 Ladies and gentlemen of the video welcome to our video of an audio podcast Which is our story coming a video podcast See now here's the thing Roger, how would you feel and I'm curious how people watching would feel if we Started the stream earlier, but then in the video that gets posted cut off the pre-show So it starts right at the beginning of the show. It'd be more work though it'd be more work, but I felt you tried that with the audio too and people wanted they lead up to it I know they wanted the post we tried cutting off the end and they didn't like that As a viewer, I like watching the pre and post show both. Okay. All right There's a there's a there's a voyeuristic Feel about being able to be like that's behind the scenes. Yeah It's like when Katie Kirk used to yell at the producer and stuff Oh, yeah, you get me yelling at Roger about the day No, so, you know back in the day when you know a lot of feeds are still done by a satellite truck And you had a satellite receiver. You're essentially stealing cable You could get they would send the feet, but they wouldn't make it live on broadcast yet So you if you had a satellite dish. Oh, yeah, you can watch it You could watch all that stuff this guy recorded everything. There's one is there were kitty crackers He's getting mad at everyone right before the show started Like that's what people want because they think they're looking behind the yeah, that's good to you All right, well Let us know feedback at daily tech news show calm or in the YouTube comments I suppose but meanwhile we're gonna do a show you ready Joe Let's show it up in here. I'm ready This episode of the Daily Tech News show is brought to you by me if you'd like to bring the next episode to yourself Go to daily tech news show comm slash support to be part of the show. Let's do this Tom Shannon Morris host of tech thing producer and hack five And just awesome person. How's it going Shannon? You know, I think you are an awesome person too. Thank you so much Tom Thank you for being here It's it's good to have you Darren is out and about but we still have hack five representation. It's awesome. Yeah Yeah, so Darren actually just got back with my lunch. I Made him go out and get lunch for me so I could do the show. Oh, that's fantastic. I didn't realize that Will you bring you coffee later? Go get me food. Yeah, that's fantastic Also, not with us today is Len Peralta. He may actually be in Los Angeles by now He is flying here for a conference But he was gonna be in transit so he couldn't join us which is sad. Oh, we're missing out. Yeah, I know Sorry about that. We'll have you back again on a Friday when Len is actually here. All right, cool We're gonna talk a little bit about The idea what tech is doing what startups are doing to the idea of the independent contractor in light of an uber Settlement, which we'll tell you about in a little bit later today And also Shannon and I both discovered that you really should be tipping your uber driver Yes, we did Yeah, which the uber drivers themselves had been telling us. No, it's complicated thing We'll get into that in a little bit why they were supposed to tell you that even if they didn't want to let's start off with the headlines Oh, that's the wrong button Apple's iBook store and iTunes movies are no longer accessible in China Sources told the New York Times that China's state administration of press publication radio film and television told Apple to halt the service And Apple spokesperson in Beijing said quote we hope to make books and movies available again to our customers in China as soon as possible No, you you use an iPod. Do you use iBooks or iTunes? I? Do not use an iPod Use an iPhone That's right. Oh, he's an iPad. Yeah, I don't I've never used iBooks I've always preferred Kindle because if I'm not on an iPad if I'm on my Android device I can still read my Kindle books can't read my books over there same thing with iTunes I jumped out of Apple music after the trial period and I prefer using Google music because again I can get Google music on all my devices. So yeah, I'm the same way Oh, I don't know how popular it is over in China, but I hope they get it back Yeah, I I think well It's obviously something that Apple wants to make popular even if it isn't that popular yet And they're not gonna be able to do it if they can't sell it at all So yeah regulations came into effect to prohibit foreign ownership and joint ventures in online publishing So I imagine that's probably the reason at least that's what Reuters is suggesting And it would make sense that they would have to figure out how to make sure they aren't falling afoul of those rules and saying We're not actually being a publisher. We're just a store Microsoft told recodes Ena freed it has agreed to quote withdraw its regulatory complaints against Google and Google gave a Similar statement saying it also will withdraw its regulatory complaints against Microsoft Both of these all around the world Microsoft has left fair search and iComp those are two of the groups that are supporting antitrust Action against Google in Europe Microsoft dropped its patent litigation against Google last September Why all of this friendship between Google and Microsoft? Well, Ena freed notes that Google Sundar Pichai and Microsoft Sachin Adela have a different relationship Then Eric Schmidt and Steve Ballmer probably did so surprise they actually like to go out to the bar together Do they right? I don't know. I would imagine they would They they certainly have more similar approaches in in some ways a more friendlier approach and and forgetting their personalities the Microsoft Strategy is to make their software available across platform And that's a whole lot easier to do if your friends with Google on Android Then it is if you're doing very well in the past year or so they've been doing very well