 It's gonna be nipple related. No, it's not. Right. Anyways, when I came back from Taiwan, I came into YVR, the airport that is near us, don't worry about it. And the- Statue with nipples? No, no, unfortunately not. You don't work nipples into this at some point? No, actually. None. OK, so you came to the Vancouver airport. I'll try. I'll see if I can do it. Which is in Richmond, by the way. Vancouver International Airport, not in Vancouver. Yes. It's in the Greater Vancouver area. That's true. So... Or Greater Vancouver Regional District, as it's actually called. The GTA is the Greater Toronto Area. It's the GVRD, sucker. Okay. My bad. Anyways, the Wi-Fi network there does one of those things where you have to approve your login thing through a portal and whatever. And I was trying to do it and it wasn't working and I needed internet at that point in time, so I was like, whatever, and turned my Wi-Fi off. Didn't really think about it. A little while later, using my phone, and it's like, oh, your Wi-Fi, your data has been turned off because you're at your maximum. My warning didn't come through or I swiped it without realizing it. Because I hate it when notifications load while you're in your notification bar. I might have swiped it without actually seeing it. So my data is dead. And I think I'm like six days into the month or something. So that sucks. I have a dumb phone for a while. Well, your smartphone is just a dumb user. Yeah, that's fair. So I guess, yeah, I know I failed to work nipples into that. Yeah, you did. That's okay because I can work nipples into anything. Speak up. People are asking us to turn the mic up, but I just did a test recording and it was fine. So I guess it was, I guess I had the volume a little high. Actually, I don't even know why that worked at all. But what I just did in terms of testing, maybe I could load up the stream and see if people are messing with me in the meantime. Why don't you let them know what fantastic topics we have for them today. So we have the whole catastrophe around TeamViewer, all the accounts being hacked into or passwords being known or whatever because those aren't really the same thing. But anyways, we'll talk about that later. Gawker has officially filed for bankruptcy and is saying some other stuff. Sony officially confirms the 4K ready PlayStation, but I believe it's not being announced at E3 or something. And I don't actually know a fourth topic that's interesting. You sound wonderful to me, by the way. Do I? Yeah, I'm at like 38% on my system volume. So I'm... Okay. Space mining. Space mining. What? I don't know. I didn't see that. That's a rapid fire topic. Alright, space mining. We might not talk about that one. We'll get to that. Yeah. Intro time. Intro time. Probably equivalent to not turning your Wi-Fi back on for a week. Or maybe not gross. Maybe it's like hot. Oh. If you're into that sort of thing like a phone spit. Yeah. Phone spit. That's probably not good. Alright, apparently the intro is loud. Well, you know what, you guys? There is only so much I can... Ow! There's only so much I can do. Jim's address says ow! And also that it's pre-recorded, I think. No, it's not pre-recorded. Alright, so let's get into some topics. First up, we've got, and I actually have no idea whether Luke said that this was going to be one of our main topics for this week. Yeah, no I didn't. Yeah. Gawker is no more, at least in its current form. Maybe someday it will reach its final form, but that won't be its current form. They filed for bankruptcy and have said that they will sell the company. The headline says to Ziff Davis or someone else that... I don't think it's necessarily Gawker saying they're going to sell to Ziff Davis. It's that Ziff Davis has an offer in on them for somewhere to the tune of $90 to $100 million. You know, maybe I should just buy Gawker. What? Yeah, I know you know for a fact that I can't afford that. That's not going to work. It also just doesn't sound like a good idea. Why would we do that? If we could just like Lifehacker, I said a tweet about this earlier, I was like, I don't really care about the rest of it, but if Lifehacker survives, that would be cool. If we could just consume like just them, I'd be down with that. I mean theoretically... We could use some of the upstairs office space for that, make them all Canadians. Theoretically, they could sell individual publications. So Gawker is Lifehacker, Jezebel... Deadspin, Gawker.com, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, and yeah, Jezebel. Deadspin? I don't know if you said that. Yeah, no, you said Deadspin actually, but you know, good job. You said it twice, which is important for people who didn't hear you the first time. So out of all of those, yeah, I think Lifehacker... I didn't used to mind Gizmodo, but I can't remember the last time I went on that site. I liked them, I think, when I was like 16. Let's see if that lines up. How old were you in 2009? 19. Well, 18 for most of it. Okay, so I was close. I was actually quite close. So basically, yeah, they're filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It might even be more accurate. Actually, yeah, I think so. It was right around there. Yes. So they've announced their Chapter 11 filing. Basically, that puts them in protection from creditors for the time being while they sort of entertain offers to buy the company. Gawker and Nick Denton have said that they will not pay Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel the $140 million. They have told their employees that they still plan to fight the case and to operate the publishing business while they do so. But Ziff Davis has come out and said... Let me just see if I can bring up the article here. So this was in an internal memo. It does say for less than $100 million, but I'm assuming not a ton less. There's conflicting reports. So this particular one on recode.net says for around $100 million. But it should be noted that they may end up paying more because this is just their initial bid for it and actually nothing to do necessarily with how much it will end up selling for. Someone else could make a counter offer. Yep. It could end up being a bidding war over Jezebel, which I guess someone wants apparently. I didn't know that these sites as a whole were still that big. I had no idea online written media publications were still worth like