mean, they're saying, okay. That's what I mean. It has nothing to do with the conversation that's actually going on. They're just talking on the side and it doesn't matter. Yeah, it's basically a summary as far as I can tell. Sure. So there's stuff like, okay. And I disagree with the point that 30 FPS with motion blur results in a good, okay. Okay, no, I agree it results in a consistent presentation. You don't agree that it's good. I don't agree that it's good at all. I think it's terrible. Artificial motion blur after the fact is awful because you have to think about how motion blur works. Motion blur is the difference between one frame and another one being kind of smeared. So when you only know the last frame and you don't know the next frame, you can never do it correctly because these images are coming at your eyes so fast. They have to be all blurred together in a way that is realistic looking. So when there's motion blur and you quickly pan back and forth, like say for example, you might do an, I don't know, any game ever, maybe not like, driving games are a good example of where motion blur can work. Unless you get, unless it's like an arcade-y style driving game and someone can fishtail you or T-bone you and your car goes off. Oh, then it's a mess, isn't it? Yeah. It just looks awful. But in FPS games where you might be looking around this corner, looking around that one, mind you, I'm going like this as if I'm holding a mouse and it's not like with a controller you can look fast anywhere anyway. So in those cases, when you jerk like that, the motion blur effect is gonna, whatever, it's gonna kind of bleed the wrong way. It's gonna predictively try to go that way. Oh, actually you went this way. Oh crap, and then it's gonna adjust itself. And it doesn't know when you're gonna wanna stop. And especially if you rapidly go back the other direction, like if you're just checking and then you go back, it's pretty bad. It does do a good job as long as the motion on screen is predictable of making 30 FPS look a lot smoother. But the problem is that it's an interactive medium, not television. And if it's television, it's fine. So there was one other thing in here that I wanted to talk about, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, can't remember what it was. All right, let's move on to the next thing then, shall we? Sure. All right. It's just a summary and it doesn't really matter. They didn't really say anything. Super cool, this is hardly tech to be perfectly. I don't see it tech at all. Okay, it's not tech. I just thought this was cool. I was the one who added this to the doc this week. So the world's first underground park. It's definitely cool. It could be coming sometime in 2018. I just posted the link in the Twitch chat. Let's go ahead and screen share with Linus. One of these days, I'm gonna remember to wire up this connection because my wireless reception in this room is terrible. Or we could install that router that I was testing or that access point, excuse me. Excuse me. Oh, did I just call it a router? Wow. You did to me yesterday too. I know, I know. It's a bad, it's a consumer habit. Well, it's wireless. Is there for a router? No, it's an access point. So if we installed that access point, yeah, that would be a good thing. The badass one, the blackest. Yeah, I'll tell you about it after. But I was getting 10 megabit from the mailbox. There's a house. I know. Aside from this house. Isn't there like one and a half? No, it's about two walls of one house. It kind of cuts it out diagonal. But there is actually a neighbor's entire house with wall insulation, two walls worth in between the mailbox and that access point. And I was using a phone. Like I didn't have like a frigging dish pointed at it. Unreal. So New York City plans to create the low line, the world's first underground park. So it was inspired by the high line, which reused these train tracks and turned them into kind of like an eco, beautiful kind of park thing. So this is a concept art thing. So the article here is from thestar.com. I think it's really cool. So there are some technical challenges. They are gonna have a lot of work ahead of them. This is all part of like that Lower East Side Transformation Project thing that's going on. But basically they're gonna have to figure out how to get natural light 20 feet down and figure out what kind of plants they're gonna be able to grow there. And they're converting what was an old trolley station into an underground park. Now- Yeah, I think it's cool. Like when I say, oh, it has nothing to do with tech. Yeah, like I don't see, obviously there's tech going into this, but like, I don't see it being like, oh yeah, they're running PCs which manage the windows for the natural light. No, no, I haven't seen any of that yet. But it is cool regardless. That'd be kind of funny. Like, oh, they're running Linux. Ah, and people start freaking out. That would be pretty entertaining. But no, I haven't seen any of that kind of stuff yet. Didn't happen. Nope, not even close. Not even sure what on earth you're talking about. I wonder if they're even gonna end up doing it. The park? Yeah, cause isn't it just like, they're raising money, right? Yeah, they're raising money, but they've already raised a fair chunk of it. And I think, okay, like there are some critics of the whole plan. So on the surface, it looks like, oh, hey, we're taking a completely crowded area and we're creating like a public space in it, which is great. It's underground, it's very efficient. But then, you know, we'll hold on a second. You know, what about when this is rented out for private function this and event that? Are we actually creating any public space out of it? And the answer is... No. Well, the private money that comes from events like that will keep it free because right now, very little public money is actually being put into it. So the public doesn't really get to complain too much if it's not being paid for out of the taxpayers' pockets. I mean, this is the second cool thing we've talked about in New York. So the first thing they had was those Wi-Fi hotspots, which some people were talking about about how that was a bad idea. And basically you're wrong. Why was that a bad idea? I don't remember. It was some ridiculous thing. But any more public Wi-Fi, even if it's not the most amazing thing ever, is better than no public Wi-Fi. After being in the EU and like Germany, especially Germany has like basically no public Wi-Fi. And there's a lot of times where I was just like, I just really need to have Google Maps load for like a minute and then I'm fine. Yeah, Necroweb says, yeah, they're going for it. It was just being, I think it's been being used for storage since 1935. Yeah, like it's been just sitting there doing nothing. Apparently the I-beams look like they're in pretty good shape considering they've been there over a hundred years. I was reading up on a little bit of history. This thing was only in use like regularly for I think about 35 or 40 years. Something along those lines. I mean, huge investment building an underground station. And so at least they're gonna get some use out of it other than whatever the thing that I just said. Storage, thank you. I am not at my best today, guys. I actually had, so this is just Linus Media Group news, not really real news. So maybe he's just stalling for time. Maybe he thinks it's important. We don't know. Maybe both. But I actually sat down with NCIX today. And so a lot of people express confusion about this on a very regular basis. Do I work at NCIX? Do I not work at NCIX? I do not work at NCIX. I am not an employee of NCIX. I am an independent entity. I have my own company. But they do contract me to shoot videos for NCIX Tech Tips, the YouTube channel that I started where I uploaded my first YouTube video. So obviously there's some sentimental reasons why I keep going back there. But we sat down today to decide if we were gonna renew our deal. And the original deal was two years. So I've actually been away from NCIX for almost two years now. And it looks like we are gonna renew for another year. So you can expect to keep seeing more of me over on NCIX Tech Tips. Okay. Well, it's not finalized yet, but that looks like how it's gonna go. This, wow, how hard did I call this one? What one? Where? AT&T, the next topic down. Oh, the Baxsoft halting their five hour alert? I have very bad memory when it comes to what we do on this show because we rapid everything so much. You don't even listen to me, do you? I do. You just do your own thing? I listen to you. We should just split this into- This is a two way relationship. We should split this into two shows. So the way it's gonna work is Luke's gonna get his mic. I'm gonna get my mic. You have to dual stream it. We're gonna draw a line down the middle of the couch. Like 90s sitcom style. Draw the line. Split the room, yeah. You don't touch my side of the line. And then we'll have two channels of audio. So those of you who wanna listen to me can just put in the one side. Those of you who wanna listen to the other one, put in the other side. Anyone with speakers, you're