with getting their the operating systems out Onto various different kinds of environments. So it's good to see some agreements there. Yeah What W. Scott is one asks a very pertinent question. Could this mean Google services on Windows phone? Then an intriguing possibility. We don't know Uber settled a class-action lawsuit in California and a another one in Massachusetts both claiming the company Misclassified drivers as independent contractors under the terms of the settlement Uber will pay drivers $84 million not each just split up All the drivers and an additional $60 million will be split up when and if the company goes public Uber will also provide drivers more information about their ratings for the first time Uber will publish a policy on how drivers can be deactivated and give them more insight into that Making it only deactivating for sufficient causes rather than at will which it has been up till now An appeals process will be put in place hearings will be Including other drivers and you can then appeal to arbitration if you don't like the decision there Uber will also facilitate and recognize a driver Association now it's not an official union, but it will do a lot of the things that a union would do Drivers can now put signs in their cars to stating quote tips are not included that they are not required But they would be appreciated And we'll talk a little bit about how they weren't allowed to say that before so a lot of wins for drivers But the key that we're gonna talk about Shannon is this does not Change the question of whether drivers are should legally be considered Independent contractors or employees. Yeah, exactly And I do have a lot of thoughts on that as well as my own personal opinions being freelance or myself But we'll definitely discuss it more Windows released a new preview of the anniversary edition of Windows 10 that now includes Windows Inc. Workspace That a lot of people are looking forward to this Especially if they're using tablets and touch screens and styluses you can now create sticky notes use a sketch pad or Sketch anything on the screen customize your pen buttons and more Cortana integration shown at build is not yet included with ink space though Cortana does now work on the lock screen Your app list now shows right when you open the start menu You don't need to use the hamburger menu to see folders in tablet mode anymore You can also toggle to a full-screen Applist view very helpful if you're in tablet mode and you can set the task bar to Auto hide in tablet mode a lot of tablet friendly features coming back Sort of re-correcting as they figure out how to balance those two workspaces A lot more stuff in this preview update. Napier Lopez at the next web has a great summary of it all We'll have that link in the show notes as well I have a artist friend who was super excited to hear about this and she can't wait to check out the preview Of the anniversary edition and be able to do some art on her own tablet Personally though, I just switched you a boon to so i'm not super excited about it myself Yeah, the new lts came out yesterday and you're running that right now to to do this very show It and so far other than the normal like hey, it's you know new new environment new operating system things going well Yeah, there's a few driver issues, but so far i've been able to get everything working It's just you know reinstalling and finding the compatible drivers and what have you but so far so good It's it's the always the new moving into an operating system Exactly and of course next is always going to give you a little bit of a headache and you might have to Figure out some new terminal commands that you've never learned before but hey That's one of the parts of educating yourself with a new operating system. Absolutely, and it's looking good. Yeah knock knock on wood video gamer.com noted this morning that amazon customers were saying hey Try to buy the ps4 versions of gta 5 rainbow six season assassins creed Or maybe the ps4 and xbox one versions of fifa 16 and far cry primal battlefield hard line And they say i have to have an amazon prime account to buy them At least if i want to buy them directly from amazon The games were sometimes available from third party sellers amazon told video gamer.com that it does offer exclusives to amazon prime members And then subsequently lifted the exclusives and now they're available for everybody to buy again a weird morning there Very weird morning. I actually tested this on my own machine and even though they say that the the the subscription Basically cut off was turned off I still had that happen when I was logged out of my prime account and I deleted cookies and everything So I wasn't sure why I was still having that issue. It was on gta 5. I believe Yeah, no, it's it's it's a weird thing and I was not Aware I guess that amazon did a lot of this where they say oh this purchase is only for prime members Probably because i'm a prime member and i'm always logged in but That is a very odd thing to say. No, we don't want your money for older game titles So i'm curious if we'll find out more about whether this was just a mistake Or whether this was a promotion that went wrong and they decided to yank it when everybody got upset um very very interesting to see I mean because I understand special events like oh pre-order this or limited release and if you're a prime member you get it That that would make sense with their own amazon products. They did that with the echo right? I mean that that makes perfect sense, but gta 5. I mean that's been out for a while. It's kind of random Snapchat has ended the practice of being able to pay 99 cents for more than one replay of a message Which sometimes I accidentally don't have the volume up and I use the free replay and if I don't get it right the second time I'm tempted to pay the 99 cents, but