tens of millions of dollars each. I mean, I guess it's sort of enormous amounts of traffic. This is a really good clip with Nick Denton basically saying, No, I stand by the decision to publish that even in light of everything that has happened. He's expressed a lot of frustration with Peter Thiel basically funding this lawsuit as a way to – I think I forget. I was reading some article about it, but the quote from him was something to the effect – don't quote me on this. That's a quote of a quote that's not an accurate quote, but sick. So something to the effect of that it's not vengeance, but it's more of like a cautionary sort of – deterrent I think was something close to the word that was used – against publishing articles that basically amount to bullying. So that was sort of how he interpreted the Hulk Hogan article where this individual was being bullied by a publication that published an article and indeed a sex tape video of him banging, to use the term that the kids use these days I think, a friend's wife. Did they say that? Yeah, banging is still a thing. Still a thing? Really? You got to throw that in at me. Yeah. Well, I guess that's still a thing if you're an old man. Well, like how long has banging been around for? I don't know. A long time. I'm sure my dad is like well versed with that term. The term or what are we talking about? I'm here so probably both. Just being honest, it's almost Father's Day. You've got nine days to figure it out. To figure out if he's your father or? Well maybe. That could be the situation. Okay, so Luke's parents aside and whatever – they don't still watch Wancho, do they? They probably do. Oh, that's a shame. Hi Mom and Dad. So it'll be a court-supervised auction and basically the lawsuit one way or the other will have to be resolved before Nick Davis – before, excuse me, Ziff Davis is going to have any interest in taking possession of it. And yeah, that's basically how it went down. Would this make you think twice about publishing a sex tape online as Tech Tips? Why would we publish a sex tape online as Tech Tips? I didn't say we, I said you. So answer the question. We should do this, but we should do it with like computer components. Oh man. We should like make a fake Hulk Hogan. No. I want – And have it water cool someone else's computer. I want no part of any of this. I just want – we've got people asking for us to review a sex bot. Okay, hold on, hold on. Taron does our robots. Let's talk – Taron does our robots. I thought Taron wouldn't know what to do with a sex bot. So let's talk seriously again for a minute. Would you do an objective review of a sex robot? Okay. I mean, we'd have to be careful what we show in B-roll and not in B-roll, but would you benchmark it and host the video? I think the journalistic side of me is like, yeah, and then there's like, I'm in a relationship, no. So, but what if the – is it cheating if it's a robot? Probably. Is it? Like, because – I mean, they're not that sophisticated at this point. Yeah, at this point they are. I think basically they just do pre-programmed phrases. But you are attempting to – because this ties into another conversation, which is like, is porn okay while you're in a relationship? And this is like stuff you need to decide in your relationship. Yeah. I'm not saying as a general statement. I mean, with you and your partner you need to decide. Yes. Is porn okay? And then on top of that is VR porn okay, because they're actually very different. Pretty different. Right. Yeah. VR porn is very much putting you in that scenario with like directional audio so you feel like you're there and like if the person's talking to you, you can hear where it's coming from. Right. You're like, crazy stuff, which is like on another level. And then you're stepping up again. You think so? I think each one of those will reduce the amount of people that are okay with it. You don't think – actually, I would argue the other way. So I think porn is where it is. So let's establish that porn is a baseline. Okay. And your baseline could be it's like super okay, and mine could be it's super not okay, or the other way around. Doesn't matter. Whatever. Let's call two-dimensional porn the baseline. Sure. And let's talk like – Let's talk like straight guy on girl if you're a straight person. Like vanilla porn. Sure. Not like animals or whatever. Sure. I wasn't really – oh, okay. Like I'm thinking like two-dimensional, like just kind of vanilla porn. Whatever fits in your preferences. Yeah. Like whatever would be vanilla for you. Everyone's vanilla can be a little different. Yeah. Chocolate, strawberry, vanilla. We're talking vanilla, okay? So that's our baseline. Okay. I would make the argument that a robot is actually less akin to a real life sexual experience than VR. I see where you're coming from with that, but you also have problems where – And certainly less than toy-assisted VR. Toy-assisted VR is way up there. With the robot, though, you are directly trying to replace the person in the actions that they do. And it is possible to get somewhat emotionally attached to a robot. So like you are actually attempting to replace – The functionality of the partner. Yeah. Which is also why VR toy-assisted would probably – Would that top the robot for you? I don't know. They're both like – So these are both like no zone for you. This is really awkward. Well, remember, we're talking when you're in a relationship. And remember, your no zone can be sort of what you're comfortable with someone else engaging in while you're in a relationship with them. Like it goes as a two-way street. Yeah. So are both of those gray area at the very least, to say? Yeah. Okay. Would need like a discussion, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. Interesting. See, I – How did we get here? I don't know. But I wholly disagree. Okay. I think that the robot – Okay. And I'm saying inanimate object. I understand that not all of them are completely inanimate. Some of them like blink and stuff. Oh, okay. Yeah. But I would make the argument that an inanimate object is less like a real experience than an actor on a screen. But it's not happening directly to you. That's true. But nothing's happening to you. I mean, let's face it, you're doing all the work in either scenario. That might be true in relationships as well, though. Wow. Shots fired. I'm sorry to hear