hooped. So let's go ahead and switch over to my screen here. Finally loaded, I'm done stalling. We'd have to do like the acapella kind of thing where we both talk about the same topic at the same time but say different words. How's that acapella? Don't, well, don't they, you'll be singing a song but you can sing different parts of it. Um bup, um bup, um bup, um bup, um bup, um bup, um bup. It's not acapella at all but it's common in acapella for different people in the group to be singing different parts of the song. So what, this show's about acapella now? All right, let's hear a demo. Oh my god. Do you do any acapella? No. Nick. Actually, Nick, to my, I've never heard him sing but my understanding is he's actually really good. Yeah. Um, so AT&T sees delays on fiber rollouts of two to three years but the one thing that they have completely gone back on is their CEO came out and said, blah blah blah, Obama, blah blah blah, support net neutrality, blah blah blah. Well, that whole plan we had to roll out fiber to 100 metropolitan areas. And you guys actually paid for and then we just took the money from. We're just gonna sit on our butts and not do anything until we know how the laws are gonna be going to blah blah blah. We're not gonna invest in this unless we know what we're getting out of it. And so they have since revised that statement because it's ridiculous. What you're just gonna completely, like whether it's managed the same way as phone lines where you know, they have to have neutrality, you can't prefer one connection over another one. Whether it's managed that way or some other way, it's still very profitable. Hold on. Phone lines are fantastic. Phone lines are still profitable and that gets managed that way. So it's just a matter of, it's a pure money grab. So it's not like you're just gonna completely stop investing in the business that made you what you are because you're not gonna get your way about something. So, but they have said that it'll be a two to three year delay. I mean, I don't know if this whole Google Fiber thing is working out the way Google wanted it to because they never wanted to be an ISP. My perception and I could be totally wrong and Google can call me up on my cell phone. I'm sure they know my number. They know everything about me. Google could call me up and tell me, look Linus, you're wrong about this. But my perception of this was that Google never wanted to be a player as an ISP. They just wanted to do it like once and be like, yo world, please talk about this and yo ISPs, it doesn't cost that freaking much. Y'all need to like get your crap together and start doing this. I don't think they wanted to be rolling it out to city after city after city. That wasn't the point. But now it kind of might be. They might have to. And now with AT&T and stuff doing stuff like this, like screw you, don't build blinds. Who cares? Go in the corner and die. Let people like Google come in and build actually good stuff and let everyone move over to them. I read something, I think, I don't remember if it was the Imgur, Reddit, something. It was one of those kind of websites where someone was talking about, just read the headline and I was like, what the hell, I had to click on the picture. But it was, it's like when that hot girl moves in next door and wants to hang out with you. And now those girls that used to live next door are clawing for your attention. And then you click on it and it shows like a Google Fiber building being built. I'm like, oh my God, that's so true. And hopefully they build these buildings everywhere so that that happens because everyone's gonna wanna get Google Fiber and then AT&T and all those other butt heads will have to be better or else they will crawl in a corner and die. And I think everyone would be okay with that. This is kind of funny. I have no way of validating any of this, but I kind of have to acknowledge this. I just got a text. Yep, you're right about Google Fiber, former Google employee. Well, I don't think it was even a secret. I mean, that was what they pretty much said publicly is like, this is the point of this. We don't wanna be an ISP. This is not our business. Screw off. Go do what you're supposed to be doing. We don't want to do this. We wanna make self-driving cars. We wanna build cool crap that goes on your wrist and on your glasses. We don't wanna just like lay down Fiber. But they're the best at it because they don't hate everyone, including their customers. Speaking of laying down Fiber, so our original source here is Ars Technica. I just love the name of their site. I know it's Ars, but it looks like Ars. Where are we going? What a great site. I went down a lot. Yeah, what the? What are we talking about? Okay, so this is... Oh. So, Chanute, Kansas, a town of roughly 9,000 people. 9,000 awesome people. Yeah, awesome people, by the way, petitioning the state to allow it to offer greater access to the high-speed fiber network that it built to support town utility operations. AT&T filed to officially intervene in the case. All right, so any decision made by the KCC could impact AT&T's business operations in the area, which is why we asked to intervene in the proceedings, an AT&T rep said. Ars Technica reports that Chanute... Oh, here we go. Hold on a second. Let me just... Would charge its citizens just $40 a month for one gigabit service, which is only $5 more than the discounted... Six-month entry rate, which you probably have to sign onto a contract for, so it'll be way more expensive after those six months. For six megabit service. AT&T also includes a hard data cap of 150 gigs a month, and exceeding that costs you $10 per month. Chanute officials think the state will rule in their favor. Hopefully they do. Yeah, so this is... Guys in Chanute, I would love to see more towns do this. Just, you know what? If the ISPs aren't going to treat the internet like it's just a part of, like it's a utility, if they're not gonna do it, then fine. The city should just build their own utilities, you know, the way it works for every other utility. And since we've finally got to the point where we don't need that existing infrastructure, like that whole deal with these private companies owning all of the phone lines all over the entire country, well, we've got an opportunity right now where those phone lines aren't really needed anymore. So if it's time to invest, and they don't wanna move into the next century of communications, then okay, okay, take it back, city. I would happily submit my tax dollars. I would happily, if the city said, look, we're gonna spend 1% of all the tax money that we collect on upgrading the internet in this city and booting out the ISPs that are just have been crapping on it the entire time, I'd say, you know what? I love the garbage collection service I have from the city. City seems to be doing a bang up job of the kind of stuff that they spend my money on. Build me the internet, I'll give you a 2%, heck, I'll give you 5%. I will pay more taxes if the city's doing the kinds of things that really are meaningful to me like that. So. That's a good point because like, I've always kind of talked about, obviously not on the WAN show, but how like phone lines are actually really impressive infrastructure. And then stuff like garbage collection, you don't notice it because it's never really going wrong. Isn't it amazing? That's beautiful. If we could have that with the internet, that would be fantastic. If my internet maybe was, you know, not the fastest thing, but it arrived as reliably as my garbage truck. I want it to be fast. Ignore that. It should be fast. Your garbage truck is pretty quick though. Who clocks a garbage truck? Is it regular? Hours at work is regular. Yes. So anyway, AT&T, I wish I was wearing a Keep On Diggin' shirt today because you guys are just yahoos. You guys are the poop heads this week. Yeah. I don't think we have any Ubisoft topics. Actually, the crew seems totally fine. I was benchmarking it today. Oh yeah, do you want to talk about that a bit? I don't really have a ton to talk about. I didn't see any like manual save option, which I think makes sense because I'm pretty sure it's like an MMO. So what I did was just when you first drop into the game, I believe it's the start of a tutorial mission. You get into what's kind of like a cop chase. Some guy calls you up and he's like, oh, what are you doing? He's like, I'm being chased by cops. He's like, you better get out of that because you have a race tonight. And then that's all I've seen of the game so far. So I race towards the objective and then I get to the objective. My two minute benchmark is not done. So I U-turn and go back. And then the two minute benchmark ends and I close the whole game and then just do it again. A lot of great discussion about whether internet infrastructure should be handled by the government or not. And one person brought up a point of, well, what if your government decides to blacklist certain websites? Well, they're already buddy buddy anyway. If your government wants to blacklist something or spy on you, it's not like they're not already doing it. And I'm not, I