I never have and maybe that's why they're ending that practice Now you got one chance and that's it to replay however as they take away They give a snapchat has added the ability to face swap with photos from your camera roll This new lens, which is what they call it when you Long touch on your face and you're able to turn yourself into a dog and stuff We'll search your camera roll with your permission for faces that will work with it automatically And it just shows them up in a nice little row like here's all the faces You could even if you have pictures of yourself face swap with yourself This is so weird I just downloaded snapchat like yesterday And I don't know I've been enjoying your snaps. Actually. It's good to see you. Thanks. Yeah cat videos and more cats Your cat was impressive how it opened the cabinet. Oh, yeah, she's really smart when she does that She's not necessarily smart the rest of her life, but she's That's clever. Yeah, the whole face swapping thing kind of freaks me out Although I did run across the the pay system where you have to pay 99 cents because I wanted to I I didn't understand that you could only replay something once. Yeah, and I was like, what the heck I don't want to pay 99 cents just to watch a you know Now you can't pay 99 cents anymore. So that's over. You missed that boat Uh facebook announced that more than 1 million people now use tour to access facebook Or at least 1 million people did this month its first time they've passed the 1 million mark Facebook launched a dot onion version of the site back in october 2014 So that folks using tour could access it for whatever privacy or security reason they wanted to facebook also began Supporting the android or bot proxy this year It's interesting that you know, I think a lot of people wondered if this was just a pr move and how much use it would get It's getting a lot of use It's getting a ton of use but I say props to them because it's great to see more people Valuing their own security and privacy and while of course with tour You have to think about okay. Who's running those exit nodes? Am I actually being protected as much as I think I am so don't like share your bank credentials over it But it's it's fine for facebook usage as long as you're you're not sharing things like Maybe activism in a place where you might necessarily be killed for that kind of thing Yeah, no, it's it's it's a fair point whatever you post on facebook is still public right tour doesn't protect you If you say i'm at the cafe I'll the at this intersection people could see that so But but it will unblock facebook in places where it might be blocked and and if you're protecting your identity With other ways and with what you post then it will keep it'll have a chance anyway A good chance of keeping that ip address safe Bis tech africa reports kenya's high court judge mumbi nungugi ruled a provision in the kenya information and communications act or kika About the misuse of licensed telecommunications devices is unconstitutional This had been used to crack down on bloggers and social media users who claimed They were just trying to stop critics by saying oh you posted something We didn't like using a telecommunications device We're going to prosecute you in fact 15 people were prosecuted under the act between january and march this year justice and guggy wrote that the provision was too broad and libel law already performed the function of protecting reputations and therefore It was not necessary and therefore struck it down Yay, so this is a win for bloggers. Yeah win for social media posters and bloggers whistleblowers of of all kinds The Sydney morning herald adam turner points out that opera's new built-in vpn. It does have a vulnerability I can't remember. I think who was asking about this yesterday in the chat room It's got a very common vulnerability the web rtc flaw that leaks your real ip address now turner notes the opera Web rtc leak prevent plugin can solve the problem But only if you go in and change the default settings to stop web rtc from using non-proxied udp Slay any points out not a lot of people are going to know that and going to go to the length to do that The built-in vpn as you remember is part of the developer release that came out yesterday So, you know, it is an alpha. It is meant to find bugs and this is a bug that has been pointed out So hopefully opera fixes it I completely agree with you open w What is called open web rtc? That's web rtc that vulnerability. It's been around for a long time It's been a problem for quite a few different services in the past So this doesn't come as a surprise to me necessarily I do hope they fix it before the full release, but I am remaining skeptical about a free vpn Yeah, and and you always should I think opera is providing it as an extra service And you should it should be audited and vulnerabilities should be brought out like this This is the system at work right here And you should until you're 100 percent certain not use it for anything critical Right. Yes, completely agree Hey, thanks to pc guy 88 franz games motang sp shared in teaglass 1976 flying spatula And more of you great folks who submitted things we used from our subreddit or even things we didn't use Submit your stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and that is a look at the headlines Let's talk a little bit more about the these uber class action lawsuits Things aren't over yet. They settled these two but as I mentioned it does not Determine the law about whether drivers should or should not be considered independent contractors similar lawsuits are still active in florida, arizona and pennsylvania and there is a lawsuit not a class action suit, but a lawsuit Revolving around barbara and berwick an uber driver who the california labor commission declared should be classed as an employee uber is appealing