that, bro. No, no, that's not true at all. But I'm saying for some people that is a reality. It's – I'm sorry, but like it is for some people. Okay. Sure. Fair enough. People are saying next topic and they're probably right. That's probably fair. Yeah. Yeah. What is next topic? Sony officially confirms the 4K ready PlayStation. Excellent. So original article here is from The Verge. Confirms a PS4 console upgrade, but it won't be at E3, which raises the question, what will be at E3? Don't know. People were asking me like at CombiTechs and stuff, they were like, you've done E3 before. Are you going this year? I was like, nope. Like, oh, why not? It's probably nothing. Well, you know what's funny is we missed a year when E3 was like the shit. Yeah. And then we were like, okay, we'll do it next year. But the problem is that we're not in the console mindset. Like we don't even understand what qualifies as like a big E3 for console people because it's all just kind of E3. So it's like, yeah, all the consoles are launching this year. We don't go. The next year, all the consoles launched last year. We go. And it's like, here's some game with games with some tessellation or something. The problem is even if we did go the previous year, it was probably just keynotes. Wasn't it just keynotes? Like, I'm pretty sure we just watched those in the office. I remember like talking to you because we were both scripting and half watching at the same time. Like we basically more or less went just virtually not to tie back to the previous conversation. Yeah. I mean, on that subject, man, I went to I think two keynotes. Yeah, two keynotes at Computex this year. I went to one. Let's just not do them anymore. They are the worst thing ever. There is nothing that I can learn in a keynote that I can't learn. And like, yeah, I don't know. The most valuable thing I think we could do from a keynote and the keynote that I went to was an Nvidia one. And what I did was I just Periscope live streamed the whole thing, which like I did that because I don't think it was being live streamed. Right. The stream that I did Twitch stream of at the Nvidia event when I didn't have a table and was like crammed in these tiny freaking seats in the back trying to hold my camera up while supporting my laptop was horrible. I don't even really know why people watched. I tried to like I tried to even get reactions from like Jay and the other people that are sitting beside me. And I turned the camera and the HDMI cable because it wasn't a very stable connection. But there's like live tweets. But then we don't have to be there in order to do that. Right. I don't know. So this is actually this is actually sort of an ongoing and ongoing scandal. So I don't know if some of you have seen it, but SourceFed is claiming that Google manipulated search results in favor of Hillary Clinton. Actually a very well constructed video, a very compelling sounding argument for how big this has become. I'm surprised it doesn't have way more views. Yeah, it's actually only got about a quarter million views. Let's go ahead and pop that up on our screen here. So they basically say, OK, look, here's the popularity of certain search terms. For example, Hillary Clinton indictment and Hillary Clinton India. You can see indictment is much more popular than India, according to Google's own interest over time. And they point out that when you actually enter Hillary Clinton in into Google search, it comes up with Indiana, India, independent voters, Indiana campaign, absolutely nothing about indictment as a suggested search, with the argument being made by SourceFed being that you should be suggesting search topics based on autocomplete, based on what people are actually searching for that would start with those letters. So this is this is very quickly turning into. They also showed like I think it was Yahoo and Bing typing the exact same thing in Yahoo and Bing reacted the exact same way that they would have expected. So indictment was the top suggested. With that said, I wouldn't use Bing search as an indication of what is relevant necessarily, although they make, again, a good point. Very well constructed video, actually. I watched the whole thing start to finish. I was like, wow, that was very cogent. Anyway, so they make the argument that if there's three people in a room, and I think it went something along. Don't quote me on this again. Three people in a room and one of them says I'm in a room and two of them say I'm on the room's on fire. You know, you should probably go with the two people who are saying, hey, the room's on fire and not the person that was relevant information, I guess, is the point. Now, the defense up on the verge already. Google denies. Oh, and there's there's like there's like a whole like Illuminati thing about how Larry Page funded or owns a company. Well, I think that's true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to be clear, I'm not saying Illuminati confirmed like, you know, Mr. Peanut on the peanut butter jar. American dad, not the Illuminati. Yeah, it's this like tech based company that Larry Page is funding that is helping Hillary's campaign that is being contracted by Hillary's campaign. Something to the tune of hundred seventy seven thousand dollars in a quarter, which sounds like a lot of money to normal people like you and me. But this is important right now. In the context of Larry Page, that means nothing. He probably keeps that amount of money in every pair of shoes in the event that he gets robbed and he needs to, you know, grab some money for walking around out of somewhere that the robber wouldn't have gotten it from. Yeah, that sucks. And we're back. Illuminati freaking confirmed. You were waiting on that the whole time. Hillary Clinton showed up outside the door of our warehouse. Walked in with like armed guards behind her dressed in black and told us, well, not us told our computer. You blue screen right now or we are not walking out of this place. And it did. It happened. Josh was there. OK, so the last thing happened, our computer blue screen. I'm not really sure what the deal was with that. Something to do with attempted switch from DPC, which is something to do with maybe a real tech wireless driver. We don't have any real tech devices in this computer. Mini card. It seems to be like one of those catch all. Don't we don't have