don't mean for that to be like a defeatist. We should just accept that they're gonna spy on us and censor us. We shouldn't, but it's happening. But the fact of the matter is if they're not already doing it, they're probably not going to because they already can depending on the legislation and the government in place. In Canada, it's less of an issue for now. We have that spy palace thing. We'll see what Captain Hungar does next. I wish they'd stopped voting that guy in. Yeah. It's the first time I've ever- We should be talking about politics on the show. It's the first time I've ever wished that I was in America because in America, you can only serve two terms max. There is no other reason why I would wish I was in America. Let's continue to not talk about politics and move on with the show. I'm just talking about like, steam broadcasting. Oh, speaking of actually speaking of politics, was Sony hacked by North Korea? Oh, yeah. So Sony Pictures has a movie slated for release pretty shortly here. I'm just going to go ahead and pop that link in there where it's called The Interview where, oh, who's playing these? Who's playing the characters? I don't know. I pay so little attention to movies these days. It's the, yeah, I don't know. Seth Rogen and James Franco play two reporters who are granted an audience with Kim Jong-un. Do they borrow pineapples and go on express trains? The CIA then enlists the pair to assassinate him and North Korea described the film as an act of war and an undisguised sponsoring of terrorism and called on the US and UN to block it. Sorry, North Korea, that's really not the way it works here, blocking a film because it's about, and can you imagine if every film about trying to assassinate a US president was banned? There's no more action films. They're all gone. Every movie that every action star ever made. I mean, and if we censored things the way that North Korea does, we would, I mean, we'd be removing the IMDB entire entries for like entire action stars. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, action as a genre would become like, what was that, Scorpion King? That's like it. It's pretty much the only thing. There's more, I'm sure. This cyber attack, several films were stolen and released. So unreleased films were released in full quality. It was rumored and I haven't followed up on this, but it was rumored at the time it was happening that the PlayStation 4, I wanna say, source code was stolen. Oh no, like a bunch of stuff was stolen. I know it was bad. I haven't looked exactly into what happened. The unreleased film thing is pretty intense. PlayStation 4 source code, that's, yeah. Yeah, no, it might've been PlayStation 3 or something. Can't remember all the details, but. Sony needs to wake the hell up. Yeah, this isn't the first time they've been hit and had a major leak like this. Yeah. So. That's my point as to why they need to wake up. This dock is huge. I can't find anything. All right. But yeah, they need to clue in, stop holding things in plain text. Entire Excel sheets with people's passwords. That's not acceptable on any level for anyone. I don't think even I have Excel sheets of passwords. That's just stupid. You have a picture. Do I? What passwords are they? A lot of them. Really? Yeah. What pic, do you have this picture? Cause I don't. I found it and was like, wow, that's dumb. And then kept on looking for whatever I was looking for. Oh, all right. We apparently have a picture. At least, at least it's harder to. It might not exist anymore. I found that a long time ago. And a picture would actually be potentially more secure than a plain text document. It's a lot harder to scrub through. A bot wouldn't, well, a bot, you probably wouldn't make it look for that. Cause that wouldn't make sense. You could make it look for that, but it probably wouldn't look for an Excel sheet in a picture. Yeah. Might look for text in general in a picture. Yeah, but it's much less likely than like scrubbing Word and Excel documents. Cause it's way easier to just scrub Word and Excel documents. All right. So let's go ahead and move on to Steam. Offering game streaming. Wow. This is very interesting. Steam is determined, Valve is just determined to do all the things. I think if I have this, I don't know if I have this or not. Cause it's a beta client thing, right? Yeah. Just everyone with it. This is open to everyone who uses Steam as long as you opt into the beta client. Okay. So I guess I do have it. I might try it tonight. Just to kind of give it a shot. Yeah. Just to see how it works. It is not very feature rich yet. Of course. I just, yeah. Yeah. So I don't think it even supports a webcam yet. Although guys correct me in Twitch chat if I'm wrong. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And like with all the Steam stuff, it changes so rapidly that who knows. But what I might even do is just be streaming on Twitch and then start Steam streaming while I'm streaming on Twitch and just see what happens. So what's cool is, and I was saying in the intro for the show today that this feels a little bit more natural a way to start watching someone game than navigating to a site like Twitch. And I don't think that Twitch is gonna go away because I think for major events, Twitch is gonna be the go-to destination for a long time. And I mean long time in the internet sense, it could change tomorrow, but. No. For. Assuming nothing changes for the foreseeable future, Twitch is gonna be the destination for that. But for people who don't even know what Twitch TV is, have never heard of it. There's more people than you would think. Which is a lot of people, a lot of gamers even. Something like this is a lot more natural. Like, hey, my buddy's playing Dota or my buddy's playing Team Fortress. And all you do is you click on it and you spectate the game. What a natural way to do that. Because the thing about Twitch is there's a lot of, the way it's structured is it's great for creators to interact with viewers. And it's great for concurrent viewers to interact with each other. But beyond that, the social infrastructure of the site is not very deep. Not compared to something like Steam where you can transfer files to each other, you can trade in-game items, you can chat with each other in group chats, individually. And you can voice chat with each other. Like it's more, it's a very social platform. So for someone who's not interested in watching a stream but is interested in chatting with buddy while they play a game, what a great way to do that. So. I could see this being pretty cool for a few reasons. Like if someone doesn't feel like streaming at the time. Because streaming on Twitch, I think one thing that people don't understand is like streaming games on Twitch isn't just playing the game and happening to have other people watching you. It's broadcasting. It's broadcasting. You're live. You have to be, it's energy draining. It's not the easiest thing on the planet. But if like your buddy at home is working on homework but wants to see how your Dota matches are going, it could be cool for him to be able to just tune in and then it's just you and him maybe on Skype or vent or team speak or whatever. That's much more relaxing. Just you and your buddy hanging out instead of you streaming to unknown amounts of people. Yeah. And it just, it feels a lot more like the old days when it was a single player game. Yeah. And even if you had two controllers, you had to take turns and just kind of sitting and watching and playing a game together. Like that's, I think it's very cool. I think it's pretty cool. I don't think it's gonna do anything in terms of like trumping Twitch because that doesn't seem like their goal at all. I think this is another cool way to interact with your buddies on Steam. I've got someone asking if I ever found the list of gifs of Team Fanatic Pixel blocking. It was actually a list of, I keep forgetting his flushes. Flushes. Flushes like just panic button aim bot where he just presses a button and snaps to the head of the nearest opponent. Through walls or through whatever. It's hilarious. Through two walls and four boxes, it just magically goes to his head. And no, I never looked for it again, so I haven't found it. All right, Smash Bros on Wii U. This is from Game Nesia. I don't think I'm gonna talk about this a great deal, but basically, watch out. Some people's consoles are actually bricking so. I've heard a lot of mixed information about this. Yeah. Some people are saying it's Smash Bros. Some people are saying it's just a lot of people are playing Smash Bros right now, which makes a ton of sense. Some people are saying it's based off of Smash Bros Patch. We don't know what's causing it, so watch out. Maybe someone does, but there's so many different people saying so many different things that I don't wanna say a confirmation. You know, I would love to do a comedy sketch of just a warning. So just the most random warning and then people reacting to it. So if you just put a caution sign in the middle of nowhere with no obvious danger around it, how would people react to that? Warning. You'd be looking for the