that decision but that could actually decide the law on the situation and essentially it comes down chanon to the idea of You don't get to determine whether you take rides or not uber was punishing you if you didn't accept rides So uber has changed that process and said, okay, we're not going to deactivate you if you if you decline rides We'll just log you out of the system if you decline a certain amount of rides Uh essentially trying to distance themselves from that part of the argument. Uh, they also Don't get to negotiate their price. Uh, the price is what uber says it is whether it's surge pricing or whether it's not You have to take the price and usually an independent contractor gets to negotiate on their price On the other side of the ledger who you don't have to be an uber driver You can you can leave whenever you want you can go work for lyft You can work for lyft and uber at the same time There's there's all kinds of freedoms that independent contractors do have that employees don't have So like you said at the beginning of the show is someone who freelances Where do you think of all of this? Well, it's kind of weird for uber drivers I almost feel like they fall in this middle ground between being a normal employee and a independent contractor It's almost as if they're setting a new a new precedent for future businesses because this one is so Very different and this whole entire case has been so huge and so majorly publicized The fact that you can you know, you can set your own time you can choose when you decide to work You can go wherever you want with uber is great for independent contracting Especially since they're you know using their own cars. They're able to expense their mileage They can do all of those kind of things for the irs and get decent money back in taxes On the other hand though, you do run into this issue where they can't negotiate their prices So if you have somebody that Depends on this income from uber say they don't have a second job Maybe they don't work for lift for the other few days of the week that their kids are in school or whatever it might be They have to depend on uber setting these prices for them and if uber For some mysterious reason just cuts them off. You know, what are they going to do? They're kind of screwed in that case. So I think this entire case is very important. It's not done yet It's only been settled. It hasn't been completely decided especially since there's so many other cases that are currently happening in so many different states So I'm I'm very curious how this is going to develop further because the story's not done And I feel like there's still a fight that's going to be happening between uber and and the drivers Especially for the drivers Yeah, and I think there are a lot of good arguments why These kinds of drivers should be considered independent contractors at the same time I think uber is trying to maintain as much control as they can over them In order to get the benefits of having employees without treating them like employees and not have to provide Work worker compensation health insurance I can understand it from a business perspective and this is not to say that I'm on one side or another But from running a business, I understand that you have to pay additional taxes and as an employer You have to pay Additionals into like social security and stuff like that you have to give them benefits And it's very very expensive for a company to have so many employees To the point that it would end up raising prices For the consumers for the people that are using these these cars to get them around to different places So it would end up boosting up prices. It would end up like maybe decreasing uber's usability in In certain cities Maybe lift would end up with a much higher market share. We don't necessarily know but When you come down to the business perspective of it, I I get why uber is deciding to fight this as much as they are However, I really understand the case for the drivers too, especially like when they bring in the tips, for example Yeah, let's talk about that because I think a lot of us were under the impression that uber was this thing that you didn't have to tip Because it was already included in the price. The fact of the matter is no, it was not included in the price In fact, the drivers could accept tips But they had to say they couldn't the previous uber policy before the settlement and and I suppose still the policy outside of Massachusetts in california is that if a client offers a tip Please remind them that tipping is not necessary with uber In fact, the reason uber says that is because they want to keep it cashless You shouldn't have to carry cash when you take an uber. That's one of the advantages New riders may not know about the tipping policy and could feel cheated if they later learned the tipping was not required However, if the rider still insists, you should accept the tip. You earned it. That's that's the policy That's what the policy was basically like a weird policy. It was well Me and gary bronze. I remember back in eighth grade Both determined that our families had taught us if someone wants to give you something you turn it down once But if they insist you take it and apparently uber was making that their official policy That's kind of the same thing. I was taught at a young age and I used to work in restaurants So it's very customary for me to give people a tip for good service, you know 15 20 Sometimes even 25 if I have excellent service. So one of the first times that I got in an uber I was straight up with them. I was like, I've never used this before Do you get tips in the app and the guy that was driving me said no, but it's not necessary Which is like a direct quote quote from the policy basically I must tell them it is not necessary or I will be in trouble Now I fully understand why I said that