 Hello, I'm in a different place. And we're starting to pre-show a lot earlier. It's madness. It's moonlight madness sale. Everything's different. Okay, so huge thanks to Alison Sheridan. And we'll thank her again once we get the show proper going. But she has let me crash and use her bandwidth and saved Monday. She saved Monday. Do you realize this? There's Monday. Guys are like, yeah, yeah, we have internet. We don't really care, Tom. Your problems need to be solved. You have internet now too. I have Alison's internet. So what happened to your internet? Well, I went out for dinner. And when I left, the internet was doing just fine. It was happy. It was happy, comfortable. We didn't exchange any angry words. And then when I got back, it was gone. I got back from dinner and it was just gone. So yeah, no, at first I thought maybe the routers were down or something. So I traced it back all the way to plugging in my admin laptop that I keep for just such tasks directly to the router. And there were just no packets. No packets at all. No little packets. So I call Frontier and the guy who helped me, Jaisal, was excellent. One of those rare tech support people who correctly gauge what you know and how much he needs to hold your hand and how much he doesn't. And so we skipped through a lot of the obvious stuff and got right to checking the ONT, which is the optical node. And he couldn't get it to respond. He had me reboot it. It didn't work. And so he had me open it and look at the lights and he's like, oh, and I'm like, the self-check fail light is on. He's like, ooh, that's not good. So like, well, we'll probably have to get a tech come out and swap it. The ONT's probably bad. So I said, okay, great. Can you get somebody out tomorrow? Cause tomorrow would have been Sunday. And he's like, let me check. And he's like, no, the appointment will be Tuesday. Oh, that's not gonna work. That's not gonna work for me. That is not okay. And he's like, okay, well, I'm gonna put a note in here cause you do have a business account. I'm putting a note in here that your business relies on this connection. And I'm like, great. So he's like, check in with support Sunday morning if you don't hear anything. And maybe we can get somebody out Sunday if not Monday. I'm like, okay. It's like for your appointment still Tuesday, just in case. I'm like, okay. So of course Sunday, they're like, oh, there's no one in the office at Frontier cause it's Sunday. I'm like, all right. But check with us first thing Monday morning. So I check first thing Monday morning. They're like, yeah, no, we're too busy. We can't get you anyone till Tuesday. And then someone called to confirm like, do you still need your appointment tomorrow? I'm like, yeah, I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I feel bad for Lou. Lou was very nice. But I was like, I actually rely on this for my business. So I kind of need it yesterday. Is there any chance you can get someone out today? And he's like, oh yeah, no, there's just no, there's no way. No way. So there you go. Literally no way, not a single way. We got steaks. So I have an AT&T wireless hotspot on a pay as you go account that I'll probably use for tomorrow's show. I tested that out over the weekend and it worked. It worked okay. But thankfully with all the shows I'm doing today, I would eat and throw a lot of bandwidth on that. So Allison, letting me do this, save my bacon. And then hopefully Frontier fixes it tomorrow. I mean, it'd be awesome if they showed up first thing in the morning and fixed it. And I didn't have to use the wireless hotspot at all tomorrow. What time were they supposed to get there? What time is it? Between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Oh, good, that's good. That's great. And yeah, so, and I also ordered a Time Warner Cable internet connection just to have in redundancy in case this ever happened again, I would have internet backup. So you're gonna pay for two internet connections? What do you mean? Yeah, I'm just getting a really cheap one though. As a percentage of what I pay for the fiber, it will be a rounding error. And the idea would be that if I needed it for the show, it would be sufficient, but I could also go online and upgrade to a faster package. Right. And get that done fairly quickly without having to send the tech. That's the plan. So that's the plan, that's what's going on with me. How are you guys? Okay. I'm tired. I woke up at 4 a.m. Oh, I'm sorry. For some reason, I just woke up. Bellbot just said, Osiris said you are not welcome here. Osiris, the god of the undead, or... So I just asked her who does Tom's wife work for and the bot said Leo Laport. Oh, out-of-date answer. And spelt it wrong. That's an old answer. They call the port, Laport. That's funny. I just know if I got odds for Mazzullo and Frontier arriving tomorrow. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah, they'll either arrive during DTNS tomorrow when it'll be difficult for me to go answer the door. Yeah. Or they will arrive it after five. Right. That's my guess. Honestly, hope for them to interrupt DTNS. Yeah, I would count on that. Definitely happening. I would prefer that, actually. I'm super tired. Tomorrow it's Patrick Beja, right? Yes. And he's getting up early? Oh, poor guy. Yes. And then he might have to deal with me, being all... Your listeners will understand. They always do. Oh, Captain Jack's got a good idea. He said get a router that has dual-wand ports. Bam. Might just do that. Might just do that. Might just do that. I don't think there are any consumer routers that do that, do they? Shane Frontier, where no packet has gone before. We have fun. We're going to have some fun today. We are. We're going to have fun. We're not going to worry about any of our problems. We're just going to leave it at the door and have a great show. I like your positivity, though. I'm convincing myself that life will be fine. Everything is going to be just fine. It's going to be fine. There's nothing to worry about. Why are you so angry? I'm not angry. So people are suggesting I have the tech appear on the show if they show up in the middle of DT and us tomorrow. That would be so unfair to the tech. It's not the tech's fault. Tech's just doing it its own way. Yeah. Yeah, you'll need to. I felt bad about snapping at Lou today. It really did, because it's not Lou's fault either. He's just doing his job. It's true, but I think they should write on the little employment information packet that you will be the object of derision, anger. Yeah, but I don't want to be giving someone derision when they don't deserve it. But at the same time, I want to make sure that Lou can pass along. This was not a happy customer. Maybe you should tell Lou, it's like, you know what? I'm moving. Thanks. I wish someone else provided 300 megabit per second internet, but Verizon has abandoned me. So this is what I got. All right, we good? Maybe the tech is a listener and will want to do the headlines. That'd be kind of awesome. Doubt that will happen, but you never know. Okey-doke. I'm ready to do this, you guys are. Yes, I would say that. Let's do it. Let's do the job. Here we go. Tech news, a daily frontier. To explain advancing technologies and how they affect you, to seek out new gadgets, apps, and pics of the day, these are the continuing missions of the Daily Tech News Show. But Tom and the crew can't do it alone. To help keep DTNS on the cutting edge of news and lovable, goofy, curmudgeonly commentary, visit DailyTechNewsShow.com slash support to show your support. Now let's hear that other theme song. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, May 2nd, 2016. I'm Tom Merritt, joining me today as she does most Mondays. Ms. Veronica Belmont of twitter.com slash Veronica and Dear Veronica on a Gadget. Host of Sword and Laser and so much more. How are you? Dear Veronica for one more day. One more day, that's it. Last Dear Veronica comes out on Wednesday. I'm so sad that it's going away. I love that show. Oh, thank you. There is a whole archive of shows that you guys can go back and watch if you want. Over and over again. Over and over again, till they're like, why did we ever let her leave? Now, if things sound a tiny bit different or if you're watching video, look a little bit different. I am at Allison Sheridan's place today because Frontier can't get to my house to replace the internet that broke last Saturday until tomorrow on Tuesday. So I have no internet at home to speak of. And Allison and Steven Sheridan so kind in letting me crash here, use Allison's setup, use her Frontier internet bandwidth. I'm on Frontier internet right now. And she only required that I just wear this NozilaCast cap and drink from this NozilaCast mug. Through the whole show. That's it. Small price to pay, don't you think? Yeah, absolutely. Actually, yes, a very small price to pay. Can they fed me delicious salad? It was awesome. That's like even more than you could possibly help for. So, we're not sponsored, but go subscribe to NozilaCast at podfeat.com right now. Delicious pod feet water. No, seriously, NozilaCast is a great show if you haven't subscribed to it yet. I will take this hat off in a moment, but it's actually kind of comfy. Let's start off with some headlines, shall we? Big news of the day is that I doff my cap to Craig Wright, the Australian entrepreneur who digitally signed messages for the BBC, the Economist and GQ, using keys created in the early days of Bitcoin to back his claim that he, in fact, is Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. And of course, the internet just accepted this and said, well, he says he's Satoshi Nakamoto, so it must be true. It's not what happened. The keys are linked to blocks used to send 10 Bitcoins from Nakamoto to Hal Finney back in 2009. He did convince two important people in the Bitcoin Foundation, Chief Scientist Gavin Andreessen, published a blog, Backing Wright's Claim, saying he showed me, I'm convinced. Founding Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation, John Matonis, also says that he is convinced. Wright supports both men in a dispute about expanding the block size in a more rapid fashion. There's a big dispute in the blockchain community about this. And Matonis and Andreessen have Wright on their side. So a lot of people are saying, oh, it's a political thing. That's why they're backing him. The Economist points out that Wright showed signing for blocks one through nine to them of the earliest Bitcoin blocks. But the Economist particularly says it could have been stage managed. The only one that he's been able to show a public proof for is block nine. The Economist said, well, could you also show us block one? That would help convince us. They say, look, you could have used supercomputers, which Wright is involved with. He runs his own supercomputers to brute force one of the keys. Or you could have obtained it from Hal Finney or Dave Cleiman. Both those people have passed away. And security expert Dan Kaminsky points out another possibility. He says Satoshi signed a transaction in 2009 with the key and that Wright, Kaminsky's words, Wright copied that specific signature and tried to pass it off as new open SSL bugs interfered. So Kaminsky's like, I am definitely not convinced. Wright, if you're like, why is he doing this? If he wants to be, he's saying, I don't want the fame. I don't want any money. The bitcoins that I have in the Satoshi wallet are in a trust. I can't access them. I just want to put the speculation about Nakamoto to rest. That's the only reason. It feels so weird and it does feel very political. And there's been so many wrong guesses throughout the years. It just seems like a weird way to kind of come forward, especially not being able to show proof for block one. It feels fishy. Yeah. And the economist quotes him saying, I'm not going to jump through a bunch of hoops. If this isn't good enough for you, then forget it. That to me is the most suspicious part of this. If you were concerned with really proving that you're Satoshi Nakamoto, you would not leave anything in doubt. You would not have Dan Kaminsky out there saying, well, this isn't proof. Anybody could have got this. And then just brush off any other concerns. The economist is very skeptical about this. BBC and GQ less so, but it's... And why now? Why now? Well, and that's one of those things where he could be Satoshi Nakamoto and there could be a million reasons why now, but he is under tax investigation. There is apparently the person who worked on Julian Assange's biography, working on a book on right. So there's some circumstantial evidence there that a lot of people want to point to. It certainly doesn't mean he's not Satoshi Nakamoto just because those things are happening. Yes, but there do seem to be some very strange coincidences happening at the same time that make me feel uncomfortable with his claims and seem like there might be other motives in place. Yeah. But especially the passing off that other signature as new from 2009, that seems weird too. I'm not enough of a security expert or Bitcoin expert to really know why he would do that or how difficult that is or how not difficult that is, but it seems like a strange thing to happen too. Well, the economist tries to argue that he could be legitimately signing this Block 9 message with a key that would look as if it were just ripped off. It's hard to tell the difference. That's why they wanted him to publicly show Block 1. They also said can we send you text that you then sign to prove that you have the key and he wouldn't do that either. Yeah, I don't know. I'm gonna say no. I'm just gonna say it. I'm gonna say no. Veronica says no. He's not. An extremely limited number of Oculus Rift headsets will go on sale in 48 Best Buy stores in the U.S. later this week. Oculus also plans to set up demo stations in the stores. Those who have not yet received pre-ordered rifts can buy one in store and retain their pre-order perks. Rift, that's nice. Rift will go on sale in the Amazon and Microsoft