any of those. That's that's for sure. So let's get back into into what I was talking about. The hell was I talking about before? OK, so right medium. Where was I going with this? OK, so the verge has the verge has a good follow up that basically says Google denies altering search suggestions for Hillary Clinton and points out that some of the examples. That source fed sites, for example, Hillary Clinton CRI doesn't come up with crime. In fact, apply across the board. Google avoids auto completing the word crime or criminal so that they can avoid making disparaging comments about people who may not have actually committed a crime or may not be a criminal. In fact, they do. So they've pointed this out. This is who's this guy? Matt cuts is the currently on leave from his position as head of Google's web spam team. So they do this for everyone else, including people that have actually been charged and convicted. Very interesting. He also points out that those looking for negative stories don't necessarily type Hillary's last name. They actually mostly search apparently for. I don't know why he would know this if he's on leave. You might still you might still know enough about the inner workings to come up with some examples that demonstrate the opposite. OK, the first part totally the part where they're all looking for Hillary, not Hillary Clinton is like, well, you can look for that, though, like you can search for relevance. Like you can search for how hot it showed. Yes, they did. People were searching for that. So basically. Oh, and so another thing they pointed out is that many results pop in when you type in Donald Trump racist. But results also appear for Hillary Clinton racist. So there you go. So basically, the conclusion in the Verge article here is they're likely trying to walk the line between providing as much information as they can and not stepping into a sort of gray legal area by, say, suggesting that someone could be a criminal. So here's a state spokesperson's full statement on the matter. Google auto complete does not favor any candidate or cause claims to the contrary simply misunderstand how you type in Donald Trump RAC. Yeah, it comes with with Donald Trump racist. If you type Hillary Clinton RAC, it comes with Rachel race issue. Rachel Maddow race 2016. That's interesting. I wonder if that is a regional thing as well. Yeah, Donald Trump RAC racist SNL racist commercial racist articles racist rally. It's all racist. I don't know that racism is necessarily a hot button topic for Hillary. I doubt it. I'm just saying that was said in there. Yeah, that's very interesting. Doesn't seem true. So here. Hold on. We should probably do the demo live if we're going to if we're going to talk about this. I don't even necessarily know it because like so there you have it. So racist costume is my sick fifth fifth suggestion. All right. Mine only goes down to four browser thing probably. Oh, no resolution resolution thing or like zoom. I'm actually on Google's website to you're doing the browser suggestions. Okay. So there you go. Oh, okay. So no, no. Yep. So that's a browser thing. Yeah, because I'm in Firefox here in Chrome. Oh, yeah. Okay. There you go. So age email young news news Twitter wife Donald Glover. Let's help it out a little bit news Twitter wife net worth. So there's nothing particularly incriminating there but it looks like as you continue to dig in and find examples you can find stuff that appears to be a bit of an issue. So there is an article over on medium.com that appears to have been done without help from Google. So here we go. Search trends are a significant factor in how autocomplete works as the entire basis for source friends claiming yet according to their logic Google must be favoring Donald Trump as well because they've got Donald Trump are a completely leaves out the quite common search term Donald Trump rape which was the whole alleged thing with Ivana Trump. Where she eventually took back the statement but she claimed that he raped her. So I guess I didn't follow that closely enough. Yeah. So Donald Trump LA. Okay. So we've got Donald Trump lawsuits and Donald Trump laughing. What does it come with latest latest latest last night laughing. So at this point you're probably think this is a great point at this point you're probably thinking to yourself whoa you're just choosing random words and searching them and he's like yeah that's right I'm doing exactly what makes sense. Yeah. Which does make sense. So I can definitely see how source fed came to the conclusion they did because you right there sitting there were like well hold on a second what about this this conflicts with that remembering that we're in a different region and I know that Google does specifically target suggestions region by region. So outside of America you might get very very different types of suggestions to do with any of the presidential candidates versus someone who's actually in the US. So do I believe that Google is 100 percent ethical. No. Do I believe that they would be stupid enough to be a targeted thing to do something this blatant right. No I think this would be really dumb. I also have a really hard time believing that Hillary Clinton is necessarily the candidate that like Google as a whole would have decided is like ideal. So she seems pretty impressionable. Better than Trump I guess. That's such a yeah that's a can of worms. Actually this is interesting I had sort of changing topics. I had dinner at Computex with like a self professed like diehard Trump supporter and basically the conversation went something along the lines of like where's the tech talk. This is tech by the way. The Google stuff. Yeah the Google stuff and what I'm telling you about right now was a conversation I had at Computex. Tech is right in there. So basically he like was just out of absolutely nowhere we were talking about something to do with AMD strategy for fire pro cards and distribution channels or something like that. Legitimately tech conversation and then he goes something something something you know my boy Donald something something something and my boy and then he's like well and we're like OK so you're a Trump supporter like as if it was not obvious at that point and he was like yeah you know blah blah blah blah blah of course I am and why what are you. I'm like well Canadian he's like oh you're socialist