but I feel kind of bad because I don't think that I had tipped him because I was like Oh, it's not necessary. Like they must get Uh Additional or maybe maybe the reason why uber is a little bit more expensive at the time is because you know They get more money for that. So they're they're not necessarily minimum wage. Well, turns out Uber drivers don't make a lot of money unless it's during surge pricing times Yeah, exactly and so here's the thing tip your uber driver It's a pain or use lift You know why because lift actually lets you tip the driver in the app makes no bones about it It's not awkward. It says hey, you don't have to tip but you can and if you want to here's how you do it Just add it and lift even lets you add it after you finish paying if you forget You're like, oh, I wanted to give that guy a couple bucks. He was so good You go into the lift app. You can add it after the fact lift does that right? I love how they do it. It's so easy and lift but uber makes it a little bit more complicated Especially if you're very new if you never used the app before Well getting back to the the independent contractor and then this is why tipping is such a deal for the uber driver This is they're like, hey, we're we're turning down an income that we could get Uh, I and personally I love not having to deal with the weird Tipping universe that the united states has when I when I go abroad And so I like the idea that I didn't have to do it But if you make it easy in the app, uh, then I won't feel weird And this is enough to make me want to use lift so that I just don't have to deal with that question But I do think in the end What this says is that People like uber drivers and probably a lot of other Uh, you know postmates delivery and and the other class of people like this are not independent contractors They are not able to negotiate a contract when I'm an independent contractor with tech republic for the five apps videos I can say oh, hey, you know what this clause in the contract. I need you to change that I don't think uber drivers have that leverage. Uh, so they're not fully independent contractors But they're also not fully employees Uh, and I think one thing people may not understand that shannon alluded to earlier is if you employ someone full time You don't only have to take the money out of their their check for social security and for taxes You have to pay extra on top of that. It's called the payroll tax So the more you pay someone the more expensive they get beyond just what you're paying them having full time employees Raises your tax level. You have to pay tax to employees people in the united states I didn't realize that till I became someone who was running an llc And I get why it's there But there is an avoidance uh on companies to want to do this unless they have to And there are definitely freedoms that uber drivers have and that postmates delivery people have that a full time employee Wouldn't normally have as far as just being able to decide when you're gonna work An uber driver doesn't have to check in a certain amount of hours There might be a minimum that they have to drive But they can decide to work more or less based on their schedule And I think there should be a new class that protects these workers gives them leverage But at the same time doesn't actually force them to be considered full-time employees when they're not It's it's 2016 and given that we have so many on-demand Companies and businesses that allow people to just do what they're good at Do a service that they feel like they are an expert at It feels like it's time to bring in some kind of new genre for workers And I wonder if uh a union Could negotiate that sort of thing it might require legislation But i'm very curious about this drivers association. We mentioned it in the headline. It is not a union But it will act like a union. It will be facilitated by uber, but will not be controlled by uber It will be controlled by the drivers and will sit in the quarterly meetings and give the drivers a voice Uh, I I think there's a lot of reasons why maybe it should be a union if it's going to act like a union Because there's a lot of union intimidation that can happen if you're not protected By the laws that apply specifically to unions But it's an interesting settlement that the lawyers on behalf of the class will be able We're able to wrangle out of uber and i'm curious whether it's just going to end up falling flat because uber can Crush it because uber is funding it or whether it will actually make a difference I hope it makes a difference, especially for the drivers, but yeah exactly just like you said you We don't necessarily know how uber is going to react to this new Union that their drivers are being able to create now because it is you know, it's under uber's It's under their their supervision basically Yeah, I mean uber is what do you see so let me find the uber is uh Green to facilitate and recognize the association right, but it could then Become independent of uber and actually i'm curious if they could join the drivers union There is a drivers union for taxi drivers that already exist I'm sure uber wouldn't like that the taxi driver is pretty pretty much wouldn't like that either Well, I don't know If the taxi driver, they wouldn't like what joining a union or joining the Probably wouldn't like want to have uber or lift drivers join them in some kind of union I don't yeah, I wonder uh, I could see why you'd say that because they're not real happy that they exist at all But if they get past the point of if they get to acceptance and like well, they're not going away I'd rather have them on our side Yeah You know negotiating for for a fair marketplace and a lot of those taxi drivers are becoming uber and lift drivers Right, that's the demand for taxi goes down la times had an article about that here Um, I