online stores starting May 7th. That's in the Amazon store, not in the Amazon rainforest. That's a good point. I started reading this article today very angry because I have not received my Oculus Rift pre-order because they have been delayed. But when they said, well, if you want to go buy one of these, then you get to keep your pre-order perks. I'm like, all right, at least they're acknowledging the fact. But it's still kind of galling that I would have to go through some more hoops to try to go get one, right? You pre-ordered. It should be sent to your house. You were one of the, like, sounding Oculus buyers. Like, that's not fair. This is like the greatest cooler where they're, like, selling them on Amazon, but the backers of the Kickstarter still haven't got them yet. Like, it's not nearly as bad as that because they will shift. I believe that Oculus will ship the Rift to me. And they are saying, you won't lose your perks if you go through the trouble of going to one of these 48 best buys and standing in line and getting one of the few that are there. I get it's like, yeah, you have to work to get these two. It's not like everybody can just go get them, but... But... Annoying. But I don't understand why they don't just send the ones that are going to stores to the people who have pre-ordered them other than just buzz. They have enough buzz. My guess is they want to get these demonstration things in the best buy. And my guess is that maybe Best Buy or maybe Oculus said, well, if we can't sell some, we don't really want to do the demonstration yet. So maybe they had to make a compromise. The Verge passes along a report from Oglobo that a court order to cut off WhatsApp in Brazil was scheduled to take effect at 1 p.m. Eastern time today. The order specifies five wireless carriers. The big ones in Brazil are not allowed to transmit WhatsApp data for three days. Violations will incur a 500,000 real fine. That's equivalent to about $140,000 U.S. A 48-hour blackup was conducted back in December. If you're like, wait, this sounds familiar. Yep, they did it before. It's all about a 2013 order for access to data by the civil police in Brazil, which has failed because WhatsApp says we encrypt the traffic end-to-end. We can't access that data. You can ask all you want. You can ban us all you want. We don't have access to it. So either let them run in Brazil or don't. But either way, you're not going to get that data. Yeah, I mean, I guess maybe the courts don't believe them, and they think they're just being intransigent. But WhatsApp, I mean, sure, you could say, oh, they have end-to-end encryption, but there's always a way around. But I think WhatsApp is trying legitimately to say, no, we built it so there is no way around other than brute-forcing the encryption, which you're welcome to go call the US FBI. They apparently engage in that sort of behavior sometimes. They're down with that. Yeah, or the NSA probably more likely. The LA Times reports that US magistrate judge Alicia Rosenberg in Los Angeles issued a search warrant in February compelling the girlfriend of an alleged Armenian gang member to use her finger to unlock an iPhone. The US Supreme Court has ruled that police can search phones with a warrant and compel provision of physical evidence like fingerprints. This is interesting in so many different ways. First of all, because she did not appeal it. I guess she probably didn't have the resources to keep fighting it. Maybe people didn't realize that this case was happening. It happened a while back, obviously. But it does combine the idea that, hey, if you have a key, you have to present the key. That is a physical object. If you have a warrant that a judge has signed off on, you have to present it in pursuit of the investigation of a crime. And so your finger is a physical object that you have to present. I mean, it does make a certain amount of sense, right? Mm-hmm. It makes absolute sense, but it feels weird because it's a physical part of your body. Yeah. It's like, you can't take my finger. You can't have my finger. No. The argument against this that you'll hear from places like the Electronic Frontier Foundation is that this is self-incrimination violation of the Fifth Amendment. And so placing, you're doing something. You're putting your finger on the phone and therefore that's self-incrimination. But it could go either way. And this will not end up being a test case because it didn't get appealed. They're teasing the bot again in chat. Guys, stop teasing the bot. Will you please stop teasing the bot? Oh, your bellbot bot. Bellbot's in the chat and they're teasing it and trying to make it quit again. Ugh, you kids. You'll regret that someday if you can. You will. Yeah. Definitely regret that. LG's Inatech announced a buttonless fingerprint sensor that can go under a device screen's glass, therefore leaving no in-date, in-dent, no button. It's just right there. You just know where it is. You rub your thumb across it or your finger. That could help phones be more waterproof because you don't have to put some gaskets around a button. LG claims that false positives are about 0.002%, which is in line with traditional sensors. And they hope to start getting some manufacturers to incorporate it in the next year or two. Mmm. I mean, if this works, that's all I care about. As long as it works, it would make phone design a little sleeker. A buttonless fingerprint scanner that can go under a device's screen. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, that would be cool. Yeah, you could just get rid of the home button. You know, like they have the soft button in Android. You could just have the... Touch anywhere on your screen. Totally. That'd be rad. The Wall Street Journal reports that Hulu is planning a new web subscription service that would sell live and on-demand programming from the likes of ESPN, ABC, Fox, and FX for about $40 a month, starting early next year. About dang time. You're owned by the networks. Why would you not do this? Well, why you would not is you didn't want to anger all the cable companies. And apparently the cable companies hold on you as not as much as it used to be. I guess that's the significant part of this story is that Disney and Fox... I'm sorry, Comcast NBC Universal is the other owner of Hulu here, but they are barred from making decisions in this sort of thing. So I don't know if that's why they're not mentioned here. And again, this is just a Wall Street Journal report, but they have a pretty good record on this sort of thing. It would mean that these networks feel like they've got more leverage than they used to against the cable companies. Yeah, I'm excited. Vimeo announced it's acquiring VHX, not VHS, VHX. It's a company that helps people sell their online videos or even do subscriptions for videos. Basically, if you can't be a Hulu, you could kind of create your own mini Hulu with VHX. VHX helps sell episodes on the web and recently added Apple TV support, so Vimeo is going to roll it into their own deal. And