then. I'm like well you know what A not necessarily for one thing and B who cares because at a business dinner the last thing that I'm going to be talking about is socialism for Donald Trump. That is like completely inappropriate. So yeah but hey he's not afraid to speak his mind just like his boy Donald. So I'll give it up. However inappropriate or appropriate it might be weren't we supposed to be talking about the 4K ready PlayStation. Yeah I have no idea how we got here. How did we get there. I think we stopped. No I think we stopped. I think we were done. No no we never made it past the headline. We talked about E3 and going to E3. Oh because I saw this over here and I realized it wasn't on the dock. Yeah we never got there. No I'm going through what we did talk about. We talked about E3. We talked about going to E3 and why we don't anymore and how we suck at that. So we said it won't be at E3 which was in the headline and then we're like we won't be at E3 either. Yeah. Okay so let's talk about the PlayStation 4 console upgrade. To be clear there doesn't seem to be any indication that this is an upgrade in the sense that you can upgrade your existing console. It looks like there will be an upgraded PlayStation 4 that will include a faster processor, 4K resolution support. Oh man I got such a kick out of the endless endless PlayStation fanboys back at the time of launch that were like yeah 4K support is coming. Actually it's not. Actually it isn't because actually the HDMI port on the PlayStation is not going to output it. So there's that. 4K support is coming to PlayStation. If you buy a completely new device. Just not yours. It will offer 4K resolution support and improved graphics. Presumably it will also have support for PlayStation VR. Although I don't know if PlayStation VR is going to be supported on the existing PlayStation 4. Do you know this? No I don't know this. That has been an interesting...why are your things like off your screen? I don't know if that's a known thing. PS4. Yeah I actually don't know. So $500 head-mounted display. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Upcoming virtual reality headset for the PS4 console. But what's interesting is that the only confirmation that we have is that there will be an upgraded PS4. They're not actually calling it something else. So if they said PSVR is for the PlayStation 4. I mean if this is like a...oh man because there has been some confusing stuff that's gone on in console generations before. You know mini versions and you know cooler running versions and the Halo versions and all kinds of different stuff that actually in some cases can have very different hardware and software limitations. I mean early PlayStation 3's had backwards compatibility with hardware. You can install Linux on them. They're actually still really cool. And then that completely got kicked in the ass. Those things are worth money on eBay. They are because you can make them computers. Like there's a...isn't there like a military data center or server or something that's PlayStation 3's? I think it's like defunct now. I'm sure but like okay. It was a thing though. Wasn't there I mean. It might have just been experimental. That's also very possible. 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So like if you saw the Cooler Master video from Computex you would have seen some of these things already. So those things are made by Primochill actually. Yeah. So these are little like you can change the look of the front of your case and the Power Spy basement area to this like crazy blue thing if that's not your style. There's a bunch of other stuff you can do. You can get official stuff from Cooler Master too which includes like this crazy handle on the top of the case. This actually ties in really well to the thing that I was criticizing about Asus' concept PC that they had at the show. That one that all assembles with hard PCBs. And the problem is that they were like oh yeah we'll have like modular upgrades for rear I.O. so that an older motherboard could have like USB type C and you would just have this module that you slot in. And I was like well by the time the distributor and the retailer and the shipper, remember you have to get it to a distributor then to a retailer then to the customer, all take their cut. These things are going to be inordinately expensive you might as well just buy a new motherboard. And wouldn't you need a controller for that too? The controller is actually in the like upgrade module. That's what I'm saying so it's going to be really expensive. Yeah so well okay so the product manager for the claims it wasn't but I was like yes it was. Sure. So Cooler Master by stocking because that's been a big problem for cases too. I bought a windowed side panel for an Antec P160 so that was 12 years ago. Anyway so I did that. It took like five weeks to special order because there was like one in the entire country and that's the way it was then and that's the way it is today when it comes to accessories for computer cases. Because you just can't stock enough of them in all the right distribution areas in order to have timely fulfillment of those orders be possible. And that was a windowed side panel. I mean it's a relatively common thing. We're not talking like a freaking you know like slashed like front panel thing. So I actually see Cooler Master's Cooler Master store as an interesting solution to that problem because Cooler Master themselves. It's handling this. Doesn't have to stock a ton of them. Yeah. They can just say OK let's stock five. It doesn't matter. Or ten. And how Cooler Master does it is they buy the things from the makers and then resell them too. Which is pretty cool. So you know that Cooler Master is tracking their stock and like all this other kind of stuff which actually makes sense. So I think it's pretty cool. So the other thing we're supposed to mention I guess is the Master Case Maker 5. So make it what you will. I know Luke you especially had a lot of skepticism in your brain and in your heart and probably in your pants about Cooler Master's whole Maker branding. And there are still some products. Here we're still doing a Cooler Master sponsor spot but I'm not afraid to criticize them during a sponsor spot. There are still some Cooler Master products that I look at the Maker branding and I just go what exactly is