don't know it's a uh, it's very interesting and I really do think and I and I know I haven't formed this opinion very well here But I do think there is a third class of worker That needs protection, but needs different protection than a full-time employee Yeah, yeah, I I agree with you Hmm So I'm well, we'll keep we'll keep thinking on that it's it's it's something that is arising out of here We you need to you need to give an employee the flexibility that comes from being this kind of independent worker But without the downside of not getting paid very well and not being protected from abuse Now there is part-time, but even then They have to pay for that employee uh status. Yeah, and maybe that's maybe there is Something that can be done to the part-time worker classification tweaked to apply to this. I don't know Uh, let's get to our pick of the day Harrison recommends something called arc backup It's been recommended by Steve Gibson before as a matter of fact. It's arq at arq backup.com He says Harrison says they just did a version five update It's now on os 10 and windows works like time machine does pre internet encryption So your stuff gets encrypted before it hits the network That's important and with version five. 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Uh, of course, that's still all over the headlines this morning Joe the pilot did not disappoint. Uh, send in a note Where he was sort of mocking the the quadcopter flyers saying welcome to the club of getting blamed for something That's not your fault. Uh, he's like dunking donuts out of donuts at the airplane Play him the pilot. I guess I guess he's experienced this before But he also points out the little I read made it sound like the BA flight 7 27 struck what appeared to be a UAV at 1700 feet Which means the aircraft was probably just inside or just outside the final approach fix And probably traveling at 130 to 180 knots depending on the aircraft weight and ATC clearance It was reported that no damage was found and the mechanics signed off the aircraft That leads me to believe that if anything impacted the airplane, it was very light But more likely nothing hit the airplane It was uh, all we need is the maintenance log from the aircraft describing the open write-up Possibly UAV strike at 1700 feet at x knots to nose area and the corrective action box on the other half of the page By station maintenance saying impact area was not found aircraft inspected in accordance with IAW airbus log Blah blah blah blah blah blah an area of damage inside safe perimeters or no damage noted Follow up with an exhaustive search under the area of impact by some law enforcement group and have the CAA's incident investigation board Follow up with a summary of findings my god though by the time we have factual answers People might already have moved on and forgotten about this incident the horror Uh, and then he points out he's like look I've struck a few birds in a few types of airplanes And they always leave marks He goes on to say it's possible UAV might be light enough that it doesn't leave a mark But he thinks it probably would he's like usually if something actually strikes you you know it Given it was that high up I feel like a smaller UAV wouldn't have been the issue because those don't have very good ranges Yeah, he said it's he's like if you hear if a bird strikes you you hear a thump Uh, but sometimes you something will strike and you won't hear it at all Um, so it's it's it's hard to say but joe man. Thanks for uh sharing the insight as always appreciated uh text jeb wrote in and said I know the story was about prince and his relation to the internet and I shouldn't be one of the stupid trolls But you did mention several artists who recently passed and we mentioned like david bowie for instance In other words, you didn't mention the thing I care about and yeah, I know it's vain But dammit. I have to say it why the run-on sentence Murl you left out murl like many traditional country artists Murl turned to the internet where it's really become a haven for music that doesn't get terrestrial radio play Guys like stony lore and ray scott are selling more records and tickets now than they did when they had big recording contracts in the late 2000s and murl haggard was embracing that culture not unlike johnny cash towards the end again I know that was not the story and most of your audience doesn't share my musical affinities But a country boy can't let it go end of rant Oh, that's awesome. It's so nicely written too. Thank you uh text jeb for for writing it that way Because yeah, man, I I saw murl haggard at the bond county fairgrounds my friend like back in the 80s So I I feel yet and uh, yeah, it he's right. It's one of those things where you know, you're always going to leave out something from someone, but I wanted to give murl his due Finally, uh, we we speculated on the idea of uh apple getting rid of ports on the iphone In response to le echo getting rid of the headphone jack on their android phone Mike writes But even if you have a good set of devices that can play back videos perfectly well There's one area where bluetooth audio fails Gaming a good device can read ahead on the audio stream when playing video and transmit the data early So you hear it and sync with the video This is impossible to do with games since many sounds are directly linked to the actions you make So there's generally always going to be a half second delay or more with those sounds while gaming You may hear mario's jump sound when he's at the apex of the jump about to come down This makes gameplay very disorienting and difficult now I've played game with my bluetooth headsets, but I don't know if I've played anything that the sound Sinking up was integral to and I haven't really noticed it that much But I could see if you're like a serious gamer that could be an