Vimeo only keeps 10%, which is a lot lower than YouTube and others. That's cool. I think Vimeo needs something that stands out like this. I mean, they've really just been... I think of them really as a platform for people who are video creators who want the utmost, highest quality experience for viewing their video projects. They're craftsmen. They're craftsmen, exactly. So giving them another kind of feature like this that sets them apart from the YouTubes of the world is a big deal. And that's very interesting. That's very compelling. And it's really a smart move because the perception amongst a lot of people, including a lot of creators, is that YouTube just isn't as good with the creator relations as it should be and Vimeo is trying to capitalize on that. The band Radiohead has deleted its Twitter and Facebook history and replaced its website with a blank white page. Some fans received a postcard in the mail which reads, Sing the Song of Six Pens that Goes Burn the Witch. A ninth studio album from Radiohead has been expected in June. That sounds like something your bot would say to me. Yes. Sing the Song of Six Pens that Goes Burn the Witch. Yeah, they... Oh, Radiohead. Radiohead very into using technology. They did the... Remember, they did the pay what you want for their album several years back. Rainbows, yeah. For rainbows. On the other hand, very critical of streaming services like Spotify saying it's just the same old same old. It's the music industry. They called it, I think, a dying burst of gas. I think they called it a fart. Actually, I don't remember that. But yeah, they... So they're against streaming, but they're not against technology. And yet, this time, they're definitely using technology to grab our attention by taking it away. Right. It's strange. It feels kind of engineered. Oh, yeah. You know, I mean, that's just what it is. It is what it is. So it's making a lot of news, and a lot of people are talking about Radiohead, which I guess is what they want. Had the effect. More than 1,000 New York state Uber drivers have signed membership cards with the amalgamated local of Livery Employees in Solidarity, or ALICE, although it is not a formal union. The association will represent members against car companies and insurance firms while lobbying New York City and the New York governments for more regulations on ride-sharing companies. Because it's not a formal union. They're hoping they can get around the ban on collective bargaining for independent contractors, maybe. Move comes after Uber settled those deals with the attorneys general of California and Massachusetts. But this is in New York. Now, if you remember, an association was being created as part of that settlement, but that only applied to California and Massachusetts. There are so much interesting things are happening with Uber and Lyft right now. It's so fascinating to watch how the laws are kind of reforming around them and this whole new industry that's cropped up. And they're starting to figure it out, maybe, but at the same time, it's very messy. And it changes from state to state and city to city, too, which must be a very complicated logistical nightmare that the people at those companies have to deal with. And it's tough. It's one of those situations, too, where I've had a lot of people on Twitter or an email say, it's obvious to me that they are not independent contractors, or it's obvious to me that they are definitely independent contractors. So they're both not necessarily wrong. There are elements of both involved here, and it's a thorny issue. And drivers see themselves differently, too. Drivers, depending on who I'm talking to for drivers, they have very different opinions. So at the end of the day, not everyone is going to be happy. It's just we have to figure out what is the best thing for everyone involved. Primarily, Uber wants customers to be happy, but they also need drivers to be happy. So the customers have drivers to drive them around. Yeah. It's not one where there's a particularly majority opinion yet. Although 1,000 people signing a solitary association is, well, that's a lot of people. That's all. It's OK. It's a lot of people. But overall, I guess for one city, it's a lot of people, but it's also one of the biggest cities in the world. Why are it Andy Greenberg reports a group of researchers at University of Michigan and Microsoft have published an in-depth security analysis focusing on Samsung's SmartThings platform. The researchers found several flaws that let them implant backdoor pins in locks and set off smoke detectors. One of the flaws found related to the implementation of OAuth of an app and the other related to malicious apps. They plan to present at the IEEE symposium on security and privacy later this month. Samsung is working with the researchers to improve security. Yeah. This is a demonstration of a well-known problem with the Internet of Things in that there are lots of ways to get in and make them do nefarious things. Now, Samsung, of course, is saying all of this has to do with bad app development or tricking people into installing malware. There's nothing fundamentally insecure about SmartThings itself. And of course, Samsung's going to say that. The researchers are saying this shows that these companies need to get more serious and lock this stuff down. And they say that the exploits in the app store involve app privileges being escalated, which is something they think Samsung should do something about. But at the end of the day, with all of the talking to the general public to make yourself look best, they are working with each other. And this is the system working. The security researchers are finding a bunch of things that they can show and say this shouldn't work this way. And the company working with them to lock them down. Long as Samsung improves that product and locks it down, we're on the road to a better Internet of Things, I think. Did you see the video of the guy using Alexa to control his Tesla? No. Talk about hacking with Internet of Things. Oh, boy. And make sure you want to make sure your Amazon Echo is pretty secure at that point so that no one can get in and control your Tesla while you're in it. Drive your Tesla away. A couple of final notes here. Reuters reports Nvidia announced a settlement of a patent dispute that had been going on for a while with Samsung Monday hours before the US ITC was due to rule on a complaint that could have ended up blocking importation of some Nvidia products. Each claimed that the other used its processor technology without permission. And another final bit. Google said on Monday that it bought a small startup called Synergize. Synergize develops training software for Google Apps users. They started doing that back in 2013. Keeps them up to date on features, directions about how to use products. So Synergize users will be able to continue to use their training app. But Google is going to integrate it into Google Apps now. Interesting. Fascinating. Oh, gosh. I have said interesting