Maker about this. But I've got to give them the vision for the case. At CES they announced that they were going to have this store. Here we are six months later. They have products in it. So they are working on it. They are trying to make it actually like Maker in some way. I don't understand how like beautiful honestly looking power supply happens to be Maker. But I do appreciate that they did follow up on the store thing. It probably would have helped if I said it in the original video but the first time I covered their Freeform Modular System stuff was last Computex not the most recent one. And I gave them like a year or whatever and I talked to you about it not that long ago. Where is that? Where is that store thing? Because it's not here yet. And then it showed up like three weeks or a month before Computex or something and I was like alright. Okay. Alright. You made it not by much but you made it. But we'll give you that one Cooler Master. You made it. Get it? Yep. Make it beautiful. Make it beautiful. Make Maker it beautiful. Alright. Let's talk about beautiful community interaction. The original article here is from Engadget. Riot used League of Legends chat logs to spot bad staff. Apparently looking closely at what employees say online. It's a good thing I don't do that or Ed probably wouldn't have a job anymore. So Riot Games looked at employees chat logs and found a correlation between their behavior in and out of game. They worked with Google's work staff analytics team and picked through the last 12 months of each staffer's League of Legends gameplay records and chat logs. They found that a quarter of the people they had fired in the last year. So they had fired prior to knowing had shown unusually high levels of toxic behavior in game. Armed with this information Riot used it to proactively address the problem with remaining staff. So they singled out 30 employees. All of whom were actually fairly new to the company and gave them two options. Those who got a stern warning and those who should be let go. And then during the meetings many employees expressed regret at how they behaved in game. They received essays from employees vowing to change their ways. And the report ended with Riot's intention to request League of Legends user names from all future hires for similar analysis. So yeah, like social media investigation by potential and current employers just got real. Very, very real. Like I wouldn't be and you know what it's it's funny because if you'd asked me yesterday what is social media? I would have said Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a lot of people don't even think of YouTube. I only think of it because YouTube is my primary social platform. Yeah, yeah, I guess because you did. A lot of people watch a video. What percentage leave a comment under the video? It feels more like a TV viewing thing. Instead of a intercommunication thing like Twitter and Facebook. But it absolutely is. It is a social media platform. I would not have said the game I played last Saturday night. So let's get a straw poll going on here like. Straw poll is what Riot did OK. And I'm not putting in turnip because I this is like the requesting kind of a big deal here. Username seems a little weird. For future employees. OK, so before we before we get into the answer to that question. Let me say this when I applied at NCIX. I actually went out of my way to include my forum username. Yeah, so they could review my posting history on their site. I'm not going to say who, but certain people on like the forum and certain people that I know through Twitch and stuff. Yeah, I've included their handles for the line of sec tips forum for certain jobs that they have gotten and that has been part of it. So I see other jobs. Yeah, I actually do. Does one of them have the initial CC? Fairly prominent member real initials. Oh, I'll talk to you later. Oh, OK, OK, I'm just I'm idly curious. Yeah, I'll talk to you later. No problem telling you, but I'll talk to you. And like it's worked and it's helped them and I understand the voluntary giving of those things. Yeah. And like having Riot be like, it's a good thing if you give us your username is probably I just I think it's because aren't there certain legal requirements about what you're even allowed to ask. You can spin it both. I sincerely doubt a gamer handle is even covered, but I could see both ways because they could spin it to every candidate this way. If you give us your League of Legends username, it enables us to help you, the good candidate, get a job. But the implication, the implied backside of that story is that it helps weed out potential jackasses during the interview process. So some questions that you can't ask is what is your religious affiliation? Are you pregnant? What is your political affiliation? What is your race, color or ethnicity? Although if you're in an interview, anyways, sometimes it's not obvious. Sure. Most people think my wife is I think I get a lot of people saying she might be Filipina, but she's not. Sure. That's a good point. How old are you? Are you disabled? Are you married? Do you have children or plan to? Are you in debt? Do you drink or smoke? Socially. Socially, I guess. So in that sense, if Riot asks for your username, they could... Because they could very indirectly get the answer to everything there. They could get the answers to pretty much all of that. Especially because that probably includes Whispers. What if it doesn't though? Let's say it doesn't. Let's assume, let's give the benefit of the doubt, let's say it doesn't include Whispers. Okay. So let's say it only includes public chat. But by the time you post that information on a public server, have you... Are you forfeiting? Yeah. Have you put that information on your forehead? No, because there's also implied anonymity through your username. You're not playing as minus Sebastian. You're playing as whatever. I do because I give up, but sure. Yeah, but like, you know what I mean though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I give up too. I don't actually use my real name, but yeah, I give up. I Twitch stream. What am I supposed to do? But yeah, like, I don't know. Okay, so let's hear from the viewers. This is split pretty much right down the middle. I saw that. We've got 53% of you saying it's okay. Riot has the right to know what you... And