issue toy driver on twitter points out that he has desktop and windshield display mounts for his note 5 with wireless charging built in and loves it So he thinks wireless charging is ready. He doesn't think we have to wait for that And samsung does have fast wireless charging I've forgotten about that when we were talking yesterday and finally scorebook sw Rightly reminds us that some airlines don't allow bluetooth devices on flights Sometimes during takeoff and landing though the usfa has cleared bluetooth for use during all phases of the flight depends on the airline you're flying So there you go. Would you want to use a phone that didn't have any ports shannon? No, absolutely not. I like having the ability to do hacks You can still hack it wirelessly right? Yeah, well, you can definitely but there's some really cool hardware hacks that you can do with android phones But you you are required to have a micro usb for example to be able to institute those Yeah, well, there you go. Thanks for all the thoughts everybody. Thank you shannon Was curious if you used sudo to make darin get you a sandwich. He said so Yes, sudo taxu so that he always does it and I don't have to mention it every single time Doesn't I just rm tech rf that? Oh, yeah, be careful. You don't have no more darin Hey tech thing and hack five and and all the things that you do what what how do folks find more of shannon Uh, the easiest place is on twitter. I'm at snubs snuby s Otherwise, you can check out hhk5.org where we just finished up our build of a really cool sub 250 gram drone We took it out and did some test flights and we did a whole episode about practicing if you're very new to To drones yourself so you can learn how to get really proficient with it And then on tech thing we've been reviewing some really cool products lately and tech thing is over at tek thing dot com And that's a very consumer based oriented review show So we do a lot of how-tos we answer viewer questions It's really fun to get down into the nitty-gritty of consumer tech Yeah with the awesome patrick norton. 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Yeah Uh, amazon amazon playing games Tip your uber driver Just the tips Agree to not disagree opera's vpn isn't google soft China chins the apple movies and books. Hmm Maybe a little too clever Apple closes the books on china Darren delivers Amazon's exclusive or amazon's unexplosive exclusive Hmm, nothing here jumps out at me drivers win uber sent settlement That's what you what is that my burger. It's a what is it? It's like a faux turkey sandwich. It's not actually turkey I don't know what it's furky. It's a toe furky is a soy based. Yeah, I think so. I'll find out but it's it's yummy Yeah, it's because you have to handle it. I won't go into it Don't rm rf him No, I've had plenty of toe furky plenty Um, I like tip your uber driver tip your uber driver. That's a good one Straight to the point. You got any thoughts on the matter miss morse Yeah, I like tip your uber driver so far Were there any more? Well, there was drivers win uber settlement Union plan versus uber man Yeah, I like the first one tip your uber drivers. Yeah, try the veal Eat more bacon Oh, I got cut back on red meat I'm at the age where it's just not good for my diet. I think I don't eat red meat a lot Through most of my life. I eat a lot more now that I'm married dialing And it's fine. Maybe it's because I didn't eat as much before I eat less now now that I'm not working. You're married dialing No, it's because I don't work with Patrick Shannon, do you find yourself eating more red meat now that you work with patrick? No, I usually don't have much meat for lunch. I just eat meat for dinner See, I used to never buy meat And I wouldn't always order something. I'd order fish and stuff. I wasn't vegetarian I was vegetarian for a couple years, but not for very long Um, but yeah, eileen's like, oh no, we must have meat A lot of meat I'm I'm a big fan of salmon and fried chicken. I love salmon. I love fried chicken I must be the only person because I really don't like salmon. I don't know what it's something about the meat oil Whatever it just bothers me. You don't have the salmon gene I probably don't I like I like tuna I can like tuna. I like mild Like bottom feeders like catfish or halibut Oh, I love uh, I love oily fish like uh mackerel and stuff. Oh god. I can't stand that stuff I'm so excited to have actually like all the fish. Yeah. Oh my gosh. When do you go the 13th? Very exciting. I'm gonna have a meet up. Yay. Hopefully You're gonna you're gonna be there. Yeah, I'll be there. I'm sure there'll be people there There'll be a few you're gonna get a good turnout. It's gonna be so much fun Oh, yeah, I'm jealous. I want to go to japan too. Can't wait to eat all the sushi, but see eileen wants to go to korea Oh So you might not you know, there's two koreas. There's not just one. Yeah, which one should we I noticed that according to john oliver north korea was voted the top korea in north korea magazine Yeah, uh, well and the northern parts of places are often considered the more developed areas I have a layover in full Oh, you do you're connected through soul. Yeah Eileen just wants to go to korea so she can buy korean beauty products I don't know if they're cheaper over there though. No, but they have stuff she can't get over I'm sure you can order online and have them ship it to her I know ethan kane, uh, ethan kane in the chat room is in korea and he very kindly has said he will send us anything we want But eileen just hasn't given me a list But I have a feeling we won't get there before he leaves because he's leaving pretty soon No, you'll like it. You'll like it. It's it's it's uh When I first got there it it was that both about japan, right japan was both familiar and uh different at the same time for me Really? Wow. Well one is I don't