danger, right? Oh my God. It would be fun to, if you're walking through a park and you find other people that are walking through the park and just have you and your buddy in yellow vests jog at a fairly fast, not running, but jogging at a fairly fast pace, run ahead of them, and then just right in the middle of the walkway, just put it like a pike sign and say, oh my God, and then just run back. And then just getting people's reactions. What a great video that would be. All right, so next up, we've got our last topic before the sponsor break, but this one is one that's obviously gonna get his panties all wet. More Tesla news. We should just change the show to not Oculus anymore because there hasn't been much coming out of Oculus lately. Just Tesla. Wait for CES though. Wait for CES. There's Oculus and I can't remember the name of them right now, but another VR company that have booths really close to each other. He sends me an email or like Hangouts message in like the middle of the night. Call dibs, call dibs. I'm like, I'm not going to those booths. As if you have to call dibs on the Oculus booth. I'm gonna buy an Oculus and I'm gonna play the crap out of V Valkyrie, but like I'm not as into it as him. I just wanted to make sure we were all on the same page. We were on the same page. You're on your own page, but I'm aware of the page and that's fine. Yeah, okay. All right, so this is from gizmodo.com and there's actually the Model S. Like if we couldn't have imagined a way that it could get better. Yeah. Musk can. So what do we got? Knowing Tesla, it's gonna cost a bunch more money, but you don't have to go with this option. So it's another version of the Model S. There's an additional front motor. I hate that they're calling it the new Tesla Model S. I hope they do something. No, I think the idea behind it is when you pick a Model S, you pick like the baseline version and there's multiple versions. So it's probably not the new, like how Nintendo does with the little like sticker symbol thing. New, new Nintendo goes. Super Mario Brothers Wii U plus new Adventure Galaxy land time. Yeah, I know. I don't think they're doing that. What I'm expecting is happening is when you go to configure your Model S when you're ordering it, it's a different base like starting line. Right. Cause there's like the, like the more, like not as fast, not as great battery style, but cheaper one. And then like there's all the different versions, right? So what improvements do we get here other than the one that I obviously spoiled on the thing on my side here, the dual motors. Yeah, you get an additional front motor, which has 221 brake horsepower, bringing the car's total power up to supercar like 691 brake horsepower, which is pretty intense. The combined torque is even more impressive at 931 Newton meters going, growing from 362, which is actually kind of insane. And the car weighs 2239 kilograms. They're comparing it to, well, okay. I think this Gizmodo website is comparing it. I don't think Tesla is to the new Dodge Challenger Hellcat, which produces 707 brake horsepower and 881 Newton meters of torque and weighs a little bit less actually at 2018 kilograms. Now, obviously one thing that has to be brought up is like they're comparing it to the Hellcat. The Hellcat is like this crazy massive, like gasoline, petrol based engine, and they're comparing an electric engine to it. These things are going to perform very differently. Electric motor, to be clear. Motor, yes, sorry. They're going to perform very differently. So you can't just be like, look at these numbers. They're exactly referential to this other completely different thing. It's not necessarily fair. To the Hellcat, because the Tesla actually has a faster zero to a hundred. Yes, actually, most definitely. So what is it, 3.2 seconds to the Hellcat's 3.7 seconds? So not an insignificant difference. But then what I was talking about though, is like, so you've got that zero to 60, I think that's. Also the Hellcat looks redonkulous. That's zero to 100 kilometers per hour. 60 mile, yeah, so it's a zero to 60 basically. Yeah, and then, but their top speeds, Tesla's max speed is 250 kilometers per hour. Dodge's max speed, or the Hellcat's max speed is 328 kilometers per hour. Now, max speed has never been something that makes any sense to me. I totally agree, and I like the Tesla set up more. I just, I'm trying to make sure that everyone is on the same page, that these are very different. As a biker, like I love sport bikes, my sport bike doesn't have a great top speed. I think it only does around 220 kilometers an hour. I say I think, because I've never tested that. But off the line, I mean, you can't touch it. It's a motorbike. And so I would much rather have, I mean, especially driving on the streets, you can always, when you wanna have. There's the red light, that's way too close. When you wanna have fun driving on the street, your only options really are quick acceleration. You can't go fast, you're gonna hurt someone. So being able to go from zero to 100 in no time flat when you're merging onto the highway is really the only time you're ever gonna let it out. And so a top speed of 250 kilometers per hour is lost. More than fine, yeah. And I completely agree with that whole idea. But I'm just, again, just trying to make sure that people understand that these are two extremely different beasts, and should be looked at in different lights, whichever one you like more. So we're still five to six years away from a true self-driving car, thinks Musk. But the new Model S has an incredible array of sensors that are intended to better inform the driver of conditions around the car, and which can take some limited control to avoid crashes. So some of the things it can do with the, what all does it have on it? I can't even remember. Long range radar, image recognition camera, 360 ultrasonic radar, and GPS data integration with real-time traffic. So if you signal on the highway, it can change lanes for you when it's safe, kinda cool. It can detect oncoming obstacles, like a sudden obstruction, say for example, they don't give this example, but I would think something like a deer or a moose running out onto the road. And it can automatically apply the brake. Yeah, it can check blind spots. I'm super into the 360 degree ultrasonic radar. That's super cool, I like that a lot. Love all this stuff. You still haven't been in one, right? I have never. Yeah, okay, at CTIA? CTIA, yeah, there we go. We got it eventually. I got to see one and that was by far the coolest thing about that entire show. But anyways, QVI was pretty cool. Really? Anyways, it's pretty cool. And like the whole, how the handles go in the car for aerodynamic reasons. Right. Even if you just ignore the fact that that's for aerodynamic reasons, it's pretty badass. You have to have the key in your pocket, but like you walk up to the car and put your hand out, it's just like, brrp. Oh, that's cool. I still see stuff like that as a bit of an over-engineering thing. It's another thing to break from my perspective. But then I don't know that the typical customer for a Model S cares if it breaks 10 years down the line because they'll probably have a new car by then. Yeah, and I wouldn't be surprised if on the like much more reasonable version, which is gonna come out in however long, which is supposed to be like 30, whatever thousand. Yeah, the D. Birdie. Is that the D? I thought that was. I think that's the D. I don't think that's the D. No, sorry, the D is more than that, if I recall correctly. Yeah. Sorry, go ahead. Anyways, I seriously doubt that car is gonna have the automatically received, yeah. So, it's no big deal. All right, so Stephen Hawking is getting an upgrade courtesy of Intel and, of all people, SwiftKey. So he's been using the same system for, oh, Lord, how long is it? Can't remember, it's in the article here, but it's been for over a decade, if I recall correctly. And Mr. Hawking, sorry, Professor Hawking, is not interested in some of the new technologies like eye tracking, but did work with them on a new, more predictive style of input, some rearranging of the menus. And then, now that the whole thing, or once the whole thing is finished being developed, what's cool is that Intel is gonna make the whole source code open source. So many badass things were just said. I love that SwiftKey's working on this. I love that Intel's working on this. I love that they're releasing everything publicly. I'm actually super down with him not being into eye tracking because all of the eye tracking demos that I've used so far were kind of trash. So, I completely understand why he's not into that. I think this is great. This is really cool. There's a really cool comment on the SwiftKey blog from a 17-year-old who's suffering from the same thing as Professor Hawking, and who basically said, yeah, I mean, my computer software is so outdated that I can't upgrade from XP. It has no support for new operating systems, and SwiftKey's already engaged here and talking about, you know, we'd like to have someone from our team reach out to chat further about our work in the area. I