you know what? It might be in their EULA somewhere. Riot has the right to know before you work for them... That's our neighbor. What you posted on their privately owned servers. Which is an interesting point. Riot probably has terms in their EULA that entitle them to ownership of everything that gets posted in much the same way that LinusTechTips.com owns anything you post on it. Sure, but... Through the end user license. That doesn't have to do with you forfeiting the information of your username. Right, but you knowingly and willingly posted that with maybe you figured you were anonymous, but you weren't, according to the end user license agreement. You willingly and knowingly posted that publicly. Yeah, yeah, but it's still not forfeiting your username because you could falsify your personal data... That's true....with signing up. But if the EULA says you're not allowed to do that... EULAs also don't hold up like ever. That's true, they don't. But... If Riot's company policy is that all employees subject to termination if they fail to comply need to follow the EULA... But can you go around... Let's see... If there was... I'm going into three articles here. Yeah. If that list of stuff that I just said included gamertag for whatever reason, would circumventing that by saying that they have to follow the EULA, is that legal? I guess, John... And I don't think it comes down to legality or not legality because ultimately you can control what an employee posts on your privately owned servers as a company. Yeah, it's not about control though. This is reading the last 12 months. Right, so going back and looking at it. Well, ultimately... Because there could be a code of conduct within the company where you have to act a certain way. Yeah, like Costco has a code of ethics. They have like an entire handbook. It's like this thick. It's like here's the value up to which you can accept a dinner from someone. Here's this, that, that, that, that, and that. You know what's funny is I have actually kind of talked myself into it. You're also an employer. No, but even outside of that. Because we've talked about this before. Yeah. And I don't remember what stance I took, but you know, whatever. Viewpoints change. Well, we have, to give some insight, we have not necessarily changed opinions, but added information to what we thought about a person that was going through an interview process with us by looking at their social media. Could be? Yes. Long time ago you were in on that. Did I? Was I? It was their Twitter account. Okay, okay. This was a long time ago. Did they tweet at us? I think the Twitter account was given to us. Okay, so it was given to us. Yeah. Okay. But we clearly have no problem looking at social media for things. Now with that said. I personally don't really like this. The reason why I don't really like this is because of the implied anonymity of your username. If you post something on Twitter or to a public Facebook account that is very searchable and is directly attached to your name. I think, of course, that's searchable by your employer. I don't think you have to forfeit those accounts, but they're under your name and are searchable, so whatever. So I don't like the idea of creeping something that wasn't provided. Yeah. Especially if it's a third party. So if Riot was saying you have to provide your Facebook username, because I've heard of employers demanding this. You have to, you know, what's your Facebook? Yeah. And we intend to look at it. Like if they demanded that, that's one thing. And that to me is actually very different from demanding to know what potential employees or current employees, because they only did this for current employees and then the potential employees is moving forward now. So they did this for current employees. Yeah. What your current employees are posting on a server you own. Yeah, I was just going to say that's also a different thing because it's their platform and I could definitely see this. This might change my opinion a little bit because it's their platform. That's like how they are treading on your turf. Yeah, it's how they are representing your brand. I was applying this to like any gamertag. Right. So like if you played WoW and League of Legends, they would want to have both of them. You know what I mean? Yeah, but that's not what they're asking for. No, I know because they wouldn't have the ability to do that anyway. Right. So but I think that would be more wrong anyway. Yeah, I think so too. I think what an employee... The treading on your turf, wanting to know your stuff for your own servers, I actually totally see that. If someone wanted to apply to work here and were on the forum, I would want to know what their account was. I would want to see how they conducted themselves on the forum. I wouldn't ask for their other accounts. So I actually, I guess I do agree with it. I just don't agree with it as a gamertag in general. A gamertag in general feels like it should just be, this is my escapism land. Yeah, that's what I was trying to defend. It's your anonymous area. You should just be able to... And sometimes you roleplay. That's a thing. Roleplaying is a thing. How I behave as a gamertag shouldn't necessarily be the be all and end all of how someone interprets who I am and what I am as a person. But I also see where Riot's coming from, which is if you're roleplaying an asshole... To the community of our paying customers. Who you're trying to apply for and will be representing in some way or another. Yeah, who you're ultimately serving at your freaking day job that you're paying for. And ultimately Riot is going to want someone who, compared to a negative person, they would want someone who's trying to make the community better. Because that's the exact same kind of deal as the person in the interview who is actively trying to find ways and offer up ways that they could improve the company. And who have pre-thought about these things. Like the standard thing, like if you're applying for a social media position, being like, oh, I have these ideas for improving your social media situation. Because I've already looked at what you're doing and analyzed what you're doing and thought about it and tried these practices and whatnot. That's a very good thing to bring to that interview. Bring to that interview that you obviously didn't care and are contributing to a