at least five times. That's just how interesting you find the news. So much stuff is interesting. Thanks to Flobama, Flopperman, Abituele Condolce, Steve Io, SP Sheridan and all those who submitted things we used from our subreddit. Submit your stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. That's a look at the headlines. So today partly to cover me in the scramble to find a place to do my show. But also because I think this is something that a lot of people do deal with. I wanted to talk about having to use my phone as my primary internet connection over the weekend. Now, I described my outage at length in the pre-show, but essentially the short version is, we think the optical node for my fiber connection has gone bad, discovered that Saturday night. Frontier can't get me a tech until Tuesday. So all night, Saturday, all day, Sunday, and this morning, all I had for internet in our house was T-Mobile on my phone. And then Sunday afternoon, I went and I bought an AT&T hotspot and did a pay-as-you-go model on it because I'm hopefully not going to be using it for a long time. And so I had that as well. I used the AT&T thing to let Eileen, my wife, do some work on Sunday because she has a data cap on her phone account, so she didn't want to tether to it. Tethering on T-Mobile, even on my unlimited account, is seven megabytes, so I wanted to save on that. But then it all became a thing of, okay, Eileen, can you not watch video on the AT&T connection because your video on your phone doesn't count against your cap because you're on T-Mobile? And so, yeah. Wait, video streaming doesn't count towards your cap on T-Mobile? Lots of music and video streaming on T-Mobile is part of their go plan, so it doesn't count against your cap, but only among certain providers. And this is another interesting thing. A lot of net neutrality advocates have said that's a bad idea because it makes you more likely to use the people T-Mobile is working with. And it was absolutely true. I used to watch things on YouTube and go, oh, right, YouTube's part of this. And then I would think about watching maybe something on Vimeo and I don't know if they're a partner. Maybe they are, right? But I didn't have the time to go check and I was hesitant to watch a Vimeo video because of that. Yeah, that's net neutrality in action or the opposite of net neutrality. That's the system not working. It's net neutrality. Oh, that's a good title, net not neutrality. But really the other thing that I found was that I could do a lot more with my phone than I normally make myself do. And yet, while as impressive as that is, it can be very frustrating the things that you know it should be able to do, but it can't. There's certain things that are screen size related that you're like, oh, I bought a 6-inch screen. That's all I'm gonna get. I'm not gonna get a 26-inch screen out of this thing. That's just the way it is. But there are a lot of multitask items and one of the most impressive things I was able to do with it was I bought a lightning to HDMI adapter, plugged it into the television on HDMI and watched Game of Thrones on HBO Now streaming over unlimited internet. So I wasn't tethered. I wasn't using the tethered cap on T-Mobile. HBO probably doesn't count against the cap anyway, even if I didn't have unlimited. And it looks fine. We had a couple of glitches, some moments where the HDMI stopped seeing the phone. So it wasn't perfect, but I was able to watch, we were in large part able to just watch the show and there were long sections of the show where I forgot how we were doing it. It just felt like normal. This is very, it's fascinating because it just goes to show that we're not at the point yet where we can be device agnostic. We can't flow between devices yet the way we really feel like we should be able to at this point. We had the discussion a couple weeks ago about how I tried to leave the house without my wallet and just use my phone as my primary device and was not successful. You have done the opposite experiment and tried to use your phone instead of your laptop. Without leaving the house, yeah. Without leaving, it just used it as a primary laptop replacement device. That obviously doesn't work for certain reasons. And it's, yeah, we're not quite there yet. There's a lot of things still in the way of us choosing to either use a laptop or use a phone and have that be your primary device. I think laptop, I guess, is still really the thing you want the most. Though I probably wouldn't have gotten very far with just my laptop and not my wallet either. Yeah, they don't have RFID in your laptop yet. Come on, get that in there. Two other points I want to talk about. One, I want to finish with talking about how I actually did work on the phone that I would normally do in a laptop. But one last thing before that was that the AT&T hotspot that I bought, which I went to Wirecutter and found what Wirecutter said were the best hotspots and there is a model from Netgear that was available from both AT&T and Verizon. And they said T-Mobile and Sprint just don't have updated hardware. Their hardware is a couple years old. So if you want the best hotspot for performance, you want to get this one or they had a couple others, but they were all AT&T and Verizon. Then I went to Roots Wireless, which they're a consultancy company and what they do is their whole job is to make coverage maps to figure out what kind of coverage the various mobile carriers get in all parts of the world. And I obviously was just looking in my area in the United States, but I found that Verizon had the worst coverage at my house. Now again, I'm not buying this to travel with, although I probably will travel with it now that I have it, but I'm buying it because I want the best coverage at the particular location that I'm at. I don't care if it's good at the diner. I don't care if it's good when I go to the park. I care that it's good where I'm at at home. And AT&T had the fastest coverage according to Roots Wireless at my house. T-Mobile was close, but again, remember, they have the older hardware. So that's why AT&T was. Yeah. And the biggest problem with it is that the bandwidth is expensive. Even if I want to do a prepay rather than a pay as you go and just say, well, I'll eat a month and then cancel, it's still very expensive to get the amount of bandwidth I needed to do to do streaming. I can probably get a day or two out of it and it's going to be costly. You've jumped through a lot of hoops for this. Yeah. I feel like it would have been easier to just ask someone like Allison or Jenny to just go to their house for the day and just think of that as your first step. Yeah. Part of it is me wanting to find the ability to do some sort of things that I can't do outside my house. Part of it is needing to be there when the tech shows up tomorrow and wanting to be able to do work. But yeah, no, a huge thanks. Again, I'll put the hat back on to Allison Sharer because today a lot of those problems are solved because of that. But this