mean, this is, I think people, when I complain about no SwiftKey on iOS, or I complain about the fact that SwiftKey is kind of rubbish on iOS still, people think that I'm talking about swipe typing. I'm not, I hate swipe. No, I don't use it either. I don't use swipe at all, but I do use the SwiftKey keyboard because their predictive text is- Really good. Pretty good performance. It's been a little worse lately for me, but pretty good performance and way smarter than most of the other ones I've used because it actually looks at my history. So, the system that they're building here, I'm assuming would also be a learning predictive model that actually gears itself towards the things that you usually say. It's awesome. Yeah. Really cool. Do you sync it with like everything? Yes, I do. Yeah, yeah, me too. I know some people that don't, and I'm just like, ah, I want my texting to slowly, I'm slowly getting more, getting away from like the shorthand texting stuff. Right. Because with full keyboards, it's faster, so like, whatever. And if it's predicting so well, if I need to type something long, usually within the first three or four letters, it figures it out anyways. Right. So I sync it with my email, which I try to write in more full sentences, and I'm trying to move everything to better grammar and better formatting. So I like that SwiftKey actually works for that. All right. So it's sponsor time. Our first sponsor spot today is squarespace.com. Go to squarespace.com slash line us for a free trial and up to 10% off. Not just up to 10% off, exactly 10% off. Why would you want Squarespace, you might ask? Well, that's a terrific question. You might want a website for your business, for your blog, for your, I don't know, your like weird fascination with beads. Whatever you might want a website for. A really good idea is just an extension of your resume. Actually, not a single person who applied for our recent opening had their own website. Well, one person did, and I clicked on it, and it was down. Oh. So the great thing about Squarespace is- So they probably should have been on Squarespace. 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Speaking of being a liar, I'm not lying about IEM in San Jose. This is going on from December 6th to 7th, so that is this weekend, tomorrow and Sunday. And in addition to the competition and showcase, Intel's gonna, well okay, so Intel is of course the presenting sponsor of the Intel Extreme Masters, it's right in the name. And then they're also gonna have a showcase of a bunch of the latest technologies. They're also going to have two new egg offers with full details available in the forum, which will be linked in the video description of the archive, or presumably it's up there already, and Nick's already dealt with this. One of them is to save $100 on select items, including the ASUS G20, so that's their little tiny gaming machine, as well, oh, I just got a tweet from the person whose resume I clicked on their website, and it didn't work. I was planning on hosting my website locally. Dude, get Squarespace. Okay, so including the G20 and two of their gaming notebooks, so the G20 is that little tiny gaming machine that's very console-like in no way at all, other than its size, because it's a full-fledged PC and can hold up to a dual-slot, full-power PCI Express, 16x graphics card. Also, deal number two is you can get free games and software with the purchase of a Core i5 or Core i7 processor. So they have a green screen, like two-in-one photo thing on site where they'll be drawing to win one of two Core i7 processors every day. They're gonna have a drawing for those at home, where if you take a photo and upload it to Twitter with a tag for Intel USA, so add Intel USA, and use the official hashtag, hashtag IEM, you'll be entered to win a Core i7 processor, make your photo interesting, like show off how you're watching IEM from home, for example, to stand out from the pack. So make sure you check out all the pro competition at the event all weekend. All right, our last sponsor spot for today is actually a new one, and this one's gonna be kind of fun. So we'll just leave this here. I'm so excited. Now, I have to disclose that Loot Crate sent this to us free of charge, because we're talking about Loot Crate, and it's like a sponsor spot, so we didn't actually, like, we didn't actually buy it, I'm sorry. But if you guys aren't familiar with, here, do you wanna do the, do you wanna do the unboxing? Sure. All right, so if you guys aren't familiar with Loot Crate, basically, you sign up, and every month, they deliver epic, geek, and gaming gear for just, and even the price is geeky, 13.37. Really? Yeah. I didn't even know that. One thing I wanna point out is how tightly packed it is. I noticed this, like, immediately, like, this is a shirt. Are you an expert packer? I can definitely fill a box. I actually, pretty good, yeah. I'm talking about the Green Bay Packers. You played football. I did, but not. Not for the Green Bay Packers. All right. So, what are we talking about? Right, so this is, I believe this is November's crate, so it includes all the stuff that he's holding up right now. So what do we got? This is a shirt? Yep, Pirates vs. Ninjas shirt. Okay. And I'm assuming that they find out your t-shirt size or something ahead of time. This is a large, so this one's for you, I guess. They found out my t-shirt size. You just earned a shirt. Yay, another shirt that I don't have to buy. This one includes the, yeah, so that's a Mega Man helmet and collectible stand. So you're gonna have to open that up for sure. The December crate is gonna be the biggest one they've ever delivered size-wise. So now's a great time to sign up with offer code Linus and save 10%. So you've saved what? A dollar 34, I guess, which makes the price less exciting. Well, more exciting, but less geeky. Less geeky. Less geeky. So they're gonna have exclusives from DC Comics and Batman and Marvel slash Guardians of the Galaxy. They're gonna have an exclusive Ghostbusters collectible, Tetris and Simpsons collectibles, and a brand new Funko pop vinyl figure created exclusively for Loot Crate. So December's crate is gonna have a bunch of crazy exclusive stuff. What else we got in here? Well, here's the helmet. Okay. Here's your Mega Man helmet. Oh, it's a halo-like grenade thing. Drop pod. I think it's a, is it a grenade? I think it's a drop pod. Yeah, it's a drop pod. So it includes a super posable micro action figure. I feel like, I feel like, I feel like the old unboxing days. Oh my goodness. Just like opening up like some random thing. Just being like, whoop. Who did this? I don't know. How does it work? Look, there's ports on it. These are all the fan headers on the motherboard. This is what it says on the box. So it's a metallic series figure. 19 pieces, eight plus. So you're not going to want to give this metallic series figure to your seven year old, unless your seven year old is really clever. What do you got? What else we got in here? Oh, okay. Oh, that's a little tiny, it's a little tiny Master Chief. I need my knife. What do you got? What is that? It's a Street Fighter headband. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. So you can't. This is amazing. Anytime, I suck at fighting games. Anytime I play a fighting game in the future, I will be wearing my Street Fighter headband. This is, it's just like, oh, it's a mega blocks halo guy. So it comes with a little mega blocks, like block, like a two by, a two by four block. And then he stands on it or doesn't. Oh, oh, oh. Does he stand on it? Maybe he has to stand on the front. He has to stand. Yeah, there we go. I just had to fix his posture. And it comes with a little tiny gun. And of course it's a pistol. Yeah. Because this is essentially not a halo one. What else we got here? This appears to, oh, oh, he's got a backpack. There we go. I'm liking my Master Chief. What else you got in there? There's an Assassin's Creed coin. So it's from Unity. So like if you, if the game is lagging out so much that you can't spend coins in game, you can like pretend to spend coins in real life. Yeah, I mean, in Loot Crate's defense, this coin was probably arranged before they knew the game was gonna suck donkey crap. And, and like, if this was Assassin's Creed 4, and they, and this had showed up before Assassin's Creed 4, and this was a coin from Assassin's Creed 4, you would probably be super stoked. You know what? And it's, it's actually a really nice coin too. If we do this just right, it kind of looks like a four on the back. There you go. Yeah, so you could pretend it's Assassin's Creed 4. Black flag. And then you could just, yeah, okay. Well, it does say Unity on the front of it. So you could just never look at it on that side. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put it down on the table. Turn this into your Tomb Raider's coin. So you cross out the Unity side, and then it's like, yeah, oh, it doesn't die because it's not- Because it's the, because it's the more generic Assassin's Creed logo instead of the, okay. Okay, well, that's not bad for 13 bucks. Yeah, it's actually pretty cool. And you also get a little pin. Loot Crate November 2014 battle theme. So they have different, different themes and stuff. I was talking to Nick about it, and I was like, in, like, whenever it happens, just in case my brother's watching this, like I'm not asking you to have one, obviously. But whenever it happens, if my brother has a baby, what I would do is just get Loot Crate, and then like every time that once it's older, every time that it like comes to hang out with me, I can be that cool uncle that like has all that cool nerd swag stuff. And I'll just be like, here, you get these things. And they'll be like, wow, how did you find such cool nerd swag? And they'll be like, I tirelessly- I pretty much hunt for this stuff all around the world. I eBay every day for my entire life to have all this cool swag. I hunt down these little things, yeah. All right, speaking of things that- I'm just gonna keep wearing the- You may do that if you would desire to do that. All right, let's move on to our next topic here, which is I remember making fun of this thing. And basically my conclusion being, yeah, that seems like a great idea in theory. Oh, sorry, the Loot Crate link is lootcrate.com slash Linus. Nick's all like, yo dog, you might not have actually gone out. Lootcrate.com slash Linus. All right, so this- Oh man, this thing was so stupid. I was like, yeah, I guess it seems like a good idea in theory, except that motion control is gonna be completely impossible. And it looks way too big. And the battery life is probably gonna be rubbish. And it looks like I was 100% right. The whole thing just looks garbage. Here we go. So this stupid thing. We're not gonna make this drill, this ad. Epic. Okay, worst product ever made ring by Logbar. 1.2 million views from Snazzy Labs. So here's their original crowdfunding campaign. These guys raised almost a million dollars to make this ring that in theory, yeah, look at this thing, look how big it is. So you can tap, you can gesture, you can draw things in the air. I think they even said that you would be able to type. So we're not gonna run this whole video. Is this the same company that was like, yeah, you can play Halo with it? I believe so. I think it was. Yes, yes, I believe it was. And they showed someone like typing on an onscreen keyboard on their TV. So it has shipped to the original backers and it is apparently complete garbage. It was, so they promised the features, gesture control, text transmission, payment information transmission, receive alert functions compatible about greater than iOS 7 and Android 4.4. And the video that I just showed, you know what, I should post this video. Basically, it's like the worst thing ever and does nothing and doesn't work with anything and wasn't that cheap and is a complete disaster. And this is the cautionary tale that goes along with anyone who thinks they should, that we should tell to anyone who wants to fund something on a crowdfunding site. There is actually one, two, there are two crowdfunding campaigns that I backed just so that I could do reviews of how crap it is when it arrives. One is the Jibo robot because they're claiming so much. I find hardware and like when there's physical rewards on things, I actually shy away from it more. Like stuff that I've backed, it's worked out pretty well. Okay. Starz isn't, obviously it's not out yet. I've had fun with it though. The dog fighting module stuff is pretty good and it looks like it is actually gonna happen. So that's cool. Shovel Knight, I backed that. It came out. It's awesome. Super happy with that. But then I also have stories like the dude who was supposed to make a cookbook and then just ran away with everyone's money. Cause he was like, it'll be a manly cookbook. And like he had like one example page and it was hilarious. It was so funny. And I was like, this is awesome. Cause if it can make like cooking, entertaining and funny, then that's cool. And then it just never made more than one page. Who was it with that card game where they like spent all the money on a new office and then they- And like their one company's debts or their one employee's debts or something. Yeah, I don't remember who that was. And wasn't there one not that long ago? This was news this week. This isn't in the doc. But some crap, what were they? They were a game developer or something like that. And they donated all the money to Anita Sarkeesian. And they can't pay anyone back. And it's like a big gigantic fiasco. And they're like, yeah, I owe a lot of taxes. So I can't afford to pay anyone back. It's like, yeah, your taxes are really not the problem of your backers who gave you money. Okay, so let's go ahead and yeah. So the ring total disaster. Oh, Gunnam Styles view count. Right. So yeah, do you wanna go ahead and- Yeah, where is this? Da, da, da, da, da. Okay, so it has, the counter has passed the, I'm gonna screw this up. 2,147,483,647 view number, which is when you're, someone's gonna scream at me because I'm probably gonna say something ever so slightly wrong. But when you're programming, you put things into what are essentially little containers. So a 32-bit integer supports that number that I just said. And that integer supports a number that is above zero, I believe, and up to that number. So if they get above that number, things go wrong because it can no longer fit within that container. The container is too small. So they upgraded to a 64-bit integer container, which can hold the number that I can't even say. It's 9223372036854775804. Whoa. It doesn't have decimals or anything like that, but that won't matter for something like view counts. Yeah, I don't know. Pretty intense. Signed, a signed 32-bit integer. There we go, my bad. It's, yeah. I don't know. It's against Google's practices to use unsigned integers, which actually kind of totally makes sense. And that's pretty much all we actually have to say. They have increased the possible amount, and Gangnam Style will continue to go on as it always has. Gangnam Style. Yeah, being what Charlie bit my finger never could be. Yeah. All right. Oh, this is really exciting. So ASUS is talking, I reached out to them about this already because we so need to cover this. But ASUS has a 27-inch PB279Q coming. So it's a PB, which means that it's not going to necessarily have the same pre-calibration as a PA, but this is a 4K 27-inch 10-bit monitor with 100% sRGB coverage. This thing looks freaking awesome, and it's coming in at an estimated 799. So under $800, sort of, exactly $800 basically. So 27-inch, right? Yeah, for a 27-inch 4K monitor. Now, 4K is still a bit of a mixed bag on the PC in particular due to the text and UI element scaling issues that exist there, but more affordable displays, and this will be 60 hertz over DisplayPort, 30 hertz over HDMI. So more affordable displays being available will, I think, drive adoption, which will drive developers to go ahead and make their stuff compatible. So very, very exciting. And for gamers in particular, I would imagine at 27-inch 4K, anti-aliasing is a thing of the past, maybe 2X, but I can't imagine needing any more than that. 2X at 32-inch 4K already looks pretty darn good to me. Mm. Until Windows Support is a billion times better, I'm still not super interested. Okay, CAPTCHA is dead. Say hello to the new and improved CAPTCHA. So for those of you who aren't familiar with CAPTCHA, CAPTCHA is those horrible things that a lot of the time you don't get right, and you have to reenter 100 times, and then you have to reenter your password and the CAPTCHA, but those little things with the images that are like obscured, and you're not really sure if you're typing the right thing, to validate that you are indeed a human and not a robot signing into the website. So this is the no CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA, which doesn't rely on just that technology anymore. So over to you. It's gonna pre-screen your behavior and how you use the website to try and identify you as a human or a robot. If you take 0.5 of a second to go through the entire form and then try to click that you're a human and not a robot, it's probably gonna be like, nope, you're pretty much a robot, not gonna let you in. So instead of just having you read all this crazy, annoying crap and entering it wrong four or five times in a row before you figure out that it's case sensitive because some of them aren't, it'll just pre-screen your behavior. It'll also have other potential things. So it could have like two things going on. So there's the pre-screening thing, and it could show you a picture of a cat and be like, select a picture that's similar, not that they haven't already been doing this. They just might continue to use that style instead of the really hard to read text. There's actually, I didn't even see this at the bottom of the page before, but this is cool. So brief history of CAPTCHAs. So while all of this may sound simple, there's a high degree of sophistication behind that modest checkbox. So CAPTCHAs have relied on the inability of robots to solve distorted text. However, they're saying that their research shows that today's artificial intelligence can