toxic environment. TwitchPlaysPokémon says, someone was roleplaying at me real hard in an Overwatch match I played last night. We're not saying that roleplaying an asshole is okay. We're just saying that... I think we specifically didn't. Yeah, it might not necessarily be who you are as a person. Yeah. Okay, TeamViewer confirms number of abused user accounts is significant. So the original article here is from BleepingComputer.com. They apologize, but they still say they were not compromised. Which is something that has yet to be actually proven. Even though Redditors and some blogs out there have offered up some evidence that looks fairly compelling to suggest that they were. Indeed compromised. What? Well, they were definitely compromised. The question is whether or not... TeamViewer was compromised. Their records were compromised. But TeamViewer accounts were definitely compromised. So the suggested course of action right now is to protect your accounts with secure passwords that are frequently changed, have reliable anti-malware and security solutions in place at all times, and enable two-factor authentication. That's what TeamViewer is suggesting. There's other stuff that you can do. The way that I was once compromised... Well, not me personally. I've never been compromised. I'm not compromising. I don't know what I'm talking about anyway. The way the Linus Tech Tips channel was compromised was through a keylogger. Where I did not have two-factor authentication enabled because... I don't remember if it was available yet. I doubt it was back then. It was a long time ago. So through a keylogger... One of the other ways that you can avoid getting your password sniped by a keylogger is by having something like a password keeper, like LastPass, for example. That's one thing that people are questioning. They're saying, I had a two-step enabled and they still got in. We don't have any confirmations of these things, but hearing that is bad. One thing that I'm going to say is not to bring this up again, but quite a while ago we had a breach on the Linus Tech Tips forum, which super mega sucked. And even if that wasn't our fault... You still have to kind of be a little more proactive. You should probably, considering this is an exploit that's going against your software... Sure, their breach isn't your fault, but it's still an exploit that is widely, significantly going against your software. You should probably inform your users that this could be a problem. Suggest password changes proactively through an email. Suggest two-step. They have my email address. It's not like they can't breach me. One thing that we did was busted our email reputation by making sure that we hammered emails out as fast as we could to all of our users to let them know the changes were made. That actually hurt us in the longer term. No one at Microsoft Domain got an email from us for months. For a very long time. Including password reset emails. Yeah, which was a nightmare. Thanks, Microsoft. We were just trying to help people, and then they ignored us for months. So, pretty much the way the attack works is people are breaking into your computer with TeamViewer, and then they are using presumably saved passwords on your computer. Please, don't do that. For example, if you have a password keeper, I don't understand why this isn't a default option. But actually, in your next security audit, can you run around and make sure everyone has it set to timeout after a very short period of time? Make sure your password keeper times out. For the love of everything that is valuable to you, time out your password keeper. So, what they are doing is they are going into, whether you are using Chrome to save your passwords, which by the way is really stupid, or Firefox to save your passwords, which by the way is even super stupider because it saves it in plain text in a file in like data roaming local, whatever it is. So, then they are using your saved passwords to drain your bank account and your PayPal, which there is not a whole lot that anyone can do about once it is done if the action was effectively done by you. Right, we have a lot of topics left, some of which I really did want to talk about real quick here. Where did it go? Where did it go? I had something I really wanted to do. Like tied into the TeamViewer1, I had like a segue and everything and it is completely not in my mind anymore. This? No. No, it was cool. This? No, that is cool too, but not as cool. Oh well. Oh, this? No. Oh, that ties in. Yeah, no, it was like something else. Like it might not have actually made it into the dock. Oh, this! Oh yeah, wait, no, no, this. Oh, this apparently got rejected. I don't know why. Why did that get rejected? I don't know. I actually don't know. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, okay, well, I don't know why it was rejected, so I'm not going to go too far into it, but Twitch troll donates $50,000 to streamers. PayPal allegedly refuses to refund. Maybe we don't actually have confirmation on whether PayPal is refunding it or not. Yeah, okay, Nick is filling it in for me. Conflicting reports, okay. I'm going to try and tie that in. Well, I think that pretty much wraps it up for the WAN Show. I do want to do a call out for Nerd Sports, guys. If you haven't already, check it out over on Vessel. They offer a seven-day free trial. Night vision. They offer a seven-day free trial where you can see Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, and Channel Superfund content seven days ahead of time, as well as a bunch of other creators. And it should also be noted that Nerd Sports, all five episodes of which are up there, and for whatever reason, not particularly searchable. There it is. One word, apparently. All five of which are watchable, curling, ice hockey, dodgeball, lacrosse, and volleyball, where we, the keyboard warriors, take on real athletes in the sports of their choosing. The curly one was funny. You guys suck. You almost got it. Those are my inputs. Thank you. I almost got there. I almost got there. The other guys really didn't help. They really let me down. Oh my god, Taryn, what were you doing? They really let me down. That is not how you try to be the lead of a team. They really let me down in a big way. So thank you very much, guys. We will see you again next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. Bye.