morning, again, unlimited internet on the phone means I want to use my phone for as much as possible. I don't even want to tether it because there's a cap on tethering. And I was impressed what I could do. I generally never want to work in Google Docs on my phone because I find it really a pain in the ass. But I was able to do it. And I realized that some of my resistance is there are different methods of moving between documents. And I don't want to have to learn the new method. I've got my method that works on my desktop, right? I don't want to have to double click my home button to go back and forth because that's different. But once I started getting in the rhythm of that, I realized, well, actually, you know what? I can copy a link out of Feedly and pop over to Sheets. Pop that in there. Composing text is a little more difficult. Copy and paste is cumbersome, but it can be done. But a lot of the other things that I do, like checking Twitter feeds, we even had the SoundCloud outage over the weekend. Some of you may have noticed that you weren't able to get to the MP3s of the Daily Tech News show over the weekend from older episodes. SoundCloud had turned it off for the weekend. They turned it back on this morning. But I was able to use my phone to go into WordPress's app and change out the link to an archive.org link and publish. Fine. In the past, I would have gone right to my desktop because I wouldn't think, I don't want to deal with having to do all of that on the phone. But I was able to do it just fine. Yeah, I have had that tricky problem of just losing my workflow when I switch over to a phone device. Everything just takes an extra 10x time, it feels. And that's never really going to change unless we have true multitasking and just the input devices like a keyboard and a mouse that just make that a lot easier than touch typing. Yeah, I have to say it's probably more like 3x, 2 or 3x now that I've done it all morning. No, Tom, it's science. It's 10x. No, it feels like it's going to be 10x for sure. And the biggest problems I ran into were some websites just don't give you the features when they know you're on mobile. They give you a mobile-friendly version. And for instance, Google News just doesn't give you the full page of Google News on mobile. You have to trick it into thinking. Basically, I had to go into Chrome and find the history URL from my desktop in the Chrome history and then make it go there instead of going to the mobile-friendly version. And there's other examples, too, where other sites are just like, oh, no, that part of our site, that's in Flash. That doesn't exist, yeah. We don't do that. Maybe you want to get our app. I don't really want to get my app. And I don't have Wi-Fi to download your app, so I'm not going to do that right now. But yeah, it would be nice to have a keyboard and screen, like you say. There are still multitasking things where you just, I know on tablets you can put things side-by-side, but even then, it's just not the same as having multiple windows that you can copy and paste back and forth between. Well, I'm proud of you for getting this far. It's a scary time, Tom. It's a scary, sad time. And you are very overcoming. Yeah, I don't know how scary it is. It's anxiety inducing, and it's sad for me. Not sad for anybody else. I mean, there was a point where I thought, well, maybe I'll just record headlines and just skip the show. And thankfully, I didn't have to do that. So that's good. More on this as things happen. Tune in tomorrow to find out if I get my internet reconnected. But we have a pick of the day from Mike in, now I have to pay for my fiber Ken's city, who said, I started a new job and don't have access to my favorite screenshot application any longer called Snagit. I work in tech support for a major medical records company, and it involves me taking screenshots of user bugs and issues nearly every day. There's always Windows Snip tool, I know, but I missed all the bells and whistles of Snagit. Luckily, I found an open source alternative that satisfies me called Greenshot at GetGreenshot.org. I would highly recommend it. Of course, it has the ability to crop and cut, comment and highlight. But where it shines is its ability to send the screenshots to services like Imager, Dropbox, OneNote, Jira, and a handful of others at the click of a button. It's easy to use and you can even find it at Ninite.com if you're into that sort of thing. I looked around and it's got lots of good reviews from places like PCMag, PCWorld, CNET, et cetera. So you might want to check it out if you're looking for a screenshot tool and it's open source to boot. Four Windows. Four Windows. And yeah, you can use the print screen, but come on, that doesn't get me wrong. I prefer, I'm still a sketch user, even though after they were purchased by EverNote, it still works great as a screenshot tool. And you can use little arrows and type things and automatically just drag the final image or upload it to a lot of different services. It's pretty great. There you go. Sketch. Another one for you. They're on the Mac side. Can you still download it or do you have to buy it now? I'm pretty sure you can still download it. I'll double check now. I mean, download it for free, obviously. You download it even if you buy it. And of course, greenshot is getgreenshot.org. We'll have that link in the show notes. Send your fix to us, folks. Feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. You can find more picks at dailytechnewshow.com slash picks. And yes, you can still download it for Mac for free from evernote.com slash sketch, S-K-I-T-C-H. Excellent. Harry, the airline pilot, wrote in and said, A few people seem to agree with me. It's long contended that fully autonomous driverless cars are at least 20 years away. I'm sorry, he says, although few people seem to agree. I believe fully autonomous cars are at least 20 years away. In a talk, it's out by Southwest. Google project director Chris Ermson admitted that, except for very limited use, this is probably at least 30 years away. It's truly amazing to me how people almost without question have bought into the hype. Lots of people actually believe that in two to three years they'll be able to summon a driverless Uber It's nice to see Google finally admit how long this will actually take. Here's a good article about this with a link to the actual talk from IEEE.org. We'll put that in the show notes as well. Yeah, I think Ermson is saying, you know, till we really reach our vision, it's going to be a lot longer than people thought. And I think it is also true that within two to three years we may see our first actual self-driving cars in operation for the public out of testing. But those are very limited. So Harry's not wrong. You know, a limited service on a closed track in the Netherlands somewhere is a whole lot different than everybody can call an Uber that will drive across the country to pick you up. Right, yeah. I agree that we're still some time out. I tend to be a little more optimistic