solve even the most difficult variant of distorted text at 99.8% accuracy. So not only are these things annoying, they're not even a deterrent for AI that's trying to get through it. So the distorted text on its own is no longer a dependable test. So last year they developed an advanced risk analysis backend for CAPTCHA that actively considers a user's entire engagement before, during, and after to determine whether the user is human. Very, very cool. I've also seen other variants. I don't think these are necessarily reCAPTCHA, but other validation things like pick the one that corresponds to the other pictures. And they'll have pictures of animals and you have to pick the cat. So cool stuff like that, but this should be until, it's always an arms race. So until something figures out how to beat it, until you figure out how to make a robot that perfectly can act like a human being, which I don't know, robots have serious problems being random, so we'll see. The cool thing about it though is that even if the robot finds a way to behave in a way that fools the CAPTCHA, it won't be fast. Yeah, that's true. I know it will be actually kind of entertaining though. Trying to get CAPTCHAs to think that you're a robot. Oh, do you think you could do that? I think you could. If you took like a mouse and were able to bind things on your keyboard to change your DPI, if you could change your X and Y DPI so much that you moved in exact perfect lines, I wonder if you would think you're a robot. If you only moved left and right at a very specific time, and if you like messed with your mouse, so it could only move at one speed ever, no matter how fast you moved it. Like if you used keyboard input. Yeah, sure, perfect, keyboard input. And then like moved your mouse with your arrow keys. I don't think it would think you're a robot. You'd be too slow. You'd be way too slow. You wouldn't click on like the precise spot where the cursor box starts. I kind of want to see. I'll see if you can do it. But there is no way. But it would be pretty entertaining. There is no way you're going to be able to do that. If someone can make it think that they're a robot, post it on the forum or something. That would be entertaining. All right, copy link URL. Let's go ahead and throw this in. So Kmart joins Target in Australia, pulling Grand Theft Auto V off its shelves. In other news, big box retailers and the people who apparently petition them to do things probably need a reality check on gaming. Yeah. And like, and like the them thinking that it's actually going to stop people from getting it. Maybe they don't know. Okay. I do agree with voting with your wallet or like putting your money where your mouth is. And if you want to take a stand on something, you can't just not take a stand because no one else will take a stand. You know, you kind of have to do things. They're not voting with their wallet. They were already voting with their wallet by not buying the game. I'm sure that I'm sure I mean the store though. Like they're voting with their wallet by losing out on sales because they take a, they have a moral objection or whatever kind of, what kind of rejection. So spokeswoman for the company announced on Thursday that the highly popular series would be removed from shelves immediately following a significant review of their content. This misogynistic GTA five literally makes a game of bashing, killing and horrific violence against women. The petition, which has been signed by more than 40,000 people said, you know what the thing about GTA is? Is that it's bashing, killing and horrific violence against literally everyone. Yeah, it's kinda how it works. I didn't play the whole game, but up until the point that I had played the only, like there was one thing that actually made me pretty uncomfortable and it was directed at a dude, not a girl. Yeah, so. And it was like a pretty messed up scene actually. I mean. But it was at a dude. You know, the promoting violence against sex workers, I mean, this is not something that I'm advocating for and personally not a huge fan of the whole GTA thing. For me personally. But I don't think that pulling it out of a couple stores in Australia is really gonna stop the juggernaut that is Grand Theft Auto. And I also don't subscribe to the theory that violent video games make people violent. I think crazy people are crazy people and those crazy people might tend to, you know, act out their fantasies in video games, but those people were gonna be crazy. Now I'm going a route that I completely disagree with here. So keep that in mind. But with the whole like, oh, there's tons of studies that say this and there's one that say this, but there has, I believe there's been a recent study saying that violence in video games may reduce violence in real life because they're able to. Yeah, I remember reading that one a little while back, but I don't know if I necessarily buy that either. Yeah, no, that's why I put that disclaimer on it. You could probably run the same study does playing an instrument reduce violence in real life? Like people who have hobbies, I think in general, are less likely to. Yeah, that's actually probably a much better way to go about it. People who have a life are gonna be less likely to wanna ruin their own. Yeah, yeah. So this is interesting. Now there's been a severe shortage. Oh, sorry, I haven't posted the link yet, but there has been a serious shortage of good mechanical wireless keyboards up till now. And it looks like Philco is seeking to address this. So this is an article from over on Tech Report, and there it is. Philco's new Cherry MX keyboard has Bluetooth connectivity. Loving it. I kinda like that it has Bluetooth connectivity because it could be kinda fun because I believe you change which Bluetooth connection it's trying to connect to through a function key on the keyboard. So- Which Bluetooth connection? Yeah, I think it has up to four. Oh, I did not know that. Okay, the keyboard features both Bluetooth and a detachable USB cord with what looks like a mini USB connector. And when unplugged, it runs off two AA batteries that provide about six months of usage at about five hours per day. Yeah. Not half bad. I gotta try and find this. I was having, while I was benchmarking today, I tried to get Nick to go in there and just like read topics off to me. And I know he said there was, I think he said there was more than one. One of four Bluetooth sources with function and number key shortcuts. That's really cool. So if you could just be like on your computer and then be like, I have to send this big thing on my phone, but like, I don't want to set up AirDroid or whatever. That is the smartest thing ever. You just have your phone on a little stand. Yeah, you just function key off, type whatever you need to do, function key back on. It's like Apple's continuity, except not Apple's continuity at all, because you're still using it on your phone, but you just pair it over. And Bluetooth pairing is so fast these days. That is freaking awesome. Now, one obstacle for this keyboard is this really is a niche product because Bluetooth is something that's really not included with most desktop computers. And full size 104 key, Magistouch mechanical keyboards are not the kind of thing most people use on their laptops. But if you had an office, say for example, that you took a laptop to every day and you just had this wireless keyboard, and then you had a little stand for your phone next to it, being able to switch between them and then just close everything up and book it at the end of the day, that's freaking awesome. I love this product. And jumping over to your recent Handytech episode, which people should watch, because it's awesome. If you get one of those like internal USB header to USB plug adapter things, and then just plug a Bluetooth dongle onto there, there you're good. Problem solved. All right, so this is actually pretty cool. Finland to ditch cursive handwriting for typing and texting skills. So let's go ahead and copy the link here. Boopity boop boop. Boop. All right, let's fire this up. Honestly, makes a ton of sense. Every time I hear about some completely legacy nonsense being ditched for some actually useful skill. So cursive writing, I don't imagine either of my kids will read or write in cursive unless they get into calligraphy as a hobby. I don't even know how well I could do it anymore. I think you would discover you pick it up again extremely fast. Like I just thought in my head how I would write like, and like it took me a second. Yeah, I got it. But like if I decided to sit there and write a whole paragraph out, it would take me a while. Okay, well whatever. We're not sharing tweaked town siting work. Defeats the entire purpose. I think this is cool. I wish it was happening sooner. I'm sure that's probably because they have to write out like the curriculum and how they're going to run these classes. Cursive's already gone in Canada. So yeah, yeah, yeah. Yay, Canada was ahead of Finland on something. Are we replacing it with typing and texting skills or did we just ditch the class? Not texting, typing. Yeah. We've had typing forever though, and I'm sure they have typing as well. Yeah. Anyways, so it's not happening until autumn 2016. So it's still happening for a while, but plans are in motion, which is cool. This is from the verge Obama to provide funding for police body cameras. So this is all in the wake of the recent, the recent conclusion of the whole Michael Brown thing where the police officer was let off. And you know, whether that was the correct decision or not the correct decision is not something that we're going to broach on this show. But the point is Obama has pushed through, I think it was 300 million or so in funding. 