stick out, right? Like I really don't stick out Which is weird because even even Chinese university students who study to kind of stick out. I don't stick out. I'm gonna stick out my hair's gonna be terrible I bet I'll stick out You would You probably hit your head on everything. Who is the giant man? Well, you know, the one thing I did realize is um, their body type Uh leans No pun intended For at least for men towards scrawny Like I could find clothes that fit but they're they're like for my frame like the width of my chest Is wider, I guess by half then yeah So I where if I get a jacket or anything like the coat goes down to my knees because it's like designed for like You know a guy who's like six four Who just eats rice and you know shoots and fish shoots bamboo shoots Oh, oh I thought you meant like goes to the gun range. I'm like, that doesn't seem very Japanese Oh, the one thing I remember about living there not living there, but one of my girlfriend was living there. Um Everything comes in very small sizes because their fridges are tiny like And so you can't get a lot in there. So people tend to get out a lot. Yeah So I'm sure the restaurants will be good Most of them are It could be a mixed bag depending what you would you want to get though? DJ have you Have you asked patrick masia to give you recommendations? Oh, yeah, we're gonna go to a gyoza restaurant together. Oh sweet. That's awesome. Double date. What? I always find that kind of weird all because all I think is so let's go to a potsticker restaurants Okay, I'm totally okay with that. There have been multiple times that I've just eaten gyoza for dinner If it's so good Let's have terrible for me, but I don't care Dumplings in general Chinese dumplings are generally pretty bad for you if you eat too many Yeah Well, it's like my dad says is like, you know, they're really high in fat and oil I mean, they're designed that way because they weren't they were meant for travelers on the silk road meat fat, right? Yeah, not vegetable fat. So yeah, it's it's like, you know pork or beef or Oh, yeah, but what have you so it's it's pretty rich because it was designed as like a handheld food Like if you got a pork barbecue going on the road, right? Yeah, especially when you're walking next to your camel carrying all your And then stuff you're gonna hawk in the middle east And so like it was just you know, it wasn't meant to be even like some people eat it every day It's like are you kidding like I want to down a thing of I'm sorry. Are you on are you walking next to your camel? I don't think so Why are you eating that? Are you gyoza shaming people roger? I shame people regardless of what they eat I'm proud of my gyoza That's right. You should be Oh, are you gonna pick up sailor moon stuff? Oh my gosh. I'm spending like an entire day Shopping sailor moon stuff Are you buying a separate suitcase to bring back just all that stuff? Yeah In fact, there's a sailor moon suitcase I don't know if it'll be available when I go there But there is a sailor moon suitcase that I want to buy and then I'll just put all my sailor moon stuff In the sailor moon suitcase Yeah There was a lot of stuff I wanted to get I remember going to an old video games Not old but a used video game store It's like, whoa, they had to save a Saturn for like 50 bucks Like a bunch of games and they're really cheap. I mean they were granted. They were all in japanese But it's like like I have no way to take any of this back like my luggage was too small Like I can't carry any of this stuff. I'm bringing just carry-ons Are you flying japan airlines? No, I'm flying a united It was cheaper by like 600 bucks Will it actually be a united plane though or is it co-shared with somebody? Um, the first one is united the last one is united the one to korea is singapore. Oh nice Yeah Well, I don't know actually I lean flew singapore to the philippines years ago and it was great But then I've heard it's not Like it hasn't kept pace. It's not bad But like it used to be super super nice and now it's normal nice I'm just planning to like drink a whole bottle of wine and then get on the plane and pass out the whole time Yeah, first time I flew to london. I just was like keep the drinks coming. Yep I could sleep on a plane the problem is I wake up And I remember waking when I was flying the astrea woke up And I was like, oh seven hours man. There's so much time passed by this is going to be a breeze It's like, wait a minute. There's six hours left And then I had to watch a bunch of There's a canate french canada at quibbeck comedy show just for last or something It's like allen funds candid camera where they do like they mess with people in the public doing And I sat there and I had to watch an hour of that and I was like, I just want to get off this plane My only saving grace was the The doctor and the general from start gate one were four rows ahead of me I guess they were flying out to a convention or something I remember her I remember overhearing her. It's like I really want a carton of cigarettes I really want a carton of cigarettes said that the the actress that played the doctor And uh, it's our game on the first doctor the blonde one Oh, um, yeah, shoot. She's harder. No, not not carter. Um, no the woman who played the doctor. Yeah Oh, wait, wasn't she a brunette? Yes. It's just been a lot of stuff. I really like her She's a good actress. She's awesome. So because I noticed them at the Janet Preston Terry Terry Rothery Terry Rothery, Terry Rothery I remember seeing them at the gate and they were talking, you know talking over their flight It's like, oh, that's kind of cool. It's like wonder where they're headed. It's like, oh, same place. I am Lucky ducky. I'm not gonna sit next to him. Yeah Um, thanks everybody for watching you guys are the best have a lovely weekend And we'll see you on the internet