just because I'm a technologist and I like to think about these things in optimistic terms and I'm excited about them. But yeah, overall adoption, it's going to be a while and they're not going to be efficient enough until pretty much every car on the road is self-driving. I mean that's really going to be the end game here. And that's going to take a lot of time and a lot of laws and a lot of people just giving up their cars, which is going to be probably the hardest part. So yeah, it's going to take some time. That's why I'm not so worried when I see California introduce some very strict rules about self-driving cars on the road because I feel like those may be appropriate rules for now when there aren't very many on the road and they just want to make sure that they get people used to this with some rules that no one will go and like, why didn't you pass a rule against this to begin with? And get people, you know, once we're all familiar with self-driving cars, I have a feeling our perceptions of them as dangerous will certainly change but you need to ease people into that and we've got time. Even just having California pass strict rules has caused a lot of the companies to band together and talk to the federal government about coming up with some standards that'll apply across states and that gets the states involved in those conversations and that's what you need to happen. You need to get everybody talking about this stuff now, long before they actually become in place 30 years from now. And then Sakane, who you may remember, he was on our Listener Coho show last December and is an Uber driver, also a package delivery driver, says, sorry I'm getting in on this discussion so late but while everyone's been focusing on the tip or no-tip question another potentially important ramification of the Uber settlement in California is being overlooked and to be honest I'm just glad Uber isn't claiming that the tip is included anymore. The big change though that I think is important is that drivers will no longer be deactivated for low acceptance rates. Previously drivers were strongly encouraged if not outright forced to take every Uber ride request that the system gave them. Now drivers may opt to not accept some rides without fear of repercussions. He points out that they still won't know what the end destination is before they accept so they can't prejudice themselves against long rides but he says it's unlikely that the majority of drivers will be so selective that they'll turn down a lot of rides since it's in their best interest financially to not constantly refuse to drive anyone and Uber still reserves the right to temporarily lock a partner out of the app for a few minutes if they refuse a large number of requests in a row. Still, Sakane says, if people and he's using LA examples here if people in the Hollywood Hills the USC campus, South LA or those using Uber pool find it a little more difficult to get an Uber to pick them up that could be the reason why. I'm sure you could say the same thing about certain parts of the Bay Area like Hunters Point or something. You may start to see that big benefit of Uber and Lyft has been service where cabs often don't provide great service. Maybe that starts to suffer a little. I don't know. Yeah, they're testing out, I don't know if you talked about this, but they're testing out or a pilot program where drivers in New York are going to be penalized less for I think this is the same. Yeah, that's what Sakane's responsibility is. It's part of that settlement in California in Massachusetts, but I know New York is doing a pilot program too. Yeah. Well, thank you Veronica Belmont for joining us as always. What you got going on? Nothing, looking for jobs. That's what I've got going on. Well, you've always got Mondays on DTSS. So here's my plea. Make sure she has Monday afternoons off. There you go. Perfect. That would be amazing. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Follow on twitter, twitter.com. Veronica, if you don't already, everyone is for the most part. Sword and Laser too. Oh right, Sword and Laser. We've got an awesome book. We're reading Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson this month. Super great book. DailyTechNewShow.com. Support is the place to go to support this show. Thank you so much. Thank you to all of you. The folks that go to DailyTechNewShow.com and donate on PayPal are the ones that give me the flexibility to buy a little of equipment to tide me over. That's our capital expenditure budget. I could not imagine trying to get through this internet outage without you guys. So thank you PayPal donors very, very much. Patreon, donators as well. You guys are the best because you make sure and in fact when I need to get someone to fill in for me and the potential of like, well maybe I can't do the show the Patreon is what allows me to get that flexibility. So that helps too. Patreon.com slash DTNS for that. Thank you guys so much. We have a show. We have a full show today because of Allison Sheridan patrons, PayPal donators even people who buy mugs and shirts. Indeed. Great response to Jesse's construction tech that was in the post-show of the audio on Friday is in the treasure chest that was a little long three minutes and 30 seconds so it's a little too long to tack on to the end of the audio show here but it offers a counter point of view from the UK upshot of his call is that construction companies don't always pay the right people with the right skill set to set up construction tech. Things like email he says don't get properly set up on site and he worries the same thing might happen for things like VR in the future but if you want to hear his full comments they're worth listening to go to the treasure chest you just have to be a Patreon at the $5 a month level or above. Nice. Our email address is feedback at dailytechnewshow.com you can give us a call 51259 daily catch the show live Monday through Friday 4.30pm Eastern at alphageekradio.com and diamondclub.tv and visit our website dailytechnewshow.com back tomorrow with Patrick Beja talk to you then. www.diamondclub.com How did we miss this tubing ride through kawaii that used to be an old irrigation system for a sugar plantation that you can ride tubes through and some lazy river tubing rapid ride now. Is that the same as the place that did the the trail that we were trying to do? Maybe. I'm going to look it up for next time. Why did that come into your head? It was on my Facebook feed. No kidding. Come back to Hawaii Veronica. Come back? I was like you're not there. Don't tease me. How do you know? It looks like your house in San Francisco. Maybe I brought the house with me. It is Tom. It's kawaii backcountry adventures. Oh my gosh. It looks so fun. We just have to go back now. We have to go back. We have to go back to the island. Ironically you were shot there. That's the joke. That's the joke. That's the joke. Sure. Yes. So what are we going to call this, Roger? I would call it a day but let's look at the title. All