236. 263. 263 million in funding for body cameras on law enforcement officers. So that'll be about 50,000 body cameras. And then the rest of it is of evidently storage, training and outreach programs meant to renew the level of trust between cops and the communities that they serve. I think this is cool regardless of what side you stand on because I think it could help potentially protect officers and I think it could help potentially protect the people. I mean, it's the same reason that people use dash cams. The dash cam is not always necessarily to cover your own, but if it's in the hands of a law enforcement officer, it could potentially be used to cover the butt of someone else from the law enforcement officer. And so, I mean, I have- More raw data of what happened at the scene, how is that a bad thing? Because even if something happens in the background, maybe you see someone run off to the corner that the police officer didn't see because he was talking to someone. If you could see that off of officer cam, then cool, sweet. Who knows? I don't think it's a bad idea. I think that's pretty much it for anything that I thought was particularly interesting in the doc this week. Maybe we should shirouken the stream and have an after party. Shirouken, really? Shirouken, how do you say it again? Well, without doing like the voice, it's kind of hard. Shirouken! Yeah, it's more like shirouken, and it's probably our, it's probably this ad we're gonna be- I don't really play fighting games. Whoever's gonna correct us, just screw it off. Sure, good work. Okay, actually we have build logs of the week, so we're just gonna go ahead and- Oh snap, thank you for not forgetting that. Do we have that dude's thing? Which one? The key thing? The what? The main key thing. I don't know what you're talking about. All right, so we've got Vault Boy. Can you remind me how Prezi works? Prezi? Yeah. It's loading. Yeah, which means what? Wait for it to load. Wait for it to completely glitch out my screen? Well, you full screened it, and there's nothing loaded, so it's white. Full screeny face. There, see? All right, allow full screen with keyboard controls. Sure. All right, Linus's screen. I said allow. Linus's screen arc by- I like the like, what is that, depth of field on, or is that sunspots, or like what's, I don't know what's going on there. All right, the system specs. Modded BitFenix Prodigy, Asus P8Z, 77i Deluxe, with a 3570K and an R9 290. R9 290, you're gonna have to have lots of water cooling to put that in a little tiny case. Oh wait, you do. Literally lots of water cooling. Very nice work in progress shots. Loving those BitFenix Prodigy mods. Love that paint job too, that's awesome. All right, wow, this thing is outstanding. Painting the rads, painting the inside of the case. Got your matching memory, and that yellow and blue color scheme on the cabling. Looking real good. And there is the finished build, so there's carbon fiber wrap on the back of the VRM modules, as well as on the motherboard tray. And it looks like possibly even on the inside here, we got those, those are so throwback. I love this. Those biohazard fan drills. I remember shopping on like adsmods.com for that kind of crap, like way back in the day. Those used to be so common at LANs and stuff. Love it, so classic. That beautiful yellow coolant that you can see through the plexi window on the water block. What a fantastic build, and the figurine for good measure. Yeah, yeah, it's actually awesome. And I love Fallout, so that's really cool. Never got into Fallout myself. Well, were you ever into like Morrowind or Skyrim or any of that kind of stuff? I played a lot of Oblivion, but not Morrowind or Skyrim. Allow full screen, yes. All right, so this one's called my ASUS ROG build. Super creative. Core i7-4770K, ROG Raider Express PCIe SSD, Maximus 7.6 formula, and EVJ GTX 770, four gig dual classified ACX with 77, 770 classified. Whatever, let's click on the thing. Holy crap, that was really fast. What did I do? I was faster today in the outro for Fastest Possible. It was actually pretty awesome. Starting out, oh wow, Dat Brand repping for ASUS ROG. JJ's, wow. Wow. Wow. Just wow. Look at this. Huge ASUS logo. Love this shroud down here in the bottom. And then you've got the OC, like the one person in the world to be using ASUS' OC front panel thing. Is that like a textured bump for the logo on there? Did he like 3D print that or something? It does look like it's textured. It looks like it bumps up. It looks like it's raised. Absolutely love it. Got that hard pipe tubing in there. Look at this desk. Oh my goodness. That is fantastic. Oh, that is fantastic. Yeah, JJ would be impressed. JJ's super happy right now. Yeah. If JJ's watching, JJ, we know you're impressed. All right, we got our last Build Log of the week. If the presentation has finished loading, yes, I want to allow. Can you remember this please? All right, so this one. Project White Camel, also known as see-through yoga pants, Lululemon edition. We've got the Core i7-5820K, two Samsung 850 Pros, 256 and RAID 0. We've got a couple of GTX 980s and SLI. So one BA rig. It's got some painting of the RAM. Ooh, are we changing the color of the GeForce logos? All right, got some white sleeving going on here. Is that an AIO liquid cooler? All right, we're gonna have to see how- It might not stay there. We'll see how it redeems itself. All right. And everything is white. I do like- That is pretty sick. I do like that color change on the GTX logos. Like that white RAM. That X99 Deluxe looks fantastic in this build. Everything goes together incredibly well. Sweet. I would have liked to see him at least have my OCD on the text on the AIO cooler not being right. You know, the thing about that is it's usually the manufacturer's fault for not having the- The right notch. The notches. Well, not having the length of the tubing makes sense to be able to- Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you have to choose, clean tubing run or correctly oriented block. And both of them will drive people crazy. All right, so guys, thank you so much for tuning into the WAN Show. We will see you all- Wait, pause. Are you logged in on the forum? I don't know, why? Go and log out and then there's one more thing that we have to do. What's up? Do I know about this? Yes. Or is this a- Oh, yes, okay. All right, all right. It's been like forever's. Okay, we've been meaning to feature this forever. This is from Smogsy and it is the ultimate man cave. And I'm talking like pretty ultimate. Actually, I saw, okay, I saw kind of a neat attic-based build log one a little while ago. But this is very ultimate. So this is it, pretty much complete. I love how he got the Fire Stream on his TV. I know, right? Isn't that awesome? It's fantastic. All right, so full specs for this thing are ridiculous. So Panasonic 50-inch TV, couple of two terabyte Sky HD boxes. One has backup evidently. Cambridge AMP, PS3 Ultra Slim. Okay, we'll forgive you for that one. HDMI link to the PC. He probably uses it for Blu-rays. Yeah, he probably uses it for the seven Blu-rays that exist. This is great. In case get kicked out or it's raining. So he converted his garage for this, if I recall correctly. So it has a double bed with memory foam, a fridge that holds 108 wine bottles, curtains for privacy, and a toilet in the room over here. So he actually never has to go back into the house at all. Main PC area, 3770K at 4.8 gigahertz, 7990. So complete overkill PC with triple monitors and- Super nice keyboard. Yeah, super nice keyboard. Lots of networking. The charging area. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love it. So guys, just because it's Build Blogs of the Week doesn't mean it has to just be a PC. If you want to show off your man caves, then we're totally into that. As long as you don't take man cave to mean some kind of euphemism for some kind of weird goatsie thing or something. Worst thing I've ever said on this show. All right, moving on. Same bad time, same bad channel next week. We'll see you guys there. It's kind of a man cave. You know what's funny? I made a goatsie joke, like a goatsie reference on- You saw it? Almost no one got it. The internet has moved on. Yeah, there were so few comments about the greatest of all time second edition or whatever I said in the- It was in an NCIX Tech Tips. Like the Fractal Define R5. Yeah, that's why I saw it. Cause I wanted to see the Define R5 stuff. Yeah, yeah. I thought that was- I thought it was so obvious. Yeah, I know I did.