right. So top of the list is No Packets and DTNS sponsored today by Nozila Cast and Block Fight. I don't want to say sponsored because there will be some person out there who is like I thought you didn't take sponsors but maybe we could say DTNS brought to you by Nozila Cast. This is pretty funny. Would the real Satoshi please shut up? That's funny. I like that one. Something that ties in with your... Amazon, not the rainforest. That has nothing to do with the main talk. That was a good line. I'm looking for something that represents or encapsulates what you guys... The Satoshi thing is good though because it's a big story even if it wasn't the main topic. Satoshi Nakamoto. What if Satoshi Nakamoto is a real person but it's not like a Bitcoin guy? It's a guy who just like... There are. That was the Newsweek article as they actually found lots of people named that. Yeah. But it wasn't them. It's like John Doe or Veronica Belmont. Just generic names you encounter. Just generic names like Veronica Belmont. So many Veronica Belmonts. There's a few. There's a lot of Roger Changs. There weren't when I was growing up. You set the trend. Maybe. FBI wants to pull your finger gross but funny. Frontier. Frontier where no packet has gone before. No. I don't want to slide them off. Then I would go with the real Satoshi. Satoshi, please shut up. That's me. Hey, Allison Sheridan. I have to wear that gear too. That looks better. Thank you. Whatever it takes. The tubing ride is spectacular. Oh, Allison says she's been on the tubing ride. Oh, yeah. That's cool. I saw that in chat. That's cool. That's cool. Oh, sorry. I was watching this link of this dog being upset. You know, when the space archaeologists come to our ruined civilizations, they're just going to find a lot of dog and cat videos on our servers. That's okay. Perhaps these creatures were venerated as gods or perhaps idol worship. I think they'll probably decide that we were a symbiotic species. A dual species. Or maybe they thought that was our embryonic stage. Like tadpoles. Alright, we're going with the real Satoshi. Please shut up. Please shut up. Please shut up. You know, no, Zillacast, that little logo would work great on a chef's jacket. Oh, yeah. Fit right in. Would you like to know Zilla Omelette? They have butterfly eggs in their backyard. They can make butterfly omelettes. They do very small though. I want silkworms so I can start my own silk farm. I don't know why. I'm doing a little piece of silk art. I'm thinking of some of these Chopin's floats. Smoking jackets. I was actually thinking expensive silk sheets. Expensive undergarments. All they need to do is genetically modify silkworms to be like ten times larger. So when they spin the cocoon only butterflies have, butterflies have chrysalis. That's the difference between a moth and a butterfly, other than a moth having a fuzzy body. Hey, fuzzy body. She sounds cute. Fuzzy body. Fuzzy body. Let me tell you, Django's been very upset about the internet outage at home. Oh no, it's because you're like, walking around and disturbing her sleep. Well no, she was going to start her new Snapchat show, Talk with Django. Ah. Aww. Yeah, it was cute. I saw it on Snapchat. Eileen was very excited about that this morning. Follow Eileen Rivera on Snapchat if you want to see Talk with Django. I'm probably getting the name wrong. But Django really does speak. Yes, she does. She goes, ooh. Ooh, the upload page has a sponsorship on it on SoundCloud now. Yeah, I've seen that before. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, that's not what they were working on. It was Taco Bell last time I uploaded. Grand Marnier for me. That's your go-to lunchbox. They know me so well. You know, you should just get a, you should get a, not a coupon, a discount just for being like a spokesperson. Yeah. Taco Bellmont was in it. I don't know, Eileen TV maybe? Someone's asking for Eileen's username on Snapchat. Do you follow her? Yeah, I don't know what it is off the top of my head though. I don't work. You never see usernames when you're following somebody. Right. It's not like Twitter. It's her name. I'm going to upload this to SoundCloud anyway. We always upload it to archive.org as a backup, just in case. Smart. Smart. SMRT, I mean SMART. Yeah. I've got a very nice note from SoundCloud this morning. I don't know if we got it from certain laser too. I didn't notice. No. But just explaining that there was an outage and that it was unavoidable and that things are coming back now and everything should be back in 24 hours. But I'm like, yeah, I kind of wanted that ahead of time. Not after all my MP3s disappeared. Yeah. Yep. Because Jenny had just posted the special Saturday episode called DT Normies, where she talked about transitioning from OS 10 back to Windows. And, and yeah, it was, it was, it was, I was like, wait, did something get messed up in the publication? But no, it wasn't, it was none of our faults. Nope. All right. I got hit the road. Hit the road. Okay. My car smog checks, which doesn't make any sense because if they check my car, my car is going to lie to them. Oh, because you have a Volkswagen company. Yeah. Okay. Like, I sure I can go get my car smog checked, but it's just, Do you need to get checked or do you need to, there's like two levels. You have to get it checked or you also have to get it. I don't know. I just, I just, I just drive down to small queen on 10th street. They're usually empty and they're fast. I don't know. I've lost the form now. It's probably in my car folder. I got to go do that. I just got to get it done. Get it done. Got to get it done. I got it done. Well, good show. Great show. Thank you. Bye guys. Take care. Happy smogging. Thanks. Don't smog and drive. Oh, the shirt is a punishment. I see. Yeah. Go ahead. Oh yeah. No, we're just post-show now. It's fine. If you hear a vacuuming, it's the cat's fault. Yeah. Talking to you. Ada Lovelace. Oh, wait. It is. This is an iRobot. The hell. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. The hell. What the heck are those things called? Ruba vacuums. Oh, Roomba? Yeah, that's it. Is it a Roomba? I don't think so. Yeah. You said it was the cat's fault. I'm just wondering. No, the cat broke something that she now has to vacuum. Oh. That's why it's the cat's fault. I used Eureka. Mighty, mighty. We have a Dyson. It's old. Mine is ... Well, the one I had was almost hitting 12 years old. old, but I gave it to my dad. It still works. It's just that the switch is busted, so it always stays on. It's a little nice canister vac. The attachments kind of suck because it'll slide off, but, you know. Daily vac news show. All right. Looks like it was being published correctly. Looks like a man. Looks like a man. All right. So we are out of here like Veronica Belmont. Thanks, everybody, for watching. Thanks again to Allison Sheridan, Steven Sheridan. Give a finger on your back. Thanks for your patience. Thanks to Ada Lovelace for being on my back. Talk to you later. Hopefully we'll have a shoot tomorrow.